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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Don't worry, you will spend all your time working a dead-end job to afford rent (so some retiree can enjoy his life) and taxes (so politicians keep getting paid to propose such stupid bills) so there won't be any time to watch por
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> It's one of many problems which is taking care of I hear about digital freedoms (for porn restrictions, chat message monitoring, etc) being attacked on a weekly basis, often with "think of the children" as a justificatio
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> the problem of hyper stimulants is definitely worth giving some attention True, so we should start by not having every single computing device/service crave for attention, and not surrender our society's social fabric to Meta
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Always funny to see the senile politicians blaming porn as the biggest threats to children and not their collapsing economies. I'm sure when those kids grow up and work long hours for the rest of their lives (if they can find a job at
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> Apple doesn't fuck around - they've kicked Meta and Epic without blinking an eye. Sorry what? Everyone lies on those "privacy nutrition labels" on the App Store listings and gets away with it, and everyone is free t
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> Ideally it wouldn’t need to be enforced at all, because companies would comply with it The non-compliance is a result of the lack of enforcement. If it went into effect and a few fines were handed down the next day for non-compliant co
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> you're not allowed to buy a contract in Slovakia and then move to Denmark. You'd be surprised: I picked up a French SIM when I was on holiday there years ago on a very competitive package (including on roaming)... it's s
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
The issue with the current iteration of fedi is that it misses the main problems that average, non-technical people experience with social media, so those people remain unaware of fedi and/or can't get past the friction of using i
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
If it was profitable to spam bad things using AirDrop, bad guys would just buy iPhones and use them to spam. No alternative implementations necessary.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
On every Apple interoperability thread this argument comes up and at this point I'm convinced it's part of some coordinated effort; surely no one can be that clueless to actually believe this, especially on a technical forum? AirD
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Because functional clipboard sharing would make you more productive and so you'll generate less "engagement" and screen time. Neither of those companies benefits.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
For the first 3, that's mostly because technology has stopped being a productivity tool and became an ad delivery vehicle with some vestigial (and deteriorating) productivity features.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Mostly because my understanding is that RCS is meant to be a drop-in replacement for SMS and if you’re on a device that supports it (or your carrier-specific configuration of RCS) you don’t actually have a choice and your “SMS” is actually
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> I guess one could solve this with buffering proxies That’s essentially Nostr. There the servers are untrusted relays and cryptography is used to enforce authenticity. (One of the) issues with Mastodon is that it was initially designed
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> Where's your backup plan for when Visa doesn't behave as you expect? I don’t have (nor have to have) such a plan, I offer X service with Y guarantees paying out Z dollars if I don’t hold up my part of the bargain. In this hyp
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> Reboot every 51 days or risk the pilots getting wrong airspeed indicators If this is documented then fair enough - airlines don’t have to buy airplanes that need rebooting every 51 days, they can vote with their wallets and Boeing is
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Devil’s advocate: I operate the equivalent of an online lemonade stand, some shitty service at a cheap price offered with little guarantees (“if I fuck up I’ll refund you the price of your ‘lemonade’”) for hobbyists to use to host their blo
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
In a criminal defense scenario you should take into account how the sender sees it, potentially how the recipient sees it, and whether the sender was aware the recipient would see it differently.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
It is unfair to blame Cloudflare (or AWS, or Azure, or GitHub) for what’s happening, and I say that as one of the biggest “yellers at the cloud” on here. Ultimately end-users don’t have a relationship with any of those companies. They have
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
IMS traffic (voice & conventional SMS) runs on a different PDP context or "bearer" (think "VLAN" but on the cellular interface) which is prioritized at the network level over the general-purpose internet access beare
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Only in the Beta Android app for now... Signal is around for what, a decade now? And they still can't (or rather, refuse to) do the basic "copy the SQLite DB file to a folder". Edit: and even this beta feature is some bullshi
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Because it's a universal lowest-common-denominator and generally included in the plan you pay anyway for data access. Should you use it for day-to-day messaging? No. But having it for emergencies is nice - if anything, just to bootstra
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> What’s impractical about that? My understanding is that ActivityPub relies on the server having a stable domain name and be reachable from the internet so that other instances can talk to it. So your client must continuously run its se
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
What problem is this trying to solve exactly? If a computer (or “agent” in modern terms) wants to order you a pizza it can technically already do so. The reason computers currently can’t order us pizza or book us flights isn’t because of a
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Always-on display can be disabled but for the rest I agree. It doesn’t really do anything more that my 3rd gen SE but is way more annoying to use (bigger size, no fingerprint reader nor home button).
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
True in theory, but in practice due to our economy being based on growth at all costs, iOS doesn’t really fit the bill anymore. Nowadays even iOS will randomly change its UI and send you “notifications” or “suggestions” (modern euphemism fo
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Techbros are bowing down to Trump and the rise of fascism in the US. Why don’t you think they would do the same for Putin the second the geopolitical winds turn around? Reminds me of a joke - paraphrasing: someone from the US is speaking to
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
How would that work… will they have to force manufacturers to recall or issue mandatory updates to routers which already support it? FCC enforcement for interference can work for occasional troublemakers but there’s no way they can go after
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
You can try Fast.com (Netflix) or Cloudflare’s one which are explicitly designed to work around this by serving the test data from the same endpoints the serve actual customer data, so ISPs can’t cheat. This still doesn’t guarantee however
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
100Gbps over the LAN is unlikely to do you much good because not only is it expensive to get that kind of bandwidth end-to-end over the internet but most OS’ network stacks and protocols (HTTPS/etc) are not efficient enough to take adv

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