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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> the most popular app in Denmark right now is an app that tells you if a product is American That sounds like performative bullshit though? A "feel good" thing just like plastics "recycling". Are people actually choo
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> followed France's example to adopt the UN Open Source Principles Has this actually produced any tangible results? I'm all in for interoperability, open source and such but the primary purpose of software is that it should wo
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
The main vulnerability of the Western world isn't technical, it's that we voluntarily surrendered our communication and social fabrics to advertising-driven businesses that will happily host and promote anything as long as it ge
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Didn't Russia quickly spin up an alternative smartcard payment system and Android app store once they got kicked out of the US-based competitors?
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Here's a good overview: https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-day-are-europeans-really-... It's several years old by now but nothing has changed. It is still more profitable to breach the GDPR than to comply wit
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Can != will. > It's taken extremely seriously in basically every aspect of life in Europe Yeah, like every single cookie banner out there not actually being compliant. A regulation can't be considered to be meaningfully enforce
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> maybe it's also our fault and we can do better? Part of it is absolutely our fault; part of it is the industry. In the electronics world, when you need <common functionality>, you can find an off-the-shelf part that fits you
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
I bet if SWEs were seeing anywhere near that 1.5k per day they’d be more inclined to pay attention. But when you get paid less than half that it doesn’t feel like a problem to worry about. At 300/day of take-home pay, one more day here
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> Give them some time to cook How long? I'm still waiting for the GDPR to actually be enforced meaningfully.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Signal still doesn't allow you to backup/export chat history on iOS into an open format? I think now they have some bullshit proprietary paid cloud storage solution (why not let me use the cloud I already pay for?), but for year
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
This only applies to spam which requires significant follow-up effort from the spammer to respond to potential victims; effectively just 419 "advance-fee" fraud scams. For spam which only does not require manual effort on the othe
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
The issue isn't closed vs open but business models. The reason most services don't support third-party clients is that their business model is based on advertising (aka wasting the user's time) and a third-party client would
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Matrix is a lost cause. The protocol is too complex/ambitious and the company behind it doesn't have the resources to actually produce a good server nor client implementation. I was hopeful for it at first but at some point you ha
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> I noticed that there was a phone jack in the water heater room I wonder if it was "future-proofing" for some kind of modem-based automation/monitoring system.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
The business model of consumer ISPs is "take the money and don't deliver" so this tracks.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> For a lot of homes, that's enough to provide good-enough internet throughout the building. It often isn't - it's just magic like TCP/etc that is doing its job and making it feel that way for bulk non-interactive tra
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
When it comes to wireless, top speeds are misleading and the wrong way to look at it. You can have the shittiest link possible with lots of dropouts and still get a decent speed test result because in between the dropouts you get max speed
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
But the remaining wealth of the country has successfully been extracted in the form of overpriced and not-fit-for-purpose utilities, transport companies, taxes, and so on and given to corporate interests. From their perspective it's a
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Peering between your ISP and Valve is likely saturated. Considering Valve has an incentive to make downloads fast (= more revenue), it's likely your ISP is being stingy in this case.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Yeah the era of non-Ethernet/Wi-Fi NICs died off decades ago with the last ADSL cards. Nowadays I'm not sure if OSes even support creating drivers for anything non-Ethernet (especially where to provide the config UI for your non-s
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> the periodic reboots they inexplicably require I've had powerline adapters with uptimes measured in years (basically in between power cuts). I think yours might be defective. They absolutely do not require reboots.
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
> a lot of people are renting and cannot touch their wire. Nobody's going to complain about a backwards-compatible upgrade (you can put phone sockets back when you leave - nobody has to know there's cat 5/6 behind it).
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by Nextgrid 8mo ago
Here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elfcam®-Fibre-Optic-Multimode-Duple... It is flat and thin enough you can stick it on top of skirting boards/etc with tiny dabs of hot glue.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
In ossified companies like telcos there's also the issue that the limitations of the existing equipment are being worked around with people. Those people derive their salaries from it, their manager derives his salary + prestige from m
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
What's happening here is that Google wants to spy on which links you click and track your activity on that site by explicitly setting new cookies in the link's new tab from the URL params (re-bootstrapping a tracking cookie/e
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
If we're talking NCKs it means the modem is locked, so you need a modem/baseband-level exploit. Root helps you talk to said modem but doesn't directly allow you to modify its firmware without some other exploit.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> And if no one takes your price, you fail as a business. Vimeo employees and all the people part of the recent tech bloodbath experienced that too, but without even pocketing the upside beforehand. I'd argue that for anyone curre
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
A lot of the pressure to expand revenue comes from within thanks to the flaws of permanent employment - you hired permanent employees at a discount compared to the equivalent contractor/temporary workforce in exchange for a promise of
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
Presumably Bending Spoons believes they can optimize a lot of that 400M expenses while keeping revenue flat or even growing it. At least they believe enough to make a 1.4B bet on it.
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by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> where only people of a certain character can work Out of curiosity, could you expand on this? Gutting engineering playgrounds and other inefficient crap to maximize ROI sounds like a fun challenge. It's essentially performance opt

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