Siira

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by Siira 5y ago
Donations are voluntary, in-app purchases unlock features (traditionally). Besides, Google has to maintain the App Store to keep their OS afloat.
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by Siira 5y ago
Which is why Apple’s volunteered to run on-device surveillance programs. Between their lobbying power and the holy grail of utter surveillance, the governments will never stand for the basic rights of the people.
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by Siira 5y ago
This will likely exacerbate the country’s situation, though it’s a pragmatic way to help the victims.
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by Siira 5y ago
I recently migrated to Kitty because of iTerm’s abysmal performance issues, and it’s quite better. The performance is top-notch, the terminal’s scripting APIs are (for my use cases) better than iTerm’s python API, and the config uses plain
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by Siira 5y ago
Which is even less ethically defensible.
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by Siira 5y ago
1. Your claims about CP and child abuse need substantial evidence. 2. Assuming all that as true, opaque surveillance and the destruction of free, general computing is much worse than child abuse.
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by Siira 5y ago
“Good” “PR”? You’re even more tone deaf than the memo.
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by Siira 5y ago
Android is not exactly open, and Google Play Services is not FOSS. Its games are also mostly addictive micro-transaction-ridden trash.
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by Siira 5y ago
Android is not that open, either. Running background jobs on Android is severely restricted.
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by Siira 5y ago
Apple’s security theater is the pillar of their anticompetitive behaviors. The only users it helps are noobs who will just install whatever. If some serious actor wants your data, the theater doesn’t deter them, as evidenced by this Pegasus
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by Siira 5y ago
References on the cat evopsy claim? It’s interesting.
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by Siira 5y ago
I know Telegram’s default is to give all the data to the server. But being honest about this makes them able to provide significant UX benefits. Backdoored E2E gives a false sense of security, and, backdoored or not, E2E’s UX sucks. (Also n
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by Siira 5y ago
I, too, lost a question on my Data Structures final exam by using amortized analysis.
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by Siira 5y ago
I use a self-hosted web client (thelounge). It's still not good for casual IM usage IMO, but it's pretty painless.
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by Siira 5y ago
A good app offers options. While most HN folk don't like Telegram's default, it at least gives you somewhat of a choice (and the user can force the E2E option even if the other party doesn't like it)(though they do not give t
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by Siira 5y ago
Telegram messages do sometimes randomly go out of order, especially under bad network conditions.
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by Siira 5y ago
Care to give some sources for this claim? Even with some examples, it seems very vulnerable to the survival bias (examples where small flaws did not lead to a big blowdown are not paid attention to).
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by Siira 5y ago
Laws should be written to increase long-term production, and protect the weak. I do not see how this law does either. It's classic bullying.
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by Siira 5y ago
It's counterintuitive for me that this is a problem. One man should be able to do this in a month, no need for coordination that leaves behind evidence. Besides, how hard is it to communicate in secret?
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by Siira 5y ago
Safari is holding mobile apps back. I prefer a monoculture to Chrome+Safari.
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by Siira 5y ago
Anti-cheat is not exactly consumer-friendly. They should design their games such that the client is not trusted, and then the only possible cheats would be UI/AI assistants to the human players, which is not really cheating.
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by Siira 5y ago
They could pay the market price for soldiers. It’s not dying for others that’s the problem, it’s the forceful dying for others.
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by Siira 5y ago
To summarize, you think it’s okay for the gov to subsidize people’s children so that they have an unspecified claim on them up to sending them to a violent death. Very humane business, having a monopoly on violence.
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by Siira 5y ago
Stupidity is vile, you know?
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by Siira 5y ago
You can just upload them on Library Genesis, though seeding a torrent is also not that hard. Buy a VPS with crypto, and seed the torrent there. Besides, I doubt they would come after you anyway; The PR will hurt them more than stopping you.
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by Siira 5y ago
Why do you bother in the first place? Books are the easiest to pirate. Email the author to open a Patreon or sth, and pay them directly.
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by Siira 5y ago
And I have yet to see a single life-changing AI application. I haven't tested Copilot yet, but I'll bet it is so precariously useful that a lot of people will feel more productive without it. (BTW, the last time I opened VSCode, i
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by Siira 5y ago
Well, different people, different tastes. I myself almost never enjoy movies, even though I haven’t watched many of them. I have tried using reddit, IMDB, Metacritic, etc, to select movies, but it doesn’t make a difference. I still enjoy re
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by Siira 5y ago
> And even though the world will go along fine — it always does It doesn't at all. I know a lot of people who have serious medical problems but are unable to afford the costs of the medical system and just suffer untreated. Perhaps
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by Siira 5y ago
Presumably Anki’s mobile frontends.

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