anoncake

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811.
by anoncake 6y ago
There are federations whose capital is part of a state or a state itself. Did this problem occur anywhere in practice?
812.
by anoncake 6y ago
> Just curious, what exactly are you trying to hide? That's none of your business.
813.
by anoncake 6y ago
It's not in bad faith. Many people legitimately confuse morality and legality.
814.
by anoncake 6y ago
What if screenreaders randomly switched between revealing and hiding themselves? Developers would get statistic but couldn't deliver a different UI to screenreader users.
815.
by anoncake 6y ago
Signal is just another walled garden, making it a no-go for me.
816.
by anoncake 6y ago
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco... Moving to a different walled garden is not a solution.
817.
by anoncake 6y ago
Those actors don't have the vendor's encryption keys.
818.
by anoncake 6y ago
That is not a reason to cripple the default client. Fortunately, unlike Signal and WhatsApp Telegram is not a walled garden and you can use a different client. There is no problem with location sharing being enabled by default because locat
819.
by anoncake 6y ago
It may be cheaper for Apple. For society, it's a huge waste of resources.
820.
by anoncake 6y ago
That's true.
821.
by anoncake 6y ago
If you can't verify your messages are E2EE, you have to trust the vendor. But if you trust the vendor, you don't need E2EE to begin with.
822.
by anoncake 6y ago
Ultimately it is as competition leads to lower prices.
823.
by anoncake 6y ago
The code is not an issue. Users shouldn't trust that their messaging app does not share their location when they ordered their messaging app to share their location, that makes no sense.
824.
by anoncake 6y ago
Maybe in the short term. In the long term, not having net neutrality here reduces competition by giving Zoom an additional artificial advantage over its less entrenched competition.
825.
by anoncake 6y ago
That dialog probably remained unchanged for so long because no one used it anyway.
826.
by anoncake 6y ago
Telegram uses the Signal protocol? How do you propose Telegram give their users the ability to expose their location to other people without exposing their location to them?
827.
by anoncake 6y ago
Signal is just another walled garden, no better than WhatsApp. https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
828.
by anoncake 6y ago
If people don't understand that publishing their location makes their location public, that's on them.
829.
by anoncake 6y ago
And none of this has anything to do with anyone's skin colour.
830.
by anoncake 6y ago
> First: that's awful because it means business don't have any flexibility to change. you're forced to work with people who don't work, because they can't get fired. The lower productivity of those workers becom
831.
by anoncake 6y ago
> Here in Germany unions (in tech) will for example make sure that older employees can't be fired, so the younger employees will be fired instead. That's the law actually, IIRC. It also protects people with children.
832.
by anoncake 6y ago
> The CEO banned them, saying it would be unfair to give credit to individuals instead of the whole company, It sounds a lot less hypocritical this way.
833.
by anoncake 6y ago
Or a black guy should have debated with him instead, because apparently skin colour has something to do with language.
834.
by anoncake 6y ago
12 weeks isn't that "long", certainly not compared to almost a year of lockdowns we've already suffered from.
835.
by anoncake 6y ago
If wearing a mask was free for everyone , obviously no one would be bothered by them. Just because you don't understand people's reasons it doesn't mean they don't exist or are less valid than making people feel safer
836.
by anoncake 6y ago
> it neglects to mention that using Facebook and entering into a contract with Facebook is optional. In theory, not always in reality.
837.
by anoncake 6y ago
Why should someone that takes antiviral medicine and can't transmit HIV anymore have to disclose their status?
838.
by anoncake 6y ago
Also to change "no thanks" to "fuck off".
839.
by anoncake 6y ago
Are you the designer (not "merely" a developer) of a desktop environment?
840.
by anoncake 6y ago
> Ads are designed to change your behavior. In broad strokes that's not bad - advertising is a form of education and there are a lot of great products and services out there you wouldn't otherwise know about. The vast majority

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