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by catoc 2y ago
If Apple stops servicing the EU… …life will go on. No EU country will be “doomed” let alone “totally doomed”. I prefer many Apple products over Android-based devices or, god forbid, any S(h)amsung crap, but the EU will continue to prosper
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by catoc 2y ago
“Try doing a 24 hour water fast” In the referenced study water was available ad libitum. It’s food that was restricted, for 24-48 hours, that promoted beneficial cellular autophagy in mice. [Longer (“chronic”) fasting was detrimental (in
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by catoc 2y ago
Microsoft Recalled
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by catoc 2y ago
For iOS & Mac https://thevault-app.com does exactly that for me. Storing PDFs, or just plain images of passport, drivers license etc (in addition to passwords). It’s a bit on the technical site (eg, also has cmd: prefix for
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by catoc 2y ago
“experts”
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by catoc 2y ago
I see what you did there :-)
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by catoc 2y ago
I just assumed that would have been the first thing they tried…
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by catoc 2y ago
Can large companies not be faulted for ignoring robots.txt? Seems like something GDPR could enforce for personal(ly owned) sites?
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by catoc 2y ago
Why not just keep using iTerm2? Benefits: -You can keep using a terminal app you apparently like (understandably, it’s great) -You don’t have to find and install a replacement -You don’t have to re-add tmux -Not actively enabling a new chat
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by catoc 2y ago
QED
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by catoc 2y ago
The developer replying to this, and not to the more pertinent questions inquiring about privacy (posted hours earlier), does not increase my confidence in the intentions behind the gathering of so much private information. Explanations welc
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by catoc 2y ago
There’s nothing bad about telemetry per se. In fact it should be considered bad to not be paying attention to how anything you build works in the real world. (Then comes Meta c.s. and everyone rightly distrusts anything reported back from
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by catoc 2y ago
Thanks for proving me wrong! Even if it’s only for a fraction of the people, you’re still right for most people, a large fraction. As long as you’re not targeted by entities above or considering themselves above, the law, the Veracrypt a
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by catoc 2y ago
Obligatory response: https://xkcd.com/538/ Sad but likely true. (please prove me wrong, other than creating fake data that’s so convincing it will save your life in any ‘gut-wrenching’ situation, every time) [edit: don
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by catoc 2y ago
As we say at home: "fallen upwards due to lack of weight."
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by catoc 2y ago
Current no 2 on HN: “What will humans do if technology solves everything?” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029456 A: finally all live like Ray Harrell
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by catoc 3y ago
To make it quantum resistant you should rotate at least 26 times
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by catoc 3y ago
encoding != encryption Totally different things
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by catoc 3y ago
I’ve seen one or two other cats on the internet, but Madeleine is now my favourite
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by catoc 3y ago
If it's indeed the first, may be they will be given the leeway to set a legal precedent? One can hope.
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by catoc 3y ago
Any case law dealing with companies with similar non-profit-Founding Agreements pivoting to for-profit companies?
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by catoc 3y ago
Yeah, they meant a TLM
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by catoc 3y ago
This! Just this! Please take note of what @donmcronald says here - phrased before I could, and better than I could. The concept of Passkeys sounds great, but the way it will be implemented will result in a massively net-negative privacy imp
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by catoc 3y ago
The Rewind website states: “No cloud integration required It all just works automatically. No need to connect to a bunch of different services like Gmail, Dropbox, or Slack.” But reading the details in the official Privacy Policy at https:
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by catoc 3y ago
What a great blog about a fantastic looking side project! Engaged I went on reading, and stumbled on rewind.ai, that too looks great! Privacy obviously being a crucial issue for something as potentially invasive - continuous automatic scre
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by catoc 3y ago
Using the encryption argument: Encryption is a solved problem. Easy to implement solutions are available everywhere. (yes, post-quantum cryptography is not yet solved, irrelevant for the current discussion). That means that even if it were
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by catoc 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Record_(autobiograph...
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by catoc 3y ago
It’s naive to think this is about child-abuse. That’s just there to frame the discussion. Interpol is not going to stop at analyzing images for csam - it’s not even the real goal. The goal is complete government oversight. And no I am not i
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by catoc 3y ago
You can't park there mate.
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by catoc 3y ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from mAGIc

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