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Benjaman Kyle(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by chin123 5y ago|0 comments
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by chin123 5y ago
Email is unencrypted by default anyway. Just encrypting your mailbox is not enough, because ultimately you are sending your email to someone else, and their mail server will have access to the email. For conversations where privacy is impor
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by chin123 5y ago
GMail has ads. It's free because you are the product, not the customer. Google's customers are the advertisers. The money has to come from somewhere.
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by chin123 5y ago
Why do you need ads for this? I don't remember the last time I bought something because of an ad. You don't need to pay for professional opinions on everything. I wanted to buy a pair of headphones recently, and so I just scouted
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by chin123 5y ago
It may reduce the environmental issues, but now miners will just go from hoarding GPUs to hoarding SSDs.
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by chin123 5y ago
I've seen a few WebRTC server implementations pop up recently but the only clients I have seen are web browsers. Does anyone know of any WebRTC client implementations apart from the browser? Or am I misunderstanding the WebRTC architec
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Running Arch Linux on a flip phone(github.com)
3 points by chin123 6y ago|0 comments
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by chin123 6y ago
Except, newpipe doesn't use the YouTube API. Similar to youtube-dl, it scrapes the YouTube webpage for all its functionality. The only way I can imagine YouTube can shut this down is by introducing DRM, at which point I hope people wil
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by chin123 6y ago
Why is having one less native app an upside? From my experience, mobile websites are much more cumbersome than native apps, especially in this case because NewPipe is so much better than the YouTube mobile website.
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Building a Really, Really Small Android App(engineering.khanacademy.org)
2 points by chin123 7y ago|0 comments
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by chin123 8y ago
Prism Break is also worth taking a look: https://prism-break.org/en/ I like that it has OS-specific recommendations.
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by chin123 8y ago
I've been using Matrix with Riot since 2016 (then called Vector). Rooms aren't encrypted by default, however you can turn it on with the toggle of a button. One drawback I've noticed is Riot uses a lot of battery on Android (
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by chin123 8y ago
Apart from not being encrypted by default, Telegram uses its own homegrown crypto instead of a tried and tested one for its secret chat feature. That itself is a red flag.
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by chin123 8y ago
You might like kakoune, a vim-like editor which focuses on interactivity: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune It flips around a few of vim's operations (like for example, to delete a word, you do 'wd' and