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by coldpie 2y ago
I looked into this a while back and it was quite complicated. If you're used to hosting your own infra, it may not be a big deal, but it's definitely not a simple task for even an advanced desktop user. I ended up choosing Keepass
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by coldpie 2y ago
Yes, and?
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by coldpie 2y ago
Change "gone" to "out of power," if you like. The FTC Chair controls the agency's agenda, and the Chair switched parties last week.
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by coldpie 2y ago
Press release is dated Jan 15. The folks who made this happen are gone now. If you'd like to see what the new admin's FTC is spending your tax dollars on instead of this, take a look here: https://www.ftc.gov/news-
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by coldpie 2y ago
Sorry that happened. There are two things every technology user should understand: 1) If you do not own the hardware your data lives on and the entire software stack to access and use your data, then you do not have control of your data and
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by coldpie 2y ago
Ha! Called it.
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by coldpie 2y ago
Hmm, maybe we can come at this from the other angle. We can't have small phones because bigger is always better, right? So how about a HUGE 5" screen smartwatch that just happens to be a perfectly functional standalone phone if yo
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by coldpie 2y ago
Given the original Pebble folks are using this to spin up a re-launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845185 ), my guess is the Pebble folks just know someone on the inside at Google who managed to get the lawyers
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by coldpie 2y ago
Is the Small Android Phone project dead? :)
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by coldpie 2y ago
There's lots of competition in food manufacturing. Your competitors would likely suggest an investigation if your company started selling something like 10cal/Tb butter. If your swindling falls under the threshold of notice, then
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by coldpie 2y ago
It is? That's a weird position to me. If I go to a store and pay $10 for a sandwich, I don't call it dystopian when I don't get two sandwiches. Similarly, if my working agreement is $X wage for 40 hours of work per week, I do
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by coldpie 2y ago
There's a lot of minimum wages. Are you talking about the federal minimum wage ($7.50/hr), or the minimum wage local to the worker ($15.00/hr where I live)?
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by coldpie 2y ago
The best case scenario for the next 5-10 years is that there will be no new federal privacy regulations. More likely, privacy regulations will be even further relaxed and customers will have even less recourse for violations. You might have
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by coldpie 2y ago
I agree it's unlikely to succeed, but I find thinking about our problems and trying to fix them much more admirable & interesting than just rolling over and accepting things as they are. You can't improve things if you never e
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by coldpie 2y ago
Good question, let's try to answer it. Suppose OP believes they have a serviceable replacement in place. What arguments could they use to convince their communities to switch to it? Here's some ideas: - No ads. - Free, even for b
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by coldpie 2y ago
Okay.
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by coldpie 2y ago
Everyone agrees this is an uphill battle. What I'm saying is that's a boring reason not to do something you believe in.
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by coldpie 2y ago
> A better world is subjective. Yeah, obviously. So part of the OP's task will be selling their communities on why switching away from Facebook is a good thing. Given everything that's going on, now is a good opportunity to do
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by coldpie 2y ago
You're correct, but this is quite a boring response. If no one tried to make the world a better place, the world would never get better. It is an uphill battle, but I wish the OP luck all the same.
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by coldpie 2y ago
> Fabricating new problems so he can solve them “heroically” is the basic MO of any narcissist or authoritarian despot I thought Joe Biden signed the law?
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by coldpie 2y ago
China can't directly influence US policy, and they mostly don't have any interest in doing so outside how it influences our trade relations. Sure, it's bad if they're doing that. But Musk, Zuckerberg, and the rest of the
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by coldpie 2y ago
No, primarily Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and other big tech execs to a lesser extent.
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by coldpie 2y ago
Agreed. I would be all in favor of a law that applied to Tiktok, Facebook, X, and all others equally. Singling out Tiktok is just a transparent handout to the US's tech oligarchs, which is worse than doing nothing.
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by coldpie 2y ago
I'm concerned about this, too, but this law actually gives the nation's most powerful adversaries even more power by eliminating their competition.
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by coldpie 2y ago
I'm a US citizen, not being paid by China, and I've never used TikTok, but I think this ban is bad. I believe Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are bigger threats to the people that live in the US than China is. This ban gives them mo
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by coldpie 2y ago
I don't think Tiktok will bring about the end of America as a functioning country. I do think Facebook's executives have an interest in gaining control for themselves at any cost, up to & including the end of America as a coun
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by coldpie 2y ago
No argument here. Most Democrats, including Biden, and all Republicans serve at the whims of Facebook's owners and their peers. Hence the enormous handout to Facebook in this decision.
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by coldpie 2y ago
> Facebook, X, etc are staffed by Americans who have a vested interest in the country remaining functional. The CEOs of those companies are arrestable. I suspect this is our fundamental disagreement. I disagree with both of these stateme
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by coldpie 2y ago
He was just a dumb get-rich-quick kid, he didn't have any political power. Zuck has spent the past 2 decades gathering money and power.
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by coldpie 2y ago
But this is worse than good: it's giving Facebook & X even more control over the discourse by removing a competitor.

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