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811.
by corty 6y ago
Never say something like that without offering a proper replacement that is proveably more secure.
812.
by corty 6y ago
Which is myopically focussing on encryption, not identity, signing or authentication. You send your messages in signal to someone, with no means to properly verify whom you are sending to (except if you do a nonsensical secret (because sign
813.
by corty 6y ago
WSL2 doesn't really cut it. Can't use my own window manager/desktop environment, graphics are kinda slow and sluggish, hardware passthrough is worse than in vmware, etc. It might be ok for the occasional Linux tool, but I wan
814.
by corty 6y ago
Yes. I have been forced to use Windows for communication, and especially the trifecta of Outlook, Teams and Word opened my eyes as to why a lot of my colleagues weren't getting stuff done and were always hung up on weird problems I cou
815.
by corty 6y ago
Dark/light mode is just the most minimal version of theme support possible. It is a small bounce-back from the transition that happened about 10 years ago, from themeable pick-your-everything GUIs like winXP to our-designers-know-best
816.
by corty 6y ago
SPAs like you described are the coal rollers of the software world. Kill the environment and fry your users laps, just because you can, not for any sensible reason. We need much more naming and shaming of this practice. Software needs to be
817.
by corty 6y ago
As a German, I am amused by USians or British claiming to be direct in social interactions. There are books and courses about how the english sentence "we might have to reconsider" means "no". How you would offer sweets
818.
by corty 6y ago
"Optional security protections also include disabling loading of remote images within messages, enabling only specific media types (sanitizer), and disabling JavaScript." says the TB wikipedia page. The arch wiki says "JavaSc
819.
by corty 6y ago
1. Nope, BW greens are not a counter for the population and businesses to behave in a conservative way. Also, BW greens are kind of special, Kretschmann and Palmer are seen as pariahs in the rest of the german green party. They aren't
820.
by corty 6y ago
Pick the right canton. There are many, with very diverse tax codes, and in the smaller ones you even get to negotiate a bit (if you are big and important enough). But of course that will mean you have to be out in the sticks.
821.
by corty 6y ago
In Germany, the southwest, especially Swabia, is more conservative than the north. More tidy-freaks, stingy pennypinchers, more-concerned-with-the-appearance holier-than-thou, "we have always done it like this" and "you didn&
822.
by corty 6y ago
Imho its the tool and the protocol. I am currently using a paper notebook. Why? Because, while inconvenient, I can use it in any situation, with any medium. I can write down an email task I got, IM conversations, phone calls, paper articles
823.
by corty 6y ago
Stdout is at least a defined tunnel through a defined process barrier with known and well-tested properties. Good luck with opengpg.js which keeps sensitive data in the same address space and JS VM as all the ad-tracking scripts you get in
824.
by corty 6y ago
The "real" solution is broken and does not work at all, it just crashes or hangs thunderbird. Thunderbird is dead, has been dying for some time. Now that Mozilla is going bancrupt, users should rather look for alternatives and not
825.
by corty 6y ago
"Essential" means "all bosses have agreed on this arbitrary time to start work so all workers can enjoy congestion and stuffed subways".
826.
by corty 6y ago
Also, due to increased thickness of doors and frames for safety, car interior space has shrunk over the last decades. So you need a bigger car if you want the same amount of interior space for your head/feet/arms/groceries.
827.
by corty 6y ago
The usual argument basically boils down to "gluttony and pride are deadly sins". You shall only consume/have/want the necessary minimum, any more is morally suspect, even absent objectively apparent problems.
828.
by corty 6y ago
The US, murdering people with drones without due process and often by sloppiness and mistake. The land-grab in Guantanamo bay and some parts of middle-america. Supplying nuclear weapons to the likes of Erdogan and Merkel. Supporting an auto
829.
by corty 6y ago
Because giving nukes to someone is dangerous (more dangerous than giving stingers to the taliban) and subject to approval that Trump won't get. Taiwan is afraid to declare independence, they even have a mainland chinese governor to hel
830.
by corty 6y ago
Whatsapp is the biggest example, but the same goes for Signal, Threema, partially Matrix, XMPP and Telegram. Where is the advantage over those? Why should Joe Average use it? After all, even if RCS will have E2EE, I still need to trust Goog
831.
by corty 6y ago
RCS isn't "a standard", it is a dozen or so. Every carrier does it differently, so does Google, so does maybe Apple. The ecosystem will be fragmented along carrier lines and OSes. And the software is a Google (Android branded
832.
by corty 6y ago
RCS uses the phone network data channel. So more internet than phone in that aspect, it's not at all like SMS hiding in the free space in beacon frames. Therefore coverage won't be any better. The only possible minimal difference
833.
by corty 6y ago
Why do they bother? Whatsapp can do all of that right now. Has done successfully for a few years. And the article sounds like it would need support by the mobile carriers: being deeply in the pocket of governments, they won't switch on
834.
by corty 6y ago
consumer goods with builtin wifi like switchable lightbulbs, remote-controlled extension cords, etc are often esp32 plus a relais on the IO pins.
835.
by corty 6y ago
all the ball bearings in my car have FAG written on them. My car runs on FAGs. Get over it... To me this kind of discussion always sounds like americans are all a bunch of school teachers trying to prevent their bunch of 10year-olds from gi
836.
by corty 6y ago
Everytime a tax is proposed, people like me suggest to look at the German Energiewende. Small businesses and private homes are taxed to hell and back on electricity, to keep prices for large businesses internationally competitive, because t
837.
by corty 6y ago
Problem is, taxing electricity appropriately shuts down your whole economy. Prices would need to be sky-high before SV would feel the squeeze, till then mom and pop wont be able to run their electric hob and your neighbourhood steel smelter
838.
by corty 6y ago
I can sympathize with downvoters, demanding change is always easier when the demand is aimed at others, not yourself or your peergroup. And I'm not sure if this level of compromise is really necessary, or if optimizing computer power c
839.
by corty 6y ago
adding 100 servers damages the environment 100x more and costs jobs. There should be no question that optimization is the responsible thing to do, just buying servers is wasteful, greedy and irresponsible. We need a commitment from all the
840.
by corty 6y ago
The problem with the hamburger method is that it is recognizably dishonest. Everyone knows the structure by now, everyone knows that the positives at either end are just there to cushion the negative. So positive feedback in a hamburger wil

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