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by cvwright 5y ago
My app does end-to-end encryption, and this is much more straightforward in a "real" app. (1) I need non-volatile storage for the keys, and (2) I want users to know if/when they get a new version of the code. You can do E2EE
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by cvwright 5y ago
So it's like a microchip that dogs get, only worse.
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by cvwright 5y ago
> We live in a world where companies and governments are actively spying and harming those under them. Therefore this random company owes you security features for free? Users wanting free shit is the reason why companies like Google and
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by cvwright 5y ago
They are also one of the few to support Apple’s HomeKit secure video thing. Unfortunately they got hacked a couple of weeks ago, and the attackers were able to get into users’ videos. According to reports on Twitter, this included users of
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by cvwright 5y ago
Video cameras are the next killer app for E2E encryption. Security cams, baby monitors, doorbells. It makes zero sense that these things are constantly uploading to someone else’s computer.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Good point. Another hypothesis then: The real problem is the ad-driven "curation" that selects for drama and outrage to keep users "engaged" so they stay on the site for longer to view more ads. This would explain why &
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by cvwright 5y ago
Just goes to show how the fundamental design decisions guide how the system as a whole will behave. Short messages and no coherent threading makes for a perfect breeding ground for snark and hot takes. It's hard to say something thou
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by cvwright 5y ago
"People interested in software process" have been trying, and failing, to write secure C code for 50 years. But they've made a ton of money trying!
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SeKVM verified hypervisor based on KVM(spectrum.ieee.org)
65 points by cvwright 5y ago|37 comments
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by cvwright 5y ago
Way back when I was first graduating from college, I interviewed at IBM for a "support engineer" role. It was pitched as a software engineering job, but focused on understanding customers' problems at a pretty deep level, an
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by cvwright 5y ago
Title doesn't tell the half of it. "Personal images" are photos of your kids playing in the backyard, or dinner with your extended family. What they stole here was much more intimate than that.
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by cvwright 5y ago
On the contrary, I find it amazing that bit shift and XOR can be combined in such a way to provide strong security at all. Maybe it just goes to show, if you have 128 or 256 bits of key, that’s actually a heck of a lot.
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by cvwright 5y ago
TIL. Thanks!
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by cvwright 5y ago
Tax intellectual property too then. This would also help push back against ridiculous patents and eternal copyright.
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by cvwright 5y ago
What’s 4:1:1? What people call 4:2:0 is actually 4 pixels of Y and 1 each of Cb and Cr.
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by cvwright 5y ago
I’ve been learning SwiftUI and building an encrypted social network app. It’s called Circles, and it’s almost ready to go. https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios Next I need to make the Android version. I’m h
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by cvwright 5y ago
By "computers" I assume you mean "phones and tablets", because Apple is still a small minority of the world's desktops and laptops. Even then, ask yourself: Why do so many people pay $800 for an iPhone instead of $2
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by cvwright 5y ago
The things that you complain about are the reasons why Apple has become the most valuable company in the world.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Start having conversations about turtlenecks and see how long it takes for the ads to show up.
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by cvwright 5y ago
They apparently were much worse in the 1970s and 1980s. For most people I know it was significantly better by the mid 90s. And by all reports, it’s much better now. But yeah, the movie tropes were really a thing.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Good question. I suppose it's because: A) I don't want to create yet another account and give my CC number to yet another entity who can lose it B) I guess I don't fully trust them to use the $$ for anything that I care abou
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by cvwright 5y ago
Hmm, I think you're right. Also, I'm probably thinking of their North American market. They probably make less in the rest of the world.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Maybe you could pay $2.99/month to your Mastodon host, and the ads can go to hell.
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by cvwright 5y ago
True, people will always be the root of the problem. But they are also the best part of everything. We need platforms that encourage the good stuff and minimize or discourage the bad. Not the other way around.
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by cvwright 5y ago
They're probably making more than $3 per user on the ads. IIRC Facebook makes somewhere in the neighborhood of $80/user per year.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Oh please please please make it so. I would happily pay a couple bucks per month for a Firefox Pro that’s exactly the same as normal Firefox. Provided, of course that it’s easy to start and end the subscription, and I don’t have to create a
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by cvwright 5y ago
But would you consider paying to use Mastodon, or one of the other open source alternatives? Hopefully this makes it easier for them to support themselves.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Well, you can try. In my experience they still show a lot of crap that I have zero interest in seeing, from people who I do not follow.
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by cvwright 5y ago
This is awesome. Not because I like Twitter. It’s pretty awful. And I don’t hold out much hope that this will do anything to stop Twitter from boosting crazy garbage in order to maximize “engagement” and sell ads. I’m excited because I th
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Show HN: Circles Is Open Source(github.com)
10 points by cvwright 5y ago|0 comments

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