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by dmantis 1y ago
Two reasons why so at least professionaly: - Reliability. For anything that needs deterministic result and not even 99.9% of chance that it's generated correctly and not hallucinated. E.g. health, finance, military, etc. There is no ro
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by dmantis 1y ago
Because obviously people want to enjoy technological usefulness (i.e. navigation, payments, communication) and automation while preserving dignity and not being spied like a bunch of ships.
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by dmantis 1y ago
It's UDP, not TCP (like TLS) and has a distinguishable handshake. Wireguard is not designed as a censorship prevention tool, it's purely a networking solution. The tunnel itself is encrypted, but the tunnel creation and existence
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by dmantis 1y ago
XRay protocol based VPN worked for me in Uzbekistan when I were travelling there. Wireguard is indeed blocked.
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by dmantis 1y ago
It doesn't matter, he should look into the open source protocols that these services use. He doesn't have to use them. VLESS / v2ray works in Russia, as far as I know.
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by dmantis 1y ago
So make it an unlockable feature with a big red warning saying something like: 'If you unlock this feature, your money might be stolen, malware could infiltrate your system. You take full responsibility and acknowledge that you are tec
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by dmantis 1y ago
I2P doesn't have exit nodes like Tor, so it's essentially the same thing as running a Tor relay from an outside perspective, with a few positive differences. I2P is mainly an overlay network that routes traffic only inside the net
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by dmantis 1y ago
I tried I2P not so long ago and was quite impressed by the design decisions and the quality of the technology. It's truly an amazing piece of software that covers basically everything you need for a distributed network. The only thing
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by dmantis 1y ago
> Sanctions They also affect businesses, not only the government.
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by dmantis 1y ago
Impossible to live in complying with all the Russian laws, not particularly a crypto one. Well, possible, but quite miserable experience. So are you saying that people get paid in tether after the sentence that it's used 99.9% by the g
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by dmantis 1y ago
> For example Russia it is not legal to pay with crypto, and to cash it out allowed crypto exchanges must submit your transactions to the government etc otherwise they get blocked. Sorry, but it's very naive to think that Russian pe
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by dmantis 1y ago
First of all, who says that it has to be a global standard? It's not an 'all-or-nothing' thing. Those are instruments which already help many people (those you define as questionable for some reason). I'm actually pretty
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by dmantis 1y ago
This is a very American-centric post. E.g."Stablecoins won’t bank the unbanked, because people get stablecoins by purchasing them on a crypto exchange, and no crypto exchange will open an account for a customer unless they have a bank
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by dmantis 1y ago
Exactly, that's what I'm talking about. So MacOS lives just fine with their own additional button and bindings, I don't see how it's different for Linux. Every time I need to do something on MacOS, being Linux user, I st
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by dmantis 1y ago
1. Ads 2. Built-in cloud AI spyware / Copilot 3. Millions of abandoned laptops that had been made 4-5+ years ago. Basically electronic and ecological waste: machines from 10 years ago work perfectly fine if you change thermal paste an
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by dmantis 1y ago
You can't do ctrl-c and ctrl-v in MacOS too, that's doesn't break their marketshare.
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by dmantis 1y ago
Money and economy is an instrument, not a goal. If a person lives a rat life, being constantly spied, manipulated and sold, what's the point of being richer? To buy what? The most precious thing of freedom and independence is lost alre
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by dmantis 1y ago
Does that work across profiles? I have to use some apps from such spyware oriented companies and usually put them in isolated profile with shelter. I wonder whether local ports opened in isolated "work" android profile are accessi
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by dmantis 1y ago
I have a personal list with filters by donation method with foss projects: https://hacker.charity Usually I pick the way I want to spend money at the moment and give them to someone who satisfies the criteria.
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by dmantis 2y ago
Google docs are fine for anything non-private and stuff that can go to the cloud. I usually use Google docs for stuff like language learning for convenience and libreoffice for financial spreadsheets, work related stuff, and anything I don&
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by dmantis 2y ago
I've never understood why their free bypass extension doesn't release it's sources on public platform. Their git pages just refer to bundled extensions. You can get the sources from the extension, but I doubt that anybody aud
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by dmantis 2y ago
I've been very reluctant for several years to reinstall my stock Android on Pixel with GrapheneOS, as I don't want to backup lots of things, have partially broken banking apps and having another linux moment when I have to figure
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by dmantis 2y ago
It's not a boolean value, I don't get the irony. If China and Russia can somehow solve the issue and manage their infra, I don't see why EU, for example, can't. It's better to have at least partially protected your
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by dmantis 2y ago
I don't see how a regulated entity is better in any way than an individual. We repeatedly see attacks on freedom and privacy by the people who are supposed to protect them, those so-called "regulators": chatcontrol, recent UK
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by dmantis 2y ago
The world literally has hard proofs of mass espionage by the NSA and CIA after Snowden and Wikileaks Vault 7. Moving your government secrets to the US cloud has been madness for at least 12 years.
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by dmantis 2y ago
Looks cool. Is it possible to use a local model (like whisper) to avoid leaking conversations to the cloud-based AI?
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by dmantis 2y ago
Mycroft is listed under IOT section as a recommendation, but the project is officially dead.
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by dmantis 2y ago
That's not feasible for bots, crawling, IP laws, etc. Strict fraud could be handled, but everything above is really different per jurisdiction by obvious reasons. There is nothing clearly good or bad in bots, or e.g. pirates, it depend
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by dmantis 2y ago
Yes, but you can use captcha/POW challenges based on IP reputation, which leaves usual users intact. I don't mind captchas too much, that's my choice to use the VPN. What I mean is that it's better to give VPN users the

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