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by envy2 6y ago
So, I completely understand the concerns about moderation on Facebook itself. But what would you actually have anyone do about WhatsApp? It's an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, and the whole purpose of end-to-end encryption (which,
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Facebook censors group criticizing Thailand king after government pressure(theverge.com)
24 points by envy2 6y ago|17 comments
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by envy2 6y ago
Sorry, you're conflating two entirely different things. An individual platform or service choosing to moderate content (which basically every website / app involving UGC does in one form or another) is in no way the same as censor
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by envy2 6y ago
This is a terrible development and precedent. Whatever you think of the CCP and the Chinese approach to censorship and tech, building our own 'Great Firewall' and banning foreign apps/services we don't like is not the an
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by envy2 6y ago
Do people really hate FB so much right now that this garbage becomes the top article on HN? This website[1] seems to be entirely blank aside from this article, the claims made are dubious at best and essentially unsourced, and the alleged &
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by envy2 6y ago
There is: sudo spctl --master-disable Then choose "Anywhere" under "Allow apps from..." in the Security & Privacy preferences. You'll never be bothered again.
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by envy2 6y ago
Except YouTube is blocked in China, so no one really should be trying to solve this to begin with...
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by envy2 7y ago
How is this just starting? Here in Singapore, employers have been required to do twice-daily temperature checks for months. This is the lowest of low-hanging fruit.
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by envy2 7y ago
The list is in alphabetical order. It's not malicious...
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by envy2 7y ago
Let's not confuse invasive ads and tracking cookies with "exploits." We can dislike both, but they are definitively not the same thing and one is clearly a bigger real threat than the other.
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Facebook Sues Israel's NSO Group over Alleged WhatsApp Hack(reuters.com)
3 points by envy2 7y ago|3 comments
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by envy2 7y ago
Not really. Over a certain amount, for fully-convertible currencies, the process basically looks the same for any sum.
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by envy2 7y ago
Facebook made a similar announcement today: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/removing-cib-china/
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by envy2 7y ago
The bad actors are still liable. You go after them to force them to remove the original content that is being indexed. Yes, it's whack-a-mole, but that will forever be the nature of the internet or any other tool that facilitates democ
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by envy2 7y ago
This article focuses on Google not being liable, but ignores the fact that the specific creators and posters of the content appearing in Google's search results certainly can be sued. There have been a lot of anti-CDA 230 sob stories
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by envy2 7y ago
No, you don't, at least not in the sense of "Facebook approves your use case based on some subjective criteria." Per the page you linked, as long as you verify your ID/location, are from one of the countries where the Ad
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by envy2 7y ago
I understand the motivation behind the NTSB recommendation, but think I net out siding with the app developers here. The last time I checked, the overwhelming majority of active at-grade rail crossings are well-marked (and usually controlle
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by envy2 7y ago
Yes—they'll adjust the rate to the (much higher) one-way price. But there's no crazy "loss of use" fee like the parent comment suggested. In practice, the cost usually turns into around $0.37/mile, plus the daily ra
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by envy2 7y ago
At least for Hertz, they can charge you a grand total of $10 here (if you call them to change it) or otherwise $12/day per their T&C: https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/reservation/reviewmodifycance... "
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by envy2 7y ago
This is a fun story—but he should've just booked a round-trip rental car, and dropped it off in Dayton anyway. I've done this a bunch of times, and all they'll do is charge you the one-way rate and grumble a bit... Better to
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by envy2 7y ago
Their Kazakhstan endpoint is fake; it's a 'virtual' exit node that's actually in Singapore. This info is buried in their help pages: https://www.expressvpn.com/support/troubleshooting/virtual-s.
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by envy2 7y ago
I think we're not giving the general public enough credit. These discussions always seem to come down to "no one cares about privacy" or "they care but they're idiots." I think many people care about privacy a
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by envy2 7y ago
Message content is encrypted and thus not mineable; metadata is a separate issue.
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by envy2 7y ago
There's a difference between Libra (the Swiss-based association) and Calibra (the US-based FB subsidiary making the first wallet). > "Calibra will do its part to facilitate the efficacy of international sanctions regimes. We wi
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by envy2 7y ago
The concern is less about traffic interception and more about being able to sever / significantly undermine a country's ability to communicate during, for instance, time of war. This is also largely where the 5G infra concerns com
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by envy2 7y ago
I feel exactly the opposite. As a US citizen living in the US, even if the Chinese were to have every bit of my private data, they wouldn't really pose any threat to me as I'm not in their jurisdiction. The US, on the other hand,
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by envy2 7y ago
That article is a month old——so, unlikely.
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by envy2 7y ago
I'm relatively neutral on Wikileaks/Assange, but this is a stretch. I don't think "illegally leaking documents" counts as a political opinion any more than I should be entitled to asylum because I have a "polit
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by envy2 8y ago
It's interesting to see that Airbnb is where the HN mindset goes; it reflects a certain degree of privilege that an entrepreneurial opportunity is the first use case surfaced. Cramming extra family/friends into an apartment who ar
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by envy2 8y ago
I've yet to meet an apartment key fob I haven't been able to clone with a 'universal' RFID cloner gadget I bought in Shenzhen for $150 a few years back and some blank cards of various frequencies. You can also link it to

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