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by feanaro 5y ago
> And you only get one profile active at a time. This isn't true. As I'm writing this, I have three Firefox windows open, each in a different profile. What makes you think you can only have one profile active at a time?
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by feanaro 5y ago
> I would call it usable, but not "very usable". For normal people, Chrome(ium) UX is better. I can't imagine why you would say this. Could you point out some concrete examples of better UX?
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by feanaro 5y ago
Hmm, interesting, because I don't force myself to use Firefox. I use it because it's just plain better than Chrome, in that I can configure it just the way I want.
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by feanaro 5y ago
To explain your error a bit less facetiously, the point my sibling is making is that SOP is the default policy, which is maximally restrictive. CORS is a technology used to relax SOP, to make it less restrictive. So it is not CORS that prot
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by feanaro 5y ago
SOP should primarily be understood as a restriction on reading responses , not making requests.
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by feanaro 5y ago
The situation is a bit more nuanced, given the large feature set that Matrix is trying to implement. > Break one key, and all messages will be accessible to an attacker. How do you propose breaking that one key, though? The attacker also
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by feanaro 5y ago
>Regarding the security theater, the backups encrypted with your password are far more vulnerable to being compromised than any of the popular e2e encryption protocols. Hmm? How so? Surely this depends on the strength of your password.
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by feanaro 5y ago
"Normal" people are slowly but surely starting to care about encryption. They hear about it from people participating in self-referential bubbles like HN and then they start wondering. This is my experience.
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by feanaro 5y ago
I think you mean Element doesn't show previews when E2EE is on. This is not a fundamental limitation but a default setting in order to preserve privacy. You can easily turn URL previews for a given E2EE room on by going to the room s
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by feanaro 5y ago
It's possible to be happy and content. If you're serious, it's not right. Please consider asking for help.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Sorry, I think you might've misunderstood me too. I didn't mean to lecture you on your viewpoint -- that was more of a call for a reconsideration for everyone. The world, if you will. Thus my comments were directed at you specific
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by feanaro 5y ago
> And yet, in our current world, things are not that simple - whenever there's a threat of cease & desist for any project like that. That is exactly the point, though. It's only complicated due to artificial problems create
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by feanaro 5y ago
> What about if the fan project contained inappropriate/sexual content? I don't want to be flippant, but so what? Problems with this are entirely artificial and a product of the mind. > What if it's a buggy mess that pe
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by feanaro 5y ago
I personally expect it to be left to exist.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Okay, but this sounds like it's only applicable to teaching about contentious topics, like history or politics, but it doesn't sound very applicable to teaching math or computer science. There you're definitely not trying to
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by feanaro 5y ago
It is a no-brainer that software must, in fact, have settings and the modern UX principles are heavily in the wrong. Having too many options is a curse too however, so that doesn't mean that one should add options without thought nor t
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by feanaro 5y ago
Signal's and Matrix's position is quite different because Signal doesn't attempt to be a distributed eventually-consistent data store but simply a message transport. This is a trade-off which costs you some metadata leakage
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by feanaro 5y ago
I use both Discord and Element and vastly prefer Element, so it's hard to relate without specifics.
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by feanaro 5y ago
You somehow got the wrong impression. The homeserver does most definitely not see the plaintext of messages sent into encrypted Matrix rooms. It is proper end-to-end encryption using pretty much the same constructions as Signal.
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by feanaro 5y ago
I can accept that. But in order to improve, we have to get specific about what it is that is lacking compared to e.g. Discord.
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by feanaro 5y ago
This is an accident of history and will eventually be corrected: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2678 . It is certainly not intended that new features are unencrypted, but unfortunately sometim
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by feanaro 5y ago
I think the poster was referring to the protocol instead of the instance.
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by feanaro 5y ago
"Just terrible" isn't very constructive criticism. I think it has improved and continues to improve significantly.
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by feanaro 5y ago
The line is subjective and arbitrary. > just as much as the people that you describe. I'm not sure which people you mean. I'm saying that it is both true that you "cannot help it" in one sense and false in another sen
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by feanaro 5y ago
Yes, but that's a deeper problem with the very concept of ontologies and not with RDF itself. As long as you keep the scope limited, that is you do not try to "categorize all human knowledge ever, consistently", ontologies ca
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by feanaro 5y ago
The fact that your process knows about and is able to comprehend and reason about its own workings gives it the opportunity to change itself based on this knowledge. To hear about it and to then decide "this absolves me of any guilt, b
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by feanaro 5y ago
Why is RDF a bad thing?
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by feanaro 5y ago
CDK inhibitors play a role in cancer therapy.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Their comment was intended to point out the same thing you're pointing out to the thread root author.
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by feanaro 5y ago
From my experience, this is a problem only with the largest and most popular of apps, the kinds that are made by surveillance companies such as Google and Facebook. And even those usually use dedicated domains for tracking. So while not per

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