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by feanaro 5y ago
> There's no reason their client must be the only one allowed to talk to their servers. In a lot of cases it's also not their client in any sense of the word. Firefox, Chromium, Safari are not Facebook's.
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by feanaro 5y ago
I'm not sure why you think the line is this clearcut, and in the wrong direction at that, but this gets murky really quickly. You don't get a say in how I'm using my computer. If you're exposing your HTTP server to the w
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by feanaro 5y ago
Agreed, but people seem to often miss this point. There is nothing special in browsers that allows them to do something that "scripts" cannot do. They are both HTTP user agents.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Most of the value of gold is not due to those properties. Yet even for those properties, if you look close enough, it is shared hallucinations all the way down. I think you'll also have a hard time explaining how "good conductivit
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by feanaro 5y ago
What is "intrinsic"? Nothing has intrinsic value.
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by feanaro 5y ago
> Whereas virtually 100% of all money invested into crypto has been burned by miners. This is pretty easy to model. People like Bitcoin's provable global ledger and this is where the value lies. The value is not burned, it's em
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by feanaro 5y ago
Curious on why you'd use the word "launder" here. Exchanging currency privately with someone is not laundering.
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by feanaro 5y ago
> This choke point would leave you similarly locked out. Would it? People are willing to exchange USD for BTC. You can't control everything.
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by feanaro 5y ago
> without that the cost to actually apprehend a criminal is so high that we might as well not have laws for many crimes. Which crimes are those? Perhaps it's a sign that they shouldn't be considered crimes after all? Whatever t
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by feanaro 5y ago
> Tylenol doesn't seem to work for fever What? Not sure what alternate universe we're talking about, but paracetamol definitely works on fever in this one.
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by feanaro 5y ago
It does.
492.
by feanaro 5y ago
How is Reye's syndrome a bullshit obscure reason?
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by feanaro 5y ago
Can confirm. I'm joined into Matrix HQ from a not-very-powerful VPS and a recent Synapse uses about 700M RAM and otherwise has no trouble handling it at all.
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by feanaro 5y ago
> Dendrite is their own project. Conduit is the project of another guy they don't get on with it. Seems you've mixed something up. Dendrite is a matrix.org project, just like Synapse. Conduit is written by Timo Kösters who is c
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by feanaro 5y ago
Is this an American thing? I had no idea the OP was talking about an actual thing until now and understood the phrase "love language" as figurative.
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by feanaro 5y ago
You say "share metadata" like this is meaningful without specifying what is meant by that exactly.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Is it? I just tried Telegram again today and something as basic as joining a public channel from the app itself (as opposed to clicking on a link) was seemingly unavailable, or at least hidden well enough that I was unable to find it.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Yet Chrome allows the user to install their own extensions. Where is the malware exploiting this for Chrome?
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by feanaro 5y ago
This is extremely unfortunate. I've found Sourcetrail so useful for my work. I'd continue paying just to keep the current functionality working without adding anything new.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Native phone apps are more invasive and can therefore be used for more extensive tracking and spying, which is good for ad revenue. Remember how all the largest spying products like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, etc aggres
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by feanaro 5y ago
That's a pretty reliable indication you're using some of the most horrible applications, privacy-wise.
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by feanaro 5y ago
I think the identification of "discrete" with "computational" is not very useful. There is such a thing as an analogue computer after all.
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by feanaro 5y ago
> It can't both be redundant and be solved by moving one of the interfaces somewhere else. Either you meant to say it's not redundant [...] I never said it was redundant. Perhaps you mixed me with someone else? Regardless of ho
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by feanaro 5y ago
You're making it sound like stuff stored in the iCloud is E2E encrypted. And yes, both are bad, let's have none of that.
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by feanaro 5y ago
I agree this is effectively how it is today in some countries, but I don't consider this an acceptable stance. Software cannot be exempted from normal rules of physical ownership of sold goods. You sold me a device, which also means yo
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by feanaro 5y ago
Interesting choice of words. What exactly did they improve with this and how?
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by feanaro 5y ago
That's a further problem. That's the reason why you shouldn't accept closed platforms and closed-source software. But it also doesn't lead to the conclusion that what Apple is trying to do here is good or even neutral.
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by feanaro 5y ago
> where I'm not sure it really ever made sense to include in the first place. So move it somewhere where it makes more sense. > Truly, editing/deleting individual cookies isn't something any regular user ever needs to d
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by feanaro 5y ago
lol. Because it's such an unimaginable hassle having to keep this code lying around in the codebase.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Let's remain serious. It is entirely within the capability of modern computers to admit a dialogue which would let the user view their cookies without magically exposing them to websites. There is no non-nefarious reason for this.

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