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by feanaro 5y ago
The Matrix team is working on making identities portable, that is, not tied to a particular MXID and domain. See https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/...
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by feanaro 5y ago
I maintain about 5 Mint machines for my family members (all older than 50 though) and it's completely painless for me. I don't remember the last time I had to do phone support.
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by feanaro 5y ago
You're missing the part that you won't be maintaining your whole system yourself. You'll instead be relying on other people to do in the form of distros and packages. The trouble comes from a slippage in expectations and the
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by feanaro 5y ago
Jitsi Meet.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Why does it matter how reliable it is? What matters is that it's possible. If it breaks with an update, the technique can be pretty easily adapted to work again.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Being wary of large companies is very prudent and not necessarily anti-capitalist, though.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Yes. There are addons that degooglify the links though. It's such an evil practice they've introduced.
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by feanaro 5y ago
How are room emotes broken on Android?
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by feanaro 5y ago
I hope you did not just assume that general purpose computing and device ownership can be subverted by mere certificate pinning. If it's executing on my device, you can be sure I can poke it and see what it's doing.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Your stance is going to have lots of unforeseen network effects which will in the end leave you with no general purpose computer at all. What you will be able to run will be dictated by large multi-national conglomerates which will double a
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by feanaro 5y ago
> I know it sounds very 1984ish but honestly I don't think it's any worst than the kind of surveillance power google has with all their platforms combined (chrome, android, google, any web thing they didn't kill already).
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by feanaro 5y ago
Yeah, it's definitely a matter of preference. For me, VS Code fails to be productive in a myriad of other ways which I cannot enumerate now because I always forget them, and vim is the productive powerhouse I know inside out, where eve
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by feanaro 5y ago
> So where is all of this ruining of peoples lives by uploading CP on their devices? Once the capability is in place on everyone's devices, how are we supposed to guarantee it will never be used maliciously? Just say no to the capab
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by feanaro 5y ago
We should definitely start. Also, do those companies implement such subversive technology in devices they sell you?
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by feanaro 5y ago
In addition what everyone else responded, even if it turns out to currently be legal, it doesn't mean it should be legal.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Curiously, I find this isn't necessarily true for me. I often prefer hearing an abstract explanation first and I have no problem with keeping several abstract terms and relationships between them in mind without having anything "r
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by feanaro 5y ago
> Ultimately things like C++ code completion and intellisense require a lot of work and code to get right, and NeoVim/Vim attempts are not there yet, for example I had to give up when the only way to figure out what compilation flag
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by feanaro 5y ago
I wasn't implying they were equivalent, but that doesn't make the second one any less awful. In fact, it is the more insidious danger of the two, since it can easily strip you from all your freedoms while not evoking as visceral a
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by feanaro 5y ago
You probably don't want to use Automerge. See https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/ for a nice CRDT optimization story.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Thanks, you just confirmed to me that I want a Remarkable. This looks like it was written by future me. I need a no-hassle, no-distraction, no-fiddling paper-on-steroids replacement. An iPad just seems like it is too much for this. I like
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by feanaro 5y ago
I don't actually see this happening. Why would you want to replace real knowledge with something that generates demonstrably flawed code a lot of the time? It might be used to generate boilerplate and scaffolding, but for more complex
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by feanaro 5y ago
You've described why iPad doesn't suck terribly compared to the Remarkable but I didn't see you mention any of its advantages. Are there any?
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by feanaro 5y ago
> Yes, it could theoretically be abused if Apple went to the dark side, but we'll have to see what this 'auditability' that he was talking about is all about. Or we can just short circuit the entire issue by deciding firml
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by feanaro 5y ago
> This is pretty clever way to preserve end-to-end encryption and satisfy requirement not to store anything CP related on their servers. Correction: Anything in the shady government-supplied database, pushed through a private corporation
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by feanaro 5y ago
> CSAM is beyond abhorrent, morally reprehensible and absolutely should be stopped. This is not in question. Agreed. And the same holds for this subversion of user control of devices. It too is beyond abhorrent and morally reprehensible.
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by feanaro 5y ago
How do you know the invisible pink unicorn doesn't exist? You don't, but going after the known bad things is the most effective action you can take. You certainly don't ignore known bad things just because there may be even
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by feanaro 5y ago
I agree with this take, but the slippery slope arguments do make sense, as exemplified by any spying technology ever. Once a capability exists, it's too enticing not to continue expanding the scope.
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by feanaro 5y ago
The line is not a delusion just because it happened to be crossed at some point. The line is there because humans intuitively consider it to be there. The fact that the line is there gives us a reason and a foothold to fight back when someo
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by feanaro 5y ago
> I know that isn't how you should look at it, but that's still how it feels It's definitely how you should look at it because it's right. Once a device is compromised in this way, there's no going back and the
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by feanaro 5y ago
How is this general and decontexualised number, with no definition of what is considered "sex abuse", relevant to the matter of scanning for pornographic images on iPhones? You're trying to play to people's emotions by e

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