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631.
by feanaro 5y ago
Why wouldn't HR be testing software engineering candidates?
632.
by feanaro 5y ago
Because of tiled window managers. Having many terminals open is often more ergonomic than the terminal's tab support.
633.
by feanaro 6y ago
> I would like Matrix to provide a setting to advise UIs to not use e2e encryption for the same domain -- that's useless if you trust the home server (my family do trust my home server). It's not useless. What if there is a ser
634.
by feanaro 6y ago
I truly cannot fathom why anyone would Zuckerberg as their president.
635.
by feanaro 6y ago
If you think about it in terms of network topology, you'll see it's not completely arbitrary. In fact, the long-term plan for Matrix is to explicitly support the fully decentralized topology by using Dendrite, where a client would
636.
by feanaro 6y ago
This sounds wrong. Since Matrix is federated, you can still be echelon, just not @echelon:theserveryoutried.com. Furthermore, this is just the MXID, the Matrix ID. This is usually de-emphasized in the UI and only used to disambiguate and ad
637.
by feanaro 6y ago
What they mean is that there is a client/server separation. Truly decentralised systems don't have this distinction and only have communicating nodes. Though this is coming to Matrix too.
638.
by feanaro 6y ago
I've been around for the same amount of time so that's not the cause of the difference in our opinions. What might be is that I'm not talking about general availability of information, but news specifically. To me, news quali
639.
by feanaro 6y ago
I think a sufficiently large number of people is saying they effectively do not care about the surveillance-based ad industry and want it dismantled.
640.
by feanaro 6y ago
I think the cause and effect is a bit mixed up in your reasoning. What's actually happening is threefold: 1. People are starting to get fed up with tracking of all kinds (including third-party cookies). This is happening gradually, but
641.
by feanaro 6y ago
I feel news was of better quality 15 years ago than today so I wouldn't mind going back to that state of the world. And 15 years ago pervasive tracking wasn't a thing. So yes, please, let's kill it with fire.
642.
by feanaro 6y ago
This is painful to read. Instead of DDG noticing how much Google sucks at respecting operators and beating them at it, scoring praise from power users, they somehow managed to be even worse than Google.
643.
by feanaro 6y ago
I'd like to see them try that and see how that flies.
644.
by feanaro 6y ago
Third-party tracking cookies have not been a problem in my browser (Firefox) for quite a while now, since they get blocked by default. Firefox also recently introduced Total Cookie Protection, which is a feature isolating cookies by the ori
645.
by feanaro 6y ago
They only have an ID until you decide to deanonymise yourself on purpose by registering.
646.
by feanaro 6y ago
> Political tags are explicitly banned from the FLoC tagging data which identifies locally your 'secular', a-political preferences. Just because this is said to be so on paper doesn't mean it would actually be so. How woul
647.
by feanaro 6y ago
> But state actors won't be able identity me individually, so I don't see the harm either. Why wouldn't they be able to? FLoC tells them you're a dissenter, your IP tells them who you are. Just because you can reset i
648.
by feanaro 6y ago
And why would currency users even bother with it? If I receive a payment for something, I don't feel the need to pretend to be the police.
649.
by feanaro 6y ago
Why is it a foregone conclusion that we cannot unmake this?
650.
by feanaro 6y ago
Through trust and through the client complaining that no one showed up? In other words, how did the world ever work before smartphones?
651.
by feanaro 6y ago
Let's assume my intent for publishing the paper was clean and I was not attempting to subvert colour. What happens if word spreads around on the internet that the prime number in my paper is actually the illegal DeCSS prime number, mak
652.
by feanaro 6y ago
The point is Disney shouldn't really be able to "own" the image of Mickey Mouse for over a hundred years just because they paid for the creation of some initial image.
653.
by feanaro 6y ago
How would the concept of colour be used practically in this case? Am I allowed to mention the prime number or am I not?
654.
by feanaro 6y ago
Perhaps you tried it before key cross-signing? In that case, you had to verify each of your devices with each of your participants devices. Now you only need to verify once per participant. It's much better now in general.
655.
by feanaro 6y ago
Yes, one of those means the server can see all your messages and the other means it can't. Transport encryption has been the default for almost all internet traffic for some years so it's no longer something that you can reasonabl
656.
by feanaro 6y ago
My non-tehnical acquaintances are using it just fine. Any particular issues you've been having?
657.
by feanaro 6y ago
Why would you think that? And what is the amateur 'security' community?
658.
by feanaro 6y ago
Matrix features E2EE with proper message sync between clients: https://matrix.org/
659.
by feanaro 6y ago
Can you share what you have discovered about Telegram's crypto implementation in these 15 minutes of research when you did them? That would be far more useful than just leaving a teaser without anything concrete.
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by feanaro 6y ago
> uh, no. this is demonstrably and obviously wrong. Yes? How?

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