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by fwn 6mo ago
> E2E is illegal in the UAE, and Meta has only advertised E2E in countries where it can operate E2E freely. From my experience, the no-advertisement claim is untrue. I've used WhatsApp with several users in the UAE. The end-to-end e
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by fwn 6mo ago
Murder is a universal concept. There are also varying criminal laws that are called murder, but just because these exist, one must not be thrown off track: the moral, pre-legal concept of an act known as murder remains unaffected. 'Ext
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by fwn 6mo ago
> [...] why would I trust some VPN provider any more than my ISP [...] Of course, whether or not to use a VPN always depends on the specifics. (threat model, circumstances, VPN provider, etc.) I am with the biggest telecoms provider in G
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by fwn 6mo ago
Yes, Big Tech is in a tough spot here. Obviously, no one wants to host CSAM or be fined for doing so. Implementing end-to-end encryption on relevant communication services could mitigate many risks that come with hosting user content. It wo
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by fwn 7mo ago
Ironically, just like many software users, the EU Parliament is not given the option to say "no", only "ask me later". Anyone who’s ever been unable to dismiss a nag and forced to defer via "Ask me later" knows
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by fwn 7mo ago
If shipping a specific device configuration to the US is illegal, Motorola should not ship this specific device configuration to the US. I do not think our parent is suggesting otherwise. AFAIK Motorola and GrapheneOS are not merging, they
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by fwn 7mo ago
> I’m not sure that’s how corporate blame works. In regulated industries, like finance and taxation, regulators deliberately assign responsibility to individuals, so misconduct doesn’t get lost inside the company or within its corporate
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by fwn 7mo ago
I do stumble over looping captcha issues on archive.* occasionally as well. In my case, it usually helps to change my VPN location.
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by fwn 7mo ago
The obvious reason is, of course, money. Since rare handles can generate high prices and are returned to auction once the buyer fails to meet their obligations, Twitter has a strong incentive to increase the number of handles in its auction
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by fwn 7mo ago
Although I live in the EU, I have no trust in its ability to regulate my media usage or platform providers at all. The EU just managed to postpone chat control for a bit, and my own country has found a renewed passion for punishing expressi
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by fwn 7mo ago
Might be vulnerable to classic salami tactics, though. Once we arrive at a general consensus on new norms that expect age verification online, we can just legislate it to ID users as a step 2. Maybe wait for the next terror-attack before pu
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by fwn 7mo ago
The average consumer (in the western part of the world) uses an Apple or Samsung phone, not a Motorola. Lenovo is not going to change that, nor will they ever make a phone that is better at being a Samsung phone than Samsung. I think that
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by fwn 7mo ago
> ... it would take me weeks to convert those accounts to a new domain ... I did the same with about the same amount of accounts and it took me the better part of a Saturday. Even if you were really slow and needed five minutes per accou
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by fwn 7mo ago
This reply does not address parents question at all. A key feature of Obsidian is that it stores your notes in an open folder structure on your file system. A very valid question is whether there are benefits to using a special note sync ap
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by fwn 9mo ago
It's always a dubious method to ask an LLM to reveal information about its inner workings. However, if you export your Grok account information via the Settings menu, it will export your information, including a risk score not exposed
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by fwn 10mo ago
Your comment specifically, I believe, falls short of the ideal to get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic becomes more divisive. We should probably avoid posting shallow dismissals and remember that a good critical comment
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by fwn 10mo ago
reMarkable still work really hard to force you into a subscription - or at least into using their very bad, non-zero knowledge cloud service. ... I don't know why but it is not obvious why this would be for the benefit of the user. I o
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by fwn 11mo ago
I don't know about their methodology, but as a German, I get the feeling that the project is rather vague. For example, I would have liked to see more specifics on what they define as censorship in terms of scope. Mainstream discourse
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by fwn 11mo ago
> Just because something has been done for a long time doesn't mean it's good. This is true, although it is a good start, right? If a cultural practice has survived for many generations, this alone already indicates that the pr
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by fwn 11mo ago
> Getting scars on purpose is a quite questionable decision. Interesting. Why? Isn't it a common and longstanding cultural practice, even among indigenous peoples? Intuitively, I'd say body modification is based on the desire t
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by fwn 11mo ago
> Had a couple of drive-by downvotes... Is it that stupid an opinion? While I do not agree with your take, FWIW I found your comment substantive and constructive. You seem to be making two points that are both controversial: The first is
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by fwn 11mo ago
While I like the general idea of Ecosia (in that it's a less harmful ad-funded service) they do share user IP addresses with their search partners (Google and Microsoft). > We, and our search partners, collect your IP address in ord
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by fwn 1y ago
You might be able to find it by searching for the 'Welcome to Gmail' email in your archives. AFAIK it is also returned when you download your Google data archive.
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by fwn 1y ago
"Jail", on the other hand, is a great metaphor for a walled garden.
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by fwn 1y ago
It's also easy to spot ChatGPT's distinct writing style. Take a look at the other comments from the HN account Lumoscore: > ... It doesnt fully solves the trust issue — it just shifts it. It doesn't [context-based goal wor
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by fwn 1y ago
> [...] They buy companies because the product is good [...] It was already mentioned above: Bending Spoons bought Evernote. That is a product that has become entirely stale and barely usable, unable to compete with something like Obsidi
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by fwn 1y ago
The deliberate crippling of third-party stores is a clear example of malicious compliance, something Apple is well known for when facing regulatory pressure. It's neither new nor surprising. Think about it: the Netherlands' dating
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by fwn 1y ago
> From what you say it's clear you never read Apples paper on this. ... You seem to have an over simplified view of how it all works. They don't just throw hashes in. ... Again it's an over simplification. If the US govern
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by fwn 1y ago
> CSAM scanning has been around for at least 15 years. All service providers are required to do it by law. That is true for scanning in the cloud, but it's important not to conflate this with client-side scanning. The distinction be
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by fwn 1y ago
The AfD came out against chat control in a 2023 press release via one of their MPs. Their 2025 platform reads well at first glance (against surveillance, pro open source, against censorship, in favor of individual data sovereignty), but it

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