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by fwn 5y ago
You both argue around the question: how does the unlicensed reproduction of media morally compare to stealing. Argument 1: Sufficiently severe benefits should mitigate the moral fault in theft. Argument 2: Sufficiently small damage should m
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by fwn 5y ago
That's interesting! I didn't know that. > it is difficult to explain the Telegram's tradeoffs, how would you explain that to common users? I think that serves as an additional indicator for the trade-off decision not being
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by fwn 5y ago
> This is about that one functionality being mutually exclusive with other functionality. That is a design decision made by Telegram. My e2ee Signal and Matrix groups sync just fine across devices, preserve message history, allow messag
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by fwn 5y ago
> People value that other functionality more. You may not like it, but that's how they are. I've once listened to a presentation given by someone from the company behind AdBlock Plus. They were explaining their (back then) new
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by fwn 5y ago
Wikipedia writes about that thought in their two opening paragraphs and concludes: > In academic discourse, there is no consensus on whether or not TERF constitutes a slur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF Sure, i
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by fwn 5y ago
Only tangentially related, but I love this note at the bottom of the Radium download page: > Information to warez groups > Since the source is open, it should be simple to turn the demo into a fully featured version. Please let me kno
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by fwn 5y ago
"full network access" is a hugely important permission. My cynical side believes that the reason for it not being as visible as other permissions is that platforms profit from the ad-driven app model, which itself heavily relies o
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by fwn 5y ago
As far as I've read about Duo it seems to be AV1: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-duo-lyra-codec-better-... ...though I'm not sure whether they use it consistently.
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by fwn 5y ago
This is great. Thank you so much for making me aware of this extension. It took two minutes to go through every color and remove the blue taint.
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by fwn 5y ago
Unfortunately the dark mode now seems to be more like a dark blue mode. It looks very cheap, almost as if it's caused by a badly adjusted screen. I tried fixing it with the css grayscale attribute in userchrome.css but ran into perform
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by fwn 5y ago
Ha, thank you. I had no idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
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by fwn 5y ago
Not sure if I understood you correctly. In our context "evil" just meant that someone breached the secrecy a group assumed to be a shared value. Encryption is never evil and the tools used to facilitate communication in democratic
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by fwn 5y ago
Messaging was still available for a long time through mbasic.facebook.com up until very recently. They removed that feature at the time their last big messenger outage happened. messenger.com still works on Android Firefox as long as you sw
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by fwn 5y ago
You need Firefox 68 ( fennec 68.11.0 ) to use extensions from the open internet. Mozilla axed general extension support in later versions of their android browser. I just keep it around next to my regular browser for the occasional paywall.
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by fwn 6y ago
I think that most criticism comes from the choice to include their wallet into Signal, a private messaging app. I'm pretty certain a MobileCoin wallet app in the play store would've been well received by those who are interested i
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by fwn 6y ago
Not our parent claims it's too hard to find the users affected by that breach, Facebook does. Curiously. Quote from the source article: > The Facebook spokesman said the social media company was not confident it had full visibility
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by fwn 6y ago
> 99% of the opposition to Signal integrating cryptocurrency payment seems to be from people who generally disagree with the idea of cryptocurrencies Most crypto projects are a scam, but some are great. I do hold bitcoin since I started
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by fwn 6y ago
WhatsApps payment feature is only available in India where they implemented the feature in alignment with the Indian UPI initiative. Src.: https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/payments/learn-more-about-p... Therefore
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by fwn 6y ago
> Signal needs to keep core feature parity to remain competitive with WhatsApp, Telegram etc. And that includes a payment mechanism. This is thrown around a lot but I have difficulties to see how a wallet for an obscure alt coin might be
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by fwn 6y ago
The main message here seems pretty straightforward and is only lightly related to transcription: If you gather confidential information do not hand them over to some third party for transcription, storage, sync, cloud office solutions, etc.
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by fwn 6y ago
Just to add one small note here: A drone is, in academic literature on security, not a autonomous weapon or robot. Drones are assumed to be remote controlled, therefore retain a human decision maker at all times. Robots would make such deci
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by fwn 6y ago
No, I don't think that's practical. Standards like transparency, rule of law and a clear separation between corporations and the government should be uphold completely independent from the fact that this isn't done exactly as
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by fwn 6y ago
The idea behind federated networks is to spread power. If power is truly spread out and people there are as heterogeneous as everywhere else it does mean that there will be instances that do not agree on the process on how to handle things.
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by fwn 6y ago
Here is a relevant blog post f-droid published in 2019 on Tusky and Fedilab: https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html They do seem to ague in favor of free software. .. at least as long as app de
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by fwn 6y ago
The website does not currently work for me. Here's a working archive.org mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210316074533/https://lucky225.... If that mirror keeps hiding the text, blocking all in
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by fwn 6y ago
My question was "extremely repetitive" and a "generic ideological place" to the point that it "damaged the forum"? I'm a regular HN reader and I never stumbled over any of those apparently very repetive an
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by fwn 6y ago
I'm going to regret participating under a link with a racially charged bait, but I'm curious: What's the reason Ars Technica capitalizes the one ethnicity and not the other? Actual question, not a native speaker.
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by fwn 6y ago
For the sake of the people living in India we probably all hope that such norms fade over time. I've read about an experiment where increasing the noise level of carhorns on the inside of the car reduced horn usage significantly. Maybe
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by fwn 6y ago
They argue that the centralization of advertising forces almost all companies to offer paid services and that those services lead to the overall online experience being more expensive. They conclude that "we should recognize the trade
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by fwn 6y ago
Reddits feature removal is probably evidence for people using the opt-out. Why would they actively remove it AND go through such a communication debacle for no change in revenue and/or data collection?

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