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by gausswho 1y ago
Agreed. It's a weird open secret that your phone number is your UUID across all the tech giants. That Signal follows the flock here instead of an email/pass signup is never gonna win me over.
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by gausswho 1y ago
After a decade of holding on with a small pool of friends with Matrix, we finallly gave up this month over notifications dropping It hurts because I agree in principle - I don't even fully understand why notifications even should need
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by gausswho 1y ago
Appreciate your standing ground. I try too and just accept you will lose some and win some. It's actually quite liberating as long as the ones you lose you really are willing to lose. I expect this is very difficult outside of urban en
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by gausswho 1y ago
Wait, is that true over regular email too? Say I have a back and forth one liner emails every few minutes? It's competent for the provider to throttle or block these?
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by gausswho 1y ago
I can relate to the loss. It's one directional. One side slowly forgets there's anything other than what Facebook properties puts in front of them.
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by gausswho 1y ago
I challenge the idea that private enterprise could solve the scaling component better than a government could. We've reached this comedy of ads and surveillance capitalism because private strategies are flailing.
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by gausswho 1y ago
I'm unconvinced. I suggest that YT's outlay is a sneeze among the budget of the US. In my estimation, all nations are lagging in the definition of what constitutes a public utility. In a decade we will be facepalming why advertise
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by gausswho 1y ago
What new feature of significance has YouTube actually delivered in years?
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by gausswho 1y ago
Worse. It charges you by building a profile about you. 21st century nation states can better solve video scale delivery without middle parasites like Google.
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by gausswho 1y ago
Even if they were relevant, they'd still be holding global internet video culture behind a paywall. First pay with your identity (carrier phone number required for a Google account). Then double pay through Premium in the illusion you
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by gausswho 1y ago
Oh look, sureveillance capitalist says you're holding it wrong.
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by gausswho 1y ago
I rhetorically agree it's not a good argument, but its use as a cautionary metaphor predates its formalization as a logical fallacy. It's summoning is not proof in and of itself (i.e. the 1st amendment). It suggests a concern rath
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by gausswho 1y ago
No arguments on the crushing debt. A strange peculiarity for the wealthiest economy on Earth.
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by gausswho 1y ago
Interesting, I'll have to try this. It's still not the anonymity I desire from my private VPN (due to domain requirements) but at least the giants can't rug pull you.
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by gausswho 1y ago
That's a great phrase, and applicable here. I don't see why there can't be a well-funded effort to build a powerful MDM for Linux, but to my knowledge no one comes close. I'd think it would be very profitable.
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by gausswho 1y ago
Calculus is advanced mathematics and absolutely not the end goal of algebra. It used to be taught at university level but its utility to other sciences (and toys of war) got it shoehorned into the high school curriculum at the expense of ot
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by gausswho 1y ago
Out of many a frivolous hobby doth spring the rarest kernels of civilizational triumphs.
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by gausswho 1y ago
This one hits. I'm so grateful for this person's labors. A rare author whose name I see and make a small sound of excitement, then grab a fresh coffee and huddle up for a satisfying hour+ journey of cinematic learning. Find a hide
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by gausswho 1y ago
I'm days later responding, sorry. I should have suggested more clearly: what if a Linux-based solution gave you the administrative control meeting or exceeding what you currently expect from less open solutions? Would you pay for it?
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by gausswho 1y ago
Makes you wonder what company of the years ahead will be assembled from those let go today in the name of AI.
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by gausswho 1y ago
And if you were the one locking down what the phones could run, instead of the duopoly?
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by gausswho 1y ago
Indeed. I read elsewhere that some Android manufacturers even ship with Facebook bits that don't show up in the app listing and cannot be removed. We desperately need a viable open hardware / open source OS competitor in the phone
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by gausswho 1y ago
Do tell!
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by gausswho 1y ago
Why would COPASIR accept such an offer. Third party forensics shows the fox got in the hen house. You wanna let the fox back in just to confess?
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by gausswho 1y ago
Pretty rich coming from a company that only let's you create an account via SSO from the largest offenders of this.
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by gausswho 1y ago
I felt a prude at the time but eschewed native apps for browser versions and haven't regretted. Didn't benefit from notification distraction anyway. Apple and Google just didn't get their houses in order to be taken seriously
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by gausswho 1y ago
Same response I had for iOS 7: Clown vomit.
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by gausswho 1y ago
My current approach is restic, but I'd prefer to have asymmetric passwords, essentially the backup machine only having write access (while maintaining deduplication). This way if the backup machine were compromised, and therefore the p
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by gausswho 1y ago
i hear the bank argument a lot and although i can understand the importance for those without another device, i'm a little stunned people rely on modern pocket spyware to monitor their accounts. maybe i know too much, or too little, bu
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by gausswho 1y ago
would there be repercussions if a country hewed to the 50 year minimum?

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