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by gck1 1y ago
Because these regulations rarely do what is written. They just lock the gates for anyone who hasn't got enough cash that says "yes we're compliant"
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by gck1 1y ago
I'm in the same boat as OP. Used GrapheneOS until Google Pay was enabled in my country. ALL banks then killed their proprietary NFC wallet apps in a month and told users to use Google Pay. I switched to using a Garmin watch for a while
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by gck1 1y ago
I'm not sure banking firms need any convincing that attestation makes their systems more secure, as it is true. If the only way to interact with the app is via a human interface, that means you can't have scalable fraudulent tra
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by gck1 1y ago
Millennial here. I took up educating masses in my country about all this. I quickly realized that people just do not care.
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by gck1 1y ago
As someone who has a few bank accounts in different countries of which I'm not a resident of, and also a user of the services you mention, its next to impossible to use them for banking purposes. In US, for example, their addresses are
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by gck1 1y ago
All that this will result in is Cloudflare starting to demand payment from humans to browse the web, eventually. It already became impossible to browse the Cloudflare-dominated web if you use VPN and/or any browser that resists fingerp
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by gck1 1y ago
Oh, so that's why the "Verify you are human" check just loops endlessly now, unless your IP is so pure it’s only ever been used by a hermit with dial-up, who submitted notarized DNA, retinal scans, and a signed confession t
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by gck1 1y ago
You can pick up a pulled laptop modem like the T99W175 from China for a low price, drop it into a USB enclosure (you’ll be limited to USB 2.0 speeds), and hook it up to OpenWrt. Or grab a GL.iNet GL-X3000 - the Quectel RM520N is already on
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by gck1 2y ago
For me personally - rate limit of 50/day means that I can't use it as daily driver so I'll have to go back to Sonnet which will gladly accept my money for more. Then I just forget it exists.
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by gck1 2y ago
> Android supports alphanumeric passwords, which offer significantly more security than numeric-only PINs or patterns. Ironic, coming from Google. As Android is THE only OS where usage of alphanumeric passwords is nearly impossible, as A
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by gck1 2y ago
It's severely limited in terms of what you can do. Garmin doesn't support some Unicode (Georgian) characters, and when you get a notification with Georgian characters, watch freezes, starts heavily draining the battery and then re
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by gck1 2y ago
2FA on a password manager is a stupid, stupid idea and will surely lock out many people from non-tech-savy pool. Even engineers have trouble noticing or understanding circular dependencies, does Bitwarden, a password manager that tries to c
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by gck1 2y ago
Proton pass is a terrible choice because of Proton's inactivity policy - I expect my passwords to still be there if I'm incapacitated for one reason or another for a year (jail, coma, whatever).
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by gck1 2y ago
Proton's target audience are folks who care about privacy and at least a few bits of anonymity. Using your own domain will make you stand out like a sore thumb across all services you sign up to.
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by gck1 2y ago
Apart from SimpleLogin, service that they acquired - all their service APIs are down. This to me indicates, that proton managed to create a single point of failure for all their in-house services, but didn't manage to put SimpleLogin u
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by gck1 2y ago
Since most of my usage of LLMs is through cline or APIs now, specifically for coding assistance, and I’m not comfortable trusting my codebase or potentially leaked secrets, to a company operating under CCP supervision, I’ll stick to waiting
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by gck1 2y ago
You do realize, that we got on that channel because we're picking a bone with the government, right?
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by gck1 2y ago
Well, it's complicated. In our case, we don't have the rule of law (my legal case was dismissed, unsurprisingly), but then the technology that is supposedly moderation-free because it provides free speech to dissenting voices (I&#
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by gck1 2y ago
I've been recommending Signal to anyone potentially targeted for years. Almost everyone aware of being a target has used, and continues to use, Signal. Those not specifically targeted are at least well-informed about its importance. Ho
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by gck1 2y ago
Since perchlorate's comment is now dead, and yours is similar, going to reply here. I do agree to some extent. Having tools to challenge a dictatorship that cannot be silenced can indeed become invaluable. However, there is a significa
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by gck1 2y ago
Georgia. They used same tactics, so that's why I also call them titushkis.
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by gck1 2y ago
Funny story - there were some protests in my country some months ago. We're a semi-autocratic country on the verge of becoming a dictatorship. During the protests, the government used masked 'civilians,' or what you'd ca
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by gck1 3y ago
In my country (Georgia), I received dozens of reports from people saying that after the outage, they have been offered to sign in to other users' Facebook accounts and were successful in doing that. I can't confirm it, but it appe
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by gck1 3y ago
I wish I could eavesdrop on Philips' bigwigs making Hue decisions. I've got 10 bulbs bought over 6 years, each one a special snowflake with its own quirks. The latest ones need a 5-second power cut to turn on via a dumb switch. Ol
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by gck1 4y ago
When it comes to Google, I believe there are no limitations or concerns. They for some reason, just... don't care? There's a myriad of Google's services that are not available globally without a good reason for it. For exampl
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by gck1 4y ago
Well, that's unfortunate. I've been using Chrome redirector extension and all my Amazon orders were automatically smile-eligible, with Signal Foundation receiving all of it. This was probably the easiest, most hassle-free and chea
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When Yubikey secured Google account can be hacked, human support is a necessity(twitter.com)
7 points by gck1 4y ago|7 comments
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by gck1 4y ago
Got my hopes high that there's finally an open source solution that can deal with Georgian language, only to get my hopes brutally destroyed. It successfully detects a language and then produces garbage. Passing language manually produ
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GrapheneOS now supports using Google as a Network Location Provider(grapheneos.org)
2 points by gck1 5y ago|0 comments
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by gck1 5y ago
Does "services" also include security updates?

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