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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah the op comment wasn’t made in good faith. Try getting your money back when getting scammed via venmo or PayPal - rarely any better, and if you’re selling you’re more likely to get scammed with those services than crypto.
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by gonehome 5y ago
This is great! I just ordered one for my niece :)
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by gonehome 5y ago
It reminds me of that pg essay - the more bogus the liberal arts the more bullshit is used to obscure and complicate meaning. It was specifically about writing, but the attempt to over complicate still applies imo. “And then of course there
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah I know VK != Telegram, but in the article when he was running VK it sounded like he got scared and handed over a lot of personal user details to the government. It also sounded like with Telegram there was some abuse of looking up or d
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by gonehome 5y ago
From this article it sounds like he probably did give info over to the FSB when running VK after he got spooked. Though at least it does sound like after that he made changes to get out of the country so he could be more independent.
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by gonehome 5y ago
* For what it's worth Not sure how I managed to mangle that so badly.
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by gonehome 5y ago
For what's it's worse (since we disagree elsewhere in this thread) - I'm with you 100% here. Free speech is an important principle. The way I argue it to people arguing for various forms of suppressing it is that you can&#x27
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by gonehome 5y ago
Contact tracing is actually a perfect example. Early in the pandemic the tech companies came together to create a privacy preserving bluetooth exposure notification system that relied on phones and a clever design to prevent this kind of tr
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by gonehome 5y ago
> You have to trust Apple that this will always be the case. You're right of course, but I'd argue this is true in either case. If you're using an iPhone you're trusting Apple is doing what they say they're doing
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by gonehome 5y ago
You're kind of arguing a straw man, sure it technically runs it on the phone (I don't dispute that), but only when upload to iCloud is enabled and the photo is being uploaded to iCloud . The latter bit matters (and what I meant b
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by gonehome 5y ago
It only ran when iCloud was enabled for photos - this makes it essentially a cloud feature. If this wasn't the case I'd agree with you. I think it's a better outcome if it leads to iCloud encryption. A reasonable person could
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by gonehome 5y ago
I don't really buy this, I don't think this feature makes abuse any more likely and it's important to be loud against features that are actually abuse vs. ones that are just adjacent to something that is abuse. The difference
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by gonehome 5y ago
Sure, but it’s not a huge leap to think it through. In hindsight they obviously should have waited until the cloud encryption was ready to ship at the same time. They probably thought the announcement would be good for PR from the general p
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by gonehome 5y ago
Only when syncing photos to iCloud is enabled and the photo is being uploaded. That’s the critical bit. If it was operating without cloud access I’d agree with you, but it wasn’t so I don’t. It only makes sense to do this in the context of
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by gonehome 5y ago
This kind of response illustrates my point. The apple policy was likely about coming up with a way to enable encrypted photos on iCloud while still having some privacy preserving form of CSAM detection. Since it was only enabled when iCloud
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by gonehome 5y ago
I wish HN was better at evaluating anything around this, HN's response to anything on this topic makes it hard to know what the actual truth is. Maybe this act is as bad as people are saying it is, but the Apple policy wasn't and
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by gonehome 5y ago
Peloton is a great product and Foley built it up from nothing, what's the point of keeping all that voting power if you don't use it to tell these private equity groups to fuck off? I hope they don't sell.
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by gonehome 5y ago
HN is famously dismissive of new ideas that go on to become billion dollar companies or products (the iPod and dropbox for two easy examples). HN is better than average, but still pretty poor at recognizing something good until there's
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by gonehome 5y ago
FB doesn't sell the data, they sell the ability for advertisers to advertise to groups. I'm not a fan of ad-driven models, but this is a lot different than selling data. If you're using unencrypted messaging you should assume
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, the irony is they position themselves as 'anti-facebook' and they're worse for the user than FB's whatsapp product from a security standpoint. I'd probably even trust FB's unencrypted messenger content to
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by gonehome 5y ago
It's not a binary thing. If you can choose secure communication vs. insecure communication you're better off choosing secure. You're right of course this doesn't protect you 100%, but it's a lot better than not havi
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by gonehome 5y ago
I'd read that bitcoin for the open minded skeptic article I linked, I think it makes a good argument about that core use case. A decentralized global store of value has a lot of utility - more so in countries with bad financial systems
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by gonehome 5y ago
It’s not we’ll defined in the post, but there are some easy examples. Rainbow wallet is just working on a wallet with nicer UX: https://rainbow.me/ OpenSea, Coinbase, FTX - basic exchanges supporting the market. Trezor and
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by gonehome 5y ago
Isn't the big sacrifice with Telegram security? I get that people like its UX, but if you're sacrificing security for UX then basically anything becomes fine?
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by gonehome 5y ago
You’re asking this on HN so are likely to get 95% of people agreeing with you from confirmation bias alone. Median HN hates cryptocurrency. I’d probably suggest this: https://www.matthuang.com/bitcoin_for_the_open_minded_ske
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by gonehome 5y ago
A lot of companies that use macOS still rely on O365 and teams. What are the other options? Zoom? A lot of companies ban Zoom for security reasons and the connection to the CCP - even without that it's not really that much better than
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by gonehome 5y ago
Thanks! Yeah it's great - this kind of thing is super helpful and will be helping random people searching the web for years to come :)
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by gonehome 5y ago
This is great, I've always found information about how to do this kind of thing to be pretty confusing and not well described. Thanks for adding some more helpful material to the web. I wrote up a guide [0] for using Nginx on a standar
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by gonehome 5y ago
> The ones interested in taking a small amount of cash from some random person are also the least likely to succeed. Part of this is the result of the existing regulations making it a pain to do so.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I don't care about the average or median case and 'some of the best' is suitably subjective, I just want the freedom to make my own choices. The entire bet with startups if you're not rich enough to fund via an incubator

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