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by h_anna_h 5y ago
>Brave has built-in telemetry. Brave will make a ton of requests to the domain p3a.brave.com as telemetry So does Firefox, yet this blog post suggests it as a replacement. >Brave isn’t more than Chromium with another skin and a built-
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Not that long ago there was a story about the google analytics opt out addon at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout not doing anything.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
I wonder if Mozilla received state aid.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Is it locked, DRMed, and backdoored just like pretty much anything made by Huawei?
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
I am aware. Not sure what your point is. I am not trying to discredit anyone's argument.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Nobody uses antiviruses on Linux (except if they host a mail or file server). As far as I know most people who use MacOS do not either. It is true that a lot (most?) windows users use antiviruses but this is not an argument against the clai
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
> my reply to absolutes would be that we should stop enforcing alcohol sales to minors We absolutely should. Thankfully it is already not enforced in a lot of places (such as in greece).
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Hope you are happy with this the current situation then. I know that I am not because I do not wish to share my id with Google.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Pointing out hypocrisy would only be a fallacy if I tried to use it as an argument that the actions of Belarus are moral. I am not doing that.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Ethically though both are the same act, this is the point. A lawyer might say "well achually" but that by itself does not make the western actions any better morally although it might give them a justification to pat themselves in
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Please don't call people "Russian and Belarusian propagandists" just for pointing out political hypocrisy. As for the differences they seem like technical legal details that do not really change the situation. But if you want
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
This was just an (expected) reaction to the banning of Belarusian airlines by the EU. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27273752
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
> When your modest house costs $800k USD, a car costs 30k, auto insurance is $1600 a year, groceries are 10k a year (looking at you, Toronto) How did you get these costs? You can get a French Chateau with that much money. https:/&#
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
And then an admin removes your post from the talk page because they do not like it or start responding in a toxic way.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
> Apparently, people think the answer is they should just move to Vietnam or wherever labor rates are lowest. This is disingenuous, moving to pretty much any European city would be enough. Asking people to donate to an organization that
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Maybe a foundation that begs for donations from everyone in the world (even these who make $3/h) and pretends that they are going to go bankrupt without your donation should not be giving its management FAANG wages.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
"Hosting wikipedia accounts for roughly 2% of their total expenses" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26056276
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
> The activist organized protests ...an act that he knew was illegal, just like Snowden did. There is no real difference, it's just that both of them pissed off powerful people while trying to do what is moral.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
"Hosting wikipedia accounts for roughly 2% of their total expenses" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26056276 The links in the post explain where the stuff is spent.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Are these related? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26995610 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004688
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
There is a reason ed25519 is used instead of ed25519ph :) PureEdDSA does not break when a hash function without collision resistance is used.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
No, I do not realize that. Is the security of the bitcoin protocol based on the collision resistance of SHA-256? If so they should try to find a solution around it.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Certain signing algorithms such as ed25519 do not depend on the collision resistance of the hash function when signing the message. They do however when signing the hash. "It's always signing a hash.", sure, but S(m) and S(h(
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Signing the hashes instead of the executable leaves you open to collision attacks.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
> but the download and the hashed check come from the same site. If someone can spoof the download site Someone should tell the nixos devs that. Not being able to verify the authenticity of something as important as your OS does not seem
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
The victim here are the people whose stories got exposed, not the company. The company is responsible for not protecting them enough. The public shaming is important to show people that this company is not to be trusted with your data.
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
> Paraphilias are strengthened through repeated exposure and association with pleasure I heard some ultra-conservatives saying the same about gay porn and how "it turns people gay" as an argument to get it banned. Are you sure
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by h_anna_h 5y ago
Fun fact: AI Dungeon used to be Open Source and you used to be able to run it locally without sending your data to someone else and without censorship of any form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Dungeon#Development Th
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by h_anna_h 6y ago
Funny thing about mastodon.art, they block instances just for federating with other blocked instances, do not communicate the block to the admins of said instances, and even block "instances" that do not exist and never existed ba
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by h_anna_h 6y ago
Why not email and ask him? Just make sure that you are polite. He replies to pretty much everyone.

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