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by handity 3y ago
This is like hearing about your grandma who, in order to forward a webpage to her nephew, takes a picture on her phone, which opens in the web browser, which she prints to a pdf, which she embeds in a word doc which gets attached to an emai
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by handity 3y ago
I'm happy to report that my last two weeks have been paid out.
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by handity 3y ago
Both. KYC, as justified by antiterrorism laws, is out of proportion for a small one-person business earning roughly a living wage. In the eventuality that KYC could be justified, it should be in the manner of Estonia and other European coun
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by handity 3y ago
After ten years using fastspring with no issues and decent sales volume, I received the same email. I categorically refuse to KYC by uploading a picture of my passport and allowing some algorithm to scan my face, and being asked to pay for
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by handity 3y ago
Anonymity cannot be guaranteed, but between the two options, the phone or reusable card based version is guaranteed to invade your privacy to a much larger extent. At worst, a paper ticket can reveal your location when you buy it, when you
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by handity 3y ago
Sure, I should have said "P2P based video sharing like PeerTube". The point is that for videos with no expectation of making money, P2P is a better model than YouTube, as it is both free and ad-free. I am not saying that PeerTub
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by handity 3y ago
There is no mandate that YouTube must exist in its current state. YouTube serves two roles, one as a free service to host videos, one as a roulette machine that might pay out money if your "content" is favored by "the algorit
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by handity 3y ago
Animations and eyecandy don't require arbitrary code execution and should be handled by css, if at all. Almost all websites can be served as data, with the client free to render it how it chooses, which enables far more elegant and uni
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by handity 3y ago
JavaScript cannot be safe, at least if your threat model involves avoiding a global surveillance panopticon. Allowing arbitrary code execution by default cannot be safe. 90% of what JavaScript is used for is totally unnecessary and only mak
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by handity 3y ago
I have been looking for exactly this sort of thing for ages, I'm so glad to have found your comment!
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by handity 3y ago
Thank you, you've encouraged to make some mockups to try to bring this idea a little closer to reality.
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by handity 3y ago
I really want to experience a happy medium between the barebones minimalism of Gemini and the insane free-for-all of the mainstream web. In my mind, there is no reason for every website to dictate its own layout and appearance when 99% of s
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by handity 3y ago
If he is extradited, 100% guaranteed he will not get a fair trial by any common definition of that term.
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by handity 3y ago
I had a second part to my comment about how web3 was the answer, but the public have been largely convinced that it's synonymous with get rich quick schemes or a worse version of Twitter. Where is the next WikiLeaks?
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by handity 3y ago
WikiLeaks tried that, Assange is still in Belmarsh and the MSM is still largely allowing him to rot there.
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by handity 3y ago
No, that's a bit like being happy that locusts are bringing so much life to your field. A single plant growing explosively over a large area with scarce resources should be worrying.
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by handity 3y ago
Counterintuitively, Pixels are great for "serious privacy phobia" people, as they are one of few phones that can be flashed with a custom OS and have the bootloader locked. GrapheneOS only supports Pixels for this reason.
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by handity 3y ago
"Consent requests" will never work. Until all web browsers present identical fingerprints and reveal no identifying data about the user, tracking will take place, whether laws mandate consent or not. Opt-in, opt-out, none of it ma
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by handity 3y ago
Users should learn to say "no" to companies. The surveillance advertising economy is not some hapless mistake that companies will suddenly wake up to one day and realize the error of their ways. Whatever Microsoft "should&quo
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GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years(thisweek.gnome.org)
278 points by handity 4y ago|200 comments
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by handity 4y ago
Agreed, Facebook definitely has the ability to provide timestamped interaction events as part of "Download my Data". Maybe legislation will force them to provide that information at some point, but that won't really have any
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by handity 4y ago
After reading some more of the transcript, I think the article does such a bad job of describing what was being asked for that it makes the court seem incompetent and Facebook actually rather reasonable. My original comment is below: Govern
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by handity 4y ago
I much prefer to trust an implementation over someone's word. I use Signal because I agree with their stated goals, and their implementation seems to align with those goals. I don't use Facebook because their policy is awful in th
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by handity 4y ago
While I am a happy paying Kagi customer, their stance on privacy is nonsensical and amounts to saying "We super duper pinky promise that we won't use your data" From the Anonymity section: "For example your parents can k
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by handity 4y ago
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by handity 4y ago
Paranoid was maybe the wrong word. I am not worried about anything in particular happening to me, but I know that mass surveillance is bad in principal, so I oppose it.
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by handity 4y ago
I consider myself very privacy conscious, bordering on the paranoid. I use FOSS as much as possible, avoid FAANG, and remove surveillance from my life wherever I can. This tool shocked me. It exposes in a visceral way just how prevalent Goo