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by hiq 6y ago
Is the source available somewhere?
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Some signs rendered outside message content area(github.com)
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by hiq 6y ago
> it's a " ponzi scheme" that has been going on for 12 years now, and there are no signs of this stopping. I think we can safely stop calling it a ponzi scheme Not saying that calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme is particularly
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by hiq 6y ago
> In France we work 35h You, as a software engineer, work 35h / week? I thought it was mostly less qualified jobs. I don't know the law exactly, but none of my friends working in Paris work 35h / week.
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by hiq 6y ago
Nobody has mentioned keynav[0] yet. "It lets you move the pointer quickly to most points on the screen with only a few key strokes." With some software or web pages you're better off with this kind of workaround than installi
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by hiq 6y ago
> I think I just quote Banksy Banksy is not the original author, Sean Tejaratchi is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Tejaratchi#Crap_Hound https://i.imgur.com/D0pTs.jpg
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by hiq 6y ago
I think the best way to get a burner account is to use the free services to receive text messages online. These are enough to create an account, and you can then set a pin to prevent any takeover, assuming you synchronize your account every
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by hiq 6y ago
The answer from Moxie to these people: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15#issuec... I think that says it all. I'm also a bit concerned that "security researchers" don't
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by hiq 6y ago
My point was that you have to trust them in any case, even with a VPN. The number of certificates is irrelevant.
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by hiq 6y ago
In Switzerland that's the default for deposits: you create a bank account in your name, but you're not allowed to touch this money until you've left the accommodation and the landlord has agreed that you left it in good shape
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by hiq 6y ago
> You have now shifted your trust from your VPN provider to certificate authorities. Don't you have to trust the CAs in any case?
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by hiq 6y ago
> With Bitcoin you have to enable the "replace by fee" flag on a transaction to allow that. Description of the "replace by fee" mechanism you're mentioning: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Replace
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by hiq 6y ago
> Miners will refuse to accept a transaction which conflicts with the one they saw much earlier. At the very least there's no guarantee of that. If you send a conflicting transaction with a higher fee, a miner should (rationally) di
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by hiq 6y ago
> For instance, dendrite.matrix.org uses a relatively stable 480MB of RAM, despite being in thousands of rooms spanning tens of thousands of users. That's impressive, congrats! I hear your frustration, and I think only time can solv
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by hiq 6y ago
Where do you get the certificate from? If you get the APK and certificate from the same source, there's no security benefit of verifying the certificate on top of having a proper TLS connection. If you update the application, Android w
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by hiq 6y ago
Both Signal and WhatsApp work fine. It requires workarounds from the app developers, but it's not impossible to implement.
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by hiq 6y ago
What prevents it (or its users) from being regulated to death if the authorities wish to do so? For instance how do you ensure that a token representing something in the real world will still represent it when the authorities start looking
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by hiq 6y ago
> as more people accept crypto for goods and services This is not happening. It's been more than a decade now. I could also argue that the reason the few cases where you can actually spend cryptocurrencies have remained is simply th
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by hiq 6y ago
But which kind of token are you buying / selling? Anything that represents a real company in the US won't be able to do so outside of the legal framework.
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by hiq 6y ago
Are you saying that there's some blockchain solution to this problem? Because I don't see it. You will not get shares listed on a decentralized system without some entity vouching for them, which remains legally liable.
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by hiq 6y ago
Apparently Facebook went from an effective tax rate of 25% in 2019 to 12% in 2020. How did they manage to do that? Or am I reading too much into this?
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by hiq 6y ago
https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2021/01/26/opinion/us-cap...
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by hiq 6y ago
> I never understood why people hate IKEA. Did you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA#Criticisms ? There seems to be many reasons to dislike the company, even as a happy customer. One thing that stuck with me i
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by hiq 6y ago
> Either choice gives you better security guarantees than WhatsApp You can argue that there's no strict comparison between Telegram and WhatsApp, e.g., if you trust Telegram more than WhatsApp, then you'd rather have both your
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by hiq 6y ago
> Moxie has been quite clear that Signal is not to be distributed on F-Droid, that seems not likely to change. IIRC his main arguments were really a different signature and delays in updates. Since these reasons will not exist anymore in
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by hiq 6y ago
You can use '?' to edit the search input. So you can type your initial query, scroll down using the arrow keys, and if you're not happy by the end of the page, use '?' and append !g.
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by hiq 6y ago
> Do you really think a homebrewed self-update mechanism is superior to the battle tested F-Droid? I don't think it makes a practical difference. > both users have to be online at the same time for their messages to be delivered
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by hiq 6y ago
> Signal will have very hard time competing as a product with WhatsApp. You seem to assume that they want to be bigger than WhatsApp, but as a non-profit I don't think that's their goal. Their goal is (broadly) to secure most c
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by hiq 6y ago
TLS is not decentralized in its common form, you just use a certificate signed by a third-party (CA). So you end up trusting this CA. Why are you willing to trust this CA instead of Signal's server? If you self-sign a certificate inste
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by hiq 6y ago
> Moxie, why haven’t you put Signal on F-Droid yet? There's no security benefit in having Signal on F-Droid instead of using https://signal.org/android/apk/ . I don't think Signal would say much if F-D

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