jfkimmes

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by jfkimmes 5y ago
As someone from Europe I would much rather have it default to Signal than to Telegram. I prefer encryption over "jurisdiction-based protection" or whatever security shell game Telegram is playing to protect my plain text messages.
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
> There have been plenty of times that I didn't want to hand over my name and address for an online purchase, but the traditional payment systems aren't set up for privacy. Private payments can easily solved without a blockchai
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
I get "To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in. (With Facebook or Google)" on mobile. No thanks, Medium. These dark patterns crop up everywhere lately...
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
Interesting. The conclusion you draw from this differs wildly from my conclusion. Whenever I read stories like these, it seems clear to me that someone moved to the cloud in order to not have to care about security. The 'cloud does eve
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
Interesting. I had not heard of restic, yet. My default backup choice has been borg[1] for a long time, so borgbase.com was a natural choice for off-site backups for me. They make Vorta a decent GUI client for borg - that's how I found
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
I believe this is not a new concept. However, I applaud the accessibility, style and implementation of the proof-of-concept, given that the author seems to be only 15! Also sidenote: I like the creative and subtle plug for the author's
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
Federated systems tend to have different client and server implementations that can work in all combinations (as long as both are spec compliant). The confusing part comes into play when the client implementation is a web app that you can u
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
Very insightful! I'll have a look at the links. Thanks for answering.
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
Could you give some insights on how you estimate the amount of effort of making Element Call competitive, performance-wise, with say Discord. I heard that Discord threw a lot of time and money at optimizing voice in their product. Can you j
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
The post says there is no E2EE at the moment. They're probably talking about signalling, since with the current implementation of full mesh you get E2EE 'for free' in WebRTC. Also the post mentions: https://2021.co
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
I feel like this is a misunderstanding. You can already self host 'Element Call' and point that to your own homeserver. The passage you're referencing just refers to their hosted Element Call client. I'm pretty sure they
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by jfkimmes 5y ago
Quick Tip for your <figure> inconvenience with markdown: Just write a script that copies whatever is in your clipboard to a ./images/ directory and replace the content of your clipboard with the markdown you usually write