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by lrvick 1y ago
The only way I would believe proof of deletion is if my data was submitted, end to end encrypted, to a key only held in memory of a quorum of remotely attestable secure enclaves deterministically built from publicly available code that I ca
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by lrvick 1y ago
Correct
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by lrvick 1y ago
Nothing worth doing is easy. Personally I run my business without corpotech to do my own part.
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by lrvick 1y ago
Why do you -need- Instagram and Google Maps? Why not market in more classical ways that will make you stand out in a corpotech world?
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by lrvick 1y ago
Then it sounds like the best business in those markets is to disrupt Whatsapp and educate users on the problems of relying on billionaires like Zuck for privacy.
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by lrvick 1y ago
Signal is a closed centrally controlled network that has a hard requirement on users to pay money to centrally controlled telco providers to get accounts making it impossible to be legally anonymous in most countries. It is also very unfrie
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by lrvick 1y ago
We, the users, gave them that power. We can also take it away. You actually can lead a productive socially rich life and even run a tech company in the modern world without using any products by Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, etc. There ar
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by lrvick 1y ago
I run a profitable b2b tech company that does not use any Google, Apple, Microsoft, or Meta products. Is that the easiest choice? Hell no. But it makes us a lot harder to kill, and is great for morale.
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by lrvick 1y ago
This will never happen in any useful way internationally on an open internet. The only winning move for users is to invest in decentralized open source unkillable alternatives.
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by lrvick 1y ago
Remember that Whatsapp belongs to Mark Zuckerburg, not you, the users, or the developers. They can ban anyone for any reason at any time, and it does not need to be a good reason. There is no appeals court for corpotech. This is a great les
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by lrvick 1y ago
Not carried a phone in 5 years. Smart or otherwise. When I am at a laptop or desktop I am online. When I am not, I am offline.
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by lrvick 1y ago
I grew up as the weird kid. This was great as I learned it is okay to not be like everyone else. Why are we so obsessed with making kids that fit in with all the brain rotted masses.
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by lrvick 1y ago
This is like arguing that a kid will have more friends if they are allowed to smoke because everyone else does and it is a common social activity. I do not have a phone and have lots of friends I see frequently, in person. A kid will be abl
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by lrvick 1y ago
The greatest thing a parent can do for a kid in the modern world is not buying them a car or paying for college. It is never letting them see you use a phone, never buying them a phone, and ensuring access to social media is delayed as long
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by lrvick 1y ago
What worked for me is 5 years ago I canceled my cellular subscription, and about 4 years ago gave up regularly carrying devices when I leave home at all. When I travel I carry a tiny laptop which requires some intention to pull it out when
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by lrvick 1y ago
A few years ago I wrote a simple git "extension" that allows you to attach signatures to existing git commits, and allow for verification that a minimum number of signatures from relevant teams exist. This is possible because Git
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by lrvick 1y ago
Even if it is something I would like if a friend told me about it, if I am bombarded by ads I hate it and often will find or make an alternative.
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by lrvick 1y ago
Exactly why I do not own any Apple or Google products or have any subscription services. Advertise to me products I can not actually own or control for myself and I hate you.
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by lrvick 1y ago
Solved problem on linux for decades: https://gothub.dev.projectsegfau.lt/alobbs/macchanger
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by lrvick 1y ago
If anyone wants to feel better about compile times for their rust programs, try full source bootstrapping the rust compiler itself. Took about 2 days on 64 cores until very recently (thanks to mrustc 0.74). Now only 7 hours!
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by lrvick 1y ago
Mandate signed commits and signed reviews. If someone wants to merge a bot PR or any other PR by an untrusted third party, they will have to "adopt" the bot commit as their own, sign the commit locally, and then wait for a second
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by lrvick 1y ago
If lightning was an open standard then it would objectively be better than USB-C and would likely have won. Instead Apple chose to make a good improvement on USB-C proprietary, and thus it will die like 8-track, betamax, and minidiscs. Vend
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by lrvick 1y ago
Yes. Because once you have remote attestation, anyone can host these enclaves in any country, and charge some tiny fee for their gpu time. Decentralize hosting and encryption then centralized developers of the open source software will be l
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by lrvick 1y ago
And yet, iPhones are shipping usb C. Making separate manufacturing lines for Europe vs US is too expensive, so in effect, Europe forced a US company to be less shitty globally.
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by lrvick 1y ago
There is absolutely no reason for these logs to exist. Run LLM in an enclave that generates ephemeral encryption keys. Have users encrypt text directly to those enclave ephemeral keys, so prompts are confidential and only ever visible in an
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by lrvick 1y ago
So your city/council actually have laws that require you to agree to the data sharing agreements with US companies like Google or Apple in order to use one of their devices to install an app in order to park? And if you don't pay
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by lrvick 1y ago
You can save most webapps to your home screen and they then look/feel similar to native apps if you really want to go that route. Bonus: they also work on non android/iOS platforms
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by lrvick 1y ago
I do sometimes carry a pocket wifi-only laptop in cities for working on the go which has gotten the job done in the past to prove I could. In practice if they do not make it easy to pay then I just park without paying. The 1/10 times I
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by lrvick 1y ago
Many employers have tried. I activate it, throw it in a drawer to let the battery die never to be turned on again. People quickly find I am reachable at my desk and otherwise am always driving, in a shower, swimming, in a theater, it has a
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by lrvick 1y ago
I spend plenty of time on streets of lots of cities, with no cell phone at all, so I hardly see a slow-access phone as limiting either. I could get a camera maybe, or one of the tiny emergency 911 keychain phones that do not require a cell

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