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by madez 9y ago
> The thing is, hydrogen cars are electric cars. There are internal combustion engines that use hydrogen as fuel. A hydrogen powered car does not need to be electric.
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by madez 9y ago
The fact that one cannot delete or modify the history of a feed one "owns" is a show-stopper. Of course, people can always mirror stuff, but that is no argument against modifications.
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by madez 9y ago
My problem with GCM is not the implementation on the client, but the fact that Google sees traffic. I don't want Google to see my data nor my metadata.
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by madez 9y ago
I assume there is no hiding from Google unless you black-hole their IPs. Also, don't let an Android device with links to Google be near you. It'd hard to ban Google from your life even if you want ti. I think governments should he
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by madez 9y ago
XMPP is legacy, and rightfully so. With it, by default, communication is in cleartext, there is no way to ensure message reliability and integrity without privacy implications, and multi-device support is arkward.
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by madez 9y ago
> I this particular case the centralization around the push service of google actually helps. No, it does not, and you even argued why. This centralization makes it harder to make the system more resilient. We need an alternative to GCM.
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by madez 9y ago
I'm disappointed that it offers no offline functionality. I'd like to download the map and do all the pathing and rendering locally, because I don't want to transmit over the internet what I'm looking at and where I want
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by madez 9y ago
> For completeness, there is also a sysctl net.ipv6.ip_nonlocal_bind, but we don't recommend touching it. Any any ideas for an explanation of this recommendation?
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by madez 9y ago
Even assuming you meant Librem, where can I buy a Librem device? After sending the money, I have a tolerance of 21 days until holding the device in working condition in my hand. Any offers?
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by madez 9y ago
You can show your content to the people who were interested by putting it on your website. It's that easy!
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by madez 9y ago
I also think it's a pity that Canonical dropped the Ubuntu phone. Clearly, there was big interest in such a device.
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by madez 9y ago
I tried to configure it, but it failed. I filed a bug report.
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by madez 9y ago
> Matching that with an open source effort seems implausible to me. You don't have to because it is an inadequate comparison. You don't need much effort to continue using old software. There are people who still use SNES with t
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by madez 9y ago
With free software and properly documented hardware, you would never need to miss an OS; you could just use it.
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by madez 9y ago
A promise not to touch data is not a deletion. If you can recreate the private data from backups, you did not comply with the deletion request.
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by madez 9y ago
I just ran the tester. The default ejabberd configuration in Debian Testing fails: Use compliance suite 'Advanced Server Core Compliance Suite' to test server.tld running XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities… PASSED running X
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by madez 9y ago
I do experience message loss, and there is that table. So, I don't think there is much room for interpretation.
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by madez 9y ago
> I currently run a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 17.10) on Apple hardware. It's important to buy hardware that is supported and properly documented by the manufacturer. Apple is not one of those that do that.
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by madez 9y ago
> In particular, it is not safe to call exit, free, ioctl, putchar, or perror from a signal handler. Why is it accepted by the compiler, then?
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by madez 9y ago
I just read something that makes me rather angry. For ejabberd, message reliability is a premium feature that is not supported in the free version. The fuck? https://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/protocols/
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by madez 9y ago
How do you deal with lost messages? When clients have unreliable connections, we experience message loss with that setup (ejabberd + conversations). Actually, I'm dumfounded that that can happen at all. Lost messages are trivial to det
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by madez 9y ago
The article raises good points. One important aspect is missing though; the reliance on web services, SaaS, and the like. Free software is not enough. We need free software that runs locally and offline.
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by madez 9y ago
Let us not give up freedom for security. A reasonable solution would be to make it sufficiently "technical" to unlock the device, so people can't be easily tricked into it.
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by madez 9y ago
With Apple's documented interest in owner's control of their devices and delivering the required documentation for it, they won't tell us what is included in the chips and what's not.
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by madez 9y ago
If this happens under EU jurisdiction, then you can deny the update and legally demand that the TV continues working. The manufacturer may not impose new rules after the selling contract. Fuck this wild-west anarchistic behaviour of softwar
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by madez 9y ago
What secure communications options specifically?
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by madez 9y ago
I don't have an opinion on how having nukes saves lives, but in either case I think there is a better solution. An international, democratically legitimized world council that has the competence to bind nations governments and override
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by madez 9y ago
The internet is as inherently global as the postal services are. What differentiates it is that it's faster, cheaper, and immaterial. In principle, the legal situation hasn't changed compared to before the internet was a thing. If
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by madez 9y ago
Rest assured that there are others who think that the nuclear weapons of the USA are equally indefensible. We must bannish them globally.
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by madez 9y ago
That's impossible with the GDPR for privacy relevant data. That data cannot legally be an asset of a company because a company cannot own it. A company may be a data processor or data controller, but not a data owner for other peoples

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