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by mbowcutt 6y ago
I don't know too much about Telegram but isn't it encrypted?
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by mbowcutt 6y ago
> [The characters'] goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a long-term objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructi
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by mbowcutt 7y ago
The Snowden endorsement sure helped.
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by mbowcutt 7y ago
"good enough" relies on a threat model. Cryptography researchers work in the abstract - without a threat model you must consider cases where your attacker has unlimited resources. It's good enough for you and me, but research
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by mbowcutt 7y ago
So, what's different about cliqz? You promise not to keep logs, skew results, and sell data? Also, > With 93% of the search market, Google’s algorithms decide what becomes truth. Can you think of a TV channel with a 93% audience? Wo
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by mbowcutt 7y ago
Yep, I've been getting Russian events in my google cal that just reappear the day after I report them as spam (which does what?) Unfortunately, it's pretty inconvenient to just not show calendar events that I haven't accepted
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by mbowcutt 7y ago
I don't know about that. Authentication mechanisms seem within scope of any protocol, and if an implementation refuses service based on some extra requirement (such as being signed in to Facebook) then that implementation is simply not
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by mbowcutt 7y ago
> But really this is Google's problem, not Apple's. I'm not sure we agree on what the problem is? If Google monopolized years ago, the story would play the same - only now it's the kid without Hangouts/Gmail. Sur
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by mbowcutt 7y ago
I think the Librem5 will have a CC-by-SA 4.0 license, aka copyleft, so it'd have to be open source.
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by mbowcutt 7y ago
While it's true that there's an abundance of water, the issue is that there's limited drinking water. You can't survive on drinking ocean water. There's currently no energy-efficient process to remove salt and other
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by mbowcutt 7y ago
Devil's advocate: how can we verify these rocks originated from the moon, and not somebody's back yard?
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
Funny, you won't see "Mormon" ads anymore but not too long ago (2011) they ran the "I'm a Mormon" campaign: https://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/im-a-mormon
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
People like options, especially the Linux/FOSS people. You could come to a consensus about something but it'll only go so far until some developer decides to fork it and make their own project :)
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
This should go well.
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
Might be a stupid question, but why is it always Telegram that gets talked about? Are other secure communications services like Signal, Keybase, etc already blocked?
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
I guess it removes an extra step, but is it all that useful to have every icon appear everywhere? For instance, instead of having the Facebook icon appear by a user's Twitter name, couldn't a single icon show they're Proven f
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
I think you meant The* Ohio State University
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
Seems to be something the author would like. Then again, hypothesis is a browser extension..
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
The Bill of Rights was ratified when none of those things existed. I absolutely believe the 2A is outdated, but you must consider the reasoning its creation. > A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, th
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
> Any person can go buy a gun and attack a mall. Exactly. To protect ourselves from tyranny, the US established the second amendment. It is preferable if we are equally in a position of asking "should I be evil or not?" It&#x27
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
That design looks so sleek. I'd dream of something like this embracing 5G and open source firmware so users could add native encryption and other utility as they please. Also, "Hashtag Key"
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
So.. a NAS? AFAIK you can't self-host google drive.
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
Many universities (if not most) already have technology transfer offices for this purpose. What is the difference between the Innovation Depot and [1] this department at UAB? [1] https://www.uab.edu/research/innovation&
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
Would have been over-the-top cool if RISC-V had been included as well.
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
I haven't used the Medium app on my Android device for some weeks now. Today I got a notification about some article and swiped it away. Then later I got another and realized: Wait, I don't normally get Medium notifications! Not s
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
This aspect is what scares me the most. Nowadays evidence can be easily fabricated and everybody has reason to be a skeptic. The whole Cambridge Analytica debacle started blowing up after deepfakes gained notoriety and started getting banne
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
How come people don't understand what quotations are for?
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
Glad someone else mentioned it. I haven't seen much news from them recently other than a picture-sync application. Looking forward to the next few years and their (anticipated) growth
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
Shit happens. That's human nature.
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by mbowcutt 8y ago
What makes you so sure they'll be granted? (From a US perspective) The disclosures I've flipped through reek of non-patentable subject matter (software/algorithms with no defined field of use), lack a strong inventive step (o

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