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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
No amount of funding can fix this, at least for all use cases where apps communicate via google services between phone and app HQ. The average bank is not going to send data between bank and user via microg-operated pipes instead of google-
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
I dream of a dual phone (conceptually 2 phones glued back to back) where you do web and open stuff on one side, and the inevitable proprietary apps on googled-android on the other side, with a quick button to freeze the prop side (for power
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
LOL defi is a neat idea but the current reality is order of magnitude slower and orders of magnitude more expensive than "legacy". It adds a lots of friction. Players "get paid" because folks can't read smart contra
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by meltedcapacitor 6y ago
What about setting up some honeypot open-with-no-IP wifi hotspots near google HQ and near places where googlers are known to congregate (or in residential areas with high density of googlers working from home). Once it's their problem,
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by meltedcapacitor 6y ago
What about botnet operators? This would give them a hard time if they have to hack each device specifically instead of recycling old linux vulnerabilities wholesale. The whole IoT industry is strongly committed to make devices available to
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by meltedcapacitor 6y ago
Actual trains! They're cool too but slightly disappointed that it is not a new type of escrow or delivery method for dark markets.
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by meltedcapacitor 6y ago
Fair enough, but mainstream languages used in broad commercial settings need moron-immunity more than niche languages attracting a select crowd.
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by meltedcapacitor 6y ago
I wish 10 minutes was the minimum acceptable TTL, that'd be tremendous progress already. It's typically much more than 1 round trip, given typical amount of crap frameworks and gadgets that each load themselves and dependencies fr
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by meltedcapacitor 6y ago
LOL lot of arguments for a feature that makes sysadmin/dev life easy once a year at the expense of degraded user experience every day (lot of sporadically broken ISP etc DNS servers civilians can't be expected to bypass). Digital
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by meltedcapacitor 6y ago
Not publishing on github probably removes 99% of the entitled crowd who think github is some sort of google/facebook thing you get some free service from in exchange of losing your privacy or something. Having a couple of projects on g