nathanmills

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by nathanmills 5mo ago
As much as I like encryption, RCS is a closed protocol and unavailable on open Android distros like LineageOS. Now, people expect it and without it you are disadvantaged in social circles, just like the blue/green bubbles were.
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
It's a joke that apparently wasn't well received by HN.
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
TanStack? Jia Tan? Who is falling for this???
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
What the hell are you talking about?!?
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
Yet another?
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
Your search engine of choice doesn't list anything related to alternative systems? If thats the case then you already know the answer to your question. If not, then you already have yout answer anyway.
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
Why do you care about what the "hackernews community" thinks more than independent research?
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
Is your search engine of choice down?
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
>The number of systems out there is also astronomical. Not even close
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
You can't gaurentee any of this is fingerprintable without checking twice (i.e. give the user a unique url, then ask them to restart the browser and visit it). In privacy browsers like LibreWolf or Mullvad Browser this is almost all sp
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
As an open-source developer, feedback is about 1% of what I need. Contributions are the other 99%. However, the reality is flipped where what I get is 99% feedback (issues/feature requests in the issue tracker) and 1% contributions. An
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
Keep in mind that it's FREE and OPEN SOURCE software
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
Only if you have the closed-source Google Play Services... Just like desktop, there are plenty of Android distros like LineageOS
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by nathanmills 5mo ago
Then you either need to try it or research it. Other people can't tell you if you like turkey or not.
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
This is massively simplifying what is needed for a single button to physically (not just digitally) disconnect multiple components.
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
He expects an absurd level of effort from other people to protect privacy when he isn't doing the bare minimum for what he actually does himself.
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
Hacker News is not for you then.
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
It's memory safe
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
When I was younger I tried to buy a gun on one of those sites for a planned shooting but it just resulted in me losing my money and not any law enforcement action
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
What makes you think it's bad faith?
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
wrong thread?
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
ohh noo, the devs gave users a choice instead of forcing their hand..
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
Why are browser extensions not sane in your opinion?
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
I don't save browser cookies for obvious privacy reasons and it's absolutely a big deal to not need to pull up some program and copy paste my login details constantly for every site.
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
Calling FOSS devs "competitors" is such a corporate-minded statement that completely misses the point. FOSS devs all work together to achieve a common goal and don't see other projects as competitors, they see them as friends
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
Or with Tenacity insead of Audacity for the 100% invasive free software setup!
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
That's still fraud.
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
And don't you think its a strawman to compare only being and to install "" approved "" ($100/year for apple) software to a seatbelt? There is no use case for not wearing a seatbelt. That is not true for being a
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
Conspiracy garbage
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by nathanmills 6mo ago
Then go ahead and use one. Of course, most projects in this regard try to tackle multiple things (e.g. Tor), including DNS, but there are projects like OpenNIC that take on DNS alone if you prefer. As usual, the mass majority won't ado

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