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by neilalexander 11mo ago
Should be noted that this does not apply if you install Yggmail only without mainline Yggdrasil, as Yggmail embeds its own node and does not use TUN.
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by neilalexander 11mo ago
I was surprised to see this on the HN homepage, I didn't create Tyr but I did create Yggmail ( https://github.com/neilalexander/yggmail ) which it is based on. There is no store-and-forward as such, the sending node
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by neilalexander 11mo ago
30 years ago, Microsoft was writing books that were hundreds of pages long detailing not just how to build effective and consistent user interfaces but also with explanations from user-centric research as to why those things mattered. Every
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by neilalexander 11mo ago
I don't really know how to articulate exactly how I'd classify into one bucket or the other but I think there are two types of "app" and I tend to have differing preferences on whether they should be native apps or web a
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by neilalexander 11mo ago
> ofcourse, if you're in the UK, the only country worth moving to at that point is the US I don't even know where to begin with this remarkably dreadful take.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
This may not help if you can’t control your environment. You will often benefit from nearby routers hearing you and each other if you are forced to share a channel with them, as that is what enables the carrier sensing to work correctly. Ot
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by neilalexander 1y ago
> the OS is an excellent point to limit what they can do – including overwhelming your network interface One might even call this "congestion control"!
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by neilalexander 1y ago
> How would you swap out the TCP congestion control algorithm in an OS, or even hardware, you don't control? On the contrary, introducing their own novel/mysterious/poorly implemented congestion control algorithms is not
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by neilalexander 1y ago
There isn't a single XMPP client for iOS that properly follows the iOS HIG and isn't ugly or unusable. There are very few clients that are even fully featured. The XMPP landscape on macOS is even more bleak.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
Routing through another country unexpectedly already makes your latency worse. Adding a VPN on top possibly worsens it again.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
I have long believed that the biggest issue here is that engineers and power users generally have a much higher “pain threshold” when it comes to poor or complex UI/UX. They are not always the best people to judge how or if less experi
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by neilalexander 1y ago
The windowed mode is indeed optional and can be turned off in the Settings or Control Center.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
This is surely satire. Obviously most people wouldn’t understand the relevance of or know where that number came from.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
> "Why didn't the semantic web happen?" Advertising.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
Activity Monitor has an "Energy" tab that is useful in situations like this. It can tell you when an application is preventing sleep altogether and it can also show power usage of a process over the last 12 hours, so if you invest
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by neilalexander 1y ago
Mullvad even let you send cash in an envelope in the post.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
They are potentially operationally cheaper. Answering a few API requests is cheaper than sending the same HTML over and over and over again.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
Your information is out-of-date. Safari on iPad has served up desktop versions of web pages by default for years now.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
Most people can’t explain the difference between a website and an app, to them the web browser is just a more confusing construct with additional overheads (tabs/links etc).
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by neilalexander 1y ago
A platform does not need to have revolutionary changes year-on-year to still matter or be important to its users. That does not mean it "doesn't matter" — macOS works just fine for a lot of people. Incremental quality-of-life
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by neilalexander 1y ago
Historically, FIPS 140-2 compliance. However I believe mainline Go 1.24 is now going through validation for FIPS 140-3 compliance for crypto in the standard library.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
A good 30% of Twitter is now just this verbatim.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
> WiFi is obsolete tech. Even 5Ghz WiFi often barely works, let alone 6GHz (which no Apple device supports) Sorry, _what_? This is an absurdly ludicrous take. Wi-Fi is one of the most successful and ubiquitous wireless technologies of al
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by neilalexander 1y ago
Logically? Because the world’s needs are changing and one day there will be something you want or need that will be accessible via IPv6, at which point you can either move with the times or be left behind. IPv6 global adoption is on the ris
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by neilalexander 1y ago
No, their policy is that you have to use IPv6-capable sockets and APIs, not that the remote endpoints are accessible over IPv6.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
Try connecting to the Wi-Fi at the London ExCeL or the Paris Expo sometime and then say that again with a straight face.
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by neilalexander 1y ago
Weird take, but you do you.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
This reminded me somewhat of Pony Messenger which does one "mail drop" a day.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Why would it answer it? This is about RCS, not iMessage. No, Android will not get iMessage.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
They will either just automatically turn it off in a future device software update, or they'll just post a deadline after which they will delete user data and prevent sync if it isn't disabled by the user.

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