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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Who invented "clickbait". What is the purpose of "clickbait". Non-profits supporting investigative journalism like MuckRock are to blame. MuckRock is not selling advertising, but don't be fooled. Investigative journ
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Fair question. Im not the author so can only make a guess (other readers of HN surely know far more than I about these subjects). However I suspect the rationale is related to whats been called "Bernstein chaining". https:/
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Heres the issue with Proton's marketing that no one is mentioning. The CEO keeps making claims about "Swiss law" as if it is something to be desired. However he never adds any citations to the relevant laws or their interpr
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"An extremely simple CLI that composes well with UNIX pipes" Just for fun, I occasionally experiment with proposed "post-quantum" encryption solutions and one in particular called Classic McEliece, from the same author (
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"Unfortunately they're solving the wrong problem." Heres the description of Rumble: "Rumble enables the spread of messages in an epidemic fashion using automatically formed and opportunistic local ad-hoc network. Every m
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"No matter what Apple and ProtoMail and similar companies tell you, you cannot buy privacy off-the-shelf." The cost is personal time and effort, not money. The software needed is generally free of charge. The goal being not a ph
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Generally I use custom utilities for HTTP generation, URL extraction, chunked transfer decoding, URL encoding/decoding, GZIP/ZIP/PDF/MP4 extraction, etc. Thus I can use any TCP client I want to make HTTP requests from t
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
I wouldnt trust any of them to be honest. Privacy policies really arent worth anything. I would look for websites that generally do not ask for data. Then send them the minimum data you can get away with. I would avoid "signing in&q
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Nothing is even defined. There is nothing in this policy that obligates the company to do, or restricts the company from doing, anything. This is the way most tech company "Privacy Policies" are written. There is a significant di
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Devils advocate: Why trust the policy. Can you enforce it. If yes, then how.
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"Their homepage says..." Is the parent suggesting that no one should bother to read the Terms and Privacy Policy, linked to from the homepage. https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy Despite the parent's claim,
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Referenced in the article https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-vivek-ramaswamy-put-wokeism...
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Why do you need users to sign in. Do they really want to sign in. What do they get out of it versus what do you get out of it Using Sign in with Google just encourages use of Google. Is that really the best thing for users. Google is a
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
If you make a test page, then post it to HN, perhaps we can provide some "demonstrable popularity" to give you some data to present for your business case. :) I am a heavy text-only web user. In fact, I view all sites that way wi
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
But you cannot/will not name the offshore 3d party service
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Ask HN: What cloud providers are suitable for running mail servers
4 points by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago|7 comments
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"I had Windows computers back in the day, late 90s, where I only upgraded the hardware, not the OS." How would that be possible since Windows almost invariably came pre-installed by OEMs. New hardware would have the latest Window
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Ask HN: Can Computers Detect Sarcasm?
2 points by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago|1 comments
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Advertising targets1 trust Google. There is no reason for them not to trust this company. Google has the privacy of its advertising targets as its highest priority. Mozilla gets 90+% of it operating budget via a deal with Google, but Fire
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"For example, if you want to see Microsoft have a heart attack, talk about the idea of defining legal liability for bad code in a commercial product." That sort of discussion is quickly dismissed on HN. And probably elsewhere on
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
[accidental dupe. see above comment]
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"innovation, competition and small business" Not to mention the effect on intellectually curious users (and learning). These computers bundled with phones are crippled, tinker-proof, and there is no way to extend or improve them
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Here is the original article from Android Police: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/20/a-new-chrome-os-91-... The reason for the failed "update" was another Chrome 0-day that relies on the Googl
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
From the video: "Cloud computing is really a fancy name for someone else's computer." He goes on to discuss the expansion of "trust boundaries". Big Tech: Use our computers, please!
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Never said "good old days". POP3 and IMAP were not part of the original design of email. The point of difference between then and now worth considering, IMO, is that the ISP's business plan was not personal data mining and
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Before Gmail, it used to be common to have an email account through one's ISP. No need for Google. IIRC, when Zuckerberg was testifying before Congress, one senator said his terms of service "sucked". Was he wrong.
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
You could just read the paper instead of the web page on archaelogy Google Blogspot blog about the paper, plus advertising. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... (No ads but they do use G
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"In contrast, even though you keep insisting otherwise, Security Keys don't give "escalating amounts of personal information to tech companies" but instead no information at all, just that useful answer to the question,
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
If you cannot write safe C and you need memory-safety, why not just use Ada. Restricting who can write C is another "extreme" idea in line with "no one can write secure C". I will not call it hyperbole but I think its ab
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"Poeple like to ..." Perhaps the reason people question these complicated things is because they are, whether intentionally or not, being marketed to an audience on HN that includes small scale non-enterprise users. I shall quote

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