oakpond

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by oakpond 6y ago
It's not entirely trustless. You trust the security of the system.
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by oakpond 6y ago
Isn't OO entirely pointless if you don't know what should be an object and what shouldn't?
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by oakpond 6y ago
It's substituting one walled garden for another. 5 years from now Signal will be Evil Corp and everyone will have this problem all over again. Protocol solutions that are provider-independent like Matrix or even Delta Chat are the obvi
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by oakpond 6y ago
Nice to see you can deploy OSS on it! :)
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by oakpond 6y ago
> if it is ever leaked or when
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by oakpond 6y ago
Some nations are handling the pandemic a lot more effectively than others. Evidently it's possible to do something right. Also, these guys are arguing that population growth and high levels of consumption in wealthy nations are the key
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by oakpond 6y ago
So my real life fb profile may end up on somebody's suggestions list because I happened to have contacted them on WhatsApp? I guess it's time to say goodbye to my fb account.
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by oakpond 6y ago
Reminder: brought to you by the guy who once said "they trust me, dumb fucks."
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by oakpond 6y ago
Got it, I'm a creator of comment-section content.
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by oakpond 6y ago
Create what exactly? I'm under the impression that you can hardly create anything on a phone except for cat movies and shopping lists.
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by oakpond 6y ago
OSes may be technical clusterfucks. However, the most important thing imho is that all this shit is running on a stack that's robust against vendor lock-in. That's easier with a smaller stack since you have less vendors to worry a
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by oakpond 8y ago
So, nobody has ever lied in a subpoena reply before?
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by oakpond 8y ago
FYI, Android phones are always sending pings to 1e100 even if Google Apps are not installed. This is a system feature that detects 'captive portals'. If you want to observe your phone doing this, download the app 'Net Monitor