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by olah_1 6y ago
This makes me appreciate kill switches more on the librem five phone. And it also makes sense why Apple doesn’t want you to be able to fully disable wifi on your phone.
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by olah_1 6y ago
This is timely considering Vitalik’s vocal support for Social Account Recovery: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html It’s personally something I love to see.
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by olah_1 6y ago
I can only convince friends that I have influence with. That means that I'm already in regular communication with them and an active member of the conversation. Casually bring up some shortcomings about the current messenger and see if
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by olah_1 6y ago
> uptake is embarrassingly low I wonder if this is secure partially because of the "security through obscurity" factor, in that case. More eyes are on Signal based on usage and promotion, that's for sure.
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by olah_1 6y ago
Only for the proles. The priest class must be able to fly private jets to maintain peace and order. /s If one really wants to make a difference, focus on industry/corporations and not regular people just trying to get by. Otherwis
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by olah_1 6y ago
This[1] is a blog post about airlines that you will find very illuminating and enraging. The gist is that airlines are not anything like what you assume they are. Massive stock buy backs, zero innovation, record high salaries for C level le
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by olah_1 6y ago
It’s not difficult to switch friends to a new messenger if the UX is genuinely better. A great example is Signal. They invested quite a lot into UX in the last year and it paid off.
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by olah_1 6y ago
If Matrix / Element had a better UX, it wouldn’t need “bridges” as the best selling point. I use other messengers because I find their features to be better. If I preferred Matrix, I would use that without the need for bridges.
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by olah_1 6y ago
True, but proxying an app you use heavily to transition to a new platform can be useful. In any case, YouTube alternatives like LBRY have way better apps for android. Element (matrix chat) is also 100x better on android. I can only imagine
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by olah_1 6y ago
Ironically, leaving google is easier on Android because you can download and use apps without the App Store. For example, how is using YouTube via the iOS app any different _at all_? If you had android you could use the app newpipe.
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by olah_1 6y ago
> once any of those services has reached the kind of maturity that a non-techie is willing to sign up and start building their network Has the fediverse reached that level of maturity? A single distributed network is more like twitter, i
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by olah_1 6y ago
There are other decentralized social networks (mostly up and coming) that run on distributed networks that aren't as brittle. For example, a network of nodes that balance all traffic rather than a network of independent servers that fe
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by olah_1 6y ago
True. However, every year they send a campaign that makes it sound like they absolutely will not survive.
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by olah_1 6y ago
> $100 million given current growth wont last as long. That is 100% their problem, though. I trust that they will develop a sustainable business model when it becomes necessary. Otherwise, look at their tax info shared above. Sporadic do
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by olah_1 6y ago
Weird that it isn't listed in the data in that document. I have no idea why anyone would donate $20 when they're sipping on $100m ...
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by olah_1 6y ago
That’s helpful, thanks. So they’re 4mil in the hole? How is it possible that they’re still running?
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by olah_1 6y ago
Status uses public keys, but you can optionally link an Ethereum Domain Name (ENS). So it’s basically like license plates where you can buy a vanity plate if you want. Also, friends can just add their own nickname for you in their contacts.
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by olah_1 6y ago
It tells you that there’s a sustainable business model. Less ambiguity often translates to more comfort.
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by olah_1 6y ago
We have no info as to how much money they need or how much they currently have. For all we know, this was just an area of oversight and not related to funding at all. I’d prefer to pay yearly than to feel the spectre of guilt for using a “f
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by olah_1 6y ago
How did you get burned by Keybase? An outage or something else? I know in their own terms they basically say “we can delete your account, but we won’t”. I chuckled and never bothered.
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by olah_1 6y ago
Of course there are protocols like XMPP and Matrix. But there are also solutions that don’t require everyone to host their own server. Rather, people just host impersonal nodes on the network and everyone uses the whole network together. Ex
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by olah_1 6y ago
The real bummer about optional typing is that it doesn’t speed up the program. I used it all over thinking that I was “optimizing” or helping the compiler. Really I was creating more work for it.
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by olah_1 6y ago
Even if they don't believe in abolishing the age of consent laws like Michel Foucault did, they still believe that children actually can consent. Pat Califia makes this argument explicitly. They believe that "normal" sexual e
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by olah_1 6y ago
> of course children shouldn't sexualize - however that is not what they were discussing That should be part of the discussion, though. It's difficult to separate Queer philosophy from predatory pedophilia. It's part of th
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by olah_1 6y ago
Russia has already "silenced" Telegram in the past. I think he lives in Russia because he is Russian and enjoys it there. Your attitude towards Russia is humorous, given that you're far more likely to be silenced in America t
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by olah_1 6y ago
> and yet, the documentation doesn't seem to describe, in friendly terms, how to do that. I've gotten mixed signals from matrix people on this. On one hand, they discourage people that aren't skilled in sys admin work to s
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by olah_1 6y ago
No, Durav made a post about this recently but it was on his Telegram channel. Basically they don't have servers in Russia and it has been banned there in the past.
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by olah_1 6y ago
Look at Ethereum smart contract wallets today[1]. They have social account recovery in case you shoot yourself in the foot. If it can be used for your money, it can be used for your chat history. [1]: https://www.argent.xyz/
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by olah_1 6y ago
FreedomBox[1] is another project like that. The main issue plaguing these things (in my opinion) is the "jack of all trades, master of none" problem. It does a lot, but does none of them outstandingly well. I'd prefer to see
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by olah_1 6y ago
Violent riots have happened many times based on media lies. That part is not novel.

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