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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
the masses have never heard about it and people who need E2E and are sufficiently knowledgeable about it don't use it either, for a number of reasons it's a for-profit, centralized, closed-source product for privacy larpers
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
it is an observation. the two systems without punitive measures I have provided as an example in my original comment - crypto and tor - have been doing alright for more than a decade.
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
and that's the authority you choose to report such a transgression to - not the police, not the oversight agencies, but the yellow pages? that's who you expect to investigate your report a make a judgement about its validity?
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
you're arguing that its yellow pages job to remove the entry for businesses that violate laws. not only is that not the case, that's profoundly absurd.
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
I've just provided the easiest example of bypassing any boomer security nonmeasures. give a dedicated and competent attacker 15 minutes alone with your highly secure machine and highly sensitive documents, and if your entire security m
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
if you mean there are scanners that prevent you from scanning of a banknote, that's another great example of wasting time, money and resources to accomplish nothing
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
same. but I get the feeling that the era of services like that available in the browser is near its end. 10-20 years, and their website will only have links to 'get our app'
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
you can't have an interesting conversations if it takes 3 or so powerusers to gag you I see tons of interesting comments flagged/dead within minutes. there are rarely controversial, or low-quality, or rule-breaking there are plent
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
what's stopping someone from taking photos of your precious document and posting them on 4chan? nothing. there's nothing you can do to stop that.
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
- they are nowhere nearly good enough. the current system satisfies only one criteria of the 'security, user-chosen names, and decentralization' trifecta, and even that just barely. - all the good dotcoms have been squatted on sin
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
it's not the name servers' job to deal with any of that, especially on the clearnet
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
on the contrary, that's the thing we want the most. having no way to curb abuse is what gave Tor a few orders of magnitude more adoption than the other alternative internets. having no way to curb abuse is what made crypto market what
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
voila, it isn't any different than the current system.
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
twitter is a great example of phone number verification doing fuck all against bots
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
there isn't one. but that's irrelevant because the services that require your phone number don't do it for the sake of security or to combat bots, they do it to gather data. when you give a megacorp your phone number, they ge
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
I know that feel, bro. especially as a webdev. the field is dominated by corporate marketing, cargo-cultism, resume padding, reinventing the wheel and fixing what isn't broken. since I've chosen this as my career 8 years ago or so
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
no, I use Word/Excel 2007. and Photoshop CS2. in a Windows 7 VM without networking they're the ones I've learned to work with, and since I don't use them professionally, they're still sufficient for my needs. I don&
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
openoffice came out years before libreoffice, so if you had learned to work with it at the time and you still find it sufficient, then why switch? I doubt libreoffice is 1:1 identical in terms of UI/hotkeys/etc
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
what was the product and the scale then?
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
are there real-world, commercial products actually running on """serverless""" architecture? no matter how much I think about that whole concept, I see no application for it that couldn't be done better, f
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
I have thought about it for a long time and I also don't know
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by qweqwerwerwerwr 4y ago
yes you can. it costs 10$ a year to squat a 10 million dollar .com, and I bet there's a bunch of them that had been parked since the 90s the registration fee does prevent someone from squatting the entire Library of Babel though