rapnie

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2701.
by rapnie 9y ago
or look at the unique fingerprint of your browser anyways :) https://panopticlick.eff.org/
2702.
by rapnie 9y ago
..and compile your own Android OS without the google parts, or wait for eelo.io to land :)
2703.
by rapnie 9y ago
yes, that is exactly why almost no (end-user) product explains this on their landing page :) but a user might see the merits of being in control of their own data, and knowing their privacy is not violated by some nefarious use of it.. with
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Is it time to bin shadow banning?(social-experts.net)
1 points by rapnie 9y ago|0 comments
2705.
by rapnie 9y ago
exactly! the whole current mindset around startups and unicorns and such is wrong (or warped). everything should be 'disruptive', earn a shitload of cash in short time.. but why? why is disruption always good. after all.. it disru
2706.
by rapnie 9y ago
great! enlightening.. (a mail has been dispatched :)
2707.
by rapnie 9y ago
yeah, agree. but this is low-level protocol. many mail (email) applications, but event-based application messaging frameworks? i could find some that come close.. do you have some good pointers?
2708.
by rapnie 9y ago
thx! i have been following gun for a while.. very interesting project! but its decentralization features are not all too clear to me (have to dive deeper). things like peer discovery, nat traversal, gossiping, etc. does that come with the p
2709.
by rapnie 9y ago
i think these business models already exist. you can find them in community startups that use decentralized technologies and semantic content to empower individuals to cooperate directly, create initiatives between parties without central a
2710.
by rapnie 9y ago
well.. yes. super useful those google analytics. but maybe it is making things to easy for you :) if you come to think of it, it is also a privacy nightmare.. therefore google analytics is blocked by my Privacy Badger!
2711.
by rapnie 9y ago
there's beauty in them texts here :)
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Donald Rumsfeld's Snowflake Poetry (unknown knowns till now)(politico.com)
2 points by rapnie 9y ago|1 comments
2713.
by rapnie 9y ago
i think you are indeed correct on stating that.. the chaos monkey, cool naming :)
2714.
by rapnie 9y ago
yes, was about to mention this one :) decentralized! (but based on Chromium, no?) https://beakerbrowser.com/
2715.
by rapnie 9y ago
first? the late Barnaby Jack did it in 2010 :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Jack
2716.
by rapnie 9y ago
bang on! fully agree..
2717.
by rapnie 9y ago
yep, i've had the same with udemy app..
2718.
by rapnie 9y ago
could this kind of thing also be on m.huffpost.com? when reading articles there my android cpu goes all-in, phone getting hot.. avoiding the site now :)
2719.
by rapnie 9y ago
i survived the era before mobile.. it wasn't that scary :)
2720.
by rapnie 9y ago
correction.. you probably meant https://blockstack.org :)
2721.
by rapnie 9y ago
should also take a look at https://datproject.org very interesting and maybe better than SSB.. it has hypercore - raw distributed streams, and hyperdrive - file abstraction on top, and a whole bunch of related projects, like Bea
2722.
by rapnie 9y ago
i would consider a privacy-first approach a best-practice :)
2723.
by rapnie 9y ago
what i _really_ dislike from Google is how they offer downgraded UI's to non-Chrome browsers like firefox on android. so no 'tools' to specify filters, and no 'Related images' in image search. i looked why this was
2724.
by rapnie 9y ago
Well.. maybe an Android installation _without_ google (and samsung bloatware) is something for you :) https://eelo.io/
2725.
by rapnie 9y ago
Cool!! Based on the Dat project ( http://datproject.org ). These guys might become a good alternative to IPFS, especially if they reposition themselves as a message-based system, instead of just file sharing.