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by ripdog 7y ago
Oh. I didn't realise you were arguing against encryption in its entirety. Okay. Let's just get rid of E2E entirely and let Facebook mine not only our metadata but also the content of our messages. Nice plan.
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by ripdog 7y ago
No, you don't. This is a fundamental rule of how encryption works. You can't design around it. If there is a key which decrypts everything, then there is a risk it can be stolen or guessed and used to decrypt anyone's message
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by ripdog 7y ago
Have you considered Riot (Matrix) or Signal? Both are open source so it's possible to verify claims made on their website, which is a lot less possible with proprietary software like Threema.
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by ripdog 7y ago
AES is far and away the most heavily scrutinized encryption algorithm in history. Of course that doesn't make it flawless, but the level of genius that the authors would need to hide a backdoor in it for all these years boggles the min
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by ripdog 7y ago
You don't understand. Encryption is necessary because on the internet, there is no distance. Any web service today must be built with the knowledge that everyone, everywhere is attacking it all the time. The only defense against that
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by ripdog 7y ago
Because Apple doesn't allow any other browser engines on iOS. iOS users are shackled to Webkit, and are unable to make a choice.
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by ripdog 7y ago
Only firefox does this, and Firefox has uBlock Origin. Why is this an issue?
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by ripdog 7y ago
Note that Mozilla has added a way for network operators to disable DoH for their entire network, by NXDOMAINing a specific fake address. UK ISPs will presumably do that, and DoH won't happen in the UK for a while.
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by ripdog 7y ago
There is no conceivable reason as to why anyone would remove the ability to configure DNS servers. DNS server options are present in almost all internet-facing applications and devices, from locked-down ecosystems like iOS to touchscreen pr
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by ripdog 7y ago
Do you... really care if someone outside you network knows the domain you chose for an internal network service? That's not sensitive information. Also, there's basically no way for cloudflare, even if they were being malicious ab
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by ripdog 7y ago
What's wrong with uBlock Origin?
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by ripdog 7y ago
I use my pfsense router as a DoH recursive resolver, so while DNS is unencrypted inside my local network, all requests are protected when the enter the internet.
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by ripdog 7y ago
5g has a low-frequency version which has comparable range and wall penetration to 4g.
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by ripdog 7y ago
>If these new things rely on 5g, how well will they work as soon as they move out of range of 5g internet? That's... true for all network-based technologies. Electricity is great, but if you don't have a grid connection, batter
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by ripdog 7y ago
I'm no expert on quitting smoking, but I understand that vaping is much more effective than other nicotine supplement methods because it replicates the physical habit of smoking, the inhaling and exhaling of the vapor.
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by ripdog 7y ago
Khara is the name of the Japanese anime studio, not the tool. The tool is called Blender. I'm not sure why Khara would care what their name means in Arabic.
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by ripdog 7y ago
There are FOSS DoH servers, and you're welcome to run your own, with a free cert from Let's Encrypt. You could easily run a logging-free DoH server for anyone to use, also. There's no lock-in here, and I can't see any wa
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by ripdog 7y ago
If you can root the device and replace the firmware, sure. Or do extremely difficult hardmodding to tap the data buses, perhaps. But both of those approaches are very difficult and resource-intensive. The first requires many, many hours of
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by ripdog 7y ago
The UK has to do that because the fastest widely-deployed internet connections available are VDSL2. DSL connections in general are relatively unreliable, and speeds vary wildly depending on a variety of factors, most importantly the length
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by ripdog 7y ago
The difference is that insects can perform a wide variety of tasks needed for their survival, but all "AI" created by humans so far can only perform a single task each.
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by ripdog 7y ago
The market already rewards Google for their services by the absurd amount of money they make. The government is generally not in the business of rewarding businesses for their services.
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by ripdog 7y ago
Why would anyone advertise to french customers if there is no functioning french economy, and thus no money to be made there? How would french consumers pay for satellite access without a functioning economy?
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by ripdog 7y ago
>Ignoring for a moment that this rationale can support any tax policy at all (including 100% tax rates)... Isn't that true for any rationale for tax? I mean, I wasn't talking about tax rates, that's a completely separate d
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by ripdog 7y ago
Those large tech companies can make money in France because the french government provides all that is necessary for a free, fair and functioning market. How could Google make money in France if there was no french police force, education s
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by ripdog 7y ago
Kwin 5.16 might technically support EGLStreams, but I have an Nvidia card and tried it out - after setting env variable to even make it try to work, Plasma crashed during startup, kicking me back to login. I tried again, and it managed to s
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by ripdog 7y ago
It really doesn't matter. The result is the same.
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by ripdog 7y ago
What? That... one time they took down a site? That site which claimed it was endorsed by cloudflare? One incident isn't enough to become a 'history', and their actions were perfectly justified.
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by ripdog 7y ago
It's been well reported that climate change will mean different things for different people, and some of the effects will be beneficial in some way for some. That doesn't wipe away the fact that even with these factors considered,
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by ripdog 7y ago
What? No. Is it? Surely it's WPF. Right?
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by ripdog 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. The layout of the settings page is absurdly similar in Firefox and Chrome. Firefox gives the user dramatically more range to customize their browser than Chrome, is that what you're referring to? about:

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