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by rmsaksida 7y ago
I think it's more of a Northern European / Anglo thing. It's not that important in Med countries and Latin America. It's well regarded, sure, but it's not an obsession like in the USA.
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Technically, that wasn't a Telegram issue. Telegram supports 2FA with an user-configured password. Dallagnol & co weren't using it. They were thus vulnerable to voice mail hijacking, SMS hijacking, and other carrier-based atta
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Telegram's clients are open source with verifiable builds. Sure, the back-end software isn't open source, but it's at least safer than WhatsApp.
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Telegram supports two-step verification with a password. As long as you have that enabled, your account can't be hacked with SMS interception.
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
> This seems to solidly prove that they never gave a shit about the gTLD. That doesn't make any sense. ACTO disputed .amazon's proposal as soon as it was made available, in 2012. It's been 7 years, circumstances and govern
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
In Portuguese it's way more common to refer to the region as "Amazônia" (the rainforest) than "Amazonas" (the river). "Amazonas" hardly represents the Brazilian side. Regardless, English is the lingua fran
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
I wouldn't care if .amazon was unreachable by local DNS, because I bet Amazon will give every significant service an equivalent amazon.com domain. They might add "aws.amazon" but I doubt they're taking away "aws.ama
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
> I can’t buy the Venezuela excuse, surely the ACTO gtld experts are not the same people who deal with Venezuela. It was the foreign minister of Brazil who canceled the meeting, citing the tensions with Venezuela as the reason for cancel
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
This is what the ACTO requested [0]: - a joint steering committee (ACTO and Amazon) for .amazon, giving ACTO countries the right to veto domains; - delegation of second-level domains to ACTO countries; - commitment from Amazon not to regist
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
IMO South American countries should just ban the corporate-owned .amazon from local DNS. The least they can do is boycott the domain.
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Pavel Durov argued that WhatsApp's vulnerabilities are intentionally created as part of surveillance programs with government agencies. [1] If that were true, Bezos's case would be an example of how that approach to security is do
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
This is so similar to remoteok.io I thought it was the same website at first. Even the logo is remarkably similar.
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Yeah, I don't see how breaking up them up would fix this. Let's say there's a dedicated company called "Google Search". Why wouldn't Google Search, the search engine company, spam search results with ads? Break
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
It's really frustrating when you need to find information about a specific product on Google but anything you search for yields e-commerce related results. I don't mean the ads - even the organic results will mostly be for shoppin
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Indeed. OP should have linked to the tweet instead as his blog post is not adding anything.
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Great execution for a much needed service, hope you find a way to keep it alive.
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
In Gurgel's case I think it was both. On the one hand, it was styllistic, because all their cars had that look, from minicars to trucks. Even their logo looked as blocky as their cars. See for example the X15: https://i.imgu
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Gurgel Itaipu(en.wikipedia.org)
94 points by rmsaksida 7y ago|34 comments
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Performance artist eats banana duct-taped to wall that sold for $120k(cbsnews.com)
5 points by rmsaksida 7y ago|0 comments
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Why does Twitter need to perform as well as Facebook or Google? Facebook is dying down and being replaced with Instagram. Instagram is littered with ads and doesn't feel irreplaceable. Google's core product (search engine) is near
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Gurgel Itaipu(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
I've never used Cloud Print, but I have used Reader and Hangouts that were shut down. The perception that Google has no commitment to their products is very strong and transfers to other areas. I'd rather use AWS or Azure than GCP
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WhatsApp “secretly part of spy programme”, Telegram founder claims(independent.co.uk)
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Instagram has been testing hiding likes for over a year now. They've recently begun testing in the US [1], so there's a good chance they'll hide them for real worldwide. I don't know if Facebook will follow through, but
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
That's true, but it can change. Just as tech users were vocal about getting people in, they can be vocal about getting people out.
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
As someone who runs the product team for a 1000+ person company, the concept of intransigent minorities should be of interest to you. [1] The gist of it is that an intransigent minority can often dictate the choices of a flexible majority.
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
That style of communication where a corporate entity pretends to be friendly and concerned even as they're downright shutting you down is extremely annoying. It comes across as dishonest and condescending. I wish this type of PR would
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Even if that's all true, and even if Apple has good reasons to lock his account, why not just tell him the reason? I don't understand why tech companies have this passive aggressive attitude when users violate their rules of wit
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
That would be great, but realistically I think that's never going to happen. Legislation-wise, I think the best the web can hope for is forcing websites to label ads . It doesn't sound unobtainable, especially as similar legislat
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
uBlock Origin aside, it feels like browsers should have built-in support for dealing with this technique (I'm thinking of Safari content blockers and Chrome declarative net requests). Otherwise it's all too easy for trackers to ge

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