samoa42

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by samoa42 6y ago
> hauling a trailer, my family and our dogs vs. how often are you driving alone in that monster truck?
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by samoa42 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCION_(Internet_architecture) its alive an kicking already
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by samoa42 6y ago
how can it be true when almost everyone works on a platform that cannot run it without piggyback to a smartphone?
94.
by samoa42 6y ago
not really. thats like saying "they fixed bad roads by introducing planes"
95.
by samoa42 6y ago
right. they dont know for sure. but statistics give a reasonable good picture given the fact that the input/output points of the banking system are known.
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by samoa42 6y ago
the spec is over then years old already and not from google. so there is that. google is just the one to drag their feet the fastest seeing its other attempts to enter the messaging market failed completely.
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by samoa42 6y ago
mms are also often not included in flatrates and riddled with security problems. noone i know uses them.
98.
by samoa42 6y ago
no. what you have probably mistaken for is send to multiple destinations and reply-all.
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by samoa42 6y ago
> This absolutely sucks when you switch OSes and can't participate in your groups anymore. imo the best reason to abandon every chat service that does not have an opensource client.
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by samoa42 6y ago
fwiw i would not hold my breath for adoption from apple and this in turn probably means it wont gain any traction. edit: the rcs spec is over ten years old
101.
by samoa42 6y ago
> Whatsapp is deeply cross platform it requires a smartphone with android, ios or kaios. so, no.
102.
by samoa42 6y ago
while agreeing that software got worse, especially websites. opera did gracefully open 100+ tabs in 2005 on a dualcore with a gig of ram. the key was and is: disable javascript
103.
by samoa42 6y ago
excellent compromise! other replies mention the client compatibility, quality and bandwidth issues with self hosting but i think this can be reasonably adressed with just going for a common denominator on the self-hosting side (eg. 720p h26
104.
by samoa42 6y ago
did you notice the unique alphanumeric id on every piece of paper money? the banks registers it and turns out the vast majority of money does only "one cycle" ie. from the bank to a (known) consumer/customer, to a shop/c
105.
by samoa42 6y ago
> I've received about 10 MMS in my life. All failed to download. same here in germany. nobody ever uses it
106.
by samoa42 6y ago
a "leagal notice" (impressum) is only required for websites that make a commercial offering.
107.
by samoa42 6y ago
> I dont use any google services except maps you may have gotten that wrong 'google play services' is software package (app) that sits between the os (android) and the (other) apps. it provides a lot of middleware like maps and
108.
by samoa42 6y ago
commercial content distribution platforms _will_ fall victim to copyright and censorship in general. its already underway and most progressive ideas have to be expressed elsewhere.
109.
by samoa42 6y ago
as said; the issues are not part of the repo. as much as many projects could use a clean slate here, i dont think the burden of migranting them manually or the act of just dumping them is realistic.
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by samoa42 6y ago
> I have never (deliberately) sent a voice message on any platform same here. really dislike how people essentially just ramble on and on for what could have been one sentece or a few words. so it costs the recipient a lot of time and co
111.
by samoa42 6y ago
does not help if one wants overtime that is not a multiple of 30s :) #analogmasterrace
112.
by samoa42 6y ago
the github description says that it is not directly measuring the roundtrip time but the time until the browser returns an xss-error. so browsers behave differently...
113.
by samoa42 6y ago
likely depends on the settings. iphones i have set up use about 30MB per month for "System Services" dont know how much of that is from real usage vs. telemetry an stuff.
114.
by samoa42 6y ago
there is also https://noping.cc available in many os-repos supports tighter measurement intervals
115.
by samoa42 6y ago
i would be more inclined to reestablish progressive income tax. there are very few convincing reasons why anybody has earned 100x more than someone at the low end.
116.
by samoa42 6y ago
this! when i started with computers, they had a few KB of L2 cache, L3 did not exist. Main Memory was a few MB.
117.
by samoa42 6y ago
imho telemetry is more often than not used to neglect common sense
118.
by samoa42 6y ago
i think there is a line somewhere along with beeing accountable in a business sense. ie. if your internet host just hands out information, you are free to block/throttle as you please. as soon as you are taking money (operate as a busi
119.
by samoa42 6y ago
> the screen to body ratio is pretty bad, IMO if rated against _my_ body, the ratio is damn near perfect
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by samoa42 6y ago
also perfect excuse to introduce some other usage of cookies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24979895

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