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by sandov 8y ago
so... stoicism, basically.
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by sandov 8y ago
Big companies are made by citizens. GDPR hurt everyone.
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by sandov 8y ago
Buy an android phone and install LineageOS, it's Android but without Google's crap. I use it daily and it's great.
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by sandov 8y ago
Copperhead just died
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by sandov 8y ago
The privacy discussion is misguided. I don't care how much you make facebook, google et al promise not to "abuse" its users data. What I care about is educating people so that they choose software and companies that respect t
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by sandov 8y ago
The problem is that there's not a good free and open source alternative to Whatsapp. Signal requires google services and phone number, Telegram doesn't encrypt by default, riot's interface is still not good enough. I can&#x27
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by sandov 8y ago
Amazon
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by sandov 8y ago
It's good to separate the fact that he's a good leader from the fact that facebook does harm in some ways. Hitler was a great leader too.
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by sandov 8y ago
As far as I understand, the !g modifier doesn't search anonymously for you, it just redirects you to the google results page. It's useful when you know that ddg won't give you a result as good as google. You can also use the
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by sandov 8y ago
Or google hangouts. It's skype but in the web and with an interface that actually works.
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by sandov 8y ago
This is why we must eradicate proprietary software from our general purpose computers, because computers are the single most powerful weapon we have for freedom and self-improvement. It doesn't matter too much if your videogame console
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by sandov 8y ago
I think Youtube already filters that content. There are very few videos with age restriction and most of them have to do with sexually suggestive content, which doesn't make much sense because teenagers (at least male teens) consume po
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by sandov 8y ago
Being opposed to the use of violence to protect privacy = being opposed to privacy?
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by sandov 8y ago
On a first glance, I see many issues with this article: (sorry for my mediocre English) 1. Extremists may have given pro-democracy answers in order to make their ideology/side seen as more benevolent. 2. Thinking that a democracy isn&#
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by sandov 8y ago
Yeah, but whose fault is it? Big companies offering these abusive services or the common folk's who agree to use these services without giving a fuck about their personal information?
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by sandov 8y ago
When I learned to program (I was ~13 years old) using Small Basic I had no issues whatsoever with the errors the interpreter gave me, even though they weren't even in my native language. It was pretty obvious to me that I had committed
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by sandov 8y ago
Yeah. I went off on a tangent.
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by sandov 8y ago
I could say that open source apps — like the ones in f-droid — don't present the same amount of dark patterns that closed source proprietary apps do. But I agree, getting rid of google's proprietary apps doesn't necessarily m
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by sandov 8y ago
For those who want their phone to respect them, while still maintaining smart functionality, I recommend LineageOS, it's a distribution of android without all the google's proprietary crap.
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by sandov 8y ago
It would be impressive if days and seconds weren't defined arbitrarily.
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by sandov 8y ago
Apparently fun is not allowed in HN, judging by the gray text.
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by sandov 8y ago
We did that many times, but nothing appeared on each other's screen, it seemed as if the IDs were being sent to /dev/null.
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by sandov 8y ago
It's weird to think that a couple of years ago I too was using the facebook app. Since then, I've deleted the app, then deleted my account, switched from stock android to LineageOS. Now I can't fathom how I accepted to carry
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by sandov 8y ago
I Tried to use Riot.im with a friend of mine, who's also a hacker and we couldn't figure out how to create a room for us to chat. We're probably too dumb for this.
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by sandov 8y ago
I thought this was common knowledge among tech people, though it can't be stressed enough to non-techies.
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by sandov 8y ago
You're basically saying his values are wrong without any explanation of how you came to such a conclusion. You're also making wild statements about how he would react to some imaginary world. Probably not the right way to have a d
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by sandov 8y ago
I Don't know if we're talking about the same thing but I've found the format of man pages to be absolutely useless for me. Maybe I'm too dumb/noob to understand them, but then what's left for the folk who just
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by sandov 8y ago
>GNU & FSF are left wing projects What?. You'll have to explain to me how you've come to such a conclussion.
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by sandov 8y ago
I quit messenger, but haven't been able to quit whatsapp yet, as it's de facto the only viable IM app in my country. I have a clean, libre LineageOS setup on my phone, except for whatsapp.
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by sandov 8y ago
This should be in the news and front page of every tech site. Whenever I bring up the abusive legal behaviour of these big companies or how inherently flawed IP laws are, people either shrug it off or treat me as if I was wearing a tinfoil-

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