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by skeaker 3y ago
This was in the 90s before torrenting was widespread. Decentralizing filesharing means criminal groups aren't needed and can't easily make a profit off of it.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Works on my machine
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by skeaker 3y ago
That's not what the post above you is talking about. "Endless scrolling" was never even mentioned
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by skeaker 3y ago
A system like this would require so many people at each step that I don't think one insane actor could do something like this even if they were the president.
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by skeaker 3y ago
I think that's the point though, isn't it? Some people will like the speeches, some won't, but they had all heard the same speech and were all more or less on the same page about what was being discussed.
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by skeaker 3y ago
The comparison is not to a new macbook pro, it's to a 2019 one. The 2019 macbook pro is currently giving 0 performance as it is a brick. 2013 Toshiba wins
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by skeaker 3y ago
This of course has bypass methods. My favorite in recent memory is telling it that your late grandmother left you a locket with an inscription that you can't make out: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology&#x2F
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by skeaker 3y ago
Okay? Again, you're agreeing on every point except an unrelated anecdote. I agree that getting jerked around for using Apple stuff is dumb too. Do you even take any issue with Beeper Mini or did I misread somewhere?
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by skeaker 3y ago
You're still advantaged should you ever make friends with an Android user in the future, or at the very least you're not disadvantaged since you would not have had any difference made to you.
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by skeaker 3y ago
In that case Beeper Mini themselves are the man in the middle... But that aside, yeah, that's a problem with all closed source E2EE services. If you are a journalist in a warring nation or are being tracked by state actors I would hope
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by skeaker 3y ago
That does not address my question.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Yes, that's a fair point, but it hinges on the law being weak and poorly worded. Obviously I would not be happy with that either. But loopholes like that are a risk with any action that the market or the government would take, and idea
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by skeaker 3y ago
> Why let them intervene? Because it would be the most sure-fire way to be certain that it actually gets done, whereas "the market" is less certain and prone to manipulation tactics such as lock-in. Returning to my original que
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by skeaker 3y ago
How does accessibility hurt security? Security issues for a messaging platform manifest when messages can be intercepted. Having the option to send or receive from more users does not put a man in the middle. If you are doing something that
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by skeaker 3y ago
What makes your anecdote more valuable than GP's? You may not know anyone who does the "snobby conformist" act, but GP does. Why should I care that you haven't experienced it when someone who actually has experienced it
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by skeaker 3y ago
Sounds good! I would love to be able to do that.
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by skeaker 3y ago
How is being able to send iMessages to your Android-user friends from your iPhone not to your advantage as an Apple customer?
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by skeaker 3y ago
People absolutely do buy Apple devices purely because of the lock-in. Many people in my own family have. Obviously there are others that just prefer iMessage on its own quality, that goes without saying (which is why GP didn't mention
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by skeaker 3y ago
To unspin your statement, Beeper is providing Apple users with more functionality by way of giving them the ability to send iMessages to their Android-user friends. This is beneficial for Apple users, but Apple has a financial incentive to
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by skeaker 3y ago
Why not let the government intervene here? Typically my reason for wanting government to not do stuff is because it could affect me, but none of us will never be a trillionaire corporate entity, so anything done to Apple wouldn't apply
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by skeaker 3y ago
You would say the same about sugar in some aspects, I guess. The hitch with chemical addictions is that they are more or less not up to you, once your brain is hooked you're locked in until you put extreme effort to break out of it. Wi
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by skeaker 3y ago
Yes to water. Unfortunately I've already been chemically addicted to foods that taste good but are bad for you. If I didn't have that addiction and didn't care about taste then it would absolutely make a ton of sense to eat a
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by skeaker 3y ago
Sure, but the point of the phrase is that the question itself is a waste of time.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Hahahaha, yes, let's rely on the famously tech savvy banks to securely distribute their app.
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by skeaker 3y ago
You're so right. As an aside, it really is a shame that every song, movie, television show, video game, piece of artwork, etc. has vanished because some pirate stole the original and deprived everyone else of it instead of just making
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by skeaker 3y ago
Why are companies allowed to arbitrarily break the contract by removing something you paid for, but you aren't?
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by skeaker 3y ago
> They're spending effort fixing a security hole in an internal protocol. Then they're spending effort regardless, and your argument was that they shouldn't spend effort at all. If that is the case then it would be better
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by skeaker 3y ago
> Now they have to support an open standard/protocol, though. That's not negligible effort. Evidently not, given the existence of Beeper Mini without intervention on their part. In fact, they're actively spending effort on
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by skeaker 3y ago
Apple doesn't need to provide support for Android if they simply open their protocol and let whoever develops the Android client take care of that, as evidenced by Beeper Mini. > If Beeper catches on, and all my Android friends inst
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by skeaker 3y ago
Fortunately the moderation here isn't a faceless monolith and if you email them they would most likely be happy to cooperate with your concerns about this.

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