skrowl

18 ms·

121.
by skrowl 5y ago
Too little, too late. Cardano (ADA) is going to beat them to it and eat their lunch.
122.
by skrowl 5y ago
All for a "he hugged me", not even anything sexual
123.
by skrowl 6y ago
If you think iOS lockdown is bad on adult stuff, wait until I tell you what they do to web browsers (must just skin safari webkit, not have their own engine), emulators (not allowed in app store), launcher apps (not allowed in app store), e
124.
by skrowl 6y ago
Siri is especially bad when compared to Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, both of which are light years ahead. Usual Apple reliance on their fans buying their devices no matter how bad the software is.
125.
by skrowl 6y ago
That's because it's not real firefox. Apple doesn't allow real firefox / chrome / etc and all apps that browse web must use safari's webkit. Keep that in mind next time you go to buy a phone!
126.
by skrowl 6y ago
Keep in mind that on iOS you have no browser options AT ALL. You get Safari or skinned Safari. Per the Apple app store rules, no one may publish a browser or javascript engine and any app that browses the web MUST use safari's webkit.
127.
by skrowl 6y ago
Telegram is just so much more usable than Signal. The perceived advantage of Signal over Telegram is LITERALLY not having an option for a cloud-synced chat and ONLY having end to end encrypted chats. That's all. You give up of usabili
128.
by skrowl 6y ago
That should get fixed soon(ish) when Apple is forced to allow other app stores on their devices. Real firefox / real Chrome / emulators / etc!
129.
by skrowl 6y ago
A lot of people notice that when downgrading from Android to iOS. Be prepared to no longer be able to easily install new launchers / home apps / emulators / adult apps / etc either. Hopefully we have you back on the open
130.
by skrowl 6y ago
Tell that to Gab / Parler / etc
131.
by skrowl 6y ago
Same. I left after The_Donald ban. Like Donald Trump or hate him, his supporters have a right to speak.
132.
by skrowl 6y ago
Telegram deleting messages appear to work for me. Likely this guy is just buying into Signal FUD that Telegram is somehow worse encryption, despite Signal's encryption being used by Facebook and funded by the US Govt.
133.
by skrowl 6y ago
You honestly think the US military annual budget is 150 trillion / year?
134.
by skrowl 6y ago
Math to do this in the USA in case you're intererested: 210,000,000 working age adults * $5900 / mo * 12 months ~= 15 TRILLION dollars per year. The annual GDP of the USA is about 21.5 trillion.
135.
by skrowl 6y ago
210,000,000 working age adults in the USA * 40,000/year UBI welfare handouts * a decade = 84 TRILLION dollars. The US govt is currently spending about 2 trillion / year more than they take from their citizens in taxes. Out of curi
136.
by skrowl 6y ago
Wanting to investigate the election irregularities that occurred in this election is not automatically "broken news" or "fake news" just because you don't want to hear it. To have a functioning democracy, you MUST h
137.
by skrowl 6y ago
It's trivial to create a browser that's just a Chromium fork. It's nearly impossible to create one that isn't. Firefox (and Tor) is basically the only one. https://alternativeto.net/software/google-
138.
by skrowl 6y ago
On iOS there are no web browsers other than Safari, per the app store rules. "Chrome" / "Firefox" / etc on iOS are just basically skins on top of Webkit. See 2.5.6 here - https://developer.apple.com
139.
by skrowl 6y ago
Just sent him this email: Saw your article via HN. As an easier permanent fix, just uninstall The Great Suspender and install Auto Tab Discard ( https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html ). It does the same thing. It's availab
140.
by skrowl 6y ago
Despite what your TV told you, military grade fully automatic weapons are 50 state illegal in the United States. Civilians may not own them. The scary guns you see on TV just LOOK like military weapons, they don't FUNCTION like them.
141.
by skrowl 6y ago
Calling body armor "Military Gear" as in "only the military should be able to buy body armor" is pretty sad, even by Buzzfeed extreme-left standards. Body armor can't kill anyone.
142.
by skrowl 6y ago
Telegram advantages over Signal: - The ability to message someone with just your username / without revealing your phone number - Easy to use from multiple devices (with full history the minute you install it on a new device) - Great b
143.
by skrowl 6y ago
Correct, it's only going forward from that point, which is a deal breaker for many. New device = no chat history.
144.
by skrowl 6y ago
Discord uses IRC for it's chat
145.
by skrowl 6y ago
Not just individuals, people at the top too. Twitter / Reddit / YouTube / management is CHOOSING to make their platforms into liberal-or-die echo chambers because their upper management leans left. No one is forcing their ha
146.
by skrowl 6y ago
> - It doesn't do e2ee by default. When creating a 1 to 1 chat, it's one of the default buttons. In Android, you click a {pencil} icon, then "new chat" (encrypted in transit and at rest like your bank website) or &qu
147.
by skrowl 6y ago
> 3. Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation. > 4. Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve
148.
by skrowl 6y ago
This didn't actually happen on Parler. Calls to violence are against their ToS and bannable. The scary screenshots you saw were self posted and screenshotted before they could be reported and taken down. You could do the same thing o
149.
by skrowl 6y ago
What's you're describing is exactly what Gab did. Then the cancel crowd went after their payment providers and upstream internet providers. Even if you own your own datacenter, you still need peering and a way to accept payment.
150.
by skrowl 6y ago
In this case Parler already had a policy in place that banned posts calling for violence / anything else the breaks US law as well as report buttons in place to report it (Reddit and Twitter use similar systems), but there has been eno

More ›