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by skrowl 6y ago
This is exactly why Telegram is beating Signal. They're singularly focused on the user experience and what users want. Uninstall / reinstall / multiple-devices works flawlessly.
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by skrowl 6y ago
Multiple devices / reinstall works flawlessly on Telegram. I can't walk my mom through the archaic Signal backup/restore all the time.
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by skrowl 6y ago
How else do you pay for developers / servers? Everyone that makes software should just sell it for profit, or give it away at a loss?
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by skrowl 6y ago
Somewhat off topic, but is Signal still tough to use if you have > 1 device? It used to require you to backup / restore and you couldn't just start a chat on your work computer, continue it on your phone, then continue it on yo
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by skrowl 6y ago
This is false. No proposed ads in 1:1 or any size group chats, only large channels (which are like RSS feeds, you can join but not post). In addition 100% of Telegram traffic is encrypted over the wire (like this website, your bank, etc).
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by skrowl 6y ago
Cost of living in the midwest is amongst the lowest in the country
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by skrowl 6y ago
Many modern Chromebooks can literally run unmodified Linux apps. You can even install them via apt. That sounds like Desktop + Linux to me!
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by skrowl 6y ago
2021 is going to be the year of desktop Linux... for sure this time! /s j/k Chromebooks have been desktop Linux for years and they work great
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by skrowl 6y ago
We saw about a 45% improvement in our API. EF Core also appears to have improved performance.
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by skrowl 6y ago
At first glance, it looks a lot more simple than something like ncurses. Many Linux distros are shipping .NET in the default install due to more and more apps requiring it. If something like this takes off for console apps, it's only
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by skrowl 6y ago
Email is also a very weak form of 2nd factor that's more popular than it should be.
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by skrowl 6y ago
I'm not sure what the benefit to locally hosted solutions like KeePassXC are to BitWarden. You can't beat BitWarden's ease of use and you don't have to manage storage / backups yourself. Bitwarden is open source,
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by skrowl 6y ago
Just calling this link "OAuth 3" is clickbait
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by skrowl 6y ago
UPDATE - News out this morning that DOJ is also confirming the laptop is genuine. You're, of course still welcome to cognitive dissonance away the entire subject and believe it's some Russian plot.
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by skrowl 6y ago
Oof, all of that and not a shred of evidence to back any of it up. Propaganda is a powerful force. Do some research on your own.
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by skrowl 6y ago
Facts in support of the laptop being genuine: - The laptop had emails on it that were previously not public - The laptop had pictures of Hunter and family that were previously not public - They have Hunter's signature on the drop off r
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by skrowl 6y ago
> U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, according to four former officials familiar with t
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by skrowl 6y ago
You're welcome to ad hominem attack the DNI all you'd like, but that doesn't change what he said. Do you have any evidence to support the evidence being fabricated? Do you have any evidence to show where the previously non-pu
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by skrowl 6y ago
In fact, they already do https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.wireguard.android/ in this case, including a donation link on the app listing page
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by skrowl 6y ago
The source of the material is very clear. Hunter Biden left a laptop at a repair shop, and the guy at the repair shop made multiple copies. The repair shop guy has come forward. The FBI also has at least 1 copy.
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by skrowl 6y ago
The Director of National Intelligence also said this morning that there is NO intelligence supporting that it's fabricated: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-bidens-laptop-not... The only source for &quot
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by skrowl 6y ago
If you don't support someone saying something you find disgusting / horrifying / etc, you don't actually support free speech. 'Free speech for my side, but suppress the other side' is not free speech. This is
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by skrowl 6y ago
Not even the Biden campaign disputes the emails being real. They just said they checked his calendar and could find no such meeting, then later backpedaled and said they couldn't discount the possibly that it happened and just wasn&#x2
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by skrowl 6y ago
Some people believe that open borders to all countries are a human right.
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by skrowl 6y ago
If you're on windows, you may also want to check out https://www.getpaint.net/ It's great and free (as in beer) even for commercial use.
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by skrowl 6y ago
> it's a refutation of the new and dishonest argument that censorship actually protects freedom of speech Once you convince people that the other side is evil and your side must win at all costs, they'll rationalize any behavio
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by skrowl 6y ago
If you think legislators of driven by what actually is effective instead of what lines their own pockets, you really aren't paying attention.
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by skrowl 6y ago
They have a lot too, a new one just popped up a few days ago https://www.bgr.in/news/apple-products-have-a-new-unpatchabl... I'm not sure if anyone has compiled a list of how many
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by skrowl 6y ago
I build iOS apps using Visual Studio 2019 + Xamarin on Windows, then running macOS in a VMWare VM that basically just functions as a build server (Windows communicates with it via SSH). You can find lots of YouTube videos describing how to
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by skrowl 6y ago
100% of apps installed on iOS are through the iOS lockdown walled garden app store. This is monopoly bundling by definition. It' doesn't matter than they're only ~11% marketshare of smartphones sold.

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