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871.
by sneak 1y ago
Financial privacy and national security are fundamentally at odds. With financial privacy and real freedom, you can hire a competing army. The state will never allow large scale financial privacy because it poses an existential threat to t
872.
by sneak 1y ago
How are people going to pay for things? With no power or network, card payments stop working, and so do ATMs.
873.
by sneak 1y ago
Nah. All of Spotify’s discovery is paid placement payola. It’s annoying and gross and ruins the product.
874.
by sneak 1y ago
Burning books and censoring media has rarely been a path to fostering intellectualism. You call it an app ban, but really it’s just press censorship.
875.
by sneak 1y ago
One of these that has no camera would be cool. Alternately, a thicker phone with more battery and no camera bump. Either would be fine. This is the worst of both worlds.
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by sneak 1y ago
It silently surveils you and uploads your usage data to the developer (and Google).
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by sneak 1y ago
I never copy and paste passwords. Any time you find yourself wanting to do that, alarm bells should be ringing. Password managers can’t help you if you don’t use them properly. Spotify steals (and presumably uploads) your clipboard, as w
878.
by sneak 1y ago
The failure here was that his password manager was not configured and he manually copied and pasted the credentials into the wrong webpage . A password manager can’t manage passwords if you don’t configure it and use it.
879.
by sneak 1y ago
You can use software u2f (iCloud supports this), you don’t need Yubikeys. Also, Yubikeys work on phones just fine, via both NFC and USB.
880.
by sneak 1y ago
Can happen to anyone… who doesn’t use password manager autofill and unphishable 2FA like passkeys. Most people who get phished aren’t using password managers, or they would notice that the autofill doesn’t work because the domain is wrong.
881.
by sneak 1y ago
Yes, though IIRC the setting didn’t exist until after I wrote that blog post. Even “High” is still total shit. I frequently contemplate hacking the client app and recompiling it to remove image recompression entirely.
882.
by sneak 1y ago
ADP is off by default (this is why iMessage isn’t really e2ee), and importantly, isn’t available in all countries . I believe in the UK you are legally barred from having access to iCloud ADP.
883.
by sneak 1y ago
Why do people want logs of conversations for years and years? All of my Signal chats are set to 4 week expiry. Any media I want to keep, I save to the device. I don’t audio record my conversations with close friends and family; why would I
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by sneak 1y ago
If Signal is offering pay-for-media-storage, it would be nice to be able to pay to send full-resolution media. I’m a photographer and every image sent via Signal that isn’t zipped first is TOTALLY DESTROYED by silent recompression. https:
885.
by sneak 1y ago
They (CVS) require a phone number.
886.
by sneak 1y ago
You can’t buy gift cards without soft ID these days. Additionally, the ability to pay in cash isn’t needed for buying coffee, it’s needed for paying for legal defense, publishing, transport, and a bunch of other things. The issue isn’t th
887.
by sneak 1y ago
Most people are, because they don’t realize that when all transactions must be done without privacy and only at the pleasure of the state, the free society that you have come to take for granted will cease to exist. I did a talk about this
888.
by sneak 1y ago
glibc does not have a stable api on the timescales we are speaking about it here, and neither do any of the GUIs on linux. you are sort of moving the goalposts here. you cannot take a compiled gui app for linux from 20 years ago and run it
889.
by sneak 1y ago
This is solved easily by one additional sanity check API call to a different AI. I’m not sure why people think these bugs are like, complete showstopper insurmountable things. It’s a quick fix.
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by sneak 1y ago
You can’t pay in cash via an app. An alternate reality where nobody can transact without the state seeing it in realtime and having a veto over it (without any burden of proof) is not glorious; that’s called a dystopia. Just because the cap
891.
by sneak 1y ago
Desktops aren’t irrelevant. Desktops run llvm and Xcode and Excel and Autocad and Blender and Premiere and After Effects and a thousand others that are absolutely essential to designing, producing, testing, and marketing the thousand compl
892.
by sneak 1y ago
It’s not baffling. The OS was always sort of bad, and under the current Microsoft leadership of the last dozen years it has gone to absolute and total shit. It’s bordering on unusable. There is no amount of money you could pay me to daily
893.
by sneak 1y ago
…except for the inconvenient fact that Windows is the most developed-for (and thus developed-on) desktop OS in the world. Linux is catching up (mostly in gaming) but nothing comes close to the amount of engineer-hours poured into building W
894.
by sneak 1y ago
You have to take a lot at one time, or chronic overdoses, to damage your liver. Taking the maximum daily recommended dose (4g per day, thereabouts, in 1g doses) every day for months on end is fine and won’t do any damage. I’m sorry about yo
895.
by sneak 1y ago
> Card dealers create a unique deck with each shuffle, something computers cannot replicate This is entirely, unequivocally false. Shuffling as an algorithm to implement is easy to fuck up, but if you use a good one and a true RNG sour
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by sneak 1y ago
I think the most important skill after the actual engineering is ability to write well (and inclination to do it early and often). pg and tptacek and patio11 really drove that home to me - they are as well known and well regarded as they ar
897.
by sneak 1y ago
Google doesn’t owe you anything after purchase. Google does quite literally owe their shareholders ROI, by law. Why would one expect them to do anything other than the minimum support period and expense that they can get away with that won’
898.
by sneak 1y ago
The entitlement of application authors to do whatever the fuck they want on your machine is astounding to me. Root CAs, background processes 24/7, uploading of the full process list, clipboard spying, local network scanning, surveillan
899.
by sneak 1y ago
Don’t worry, the police definitely aren’t trying to catch thieves. In addition to basically no consequences for US police breaking the law, there are actually zero consequences to them not doing their jobs.
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by sneak 1y ago
Products are not services. If you buy a product that needs services to work, and at the time of purchase you are clearly informed that those services are subject to change at any time, you are sufficiently aware of the fact that product fu

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