soziawa

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by soziawa 2y ago
It is available for me in Switzerland. In fact, it's the number one app.
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by soziawa 3y ago
The market share of iOS in the EU is only around 35% though. The market this is about isn't the market for music streaming apps but the market for iOS apps.
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by soziawa 3y ago
> There are so many alternatives to Apple Photos, all with this handicap. Apple doesn't allow background execution for third party apps. Can't increase service revenue if you allow competition.
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by soziawa 3y ago
In Switzerland the two major grocery stores have this system. You need to establish trust first, for the first few months you'll get more inspections. But I haven't been checked in years now.
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by soziawa 3y ago
In Switzerland it's similar for one of the two major retailers. For the other one you can pay in the app without every going to a POS.
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by soziawa 3y ago
Can you put linux on one of these without any issues?
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by soziawa 3y ago
You can exclude certain playlists from the list of stuff that is considered when creating the recommendations. Tap the three dots on a playlist and tap "Exclude from taste profile".
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by soziawa 4y ago
It very much depends on the tags you use. Swift and iOS is absolutely abysmal and questions will be closed as duplicates of questions that have been irrelevant for years. Go and Haskell are great though.
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by soziawa 4y ago
It also resets custom DNS settings for all networks.
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by soziawa 4y ago
But most importantly the whole OS and all of the integrated apps do use pinning.
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by soziawa 4y ago
> Someone replied to his tweet by saying he should let Apple know there is a problem. His response was, "I don’t get paid to do free QA." The reply says that he should file a radar. Radar is Apple's bug reporting platform
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by soziawa 4y ago
So that means for the duration of the attack active contacts and groups were exposed?
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by soziawa 4y ago
Threema seems to manage just well. I guess payment is the natural limiter for spam there.
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Swiss messenger app Threema fined under Russian anti-terror law(swissinfo.ch)
2 points by soziawa 4y ago|0 comments
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by soziawa 4y ago
> Terrible advice. If you want e2e you can choose to enable it. It is not enabled because many users choose to receive their messages across multiple personal devices simultaneously. This is not possible with e2e, which is why it is an o
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by soziawa 4y ago
> Look no further than Signal's supboenas and how they respond to them. With all the information they hold about an account. Which is just the creation date and last connection date. https://signal.org/bigbrother&#x2
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by soziawa 5y ago
Only a few years ago the Norwegian army was played by their soldiers using Tinder ( https://old.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/9uos8g/norweigian_m... ) during a maneuver. This is a great and long overdue mov
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Swiss army knifes WhatsApp at work(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by soziawa 5y ago|1 comments
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by soziawa 5y ago
Session is a cool fork from Signal. They adress the two biggest privacy issues, push tokens and IP addresses. But I can't see it gaining too much main stream traction any time soon. Too me it feels like WhatsApp has hit the sweet spot
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by soziawa 5y ago
It's actually forked from Signal.
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by soziawa 5y ago
> Most people I know that started using Signal a few months ago are now back to using Whatsapp. Privacy is a nice feature to advertise, but when both your UX and your reliability suck, it's not a good combo. Fully agree on the UX bu
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by soziawa 5y ago
This is based on pure speculation, but could it be that Apple believes the covid tracking functionality has shifted power from governments to Apple? Many governments (e.g. Germany) wanted location instead of token based tracking with centra
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by soziawa 5y ago
> 6. Apple's CSAM detection then flags these, and they're manually reviewed Is the process actually documented anywhere? Afaik they are just saying that they are verifying a match. This could of course just be a person looking
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by soziawa 5y ago
There is some previous discussion about this regarding Facebook here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28119372 The false positive rate does not look great.
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by soziawa 5y ago
> Hash collisions would not pass the human review. About the only consequence I can think of for hash collisions is that the person at Apple who performs the human review step has a slightly nicer day because they were about to look at a
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by soziawa 5y ago
> Were there 20.3 million arrests of offenders? I don't know of any data from the US but in Switzerland the Federal Police pre sorts all reports from the NCEMC and around 90% are unusable [1] and cannot be acted upon. The remaining
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by soziawa 5y ago
A direct link to the announcement post and the survey / announcement signup: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/604038/#Comme... After hiding the standalone license this would put a lot of tr
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by soziawa 5y ago
What does Electron in name only mean? Either electron is included or it isn't. Whether you are using Rust through native bindings or through WebAssembly does not really matter does it?
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by soziawa 5y ago
The protocol has been reviewed plenty of times. The rest of the app has not. At least according to your list.
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by soziawa 5y ago
I‘ve been on Threema ever since I learned that WhatsApp did not even use TLS. It‘s a great chat app and nothing else (which is a feature in my book).

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