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by summm 5y ago
Nah, they really dropped the ball with updates. 2 years of security updates for a 1200€ phone?? Note the clock starts ticking as soon as they announce the phone, and it takes ages before it is actually available, resulting in about 1.5 year
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by summm 5y ago
Why did you buy a device that's patronizing you in the first place? You bought a device that is even advertised as not being fully under your control, then it turns out it's actually not under your control. Meh. Put Linux on it an
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by summm 5y ago
Unreliable for use as medical sensors, at least that's what the study says. About your general sentiment: I am sorry that you feel you don't have reliable humans in your life.
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by summm 5y ago
So the article is mostly wishful thinking by a dog-loving journalist? Who would have thought.
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by summm 5y ago
If you already have a dog, there's a good chance it's responsible for the smell in the first place...
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by summm 5y ago
Who would profit? Dog nutters. Currently they go to great lengths to introduce dogs everywhere, they even fake ESA doctor's letters to illicitly profit from service animal laws. Surely they would fake studies or write overly positive a
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by summm 5y ago
Because they are unhygienic, they trigger allergies and fears, they carry a certain risk to attack humans, and above all, they are very unreliable.
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by summm 5y ago
It seems many people build their identity on liking dogs. So if you say anything remotely negative about dogs, these people feel personally attacked and act accordingly. One who does not like dogs is at least weird to them, if not outright
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by summm 5y ago
Yes, it is mathematically ensured that the coin issuer cannot link the actual coin to the account you are buying it with. No blind trust needed, check the math yourself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature
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by summm 5y ago
If you buy a coin, you have the bank sign it blindly, that means, after you unblind it, it is mathematically not possible to deeive any correlation between the coin and what the bank saw. The bank only knows the value of the coin(s) you bou
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by summm 5y ago
In addition to the huge advantage of not needing to get cash from an ATM and physically carry it to the card vendor: Transactions made on the same eGift card wallet are tied together. With Taler you have a wallet with coins you can spend se
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by summm 5y ago
Nokia is never an option, because they do not open the bootloader on any phone. Worse, in the beginning they lied they would, to get people to buy their crap. Also, don't be blinded by their brand, that brand is actually chinese HMD no
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by summm 5y ago
Why would he work for free for Google in the first place?
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by summm 5y ago
Then they maybe should offer more classes at 3 pm an less on 8 pm instead of forcing people into 8 pm that don't want it?
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by summm 5y ago
I hate it that every tech reviewer, and even this person who is porting this phone to Linux complains about plastic devices "feeling cheap". That's why we get these crappy and impractical glass and aluminium phones. Objective
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by summm 5y ago
Why does it feel dodgy? When I want to give Adobe DRM or TikTok those permissions, I should be able to. They just shouldn't have the option to force me, or else stop running. Do you really condone the trendy dumbing down to an user-hos
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by summm 5y ago
Thanks for making the effort. All with the background that the US deep state including the NSA are proven to infringe on every thinkable human right, if it just serves their own purpose. This is a bed they themselves made, they have to lie
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by summm 5y ago
Freenet manages to implement some kind of anonymity without mixnets, relying on inserting/retrieving storage blocks sacrificing latency. In my opinion that's the better approach, because if you separate storage and communication,
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by summm 5y ago
Depends. If you identify as a minority and want to exploit that, these hints are great. Also it might identify companies that have such great profits that they can easily afford spending money on being exploited. OTOH, this might exclude a
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by summm 5y ago
Or, instead of TCP, content-based storage as in Freenet.
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by summm 5y ago
The UTC cloaking has a lot of downsides. Websites displaying false times, but not reliably, as they are mostly not indicating the timezone, and you never know if they are displaying local time of the site's location or try to get cleve
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by summm 5y ago
Even worse: Why would I trust professional liars whose wrongdoings were uncovered by Snowden? "Do your own research". He cannot even name specific sources for his vague insinuations.
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by summm 5y ago
If at the same time corporations lost their status as legal persons, I'd be very interested in your proposal.
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by summm 5y ago
> I think more like 5, although the government might start slowly, like only preventing non-TPM devices from accessing "sensitive" online services, e.g. banks or anything that requires a payment. This has already happened for m
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by summm 5y ago
As soon as money is concentrated a lot, it multiplies much faster, more or less automatically. This is called capitalism. This is the counteracting force to division of inheritance. Exceptional grit and luck is not needed anymore, it is suf
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by summm 5y ago
Interesting, you got a link how they do it?
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by summm 5y ago
I feel you. Just like the GPL killed Linux. That said, the GPL only covers the software, not the protocol. So banks are free to just re-implement that protocol, it's not that complicated. This should be peanuts for any larger bank. O
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by summm 5y ago
So this would be a system for the civilized world, for democracies, where the government's definition of what a crime is at least coarsely coincides with my definition? More authoritarian or non-democractic governments will just not ap
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by summm 5y ago
There is no currency exchange in this system. You just setup the system for each existing currency separately. The kudos is really just for development and demonstrating the system.
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by summm 5y ago
No, in a real deployment, the denomination will not be KUDOS, but USD, or EUR. You just pay 100 EUR to the bank, the bank issues you, for example, 100 digital coins of 1 EUR each. And you pay with these coins (simplified, there are differen

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