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The Worst Industrial Disaster in U.S. History(mentalfloss.com)
1 points by surround 7y ago|0 comments
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by surround 7y ago
- Zoom does not support self-hosting - Self-hosting Jitsi is not the optimal use case for everyone. People are free to choose between Jami and Jitsi, and it’s great to be able to have different options based upon your use case.
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by surround 7y ago
In comparison to Zoom and Jitsi: Jami’s major advantages are that it’s end-to-end encrypted and completely peer-to-peer, requiring no server in-between. The major disadvantage is that it doesn’t support calls from the browser. See also: ht
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by surround 7y ago
This isn’t 2005. The only websites that use the “Norton security seal” and the “5-star Trustpilot rating” are scam websites. The “guaranteed authenticity” seal makes things worse. I agree that users shouldn’t be forced to sign up to browse
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Jami: GNU end-to-end encrypted alternative to Zoom and Jitsi(git.jami.net)
286 points by surround 7y ago|75 comments
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by surround 7y ago
Any filtering system can be circumvented. DNS filtering is just one measure to prevent accidental exposure to unwanted content.
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by surround 7y ago
It’s not a good idea to trust a single large organization with your data, even if they make claims to privacy. It’s even worse to let them control what get censored and what gets through. If you care about privacy, I recommend running your
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by surround 7y ago
I can’t tell if you’re joking. If this resolver was real, I would rather use a resolver which promises transparency reports and no-logging, and hope it doesn’t fall into the hands of the NSA. Using a resolver by the NSA would guarantee
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by surround 7y ago
Good. User-agent strings are a mess. Here is an example of a user-agent string. Can you tell what browser this is? Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safar
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by surround 7y ago
Coincidentally, the edit I made to my comment is nearly identical to your comment. But now I’m outside the 1 hour window of being able to edit.
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by surround 7y ago
Firefox preview is only on android. iOS doesn’t support videoconferencing in the browser - you have to download the app.
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by surround 7y ago
Zoom also recommends Chrome [1]. As other users said, the issue is probably with Firefox’s simulcast, not Jitsi. [1] https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443-Zoom-Web...
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by surround 7y ago
Jitsi meet is not end-to-end encrypted [1]. Rather, it is encrypted with TLS between the client and the server, which doesn’t provide the same security/privacy benefit at all. The website says it’s “fully encrypted,” which I think is
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by surround 7y ago
It looks like they have since fixed the errors you mentioned, yet they still misspell the author’s name as “Babock.”
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Adblocker Ultimate shouldn't be recommended by Firefox(twitter.com)
2 points by surround 7y ago|0 comments
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How a 25-year-old dev made 600 apps without being able to code (2015)(cultofmac.com)
3 points by surround 7y ago|0 comments
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by surround 7y ago
You can self host open source alternatives such as Gitlab
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Philipp Stollenmayer: The King of Casual Mobile Games (2017)(appdisciple.com)
2 points by surround 7y ago|0 comments
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by surround 7y ago
Why is there no major Firefox (Gecko) based browsers? Microsoft, Opera, Brave, etc. have all gone Chromium.
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by surround 7y ago
Right, but instead of defeatism, people ought to start self-hosting sooner rather than later.
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by surround 7y ago
That can change.
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by surround 7y ago
It always struck me as ironic that Github itself isn’t open source.
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by surround 7y ago
- Writing to the clipboard is not the same as reading it. - Apps can and should let the user paste it themselves. (Examples #1 and #3 offer only slight convenience at the cost of user privacy and security.)
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by surround 7y ago
IIRC Apple syncs (or can sync) your clipboard data to the cloud, which is an issue if you’re copying passwords.
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by surround 7y ago
For future reference: I have realized that some of the information in my comment is factually incorrect. I wish I could delete it.
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by surround 7y ago
“Artificial sweetener” is often used misleadingly. Natural sweeteners, the most common being sucralose, are not healthier. I had an unpleasant realization from eating a low-calorie yogurt which advertised “no artificial sweeteners!” only to
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by surround 7y ago
Are retailers willing to fund their biggest competitor? Probably not - Walmart built their own cloud to avoid using Amazon’s.
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by surround 7y ago
Ok, they own a lot of BAT, and have a strong influence on how it’s spent. They created BAT. This is the premise of the parent article.
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by surround 7y ago
I suppose it’s less about isolation than about control. Phone apps are even more difficult to sniff.
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by surround 7y ago
I suppose that’s the problem, then. Would another browser use BAT? No, because Brave already owns the majority of the Daddy-O dollars.

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