vonquant

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by vonquant 3y ago
I'm not sure it's creditable that enough credence is being given to these anonymous claims in a private group to be impacting this person's life. Seems more akin to a slapp.
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by vonquant 3y ago
Money is often a compelling argument.
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by vonquant 6y ago
Of course, the VPN could be the one doing the hijacking.
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by vonquant 6y ago
E2EE and open source: the two things people assume automatically makes things super-crazy-secure. The implementation of E2EE must be robust and there must be somebody who is actually checking the source code (plus verifiable builds)
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by vonquant 6y ago
People who wish to mask their crimes have a greater incentive to use E2EE so will probably gravitate towards platforms that offer it. I would therefore suggest those not committing crimes are disproportionately affected by E2EE not being ma
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by vonquant 6y ago
www.example.com and example.com don't necessarily resolve to the same place.
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by vonquant 6y ago
On second thoughts, using a sub domain would make way more sense.
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by vonquant 6y ago
Hey, this looks great. One thing you might want to consider is having one domain for a website about collectednotes (collectednotes.com) and another for hosting user's blogs (collectednotes.blog for example) because it is currently not
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by vonquant 6y ago
Is the extent of the 'unlimited' important? Lending a single book more than they own is an impossibility if they are respecting IP - no different to a physical library photocopying entire books so they can lend more.
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by vonquant 7y ago
Oh let me see, perhaps it has something to do with China being a one-party state with a ripe history of human rights atrocities and pervasive censorship. Just look at SARS for an example of where trusting the official information from China
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by vonquant 7y ago
That may well be, but the predominant concern is larger droplets from a cough or sneeze. I don't recall seeing anything speaking of airborne transmission.
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by vonquant 7y ago
>Those are really dangerous and easy to do wrong. >it sounds like he was doing it wrong.
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by vonquant 7y ago
>How? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51348593
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by vonquant 7y ago
>UK will become a colony of US What? No.
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by vonquant 7y ago
I'd say you were a lucky one. Persuading my contacts to move and explaining my rationale has been a long, arduous and still not quite complete process. People seem to struggle with envisaging how a lack of privacy will harm them person
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by vonquant 7y ago
You're more optimistic than I. Hard to overthrow the industry that specialises in manipulation.