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by woojoo666 4y ago
> Why was Matrix/ActivityPub created when the other already existed? Afaik Matrix started in 2014, Activitypub in 2016. Both were probably pretty small back then, so no reason to adopt the other's protocol when there's no
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by woojoo666 4y ago
I mean the left can just as easily post their "context" on right wing tweets as well. If the White House can't handle a bit of debate on Twitter, it reflects poorly on them imo. Let the public see both sides
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by woojoo666 4y ago
I do it for when I don't want to get my hands dirty
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by woojoo666 4y ago
I feel like to compare linked lists and dequeues, you would have to give a specific implementation of a dequeue
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by woojoo666 4y ago
Signal designs their server infrastructure to be trustless, and their clients to be open source. So the only thing that would leak if the US were wiretapping Signal servers, is metadata.
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by woojoo666 4y ago
It's not new but it is undergoing a bit of a revolution because of growing interest in privacy and decentralization. Monero didn't exist in the 90s
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by woojoo666 4y ago
Though to be fair it was a bit buried. Another commenter surfaced a relevant quote: > There’s no technical reason that Big Tech can’t directly connect to the Fediverse. The ACCESS Act, a proposed US law, would do just that. The EU has pa
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by woojoo666 4y ago
I doubt Apple will go down that path, the past few years have shown how badly advertising can hurt the reputation of a company (see Facebook, Google)
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by woojoo666 4y ago
Apple cares about their quality and brand image more than they care about advertising money. A very smart move on their part
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by woojoo666 4y ago
> Don't get me started on the tracking & surveillance crap built into Windows 10+. Doesn't MacOS have the same amount of telemetry? I guess it is rather hard to quantify, but MacOS still does collects a lot of data
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by woojoo666 4y ago
Imo it's mostly just Apple holding it back. Once Safari starts supporting AV1, then websites will start using it
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by woojoo666 4y ago
Ok I see, sorry I forgot to clarify that I was talking about iOS and iPadOS for that statement
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by woojoo666 4y ago
> So we’re doing this? Instead of acknowledging your statement was incorrect, now it’s about how supposedly late Apple was in supporting the formats you said they didn’t support. I think you should re-read my comment. Fyi I already knew
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by woojoo666 4y ago
Afaik access to main storage can only be granted if the app declares the "all files" permission. I'm not sure what's the deal with the downloads folder though
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by woojoo666 4y ago
> Both WebM [1] and WebP [2] have been supported by Safari for nearly two years now. Which was incredibly late. For example, Firefox had it since v28 [1], which was 8 years ago. Firefox has also supported AV1 for 3 years already. And obv
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by woojoo666 4y ago
This discussion reminds me a lot about the debate around separating art from the artist, for example whether or not it's ok to like a Chris Brown song despite his history of extreme domestic abuse
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by woojoo666 4y ago
This seems trivial to bypass. The goal for deceiving banned users is to discourage them from creating new accounts. But I'm sure eventually, the system will be exposed, like if a shadowbanned user is friends with non-banned user and th
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by woojoo666 4y ago
What's an alternative free media format? Not everything Google does is bad. In fact if you're against companies abusing their dominant position, Apple is perhaps one of the worst. Worth noting that Safari is starting to roll out s
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by woojoo666 4y ago
Safari is so behind in terms of lack of support for free media formats/codecs like webm, webp, and av1. You can't even switch browsers to view them, since it's all webkit
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by woojoo666 4y ago
A related thread about different conversation styles posted yesterday: "Wait vs Interrupt Culture" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33266372
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by woojoo666 4y ago
> web3 evangelists tend to argue why the user should accept a sacrifice in quality for moral benefits like privacy or freedom Is privacy really just a moral benefit? Though I admit that it definitely isn't a benefit that the mainstr
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by woojoo666 4y ago
One of the major advantages of Apple is how they can get all their users to update OS in a timely fashion, whereas Android users tend to lag behind
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by woojoo666 4y ago
I believe Android does this too, letting users pick a specific directory they want the app to have access to
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by woojoo666 4y ago
What is this magic number? This feels like trolling
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by woojoo666 4y ago
Agree with this one. I did the Blender Guru course and was blown away by the quality and the depth
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by woojoo666 4y ago
This sounds more like a work culture problem than a technology one. Why do you need to be perpetually online?
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by woojoo666 4y ago
Does Global Privacy Control add to your fingerprint? (Eg Google can identify you because you're one of the few that use global privacy control).
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by woojoo666 4y ago
What do you mean by "unwilling to fix"? They published a blog post addressing the exact issues you brought up. https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-en...
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by woojoo666 4y ago
What's the state of PDF security nowadays? iirc PDF code execution was a major attack vector back in the day
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by woojoo666 4y ago
well the Surface Pro runs full Windows

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