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by xg15 3mo ago
> You can just not use things you don't like. The entire point of talking about addiction (or even harmless things like FOMO, network effect, etc) is that this is not true.
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by xg15 3mo ago
Obviously, the buttons in the confirmation dialog also need their own confirmations...
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by xg15 3mo ago
What would be the alternative though?
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by xg15 3mo ago
First, I believe the companies would have a very easy time to distinguish those features, as they know which feature was developed with the intent of keeping users in the app. So if they acted by the spirit of the law, this would be ver
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by xg15 3mo ago
> If the end result is solid code that I've thoroughly reviewed and trust, does it truly matter how it was created? It does matter if a coworker throws it away next week and replaces it with a fresh plate of slop, because generati
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by xg15 3mo ago
Bold of them to assume they kept records (aside from random Signal chats) in the first place...
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by xg15 3mo ago
Until they privatize the water supply of entire countries, like Nestlé... > but also the top 1% is nearly a hundred million people. And the wealth and control will not be evenly distributed between those 100 million people either. Then
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by xg15 3mo ago
> That wasn't possible with just the internet We have trackers everywhere now. If you have access to that data, it seems very possible to identify every person who watches certain categories of YouTube videos or follows certain gr
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by xg15 3mo ago
(To explain that some more: The current "way to go" with fully automated cert issuance is delegating its trust to DNS anyway - so we might as well get rid of CAs and use the DNSSEC chain of trust directly, with TLS certs linked to
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by xg15 3mo ago
Yes, which goes back to the old question: why the heck are we using a bunch of insecure systems with awkward bolted-on workarounds instead of just using DNSSEC?
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by xg15 3mo ago
At this point, can't we make a standard that skips the middlemen and just embeds the certificate directly inside the DNS entry? It seems the challenge system is converging towards that anyway.
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by xg15 3mo ago
The attention economy is a resource extraction industry. It'll claw out any bit of attention it can get and sell it, even if that attention would be needed elsewhere.
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by xg15 3mo ago
Well, it works out better for the West...
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by xg15 3mo ago
Not sure if "optimistic" is the right word - you could still do a lot with tiny memory or CPU footprint, but that's difficult to do if a large part of tech have adopted to either not care about the waste ("space is cheap
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by xg15 3mo ago
> I think the similar thing happened due to factory manufacturing automation. What used to be a varied skillful craft in a shop became standing in a single place of an assembly line doing the exact same thing whole day. I had to think
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by xg15 3mo ago
I wonder why specifically those languages. Were only those markets using localized file names and everyone else sticking to English? Or was it just random chance, i.e. some setup programs from those locales happened to cause issues and got
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by xg15 4mo ago
> People had to get out of their comfort zones and talk face to face. I think "talking face to face" was still squarely in the comfort zone back then, so I doubt there was so much positive impact from those parties. > W
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by xg15 4mo ago
Yes, from a programmer's perspective, this is insane. But the team may have been made up of people without coding experience who maybe didn't even know what a script was. I imagine there are a lot of people right now who "kno
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by xg15 4mo ago
What is .so? Somalia?
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by xg15 4mo ago
German here. The law as written actually permits most of the speech: As long as you avoid a number of banned phrases and don't voice explicit support for groups classified as terrorist organizations, your speech is protected - in theor
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by xg15 4mo ago
For that kind of announcement, I found it surprisingly open and detailed (at least if everything in there is true). Still, some points are telling. > Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3-10x lower th
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by xg15 4mo ago
The irony being that gambling is about as far from "guaranteed" or "stable" as you can get. But it does fit the ultralibertarian mindset best, I guess. The right to the pursuit of happiness, not to actually getting it.
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by xg15 4mo ago
What I find almost as depressing is evidently the concerted push to normalize this practice. We were all shocked by Polymarket, but meanwhile others just saw it as yet another emerging market - and now CNN is including it in news segments a
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by xg15 4mo ago
An extremely small but probably extremely high-net-worth group.
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by xg15 4mo ago
But that's OP's point. If the server is pwned, the hackers can simply change the front-end of the app and have it send the confidential data to wherever after it was decrypted on the client.
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by xg15 4mo ago
Waiting for the reveal that the whole thing is a one man operation run by this Mohsin guy.
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by xg15 4mo ago
I feel the legal part is on point. It's also increasingly used by governments to have their cake and eat it too: "We'll completely lock down your devices and run all kinds of analysis on your data, but don't worry, it&#x
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by xg15 4mo ago
> Using e2e from a US-based entity means you are prone to spying from the US government, but at least you know you're reasonably secure against the IRGC, the Chinese intelligence service, the FSB, and so on. You don't need E2
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by xg15 4mo ago
> By definition you can't protect yourself from the entity that provides you the software you use, because you have now way to guarantee that they aren't going to backdoor you. That's not completely true. If I can contro
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by xg15 4mo ago
Yeah, I wonder if part of the reasoning is built around those phrases, and therefore it can't get rid of them easily. > "now I have the full picture" I always interpreted that phrase as a sort of marker to delimit the ph

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