xkcd1963

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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Yes in many ways it is just for avoiding some additional clicks
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Just stating the obvious here
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Oh yeah social media is such a problem solver
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Maybe this is somehow underlyingly correlated with Spammers writting purposefully in wrong English
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
But you are investing your time writing with a stranger on the internet on an argument you clearly lost.
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
I would never have been able to come up with this on my own – thank you for your invaluable advice. I would hire you as my personal security engineer.
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Argentinians be like: Oh yes, 18%, that is horrible.."
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
That is convenient for Whatsapp but not for me
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Enlighten me o wise tinus_hn
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
> The title talkes about storing contact Yes. Good that we are on the same page here somewhat. > while you hint at 15GBs as being too little I wonder if you checked the image I provided in the link. There you can read that Whatsapp wo
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
> WhatsApp stores the list of numbers who are in your contacts, not the rest of the information and does not share the list with the rest of Meta: It doesn't even store the numbers. I lose my phone I lose all my conversations and nu
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
This technology could be used outside the company's garden one day. The current employer/employee picture could been seen as a miniature of society, e.g. The great firewall is only used for Chinese citizens and is controlled by th
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Meta has been storing contacts for many years now. I mean, you can find relevant information also on hackernews e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20881512
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
> I'm also not the biggest fan of WhatsApp, but a lot of its quirks and oddities do come down to one big design decision, which is that all your chats are e2e encrypted, with the key to the encryption living in your phone. This make
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
I don't know. I would assume they use the name that you define in Telegram for them, and the initial name was the contact that you used on the phone before it was synced.
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
In your own terminology: "At least the Russians don't pretend to lose all my candies, which is highly convenient for me, and I don't have to spend money on storage"
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Whatsapp gives the option to store backups on my google's drive account which has a free max. of 15 GB compare that to the limitless storage on Telegram and whatsapp offers the encryption of the backup optionally. https://i.
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
As example, Whatsapp deletes all messages, all stickers and all media shared. Heck it deletes even media that is older than 3 months (shows a blurred version of it that does not load). It also deletes all contacts except groups for some rea
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Not enough allocation of time, no high priority in my life.
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Whatsapp gives the option to store backups on my google's drive account which has a free max. of 15 GB compare that to the limitless storage on Telegram and whatsapp offers the encryption of the backup optionally. https://i.
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Tell HN: Telegram sole reason why I still have my contacts since 10 years
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
You seem to have a conflict of interest here. How can you accept this for employee/employer but at the same time say it's not ok for a person to submit fingerprinting? Employees are also persons.
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
I guess we could hijack our browsers to lie about the parameters that are being collected at the fingerprinting, that would be far more convenient than disable JS etc. EDIT: Or block the extraction
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
I don't understand why those strange people at hackernews downvoted you. I guess using ChatGPT makes them scared.
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
Hackers are always three steps ahead, whats the point?
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
They created a complete mess. One would think such a high prestige employer would employ competent managers and software developers, but that does clearly not translate to what they produce. Lots of words, little deeds. And then they decide
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
It's like saying the agglomeration of media handling chess has an ELO of 1400
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
I had found it hilarious that erotic content was found in the harmful content section.
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
There are very very few Swiss people that don't have some sort of former foreigners in their family in Switzerland
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by xkcd1963 4y ago
If this plastic didn't decompose due to salty water and sunrays into smaller parts, isn't that actually convenient for us, since it is unlikely to get out of the rocks and cause harm?

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