zaik

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1. 1051.▲
   by zaik 6y ago

   What constitutes the government intervention which enabled big tech? Wouldn't (tech) giants go even more unchecked without government regulation?
2. 1052.▲
   by zaik 6y ago

   > organizations that transcend country boundaries are great, as long as they’re not vested with political power The EU is an organization that transcends countries and is vested with political power, and despite being constantly bashed b
3. 1053.▲
   by zaik 6y ago

   I never really understood why Matrix invented their own thing instead of building on an already existing IETF Internet Protocol. Surely an "eventually consistent database" can be built on top of XMPP? It's just message passin
4. 1054.▲
   by zaik 6y ago

   It has to be plain text and easily readable i.e. base 10. I dont think there are many degrees of freedom regarding the encoding.
5. 1055.▲
   by zaik 6y ago

   Isn't OMEMO inspired by the Signal protocol? Could it even be compatible to an extent allowing true e2ee?
6. 1056.▲
   by zaik 6y ago

   Wikipedia blocks all editing from Tor exit nodes. You even have to apply for IP block exemption when you want to edit from Tor while logged in.
7. 1057.▲
   by zaik 6y ago

   I have been running a relay node from my home network for 5 months now. Aside from sometimes melting my cheap router with concurrent connections I did not notice anything out of ordinary.