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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That, I guess, it’s the whole point. Stopping being tracked 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The chat space is problematic.

  • There are a lot of apps that don’t encrypt at all (e.g. Google chat, discord, etc)
  • There are apps that encrypt but they are subject to jurisdictions that can or may in the future force backdoors (e.g., Chinese apps, possibly telegram, possibly US apps in the future)
  • There are apps that encrypt, are in countries that are privacy focused but are not for free (e.g., threema)

  This contributes to a fragmentation that makes WhatsApp the app that-you-must-have

  Sure it is supposedly encrypted but I would not bet my money that is without back doors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in the US, denaturalization, the process of revoking a person's citizenship, does not require proof "Beyond reasonable doubt"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that countries like Canada has laws that makes it possible to happen

  I would be curious to read a reference to that… not that any country cares just they history on how they agreed on something like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda, yeah. Gaming workstation + Network card (and optics) from fs.com + Nixos.

  This setup has the benefit that my workstation has also all possible bandwidth. Services run in nixos containers (that are awesome!) for isolation from the routing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Written in Switzerland from my 25GBps symmetric connection (for like 60$/month) that I have for a couple of years 🤷‍♂️

  Also for personal use the difference between 1Gbps and 25 (or, I guess, 100GBps) is essentially zero… your everyday connection is via WiFi (good luck to get more than 1GBps there) or on a home server/NAS/workstation where likely you run batch jobs where the difference between 1 minute or 5 minutes is not a huge deal (and yes I am not saying 1 vs 25 because at that speed generally the bottleneck is the place where you are getting data from)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All DEI fault for this failure

  /s (if it wasn’t obvious 🙂)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you realise that we are years (decades?) away from viable open source hardware? You likely use a closed source processor with closed source chipset, GPU and closed source ram. And these are the building blocks, then you have the closed source integrations of these blocks

  Same applies to fitness watches. Garmin happens to be one of the best (if not the best) hardware for the purpose, with a decent (not great, just decent) software that is very closed source and very closed in interoperability.

  You may say to vote with the wallet… but where? Apple that is even more closed and restrictive? Huawei that deserves its own ethical discussion?

  I haven’t looked into Suunto and Polaris but I would be shocked if they were dramatically different since this is their business, selling api and integrations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Required: only in EU Available: EU close countries (UK, Switzerland, etc)

  In the US banking is a bit different than over here. People still pay rent with checks (that in EU are de facto obsolete) possibly sent in an envelope via mail.

  You may wonder why…. Because a money transfer (that in EU is generally for free) in US is often a double digit operation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a mechanism that is compulsory in EU (and nearby countries like Switzerland).

  When you try to spend money online (without the plastic card), you need a second factor. In practice in, let’s say, Amazon there is an iframe with a page of your bank that asks to confirm the operation on the banking app or insert the code they sent you by SMS or things like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hashing enters the chat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you lived in the medieval, would you have rooted for the apocalypse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We'll come for you next': Israel threatened to kill teen journalist in Gaza — then did⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Victim blaming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google considers sourcing from nuclear power plants, says CEO Pichai [Nikkei]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft: <comes with a controversial idea> Google: Hey! That is a great idea! Let me say publicly that I want to do the same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or give psychological safety that it is demonstrated to increase productivity 🤷‍♂️

  What makes you think union decrease productivity instead?