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- Comment on Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse - Dhole Moments 2 days ago:
People also don’t understand IP, TCP, DNS, TLS etc. and yet can use programs that use all of that. I find e2ee still pretty cumbersome in the long run.
- Comment on Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse - Dhole Moments 2 days ago:
I read the post, its very exhaustive and future seems promising. I might have missed the section but why it this separate mechanism needed in the first place? Is it just because of the key lifecycle management? If so, naiive approach of publishing public key on your profile falls short because of this and without public key management everything falls apart sooner than later?
- Comment on Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence 2 weeks ago:
I hope we see induced demand for labour in the end. Worst case would be higher workloads for everyone.
- Comment on Is there way to block using app after some amount of time? 2 weeks ago:
Android offers it in settings. Parental control and digital wellbeing says it on my phone. I have it set for all social apps.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 4 weeks ago:
Being old company from Germany, EU shouldn’t put you at ease.
- Comment on Open Source Power 4 weeks ago:
Open Source won not Free Software. Author didn’t demonstrate that viral Free Software licenses lead to same undesired state as permissive Open Source demonstratably do.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 5 weeks ago:
I think its rather expectation management. At some point you are going to see a wall of errors in command line. Even local hosting without exposing to internet will for typical user mean configuring routers because each wifi router creates NAT-ed subnet by default. Installation might be trivial but accessing your basement server from living room might not be.
- Comment on We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting 5 weeks ago:
Good paper! It confirms my bias therefore it is great :)
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 month ago:
Cats darting under a car are almost daily occurence where I live. There are numerous situations and we humans adapt quiet well.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 month ago:
link from the article latimes.com/…/woman-gets-millions-after-getting-d…
People get jail time, what do we do with machines?
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 1 month ago:
yeah her bio looks like a lot of EU funds for various projects that are POC and then shelved. US big tech is basically her natural enemy in that regard.
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 1 month ago:
That is true that these aren’t faceless corpos but behind there are men who are out in public.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 1 month ago:
If you as a consumer want to own software FLOSS is the only option.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 1 month ago:
yes the SSID database
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 1 month ago:
Honestly I don’t know what would be the difference if this was a contract with Oracle, Microsoft, SAP etc. That is democratic stack?
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 1 month ago:
To me this seems like any other big gov procurment. Which is bad of course but isn’t anything new. And I fail to see how this leads to authoritarinism especially in Europe. We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 1 month ago:
When you open the maps indoor you get immedieate location. This is not from GPS but from Wifi and cell tower data. This is only possible because your phone constatly transmits your location and network data. You can also call it surveilance because its 24/7 logging and processing of your location data.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
They are serving 1on1 chats and group chats. That practically partitions itself. There are many server lease options all over the world. My assumption is that they use some AWS service and now can’t migrate off. But you need an oncall team anyway so you aren’t buying that much convenience.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 1 month ago:
All my friends are on Messenger. It’s garbage app. More garbage is only Viber where I have my relatives. Pure suffering.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 2 months ago:
they did something similar with JS timers in browsers iirc
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 2 months ago:
Never ending side channel attacks. Stallman was right, only 100% FOSS gives you control over your device.
And given that a lot of this stuff is relying on timing the only reliable cure is to make everything slow. But no one wants that. Or maybe getting rid of precise timers in userspace. It would be funny if stopwatch precision was bound to screen refresh rate.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 months ago:
I agree that Trump crossed fascist line, however I haven’t seen DHH do the same. Atleast not in his London writing for which he is getting criticized.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 months ago:
To me arguing for changes in visa quotas and border control is not equal to advocating for forceful expulsion of people already living somewhere. To me that seems to be difference between moderates/fascists. CDU/AfD difference if you will.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 months ago:
I would say basic respect of human dignity. Fascism/nazism was always violent and unlawful. I care because fascism/nazism is really really terrible with horrible consequences for real people in real world and would thus like to now what are even talking about.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 months ago:
I really don’t know if people actually mean fascism/nazism or is this just a term applied to xenophobic nationalism. I see this all around fedi and I genuinely can’t tell which case it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And that is the reason behind previous bans and current forced sale to US oligarchs.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 3 months ago:
I would want my surgeon to have 16k screen if that helps them do their job best
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 3 months ago:
Surgeons already use cameras trough small holes instead of cutting you open wide. Screen technology finds a way.
- Comment on Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat 3 months ago:
So they are trying to substitute company profit tax? I just checked with Google and they include VAT on subscription so it doesn’t seem the case that there is no tax.
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 4 months ago:
Brave search has its own index and it works for me. Pretty good way out of big tech for web search.