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fredski42··on Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
Does the perfect messaging tool exist (100% e2ee encrypted and decentralized and open)?
fredski42··on Less Coffee, Better Sleep
Reading a dead tree book or using an ereader? I read before sleeping on my iPhone. I just bought an ereader to hopefully avoid this and sleep better.
fredski42··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
Does anyone knows how much more the oceans can absorb heat?
fredski42··on Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
(A)Social Media and the destructive power it has on society.
fredski42··on Apple pushes EU to repeal tech rules over feature delays, app vulnerabilities
Having privacy should be a user choice. I am firmly in the Apple ecosystem and in the EU. Apple could engineer it such that interoperability means giving up privacy. User can choose. Apple could show in the App Store/settings exactly which data is leaked. Apple is using privacy as a tactic.
fredski42··on I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%
You think Trump is in power? I do not think he really is. He is a puppet. Others are the Puppet Masters.
fredski42··on Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration
Very much this! This is about removing (if it at wall will do that) without fixing the root cause. How deep can you put your head in the ground? It reminds of the Matrix where they scorched the skies to remove solar power capabilities as a way to block the enemy.
fredski42··on Silicon Valley aghast at the Musk-Trump divorce
This is what happens when you build a capitalist system based on quarterly results
fredski42··on What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics
Seeing the population still increase, this must be completely attributed to Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
fredski42··on One mother's win over Meta will change social media for everyone
over 942,562 CCTV cameras are in operation across London alone..

https://www.tnssolutions.co.uk/post/how-much-of-london-is-co...

fredski42··on Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?
Although Firefox is still the best to choose from a privacy standpunt currently, I am convinced the time will come where the sponsorship from Google will stop. Then Mozilla will likely not survive and the development of Firefox is left to the community. A browser is a pretty complex piece of software so I doubt the community will be able to maintain that.
fredski42··on Bitwarden Was Down
Just use vaultwarden

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

fredski42··on Amidst the noise and haste, Google has successfully pulled a SpaceX
Very much this. I think the reason Google products are more and more infested with ads is to keep up revenue against people moving to better alternatives.
fredski42··on The Untold History of the United States (2012)
While waiting for the Billionares to take government.
fredski42··on SQLite3: No Room for Drama
What the article forgot to mention is that is not suitable for scale out workloads. No concurrent network access.
fredski42··on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force
Nobody seems to be talking about the port in the charger itself. Does the regulation also specify USB-C for the other side?
fredski42··on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force
I am curious about this supposed superiority. Can you explain?
fredski42··on The paper passport's days are numbered
I remember a sci-fi short story from a long time ago where everything that defined you as a person was digitized and available in your smartphone. The story was about a person loosing his smartphone and coming into all kinds of admin horror to regain his identity but eventually ended up broke sleeping under the bridge..
fredski42··on A subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions
This is what the Solid protocol tries to fix. https://solidproject.org/
fredski42··on Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it
To me FOSS is very much about governance. If you need a change in an existing piece of FOSS code you hire someone to do this, either in the project itself or, if the project or you doesn’t want that, in a fork.

You can request the change in the existing project in exchange of money, but that to me is asking for trouble.

fredski42··on Mozilla has fired their Chief Product Officer after cancer diagnosis
Everybody here seem to have strong opinions on the employer without having heard anything about their side on this.
fredski42··on LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
Same here. I live in a GDPR country.
fredski42··on Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
> The ideal solution would be to find a way for businesses to get those insights in a way that preserves privacy at the individual level.

Isn’t that what Mozilla and Meta are together experimenting with?

fredski42··on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules
> You can google

Can we write “search”? Google is hardly a usefull search engine anymore.

fredski42··on Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
Apple creating an ecosystem of mobile apps is causing all this. Just go back to the Internet’s universal UI: the Web
fredski42··on Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++
Is there a visualization of the fully realistic version available somewhere?
fredski42··on Instagram Is Over
Enshittification in progress
fredski42··on Is Europe headed towards a new Ice Age as ocean current nears collapse?
This is the most insightful comment here.
fredski42··on Intel to cut 15% of headcount, reports quarterly guidance miss
Please eloborate
fredski42··on What everyone seems to be missing in the CrowdStrike incident
Still, if it’s that critical it should be deployed through the OS vendor, not some 3rd party. And regression/canary testing at each level (3rd party, MS, customer) seems to also be completely bypassed here, which also baffles me.
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