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think it is totally fine. Most the web is build around ASCII text any way. Since he is running it on his own dime, it is totally ok to not have Chinese/Russian visitors.

This will only work in an extremely rich and well education population like Switzerland or Norway. In many places the consumer doesn't have a choice or time to do the research against the advertising and PR of a large corporation.

> Most social connections are around an activity like playing board games or running . No one wants to just hang out and talk without discussing jobs and salaries.

Think in major cities like NYC, LA, San Fran, London are like this. In some places in Seattle and Portland in some groups you will find more people like that ones your were hanging out in India. However, this is one of biggest problem of USA. People live to work, where else in Europe (or in India it seems also), people work to live. Think what you find in India is also true in many places in Europe. Especially in smaller cities.

>I typically expect hard tech from the Spectrum Maybe this one is bit more to your interest:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JamDa-qNjPI

> Of course trust is a pre-requisite to a healthy team it is hard to rust someone on the team with technical tasks when that person is not technically capable for a developer.

wasn't there an original PGP signature that verify the first Anonymous?

well a decent hosting provider such as hetzner provide that service to all their customers. https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ddos-schutz

Being using them for many years, way better and cheaper than AWS.

> Same can be said (and to me is verrrry true) fro JavaScript. Not if you use JS like Scheme: https://www.crockford.com/little.html

In fact JS is much more pleasant to write than PHP, the main reason to move way from PHP after using it for over 10 years.

>- Signal is better with metadata

Can you elaborate on that please?

Being use both signal and wire for a long time. Thought they both use the same e2e tech underneath. The only difference is signal is more tight to a smart phone device and phone number. Where as wire I can down load my chat history on to a USB.

>Google isn't "killing" anything, they are just asking users to start paying for it. Perhaps that loses them some users, but they are clearly after something else here (revenue, maybe they have data on how paid users behave differently, perhaps spam/bad actors are a concern on the free plan, idk)

The fact that google/alphabet is a ad company meaning, all their service is target at mining your data email and everything!!! Nothing on google ought to be charged in this case, in fact they really ought to be paying us for using their service, because they are making money from our data.

handshake.org

>F-Droid makes it far too easy for people to keep using an old version.

Being open/free is to allow people to have any version they chose. I've pushed both in App Store and Google Play Store, if the software is truly free/open it shouldn't be hard to publish it on F-Droid. The problem is when there are mixxed proprietary code in the project then F-Droid tend to reject it.

>This is… not true? Signal builds are reproducible. You can verify that the apk in the app store corresponds to a specific point in git history, and if you don't trust Google you can sideload that.

A better way to verify this is latest Signal build in F-Droid? Last time I checked it is behind quit few version. If Signal can satisfy the F-Droid build check to be open and free, then it is legit. Most people don't have time to go through the git commit to verify the build.

thanks for the technical clarification. What's ur take on Solid js?

For sure, do also see cases where class can be good working with a larger team. However, since js's biggest advantage is function as a first class citizen, I do feel like they ought to make the API to be functional., however OO design may attract more developers coming from OO programming world.

yes, when was the last time you see google chrome forked and adopted a large user base? That is event with big VC money behind it Brave for example. Open source is now days used a marketing scheme to attract developers to work for free, and attract user to think that is open.

>One company controls the specification and reference implementation. These gimmicks tend to be "open" so contributions can flow in from anywhere, but the company has full priority and benefits by controlling the pace and final result.

Google Chrome for example

Telegram is influenced by FB of Russian VK (something like that). And VK has KGB tights. This is from Ukraine activists point of view just FYI. So your choices is Signal or Wire. Signal sever is in US, and Wire may or may not be in US. So there you go.

Don't forget rDNS.

Oh you think the cookie bs right now is bad for your privacy, can't wait for this eSIM shit show to come to light in a few year, it will be absolute privacy nightmare.

yeah low level is relative. Assembly would be the place to manipulate hardware, but then developer need to have knowledge of the chip design, etc.

Depending on what you want to do. One can also go a level lower with machine code, or physics as how some quantum computers are coming on the scene now days.

Thinks this is the link you are looking for all the instances running: https://api.invidious.io

Not all links works, but yawtu.be is a good bet.

Devops is relative new term. Back in the days (in the *inx world), there is only system admin, db admin, etc. Personally, the full-stack now really need to know everything development, system admin, and db admin.

No DRM needed. many sites just use hls.js type of chunk download tactic, it is already enough to prevent ytdl from downloading.

iphone 5 is best size smart phone! For those other large phone, get a freaking laptop or taplet people.

Most people in large cities in US and European countries are not aware that many people don't connect to the internet regularly nor do they use fast laptops. Always make software that works without internet or fast process. That way if it works on crapy laptop and slow connection or no connection, to me those are only software I'll use or buy.

not to mention free DDoS protection. In Amazon I read in one hacker news article that it costs them around $6000 for the custom AWS DDoS team. Why people still use AWS? Other than that it is a corporate police. Honestly would like to know.

this is exact kinda over centralisation issues I was talking about. I'm one of first developers using AWS EC2, sure back when scaling is hard for small dev shops. In now day and age any one who is technically inclined, can figure out using the new technologies. Why even use AWS. Get something like Hetzner, Linodes please!

with new technology such self printing IC, 3D printing. Designs specs can be easily shared, why is it not possible? The whole idea of have one big factory making one thing is quite inefficient. Decentralisation always is more resilient.

>Hell no it's not ending, why would you even think that? Because a few governments only started cautiously talking about breaking apart giants? So what? As if corporate lawyers don't find holes in any new regulation literally the same week. Governments take years to formulate a legislation, and your average corporate legal team defeats it in days.

In some way wish it is ending. As human society, we don't need any more mega big company. Everything ought to kept local and small and diverse, so there is no central control, it is only resilient way to thrive for tech and innovation.