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samoa42··on For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overtook diesel
> hauling a trailer, my family and our dogs

vs. how often are you driving alone in that monster truck?

samoa42··on Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCION_(Internet_architecture)

its alive an kicking already

samoa42··on Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
how can it be true when almost everyone works on a platform that cannot run it without piggyback to a smartphone?
samoa42··on TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005)
not really.

thats like saying "they fixed bad roads by introducing planes"

samoa42··on Cover Your Tracks
right. they dont know for sure.

but statistics give a reasonable good picture given the fact that the input/output points of the banking system are known.

samoa42··on Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
the spec is over then years old already and not from google. so there is that.

google is just the one to drag their feet the fastest seeing its other attempts to enter the messaging market failed completely.

samoa42··on Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
mms are also often not included in flatrates and riddled with security problems. noone i know uses them.
samoa42··on Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
no.

what you have probably mistaken for is send to multiple destinations and reply-all.

samoa42··on Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
> This absolutely sucks when you switch OSes and can't participate in your groups anymore.

imo the best reason to abandon every chat service that does not have an opensource client.

samoa42··on Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
fwiw i would not hold my breath for adoption from apple and this in turn probably means it wont gain any traction.

edit: the rcs spec is over ten years old

samoa42··on Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages
> Whatsapp is deeply cross platform

it requires a smartphone with android, ios or kaios. so, no.

samoa42··on Linux on iPad
while agreeing that software got worse, especially websites.

opera did gracefully open 100+ tabs in 2005 on a dualcore with a gig of ram.

the key was and is: disable javascript

samoa42··on YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
excellent compromise!

other replies mention the client compatibility, quality and bandwidth issues with self hosting but i think this can be reasonably adressed with just going for a common denominator on the self-hosting side (eg. 720p h264)

samoa42··on Cover Your Tracks
did you notice the unique alphanumeric id on every piece of paper money?

the banks registers it and turns out the vast majority of money does only "one cycle" ie. from the bank to a (known) consumer/customer, to a shop/cashier and then back to the bank. so "they" already know were you spent it.

samoa42··on Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping
> I've received about 10 MMS in my life. All failed to download.

same here in germany. nobody ever uses it

samoa42··on Show HN: Zfs.rent
a "leagal notice" (impressum) is only required for websites that make a commercial offering.
samoa42··on Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
> I dont use any google services except maps

you may have gotten that wrong

'google play services' is software package (app) that sits between the os (android) and the (other) apps. it provides a lot of middleware like maps and push-notifications. it has grown in power to the point that an android phone without them is pretty much pointless, hence micro-g tries to substitute.

samoa42··on Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps
commercial content distribution platforms _will_ fall victim to copyright and censorship in general. its already underway and most progressive ideas have to be expressed elsewhere.
samoa42··on Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps
as said; the issues are not part of the repo.

as much as many projects could use a clean slate here, i dont think the burden of migranting them manually or the act of just dumping them is realistic.

samoa42··on Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat apps
> I have never (deliberately) sent a voice message on any platform

same here.

really dislike how people essentially just ramble on and on for what could have been one sentece or a few words.

so it costs the recipient a lot of time and concentration to get the gist of the message.

maybe a cultural thing because my wife and here friends use voice msg a lot.

samoa42··on The future of microwave cooking is solid-state (2016)
does not help if one wants overtime that is not a multiple of 30s :)

#analogmasterrace

samoa42··on gping: Ping, but with a graph
the github description says that it is not directly measuring the roundtrip time but the time until the browser returns an xss-error.

so browsers behave differently...

samoa42··on Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
likely depends on the settings.

iphones i have set up use about 30MB per month for "System Services" dont know how much of that is from real usage vs. telemetry an stuff.

samoa42··on gping: Ping, but with a graph
there is also https://noping.cc

available in many os-repos

supports tighter measurement intervals

samoa42··on Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
i would be more inclined to reestablish progressive income tax.

there are very few convincing reasons why anybody has earned 100x more than someone at the low end.

samoa42··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
this!

when i started with computers, they had a few KB of L2 cache, L3 did not exist. Main Memory was a few MB.

samoa42··on Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)
imho telemetry is more often than not used to neglect common sense
samoa42··on Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots
i think there is a line somewhere along with beeing accountable in a business sense.

ie. if your internet host just hands out information, you are free to block/throttle as you please.

as soon as you are taking money (operate as a business), you are accountable and must not discriminate.

so: > Does a website operator have to handle whatever arbitrary traffic you want to throw at them

absolutely, yes!

samoa42··on About the security content of iOS 12.4.9
> the screen to body ratio is pretty bad, IMO

if rated against _my_ body, the ratio is damn near perfect

samoa42··on We made our SaaS home page cookie-free
also perfect excuse to introduce some other usage of cookies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24979895

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