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As I recall, the term for a pirate, operating legally and targeting government sanctioned targets was privateer. So maybe the term we need is privateering?

Have you given ShareX a try? Also open source, but maintained, unlike Greenshot.

Wait, what is the difference between this and procrastination?

You could open web3news yourself, the software for a forum like HN is available [0] from Paul Graham himself after all.

However, a site that is defined as being dedicated to controversial topics is likely to turn into a flame-fest or an echo-chamber quite fast. Do you have a proposed mechanism for preventing that?

[0]: http://arclanguage.org/install

> I assume they want google apps to have access to the whole phonebook without looking too suss though. This is why I hope Google and Apple both get forced to give up control of either the OS or the app marketplaces. No company should own both the platform and have a privileged place on that platform like they do today. MS didn't even have this level of control on Windows and they still got an antitrust lawsuit...

Annual pricing still shows this for Premium: $1,525 a year User tier: -987654320 - 10 Negative users anyone?

Quite true, and yet I'm saddened by it. Currently have my smartwatch at the repair center, so I'm actually relying on ringtones again after years of silence and vibrations, and it kind of annoys me that I can't just blast the tetris soundtrack as a ringtone anymore...

Yes, I do, with partial whitelisting of sites I use frequently via uMatrix and uBlock. I also use Cookie Autodelete and containers to keep everything separate.

Out of all people I know outside of HN, I'm the only person who does even one of the things I do. If I like your product and your product requires javascript, I'll whitelist you. Realistically, consider if the effort you'd be spending on this could not be spent elsewhere.

Not how the law works here - you're always liable in either case, but it is hoped that the message might prevent some cases of fraud. It's difficult to secure people against social engineering...

I think this is a very meaningful article. Without knowing anything else about Bloomberg, it allows the reader to see just how bad the quality of their content is.

In Turkey, 2FA tokens for banks generated by app or sent by SMS all contain a message about never giving the token or your password to a bank employee...

A someone who is living in a country where the chosen timezone is 3 hours ahead of solar time, I wish governments had NO authority whatsoever over timezones.

Today, I'd say reproduction of results is far more important than getting more research published.

I would even go so far as to say that peer review is worthless, it may well be time to replace it with peer reproduction as a prerequisite for having an article published.

To add to this - I have a dedicated sound card on my desktop - it lives inside the USB tiny dongle of my gaming headset and makes it emulate surround sound a little bit better. My two tinny tiny speakers are connected to the onboard audio output. Anything I watch, I watch on the TV, or via a bluetooth headset on the phone or tablet. Anything I listen to, I listen to on the phone via aforementioned bluetooth headset, or the nice big non-mobile bluetooth speaker.

I USED to have two powerful and rather higher quality speakers attached to a creative card back in the day when I did all that with the PC though.

Having said all that, do you have a recommendation?

Surely you mean "Muhlama"

Firefox Mobile on a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G with 8GB of ram, I've now been waiting for over 9 minutes for the gallery.platform.uno to load... The bar pretty much stopped moving at about 55% - 60% at minute 2 or so... THis is where I give up.

Edit: I reloaded right after posting the above, and the gallery loaded immediately as a result. Something's wrong with the loader.

Ah Universal Paperclips... See you in the future then. Also: Kittens game by bloodrizer (and no, you won't be getting out of this one as easily as you might get out of Universal Paperclips, so search with care if you need to do anything productive for the near future.)

That took me back on a trip down memory lane... My father had a psion, can't remember the specific model, though most likely from the 3 series, because he was using Palm devices by the time of the 5 Series launch.

The form factor was of the Psion great and I even ended up getting the Sony Clié NX73V more or less because of that years later... Aside from the 227g weight, it was an amazing device for ebooks with an amazing 320x480 resolution...

It's funny, I use a 6" e-ink Tolino (Shine 2HD, if I recall right) for ebooks these days, but the far lower resolution LCD displays never bothered me back then... My phone today has a considerably better and larger display (Samsung AMOLED) compared to then, and yet I would prefer not to read on that; I wonder why...

The Palm Pilot 1000 was launched in 1996, the Rocket, 2 years later in 1998.

I do not have any information about the current state of messenger, so I cannot comment.

Here is my issue with WhatsApp though:

How will I know that Meta is still shipping an application based on an uncompromised version of the Signal protocol, without malicious modifications? Auditing is the normal answer.

Sadly, Meta is not ISO27001 certified, so there's no trustworthy external audit trail.

Barring that, who is capable of auditing Meta to confirm this? Who can see the client and server sources to confirm that there is no MITM? Only Meta, on both counts.

I have to trust their word for it and I'm incapable of trusting them.

Several things come to mind at once.

Thinking, with intent to convey that thinking into words understandable by your chosen audience, involves understanding your audience in the first place. You must learn to observe your audience; this is far more important than whatever idea you may want to express; if your audience is not receptive to you, you have lost before you begin. To generalize, listen before you speak.

Once you have an idea about how you may best express your idea, you should give a thought to how you are structuring your idea. For the details, it is generally considered a good idea to read, and read a lot. It is best if you read authors who are comprehensible to you, but have a firm grasp of the kind of style you wish to cultivate in yourself. After a bit of this, you really do have to write a lot - quantity is much more important than quality when you are hoping to improve yourself.

Almost all of what I wrote above can be tied to sources, and I would have liked to add more, but unfortunately I do not have the time to find references at this point in time, or write more.

According to the page you linked, that seems to fall under abuse of the grace period.

Apple colluded with Google when it suited them before, I cannot see a reason to trust them any more than Google.

Literally, as in, if a passenger finds a way of getting out of the trolley somehow, they will be put back in so the thought experiment can continue working as intended. Absurd amendment to an absurd trolley problem.

At this point, I think it's safe to assume that Google will lie, both internally as well as externally, cheat, or break any law, if they calculate they will profit by it or can get away with it.

Their track record [1][2][3] does not show a positive or improving trend, so when Google asks me to take them at their word that they are not doing something that would make them more money, I cannot reconcile that with their prior behavior.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-googl...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...

[3] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/google_facebook_antit...

Aluminium free deodorant is more expensive where I live, so do you mind pointing to a source or two for that claim?

"That's about it" corresponds to large swathes of the Internet for some of us living in parts of the world with arbitrarily censored and restricted Internet access.

Who says that they managed it? I went from Google Talk to Hangouts to no Google Services aside from Play store, kept only because of Android devices... Ideally I would not rely on any Google services, but it is not feasible for me...

I don't. Life is short. You must choose what you spend your time and energy on. Only you can decide what is worth pursuing with the resources you have.

In contrast to your last sentence, I believe that if you are not using your time off for recovering, then you cannot work with a good capacity.

If you find yourself unable to motivate yourself for coding in your time off, you are possibly not recovering enough as it is, so trying to get better in your time off vs. in your paid time is not necessarily a healthy thing.

You can arrive at burnout by pursuing that path long enough.