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vonquant··on Meta forced to reveal anonymous Facebook user's identity
I'm not sure it's creditable that enough credence is being given to these anonymous claims in a private group to be impacting this person's life. Seems more akin to a slapp.
vonquant··on Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.
Money is often a compelling argument.
vonquant··on Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website
Of course, the VPN could be the one doing the hijacking.
vonquant··on Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying
E2EE and open source: the two things people assume automatically makes things super-crazy-secure.

The implementation of E2EE must be robust and there must be somebody who is actually checking the source code (plus verifiable builds)

vonquant··on Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying
People who wish to mask their crimes have a greater incentive to use E2EE so will probably gravitate towards platforms that offer it. I would therefore suggest those not committing crimes are disproportionately affected by E2EE not being made the default where possible. Once one service in a particular category offers E2EE, the benefits of the other services in that category not offering it is significantly reduced.
vonquant··on Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
www.example.com and example.com don't necessarily resolve to the same place.
vonquant··on Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
On second thoughts, using a sub domain would make way more sense.
vonquant··on Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
Hey, this looks great.

One thing you might want to consider is having one domain for a website about collectednotes (collectednotes.com) and another for hosting user's blogs (collectednotes.blog for example) because it is currently not clear what urls are official and made by you and which are just blogs made by anyone.

For example, https://collectednotes.com/accounts/ is genuine and made by you whilst https://collectednotes.com/account/ is a blog I just created. To me there seems a very real risk of users being mislead.

vonquant··on Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
Is the extent of the 'unlimited' important? Lending a single book more than they own is an impossibility if they are respecting IP - no different to a physical library photocopying entire books so they can lend more.
vonquant··on Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths
Oh let me see, perhaps it has something to do with China being a one-party state with a ripe history of human rights atrocities and pervasive censorship.

Just look at SARS for an example of where trusting the official information from China made for a terrible idea.

vonquant··on Texas medical masks manufacturer is caught in coronavirus’s supply chain panic
That may well be, but the predominant concern is larger droplets from a cough or sneeze. I don't recall seeing anything speaking of airborne transmission.
vonquant··on Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
>Those are really dangerous and easy to do wrong.

>it sounds like he was doing it wrong.

vonquant··on What's Happening with the Coronavirus
>How?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51348593

vonquant··on Article 13: UK will not implement EU copyright law
>UK will become a colony of US

What? No.

vonquant··on What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
I'd say you were a lucky one. Persuading my contacts to move and explaining my rationale has been a long, arduous and still not quite complete process. People seem to struggle with envisaging how a lack of privacy will harm them personally.
vonquant··on Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
You're more optimistic than I. Hard to overthrow the industry that specialises in manipulation.