Ploskin

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by Ploskin 5y ago
> At least for metadata, as of now, Signal seems to provide better guarantees than Matrix. Agree here. Matrix servers log everything by default. If somebody cares about protecting metadata, I don't know why they'd choose Matr
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by Ploskin 5y ago
Had to laugh when I saw the comments saying to put it back.
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by Ploskin 5y ago
It's relevant because that's the whole point of my original comment. If you want to ignore that, fine, but it's sort of disgusting how people are so eager to defend the law because it's the law, not because of any inhere
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by Ploskin 5y ago
> Unless they started commanding to destroy samples, and sharing sequences of captured bats after the pandemic started. Which is exactly what they started doing back in February (2020). The two labs in Wuhan were ordered to destroy all s
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by Ploskin 5y ago
And you don't consider this broken?
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by Ploskin 6y ago
But that would simply mean that the lawyer is culpable for the criminal charges since it's their responsibility to know the law and ensure that their recommendations comply with the law. I think it's odd that she's punished d
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by Ploskin 6y ago
Huh, interesting story. What gets me is: > She also said that since it had been designed by the company’s outside legal counsel and approved by their auditors, it was fully compliant with the law. Why would she serve jail time if legal c
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by Ploskin 6y ago
Something which is inevitable. It's hard to turn back the clock on something like this and I don't see any obvious solution for it, which is why both companies need to be regulated heavily to ensure they treat app developers fairl
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by Ploskin 6y ago
I always felt the discussion being focused on the platform tax to be a distraction. Sure, now app developers make more. Great. Doesn't change how unresponsive or draconian Google (and Apple) is in when they decide you aren't allow
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by Ploskin 6y ago
That's quite the lengthy article. Interesting topic though. I recently stumbled over the Astray podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astray/id1552069504 ) which is also a decent look at the psyc
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by Ploskin 6y ago
But ... the video isn't for a general audience. He doesn't have any reason to apologize to a general audience. His customers are the only people that matter in this situation and this video is for them.
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by Ploskin 6y ago
Is this still the case even if you set it messages to self-delete after a set period?
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by Ploskin 6y ago
Is the status page relevant though? At the very least, OVH immediately made a status announcement on their support page and they've been active on Twitter. I don't see anything shady here. From their support page: > The whole s