TalkingCodeMonk

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by TalkingCodeMonk 18d ago
This is a strong indicator that Apple's privacy claims are little more than a virtue signal. Network sandboxing an app is arguably the strongest privacy protection measure possible.
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by TalkingCodeMonk 24d ago
This is the strongest oligarchy-washing I've seen in a while. Congrats!
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by TalkingCodeMonk 26d ago
The "something deeply wrong" part about AI, that even most technology enthusiasts evidently do not seem to grasp, is that it is still fundamentally a statistical model — an algorithmic construct — and does not possess any real int
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by TalkingCodeMonk 1mo ago
After 9/11 (and long before), the majority of historians and academia warned that the political response to terrorism — the destruction of civil liberties, implementation of mass surveillance, Islamophobia, populism — were a greater th
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
see other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772802
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
> That's the whole point of E2EE. No it's not. The point of E2EE is that only the client apps decrypt/encrypt content, and the server just processes the encrypted bits. Most E2EE service providers do this by encrypting you
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
FYI the setup you mention is not "end-to-end" encrypted. E2EE means client-to-client encrypted, with the server processing encrypted bits only. Your approach is encryption in transit and at rest. At rest is relatively irrelevent f
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Sounds like you want your photos on a unencrypted HDD, which you can do regardless of whether or not a cloud service is E2EE, so I don't see how E2EE is an issue...
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Why is there "a very good possibility" of losing your photos because they are E2EE? Do you not use a password manager and backup your data? There is no reason why E2EE services can't provide recovery or emergency access mecha
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Seriously! How do techies and devs of all people not understand that the cloud is someone else's computer, and that the best way to prevent leaks, exploitation, or abuse of user data is to prevent anyone from being able to decrypt it b
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
A link at the bottom of the page goes directly to a US directory (of only 476 entities): https://www.usworker.coop/directory/
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Because of the principle of least privilege: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege All current age verification measures open up a torrent of attack vectors on user PII and privacy. Limiting the numbe
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
So, if the majority chose to get microchipped, you believe either we should force the minority to get microchipped against their will, or just exclude them from society? "Your papers, please"
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
> because of rising prices for consumer electronics, particularly high-end Apple products Here's your problem. This is not a consumer or Apple-specific issue whatsoever. Computing hardware is critical infrastructure in the digital a
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
They also inexplicably snuck in a 50% increase for the TV 4k, just to be extra greedy. Treat yoself Tim Apple!
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
The fact that a dozen companies are allowed to buy up the entire global supply of core components, and increase the cost of living for every human on Earth, is full blown dystopian.
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Agreed. More importantly, this long documented history of massive recurring multi-billion dollar fraud and theft – mostly from domestic and international retirement funds – indicates that America is essentially, for all intents and purposes
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Persona is also a core provider in jurisdications implementing ID laws for social media and other web services. Considering the ties to Palantir and America's mass surveillance apparatus, one could even argue that a primary goal of the
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
I'm not arguing against a base level of empathy and care for maintainers. I'm arguing FOR a base level of empathy and care FROM maintainers WHO CHOOSE to build for-profit products in the open, and that empathy for all parties shou
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Your post changed my prespective on atproto! It also solidified the architectural issues I've had all along with the fediverse, and view that it's more of an interim solution which doesn't resolve the core centralisation and
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
jhack's perspetive is something that is all too common in tech. The implication that if code is open source the owners and maintainers don't owe consumers anything because "you can always fork or build it yourself"... as
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
I find it simultaneously amusing and depressing that you took my comment as a promotion of bribery, rather than a stark commentary on the sytemic corruption that has destroyed Americas democracy, and is destroying liberal democracies worldw
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Microsoft had it worse because Gates was a megalomaniac who was so self-absorbed he didn't understand he was supposed to bribe via "donations". Tech companies all learned the same as other sectors; it's more profitable t
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
> For the EU taxpayer, nothing was gained and nothing was lost. Except for the "massive" subsidies you advocated for, right? Except for the massive cost to provide utilities and infrastructure to support those businesses? Excep
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Why should taxpayers anywhere pay private enterprises to create infrastructure they own and control for-profit, rather than just cutting out the monopoly middle man and establishing that infrastructure as a public utility who services the d
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
I suggest you take the time to read independent analysis on the benefits of corporate subsidies in America. I know I've read of many cases where they cost cities and communities far more than the economic activity they promise to gener
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
"US, for 1st time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025" [0] Curious how they jumped for nearly decade old stats, huh? [0] https://abcnews.com/US/us-1st-time-50-years-experienced-nega...
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
This "greed is good, and should be rewarded" philosophy is one I see all too often on HN, and the entire reason why Americas political, regulatory, and business leadership have been overrun by the countries most criminally corrupt
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
Also remember that the Koch Bros (plus numerous other billionaires) have spent billions [0] poisoning economics academia by funding their narcissistic version of pseudo-libertarianism across think tanks, lobbyists, and colleges... They&#x27
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by TalkingCodeMonk 3mo ago
It sounds like the key difference people are missing is that VPN's operate at the network layer, so they require separate integrations for every device os/arch and network stack, where Iroh is embedded at the application layer, so

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