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Anti-fossil fuel comic that went viral in France arrives in UK(theguardian.com)
4 points by _8ysf 2y ago|1 comments
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by _8ysf 2y ago
"In 2019, France’s best known climate expert sat down to work with its most feted graphic novelist. The result? Perhaps the most terrifying comic ever drawn. Part history, part analysis, part vision for the future, World Without End we
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by _8ysf 3y ago
The answered: > Thank you for your message. Please read this article to learn more about objecting to the processing of your personal information: https://faq.whatsapp.com/1285115568956956/?helpref=uf_share The page
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by _8ysf 3y ago
> That doesn't mean they're in plain text. MTProto 2.0 is an audited and robust algorithm. Nope, but it means that they are not E2EE. Meaning that the Telegram server (and whoever has access to it) has plaintext access to the m
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by _8ysf 3y ago
> You'd be right, if you had any proof of WhatsApp being E2EE in the traditional sense. Fair point. Though last time I checked Telegram, nothing except the secret chats was end-to-end encrypted. So there I know that the features peo
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by _8ysf 3y ago
The risk being that the experience will be miserable. I can totally imagine a world where you can talk between Signal and WhatsApp, but reactions don't work, sending files doesn't work properly, changing permissions in a group doe
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by _8ysf 3y ago
If you read my link above, WhatsApp literally told me that I could object to some data collection as per the EU regulations . WhatsApp showed me a popup telling me that!
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by _8ysf 3y ago
I think you totally missed the point. Let me rephrase it: as per the EU legislation , I got a popup in WhatsApp that was saying that I have a right to object to their data collection . I followed those links and got the e-mail above. They
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by _8ysf 3y ago
The whole point of my question is that I want to see how far I can leverage the GDPR with WhatsApp. I do use other apps, but that is not the question :-)
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by _8ysf 3y ago
I understand the idea (though I find Telegram worse than WhatsApp in that it's not even properly end-to-end encrypted). But the idea here is really to see how far I can go about asking WhatsApp to not collect my data :-).
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by _8ysf 3y ago
If they do, yes. But somehow I doubt it...
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by _8ysf 3y ago
Man you have no clue how many people I moved to Signal. I actually contributed to Signal years ago. So respectfully, f** you (if you're going on that tone). There are just some people that still keep WhatsApp, meaning I need it.
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by _8ysf 3y ago
Sure, I just can't talk to my friends and family there :-).
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by _8ysf 3y ago
Good point, I asked them that.
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by _8ysf 3y ago
Well Signal Messenger is nice. I am using WhatsApp because of network effect: some people are on WhatsApp and not on something else (Signal is the most popular alternative where I am, Threema is third. Never heard of Veilid).
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Ask HN: How can I meaningfully object to WhatsApp processing of my information?
26 points by _8ysf 3y ago|55 comments
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by _8ysf 3y ago
> Joking of course but we are not that far away from that. I couldn't disagree more :). I think we are reaching the peak of fossil fuels, and we don't have relevant alternative energies. So we will have less and less energy in
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by _8ysf 3y ago
I've had smartphones, too ;-). I sometimes clean the dust off the connector, it helps. And then it is a problem that the connectors tend to break. But is the solution really to design a less efficient charging system (wireless)? I mean
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by _8ysf 3y ago
Right. I get that it is marginally more convenient (though I could imagine a stand on which you could plug your phone with one hand). Not sure if it's worth the wasted energy though. Regarding the lightning/USB port, it feels like
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by _8ysf 3y ago
> But with wireless the human can drop the phone with the same level of "I'm done" as he can drop the keys. Making sure that it's aligned correctly, and that the cable hasn't gone bad yet, right? I get the market
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Ask HN: What is the point of smartphone wireless chargers?
2 points by _8ysf 3y ago|8 comments
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by _8ysf 4y ago
You mean the business people working for Slack/Discord, right? I don't get why a company would rely on Slack/Discord, given that those have access to their internal communications.
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by _8ysf 4y ago
> It also benefits from p20 functionality. What's that? p20?
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by _8ysf 4y ago
Because your Slack preview is not loading random URLs, I suppose?
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by _8ysf 4y ago
What key problems do you mean? Does e.g. IRCv3 solve them?
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by _8ysf 4y ago
> Discord and Slack do not solve the exact same problem as IRC. [...] Voice messages, image sharing, custom emotes, group chats, etc, etc. Sure, but you could always share http links to images. IRC had private messages, too, and e.g. Mat
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by _8ysf 4y ago
> Hardware improvement slowed down considerably in the last 10 years. But somehow we keep changing smartphones and smart devices every 2 years or so. Is that just marketing, and the fact that older smartphones are obsolete because unsupp
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Ask HN: How would software look if hardware had stopped improving long ago?
45 points by _8ysf 4y ago|49 comments
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Bedazzled by Energy Efficiency (2018)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
3 points by _8ysf 4y ago|1 comments
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by _8ysf 4y ago
To focus on energy efficiency is to make present ways of life non-negotiable. However, transforming present ways of life is key to mitigating climate change and decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels.

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