desilentio

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by desilentio 6y ago
It's not necessary for everyone to have a Google account?
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by desilentio 6y ago
You don't see the point of being suspicious of secret-source? and especially of an entity that is known to be dishonest? unless it is known to have been dishonest in the precise manner in question?
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by desilentio 6y ago
I think both video and audio were skippy to the point of uselessness. I've also used Jitsi with moderate success with a couple of interlocutors, where video disappeared now and then. I'm not a company, I'm at a university, a
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by desilentio 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't think in terms of degrees of untrustworthiness. What I miss is an open-source alternative. Doesn't Microsoft let the NSA tap into Skype calls?
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by desilentio 6y ago
> As for Zoom, I don't understand why people trust them or still use their product if they are at all concerned about security. It makes very little sense. I certainly don't trust them, but I do use Zoom (from a dedicated unpri
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by desilentio 6y ago
The restored model M I've tried had unpleasantly stiff keys; my model F does not.
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A new model-F keyboard(modelfkeyboards.com)
48 points by desilentio 6y ago|17 comments
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by desilentio 6y ago
I don't want to be rude, but your use of `whom' is wrong; `whom' is only used for the object.
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by desilentio 6y ago
Have you ever had any success with this method; did you ever get anyone (sooner or later) to understand he had been deluded?
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by desilentio 6y ago
May I ask if you know why you use rules of that kind, with spaces only on the side opposite the insertion? I've seen that in print but only once.
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by desilentio 6y ago
Since everybody is now using Zoom and not Skype, I would expect the NSA to try to get the same access to Zoom conversations as they have to Skype conversations. And I don't have the impression that Zoom would say no to billions of dol
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by desilentio 6y ago
Any direct evidence that Zoom is giving full access to the NSA now?
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by desilentio 6y ago
What is the probability that my (a nobody's) Windows backdoor will ever be used?
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by desilentio 6y ago
OK, but not for Windows, it seems.
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by desilentio 6y ago
I would like a desktop computer (i) with a case that isn't ugly, (ii) that's completely silent, and (iii) core- and librebootable. Any suggestions?
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by desilentio 6y ago
Doesn't seem to support 32-bit computers.
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by desilentio 6y ago
I would have thought they were never stored on disk (by Zoom anyway, maybe by the NSA and the Chinese). Wouldn't that require a huge amount of space?
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by desilentio 6y ago
Are you saying that Zoom is recording conversations?
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by desilentio 6y ago
Isn't the whole point of end-to-end encryption -- not to have to trust any third party -- undermined by secret source? If one does not trust Zoom not to snoop on content passing unencrypted through their servers, why should one trust
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by desilentio 6y ago
That's a valid point. But isn't it a bit archaic to have the thing begged for as a direct object? Wouldn't it be more normal to say `beg for the question'?
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by desilentio 6y ago
Why don't you just say `raise the question'? Should a language be deprived of everything that is not obvious (to everyone)?
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by desilentio 6y ago
This claim on Wikipedia is false. The article referred to does not claim that `petitio principii' or `begging the question' is a ``mistranslation''. Nor are they. They are both perfectly correct and reasonable transla
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by desilentio 6y ago
It is important to understand that `question' does not here mean what it normally means (a query), but rather `the proposition in question'. Begging the question is asking one's interlocutor to accept as true the very propos