mmooss

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by mmooss 3d ago
I learned, and thought everyone else learned, that the safe characters for POSIX filenames are: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_- That is, the only safe non-alphanumeric characters are dash "-&quot
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by mmooss 3d ago
> attacks we have been seeing with phone oriented encrypted messengers recently like WhatsApp and Signal Could you give an example of an actual attack of this kind on Signal? The 'Signalgate' event was someone mistakenly inviti
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by mmooss 3d ago
> Their code is open source but you can't really do anything with that. You can't run your own server on the network, and they've previously stated they don't want third party implementations of clients. There are thi
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by mmooss 4d ago
> People seem to get on with Discord invite links just fine. Discord is used by a narrow group of technically literate people. Signal is for everyone. Your grandparents probably don't use Discord, but if they can text then they can
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by mmooss 4d ago
Imagine setting up a chat for an organization you're working with - will you be willing to process 20 out-of-band QR codes? 50? On a smaller scale, it's clear that Signal believes a functioning address book is necessary for end us
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by mmooss 4d ago
Signal is a small organization and nothing like Google. Signal is a non-profit and their code is open source.
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by mmooss 4d ago
If it's not, let us know a solution (to Signal's actual problem as stated in the GP) that is more private.
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by mmooss 4d ago
> alternative of unmonitored transit seems worse Almost all private cars are unmonitored (in this respect).
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by mmooss 4d ago
> A new study reveals that horse personality is not only a matter of genetics, age, or breed but also systematically linked to how horses are housed, ridden, and cared for, and to the quality of the relationship they share with their own
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by mmooss 4d ago
Signal's mission is to provide maximized privacy in a form the non-technical public can use. A messaging service filled with bots and spammers is not usable, and possibly not affordable to Signal (what proportion of resources would be
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by mmooss 4d ago
Thanks for responding. > Why do you think we wouldn't be able to afford this? Very few FOSS projects receive seven figures in donations, and dependably enough to budget for them. Good for you; you guys do great work. Security depend
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by mmooss 4d ago
MTV's The Real World began in 1992. Did it inolve a writers' strike? Edit: Looking at Wikipedia's account, there are many reality TV shows going back decades before that. Some are game shows and other things - t's hard t
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by mmooss 5d ago
Thank you! Though I still wonder: > Iirc they said something like 2 million in donations in 2025. That's not enough for 14 devs, plus infrastructure, etc. > There's estimated 500k users so if 25% donated 10 dollars a year th
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by mmooss 5d ago
> GrapheneOS has made a big push to hire a bunch of experienced, talented app devs That's great. How can a FOSS project afford that? Where does GOS money come from? Did Daniel win the lottery?
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by mmooss 5d ago
The OP addresses that: "When people wave off Waymo or bus lanes or bike lanes because car culture is fine, they mean it works fine for them."
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by mmooss 5d ago
> de-identified The issue always is, was the de-identification effective? With a birtdate, gender, and zip code, ~85% of Americans can be uniquely identified.[0] Much data contains much more unique information than that; I imagine most d
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by mmooss 5d ago
It's not based on anything, then. > we shouldn't have to have a JCPOA in the first place, they can just not pursue nuclear weapons like almost every other country on the planet. Other countries do pursue and have nuclear weapon
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by mmooss 5d ago
These are well-known, non-controversial facts. For anyone unfamiliar with the topic, I encourage them to lookup when India, Pakistan, and North Korea developed nuclear weapons - you will find the answers in an instant.
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by mmooss 5d ago
With a seemingly insurmountable workload - maintain an actually secure OS fork - for a small team, I wonder how GrapheneOS prioritizes things like messaging apps? I'm not saying it's wrong at all; I am just interested in the think
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by mmooss 5d ago
> India and Pakistan both rushed their programs back in the 40s/50s India worked on them on and off for decades and first tested one in 1998, and IIRC Pakistan matched them soon after. North Korea was in the 2000s. > So when you
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by mmooss 5d ago
> Iran probably wasn't following the JCPOA When are you talking about and what is that based on? It was the US that withdrew; the other countries continued. US intelligence concluded that Iran had no nuclear weapons program (or mayb
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by mmooss 5d ago
> an explanation would be that these voices doing the ostracizing/ridiculing [anyone who tries to increase awareness of astroturf] are also astroturf. I've thought of that too: 1) I haven't seen evidence, and 2) the people
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by mmooss 5d ago
They don't announce their secret nuclear weapons programs before they are complete (though they are sometimes discovered), but some countries have violated international law and developed them, precisely to protect their sovereignty:
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by mmooss 5d ago
Attempts to claim that your side is somehow superior and not subject to the same human evils as the other side are never true, and just encourage your own people to commit evil - they are justified and the other side is evil, of course. Som
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by mmooss 5d ago
Per the OP, the Houthis say only Saudi ships are blocked, everyone else is safe.
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by mmooss 6d ago
(2024) And the actual title doesn't make it a question at all; they assume it's happening and ask how: "How Big Tech and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex" I understand that HN auto-removes
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by mmooss 7d ago
The change in non-fiction sales is in the last 10 years, according to the OP; movies and computer games have been around for much longer.
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by mmooss 8d ago
Do you mean, how they were shut down? It is well documented, including in the NY Times.
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by mmooss 8d ago
> There is just more of everything If that was the cause, 1) book sales would drop overall, and 2) nonfiction books would perform the same as fiction books. The OP says neither are true: "What has happened in the last ten years is t

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