sandblast

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by sandblast 25d ago
Which makes that hope for our future disappear.
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by sandblast 1mo ago
Who is “they”, you think, if not the Chinese or US labs? Anna’s Archive still doesn't have everything — I suspect all these books described are not in this great dataset.
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by sandblast 1mo ago
You describe mobile handheld scanners that are a form of self-checkout in some stores, but not the norm. Most of the commenters here probably associate self-checkout with a station with touchscreen, scanner and bagging area.
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by sandblast 1mo ago
Instead of explaining why your app needs it, you decided to hand-wave "everyone does this". Peculiar.
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by sandblast 1mo ago
It is not. You got it backwards.
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by sandblast 2mo ago
What is that car, and could you make a video of it?
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by sandblast 3mo ago
"Domain-verifications" is an invitation for everyone else that might need it to use the same standard and convention. "Discord-domain-verification" is not, it's what feels like polluting the global namespace with th
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by sandblast 3mo ago
No, in fact I don't. But this post wouldn't be of any help anyway. It feels like it's about nothing, there is no substance, just stating some obvious facts. Without examples that lead to some real recommendations, this whole
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by sandblast 3mo ago
> brain the size of a galaxy Wow, aren't you humble.
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by sandblast 9mo ago
Are you sure the counter is not broken?
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by sandblast 9mo ago
It looks like the developer was so hooked on the idea of making it minimalistic, he forgot to make it a language-learning app. So it's a blob with a backstory. Design with no substance.
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by sandblast 9mo ago
Maybe you'll appreciate having it pointed out to you: you should work on your usage of "where" vs "were".
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by sandblast 10mo ago
XD XD
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by sandblast 10mo ago
For the JS developers: similar useful behavior (and more!) can be implemented in JS using the wonderful Effection library. https://effection-www.deno.dev/
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by sandblast 10mo ago
Source?
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by sandblast 10mo ago
I was just asking to know your thought process, but this discussion probably won't lead to anything anyway — in my view a person's stance on vaccines, gay rights, what have you, doesn't make you any worse developer. If the te
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by sandblast 10mo ago
> I am not sure I run a single piece of software where this is done. And yet you run it. Have you vibe-checked every such software? Did that bring you enough information about individuals creating it? If not, if there are no readily avai
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by sandblast 10mo ago
False dychotomy — there are more options than "protecting anonymity" and "revealing identity so that credentials can be vetted". He just writes what he believes under his own name, it doesn't necessarily have anythi
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by sandblast 10mo ago
"By design", for me, doesn't say that it can't be changed — maybe the design was wrong, after all. Would it be a major hurdle or create some problems if fixed today?
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by sandblast 10mo ago
Can you share the link?
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by sandblast 10mo ago
Aren't these bugs that could be "simply" reported and fixed? Or maybe those would get a label "not a bug" attached by the TS creators for some reason?
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by sandblast 10mo ago
This is not my point. Trusting someone else's code audit is infinitely more valuable than trusting any "vibe check", since it touches the actual subject matter.
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by sandblast 10mo ago
I don't claim that the problem does not exist, but I haven't really felt it during my daily usage with relatives.
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by sandblast 10mo ago
I'll try from another angle: If I wanted to make a honeypot that undermines users' privacy and anonymity, I would make sure to be as nice to everyone as possible. The "vibe check" is irrelevant, the false positives are f
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by sandblast 10mo ago
It's useless in the sense that it makes an anonymity promise to users that it cannot fulfill.
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by sandblast 10mo ago
What types of abuse it really curbs?
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by sandblast 10mo ago
> SimpleX supports measures (managed transparently to the user at the agent level) to mitigate the trust placed in servers. These include rotating the queues in use between users, noise traffic, supporting overlay networks such as Tor, a
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by sandblast 10mo ago
SimpleX is not a phone and its model of distribution and being open-source makes it much harder to infiltrate than these projects you're hinting at.
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by sandblast 10mo ago
And the appropriate basis of trust in the technology world would be source code audits, not scraping some individual's Twitter posts. If the users' communications are encrypted — which they are — there is no way for the creator to
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by sandblast 10mo ago
Focusing on security and privacy is great, but I expected some downsides. I'm glad you decided to emphasize the dedication of the creator of SimpleX instead. EncroChat was not open-source, so it was much easier to be infiltrated.

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