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Does the perfect messaging tool exist (100% e2ee encrypted and decentralized and open)?
Re:Less Coffee, Better Sleep on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:45AM (#49153959)
Reading a dead tree book or using an ereader? I read before sleeping on my iPhone. I just bought an ereader to hopefully avoid this and sleep better.
Re:The Strongest El Niño Ever on Sunday July 26, 2026 @03:05PM (#49061286)
Does anyone knows how much more the oceans can absorb heat?
Re:Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:15AM (#48569310)
(A)Social Media and the destructive power it has on society.
Having privacy should be a user choice. I am firmly in the Apple ecosystem and in the EU. Apple could engineer it such that interoperability means giving up privacy. User can choose. Apple could show in the App Store/settings exactly which data is leaked. Apple is using privacy as a tactic.
You think Trump is in power? I do not think he really is. He is a puppet. Others are the Puppet Masters.
Re:Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration on Sunday July 13, 2025 @02:40AM (#44548033)
Very much this! This is about removing (if it at wall will do that) without fixing the root cause. How deep can you put your head in the ground? It reminds of the Matrix where they scorched the skies to remove solar power capabilities as a way to block the enemy.
Re:Silicon Valley aghast at the Musk-Trump divorce on Friday June 06, 2025 @01:19PM (#44203021)
This is what happens when you build a capitalist system based on quarterly results
Seeing the population still increase, this must be completely attributed to Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
over 942,562 CCTV cameras are in operation across London alone..

https://www.tnssolutions.co.uk/post/how-much-of-london-is-co...

Although Firefox is still the best to choose from a privacy standpunt currently, I am convinced the time will come where the sponsorship from Google will stop. Then Mozilla will likely not survive and the development of Firefox is left to the community. A browser is a pretty complex piece of software so I doubt the community will be able to maintain that.
Re:Bitwarden Is Down on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @12:48AM (#42631360)
Very much this. I think the reason Google products are more and more infested with ads is to keep up revenue against people moving to better alternatives.
Re:The Untold History of the United States (2012) on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @06:36AM (#42565434)
While waiting for the Billionares to take government.
Re:SQLite3: No Room for Drama on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:16AM (#42539754)
What the article forgot to mention is that is not suitable for scale out workloads. No concurrent network access.
Nobody seems to be talking about the port in the charger itself. Does the regulation also specify USB-C for the other side?
I am curious about this supposed superiority. Can you explain?
Re:The paper passport is dying on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:33AM (#42522944)
I remember a sci-fi short story from a long time ago where everything that defined you as a person was digitized and available in your smartphone. The story was about a person loosing his smartphone and coming into all kinds of admin horror to regain his identity but eventually ended up broke sleeping under the bridge..
Re:Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps? on Thursday October 03, 2024 @12:56AM (#41727499)
This is what the Solid protocol tries to fix. https://solidproject.org/
To me FOSS is very much about governance. If you need a change in an existing piece of FOSS code you hire someone to do this, either in the project itself or, if the project or you doesn’t want that, in a fork.

You can request the change in the existing project in exchange of money, but that to me is asking for trouble.

Everybody here seem to have strong opinions on the employer without having heard anything about their side on this.
Re:LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @11:13PM (#41588137)
Same here. I live in a GDPR country.
Re:Please stop – putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022) on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @03:57AM (#41577016)
> The ideal solution would be to find a way for businesses to get those insights in a way that preserves privacy at the individual level.

Isn’t that what Mozilla and Meta are together experimenting with?

Re:EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf] on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @06:32AM (#41499331)
> You can google

Can we write “search”? Google is hardly a usefull search engine anymore.

Apple creating an ecosystem of mobile apps is causing all this. Just go back to the Internet’s universal UI: the Web
Is there a visualization of the fully realistic version available somewhere?

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