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I don't see what the difference is in security architecture between a desktop app and a web app implementing the same scheme?

My assumption is that you've got an E2EE link between the Signal app on the phone and the desktop app (with the messages decrypted on your phone in the middle). Why can't you do exactly the same thing with a web app?
I've had nothing but hell from 1&1/ionos ... if your billing has issues, be prepared to be treated like a criminal with few paths to easy resolution.
Not really strange, given what this country has done on social media to control foreign elections, allegedly, just saying.
Friendly reminder that yesterday, COVID-19 killed over 2000 people in a single day. It’s been keeping that grim pace for weeks. For every person who dies, at least a dozen will suffer from long Covid. Even still, no dangerous shortcuts were taken trying to get the vaccines out (in the West), other than doing steps in parallel rather than in sequence (at great $cost).

So even COVID-19 wasn’t enough to “move fast and break things” (though I remember hearing many such calls to “move fast and break things” from the same contrarian-sphere community that is now Very Concerned about vaccine injuries). If COVID-19 wasn’t bad enough to completely remove our safety guardrails, certainly the never ending promise of FSD (watch any Musk video compilation where he promises FSD is just around the corner, going on five years now) isn’t enough.
Not everywhere has lawyers on staff or an easily searchable directory with accurate titles and department names.
That is not 'true e2ee' at all, and more of a security theater.
much akin to how cavemen couldn't fathom how they could possibly talk to another caveman on the other side of the earth.
> As I was being fitted, I asked the guy if there were any tools I could buy that would help me adjust my glasses myself. He asked me what I do for a living. "I'm a programmer." "Well, would you want an optician messing with your code?"

That's a pretty useless response when the entire premise is that you have no idea whether the task is simple or difficult. It really only makes sense when you already kind of understand the ease or difficulty of the task, at which point the response is kind of redundant. It would've been a lot more helpful if he'd said something more like, "This requires professional expertise, it's not something laymen can do." That would actually give you useful context.

Imagine how silly this exchange would sound when talking to a car mechanic regarding routine maintenance: "Are there any tools I can use to replace/jump-start/whatever my car battery?" "Would you want a mechanic messing with your code?" Uh, no, but the answer to the first question is "yes" nevertheless...
I wish customers would pay for the developer hours needed to be spent on it.
It is real. I've dealt with it since before the internet was a big thing. Before the web, people used to tell me that books were too much of a distraction.
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> Twitter is kind of disintegrating, though.

I have never seen a for-profit social networking site that is immune to this on a long enough timeline. They all degrade eventually. By following what the money wants from users , not what the users want.

> "The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client."

- William S. Burroughs
Ok, but... why?
If your friends don’t care but you do, educate them. The good old “I’ve got nothing to hide” is de-facto a synonym of self-censorship or recklessness due to lack of awareness.
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> Technically still unlimited.

If there is a cap of 1 byte per hour, there is absolutely a limit of 720 bytes per 30 day month. Whenever there is a cap, it is not "technically unlimited".
EQ does not exist. Trait agreeableness from the big five does.
I quite liked how in multiplayer, team versus team, whatever side you joined you appeared to you as American, and the other team was the enemy (some generic insurgent). You could never play as an insurgent.

I thought that was interesting psychologically and philosophically.
The source code is available, so if you don't like the defaults, you can change them?
That's my problem with Encanto: technically it's very impressive. All the rest: standard Disney movie with forgettable songs, forgettable characters, forgettable story that rushes from plot point to plot point with no time to breathe.

And given all the magic in it it's so highly unimaginative with it.

Isabella's lament was the best part of the movie (filled with emotion, meaning and imagination), but it's literally just a "meaningless stepping stone to discover Bruno" within the movie.
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> based on public/private key pairs

I said it many times and I'll say it again: this can't possibly work in the real world, period. People are notoriously terrible with passwords already. So terrible in fact that VKontakte (I worked there, both with Pavel and after he was ousted) had, and still has, a department dedicated to account recovery. And those are passwords, short strings that you can actually remember. You can't possibly expect an average person to keep their private key (a file you can't store in your head) absolutely secret and never lose it at the same time.

In my world, the ability to recover your account if you lose everything is a hard requirement for any product that is meant to reach mass adoption.

The ability to revoke access is also a hard requirement. People share their credentials — it's a fact of life. In the usual setup, you can change your password and terminate sessions. But if your private key is your identity, you can't do shit to prevent someone who has gained access to it from impersonating you for the rest of eternity.
Great to hear that. My email is abhishek@appsmith.com if you want to send me feature suggestions. Thanks for using us!
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> "Nitter can only archive (and update) data Twitter allows them to access."

That's exactly what you'd expect from a Twitter archive site. The author's point was that this is the same tech you'd need for a Twitter replacement, and this doesn't need blockchain or web3.

Reminds me of the comment on HN from a few months back "On web2 music artists only get 18% of the revenue. Spotify gets 33%. The music industry takes 49%. Web3 flips the script." You don't need blockchain or web3 to fix that either - centralised solutions like bandcamp.com already give the artist 80-90%.
I am not going to comment on the under valued bit, it could be true for all I know.

My 2 cents, It appears that ether along with the other cryptocurrencies are behaving like speculative assets, move in the same general direction as stocks do. Thus I think cryptocurrencies make a bad recession hedge. Additionally the inflation seems to me to be driven by the covid-19 crash recovery. The fear in the markets again seems to me to be that measures to contain inflation are going to harm the recovery and put us in a recession. As such in case the recession does come, I would expect it to come along with lower inflation.
that one can't discern the difference, yet would undergo this procedure themselves, is telling in and of itself
It’s real unfortunately and not treatable. One can try to manage it but it’s not guaranteed success and has its drawbacks. That’s a lifelong struggle but ultimately I think that having diagnosis is at least something to hook on.

I’m slightly confused that person who provided you with diagnosis didn’t provide you with overview of how ADHD works.
Your conclusion is correct, but I really don't think treating scientific communities as the sole arbiters of truth is a good idea. Science is all about being continually wrong (that's what progress is), and the experts are wrong all the time, ESPECIALLY when it comes to fields such as the human mind. These types of fields are also subject to debate among experts - it's not as if EVERY single one all agrees on the same things.

>I think a lot of the common hesitance and skepticism is the result of stigma in the vein of anti-vax ideas.

Definitely disagree. ADHD has been misunderstood as "laziness" and many things similar for a very long time. It's not a recent phenomenon.

At the end of the day, who really cares if it is a real condition or not? What I know is that my life is improved when I take Concerta. If I didn't have ADHD/ADHD wasn't real, and Concerta made my life better, then that still doesn't change the end result of taking meds = net positive.
> Brakes are critical, steering is critical. Reverse and everything that entails is not.

The statistic is that every year, in the U.S. alone, over 2000 kids are run over by vehicles reversing. I had to read what you wrote a half-dozen times, but in hindsight the dissonance makes perfect sense.
> There are technical tradeoffs everywhere. But you cannot make a caricature of FP developers, supposedly not willing to spend energy on delivering products.

That is my personal experience, a tiny data point, again where are the studies that give some actual useful guidance?

I wrote a great project using Racket, everyone should use Racket, its cool, lets blog it ... gains momentum, its new its exciting it promises change ... people start to have different experiance, bad decisions are made ... new bandwagon, lets all rush to that yay. Having been around for long enough to see this cycle, I think it's right to ask for some well thought evidence, or gathering of trade offs to help decision making.
This is really nice. Although Disney is only currently producing 3D animation films, it's a bit of a shame that nothing about 2D animation is included.

The 3D animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) has a refreshing 3D/2D hybrid visual look that breaks away from the 3D aesthetic common across the industry. I suspect in the future we'll see more animated films with a 2D aesthetic but created with 3D software.

Aside: Disney produced lots of behind-the-scenes for their 2D animated films in the 50s and 60s. Here's one on the MultiPlane Camera - a camera setup that gave 2D animation greater depth:

Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw
To be fair, it doesn’t even have feature parity with Signal for “one specific conversation,” which I might have been fine sacrificing to use Telegram. Among other things, there’s no multi-device E2EE support or message history backup for E2EE, last I checked.
The best thing about Graham's Number, apart from it being unrepresentable in the universe(!) because it's just THAT BIG, is that they know the last few digits (7262464195387).
For some who are curious this is my stack: Swift and Swift UI on frontend, Xano(nocode) and iCloud on backend
The % bug is a separate bug to do with a Podcasts's title, I suspect you just need a phone and an MP3 file with a suitably prepared title tag.

The original articles issue is a HD Radio (not DAB) issue to do with images, although it might still be a string parse issue of some kind as it apparently involves "image files with no extension", so presumably filenames? So the RF side can indeed be fun on consumer electronics with modern digital standards. Another example is this claimed RCE over DVB-T: https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1481963959532011520
In case you didn't know:

American Institute of Mathematics is a research non-profit ran by one of the Fry brothers (of Fry Electronics).

At least until recently, it's been run out of the back of the office space of their headquarters location on Brokaw road in San Jose.

Now that the store (and the company) is defunct, I'm happy to see that AIM is still kicking.

Can't vouch for everything that they do, but they have been running pretty solid geometric group theory workshops on the reg. I got to attend one, and have good memories of it.

I'm still sad that the store has shut down. They cite COVID as a reason, but they've been in liquidation mode long before that (at some point, I couldn't even get a USB flash drive there!). I hope that AIM will go on as a legacy.
It is real. I've dealt with it since before the internet was a big thing. Before the web, people used to tell me that books were too much of a distraction.

I highly recommend you treat it as an actual disorder because the sooner you address it, the less it will affect important parts of your life, especially your relationships.
Turn down a job for any reason you want - you have nothing to feel bad / guilty about. But honestly, don't go into detail / give that reason. It sounds unreasonable, and could hurt your reputation (people tawk).

If you have a long enough career is Software Dev, you will almost certainly at some point end of using a software product you personally don't like. Learning to compromise / pick your battles is a career skill like any other.

Apologies if this sounds overly critical, but as a hiring manager, I would consider it a bullet dodged. Drawing hard lines in the sand over small things like this would be a red flag for me.
You can now with this feature. If you're using RAID1 vdevs, you could always remove and add mirrors. Now you can at least add a device to a RAIDZn vdev.
I don't recall anyone getting prosecuted for fraud even though the democrats would have dearly loved to have done so.
The bankers packaged mortgages and made a profit just like they always did. The difference was, local banks were pressured to loan to people with dreadful credit, and the guarantees by FNMA and the optimistic ratings by S&P made it easier to package and sell the mortgage backed securities.
In the end, the homeowners got to default on their mortgages but the bankers lost their livelihood.

You're putting the blame in the wrong place. I'd start by looking at FNMA. Don't take my word - read up on it.
Disorder basically just means something that causes problems in your life, I don't think we know enough about psychology to have great ideas about how different environments could affect stuff like this. Scott Alexander has an interesting post about the nature of categorising stuff like this in general and ADHD in particular: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatri...
I think the people replying to my comment misunderstand my intent.

If they show the tech stack, people would be able to see if they could apply their same skills for much more money at a specific other company.
I see telegram being used by local sport clubs as an alternative to messenger, primarily it seems for the reason that it doesn't require a facebook account. Most online gaming groups I know use discord, while programmer projects tend to use slack. A few gaming groups continue to use teamspeak.

I don't know however any groups that use signal as a replacement for any of the above, so do people have experience in migrating groups from those platform to signal?
That's fine. But it's not really a standard. Just an approach, and not one that is guaranteed to work unless that's an explicit goal for the program involved.

Tbf, you can do the same thing on Linux with AppImages.
Rear view mirrors aren't critical. Vans don't have them.
>What is the decentralized alternative?

Matrix
She must have a sixth sense!
Pinterest pioneered it but today most of the popular platforms are doing some sort of login nagging, including Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, etc. I'd say Twitter was an exception and this change doesn't surprise me, sadly.
> The only problem is: he now provides literally no value. He’s excluded by fiat the possibility of ever being useful in any way. He could be losslessly replaced by a rock with the words “THERE ARE NO ROBBERS” on it.

Not true. His value is in being there. He's not there to stop robbers, but rather to stop squatters or mischief makers who are looking for something to do (in which case there will be a lot more than just some odd noise). Nobody in a first world country is going to rob a pillow mart.

> Her heuristic is right 99.9% of the time, but she provides literally no value. There is no point to her existence. She could be profitably replaced with a rock saying “IT’S NOTHING, TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND WAIT FOR IT TO GO AWAY”.

Also not true. If there's a real problem, it won't go away and the patient will return, either with no improvement, or a worsening of symptoms.

> It cannot be denied that the employees he hires are very good. But when he dies, the coroner discovers that his head has a rock saying “HIRE PEOPLE FROM GOOD COLLEGES WITH LOTS OF EXPERIENCE” where his brain should be.

But he hires good people for his company. So regardless of the soundness of his methods, he is providing value to that company.

Followed by a bunch more contrived examples and downright black swan events.

Bottom line: Yeah, they're using heuristics that will sometimes be wrong, but life itself is about compromises. There's no such thing as perfect information, so we use heuristics out of necessity. Worrying about the unlikely scenario is a recipe for paralysis.
Preprints on the coronavirus have been impressively reliable
It's despicable behavior isn't it?

There's a "normalization" that it's acceptable for companies such as Reddit, Twitter, Facebook etc to enourage the world to post information on their website, and then block access to casual visitors once they got successful.

It's ABHORRENT FILTH and morally grotesque. They are causing human misery every day by deciding certain people are [outgroup] and do not have the same rights as logged-in users [ingroup].

Reddit, Twitter and Facebook are psychopath companies, and anyone working for them is part of the "ingroup vs outgroup" degradation of society.
> Stuff happens in politics. Things change.

"FBI Director going rogue the week before the election" isn't something you could factor into a prediction because it just hadn't ever happened before. It'd be like trying to factor in "What if an asteroid hits Kansas the week before?"
Yes, the eye candy on the average cereal box marketed at children looks impressive too, for some definition of "impressive". A movie needs more than just good graphics.
Nobody has any problem with Russia the country or the Russian people. It's the current Russian government and its psychopathic leader that are freaking us out.
> I don't see what the difference is in security architecture between a desktop app and a web app implementing the same scheme?

I just gave an example - execution environment is accessible by browser extensions. All the code and runtime data is visible for them with certain permissions.
What makes you think that my comment wasn't humorous?
Great article and examples.

In the security guard story: I understand the point that the author is trying to make, but it falls short as the security guard adds value to the property owner by just being phsysically there.

By being present the chance of a robbery, vandalism etc is significantly reduced. In most countries the average guard is also not expected to actually intervene with a robbery and instead call police (the US might be an exception here in some cases).
The main problem with this is that Nitter relies on the Twitter API, and they frequently run out of "request budget". In this case you need to switch to a different Nitter instance, but then your link sharing problem is back.
Any issues about taxing etc if I get directly paid to Wise? I'd love to be able to use Apple Pay in Turkey.
There are like 1000 features in telegram that just don’t work properly for e2e chats as well. When I use e2e messengers they cut so many features for security. Matrix doesn’t show link previews when e2e is on for example.
The problem is, in most countries, electricity sales aren't a free market full of competition.

No-one here is arguing if the free market helped improve CPUs, but I think it's an entirely different question if things like free electricity + gas markets are useful (the evidence from Texas exactly seems to suggest "no").
Maybe at least practice what you preach.

> Because the measures we have in place are working.

> (And of course people will reverse the causality on this and claim that "hey Denmark opened, and has much lower fatality rate...")

> Transmission rates would be a lot higher without vaccines.

https://twitter.com/dnunan79/status/1491072159393148929
One of the few sensible replies on here. The level of entitlement on this thread is mind boggling.
Not at all. Browsers have to assume Web content is malicious, and they behave accordingly.
> a grep that fails to find `unsafe` in a rust code base lets me know that this code is in fact pretty safe

This statement does not make any sense. That, or we have vastly different definitions of what “safe” means.
I worked around these annoyances with simply blocking all twitter.com cookies.
If you don't have an account, this shouldn't be an issue anyway.

Read it somewhere (maybe HN) and it worked quite well.
I'm a father and you're spot on. It's easy to project what you would like children to get into and just tell them to try it, but it's essential to show that you're into it as well (even -- and especially -- if you're not!)
Telegram was blocked in Russia for around 2 years for refusing to cooperate with FSB. That block wasn't effective despite breaking half the internet at times and many people didn't even notice it, so eventually the government just gave up and unblocked it to save itself from being laughed at.
Sure, I recognize that there may be people with more severe issues. I have two childhood friends that had diagnosed severe ADHD but at the same time they both had other issues as well which I personally think hindered them more in life than their ADHD ever did.

I never tried to convince anyone that it is their fault for whatever problems they encountered in life and sadly one of them died by an overdose in an early age. Perhaps ADHD contributed to their lifestyle of choice, perhaps not.

I am not impossible to convince that I am wrong, I have just never seen any evidence for it (I haven't really searched for it though). AFAIK ADHD is a disorder that we just don't know that much about and maybe it has a biological function that has been positive in the development of mankind.

As I stated, I am not a doctor tho and maybe there is loads of evidence for it in which I am not aware about but frankly I don't care much one way or the other. It's not an issue that I care about that much and I just wanted to share my take since one of my exes was completely convinced that I had it. I know that people with ADHD can be very successful and I don't think people should think less of themselves because of some diagnosis.
It's not mandatory. You can tell Windows not to assign a letter to a new volume (but I wouldn't try to remove the assignment from C:). And you can mount new volumes under an empty directory, just like *nix.

The best place to do this is in the Disk Management app. The easiest way to access it is via the Win+X menu.
What would you consider to be legitimate criticism of Telegram rather than just being “triggered at Telegram’s success?” I’m curious where you draw this line, and where you found comments from users identifiably from the US who you believe fall into the latter camp.