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They are more dangerous. They contain significant amounts of lithium metal, the thing that bursts into flames when in contact with water. There are similar restrictions on them for…

NAT may go away, but stateful firewalls won't. There will still be many environments where you can't easily get a point to point connection even though the IP is addressable and th…

Git gives you a full history of changes which is convenient for many other reasons. I also do sometimes put dated and less often timestamped entries when desired.

If you use org-mode, you can just set up a git repo which auto-commits with gitwatch. And run magit-blame when you want the timestamps. With the advantage that it doesn't distract …

I wish sites offered a way to opt out of 2FA if your password has enough entropy (128 bit random string). These are not getting cracked anytime soon. I store my TOTPs in keepassxc …

Even if it's free I doubt they would have wanted it. Supporting DRM is the opposite of what KOreader is for.

I wish browsers had better support for local web apps. If local files can access persistent storage easily, this can open it up a lot of opportunities for quick and easy GUI apps. …

Unfortunately, RCS on Android requires google apps, so this isn't really a solution to anyone who doesn't want to be tracked by Google everywhere they go. I'm still a little confus…

Liquid nitrogen (boiling at -196 C) is a semi-common substance that people would have heard of, though not everyone would have seen or interacted with it.

Any claim of fees for hosting a distribution platform is nullified by the lack of alternatives. I don't get to kidnap you can then charge you rent and food costs.

Piracy has always existed and will always exist. The issue is that it only takes one determined pirate to overcome the DRM and that piece of information is freed from DRM. You can …

This is a part of it, but I don't think it's all there is. Words mean little when there is such a large power and information asymmetry between consumers and sellers. The law shoul…

> In fact, the DMA doesn't even explicitly require that gatekeepers allow third party app stores; they can only allow direct distribution (e.g. via web sites) instead, if they want…

> digital “purchases” are transferrable and have all of the rights and privileges afforded to physical goods. I concur. We need to establish a "secondary markets act", which would …

Oh, I wasn't aware that slashes can follow the #. In that case it seems to be. Thanks for the correction. So the only concern here is injecting js to exfiltrate the key then.

It doesn't seem to be.

But isn't the key just in the url? If the key is sent to the servers in any way, it can be used to decrypt and read the files. I'm not sure that this achieves anything more than a …

> any examples in mind for Apple Their image scanning proposal? The recent UK E2EE backup thing? For the first, although they eventually backtracked, proposing it alone should be r…

Someone with everything to lose if they break it. Most large companies do not. Perhaps smaller companies whose main selling point is privacy? Proton? Signal? I don't use either but…

Even when using Firefox (with RFP) I often get captchas that say "You have been blocked" after you solve it. I don't bother with sites asking for captchas anymore. If I see a captc…

> a fully self-sovereign life, with no dependence on trust or agents, is an unrealizable ideal I agree with this part, but relying Apple is quite far from self-sovereignty compared…

Your analogy doesn't really work because a food poisoning attack is hard to scale (across restaurants, locations) without being detected, whereas one backdoor can compromise everyo…

It is specifically with these smaller projects, not something like Linux or Chromium, that AI can accelerate. In particular, companies would probably not bother using an (A)GPL'd l…

I would have said this in the past, but at this point I don't think it matters that much anymore. 1. Code copyright has devalued a lot in general, as you can code significantly fas…