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Don't be fooled by the rain of downvotes that some comments are getting: the HN crowd is incredibly biased towards hyped stuff and CV-driven development. I worked in FAANGS where s…

> there is nothing wrong with advertising per se, it's a natural part of a free market economy. There is plenty wrong. Even Adam Smith's purely theoretical concept of "free market"…

> getting your app into repository isn't really easier than getting it into app store ... and good luck if you're trying to make money from the app. Good. That's why the quality is…

> when does it make sense to track anything against trader bonuses It's another a measure of the ever increasing inequality in some countries. Such topic that certainly impacts the…

> Let's say people thought Bozo the Clown invented the printing press People write articles to provide information. Reader read the article and learn.

> When did tombert assume that poor = "crazy" = criminal? It's implied here: "I think being really broke greatly hinders your ability to think rationally." ...by putting that sente…

> that's not why we remember him 99% of people believe that he single-handedly invented the press with movable type. Ask around.

No, there are no backports of security fixes for the applications.

Browsers don't block any homecalling either.

> I think being really broke greatly hinders your ability to think rationally. No: being really broke can cause a lot of anxiety that can lead to irrational behavior. But often a p…

As a non-native speaker I might make other grammatical errors but not the ones related to phonetics. Often I found more difficult to understand English written by native speakers t…

> Is it even possible to do anything else? I can’t imagine keyboards report their physical layout.. You can easily ask the OS what layout is being used or even ask the user.

What do you need exactly? OS packages or tarballs are more than enough most of the time.

> #ffffff is the color of looking directly into the sun and absolutely painful bright, #000000 is the color of the deepest, starless night No. There's no definition of what they ma…

Epub can do all sort of homecalling / user tracking using HTML or CSS or javascript. What's even worse - almost all Epub readers don't do proper sandboxing.

This is what [big] Linux distributions are for: vetting packages and vetting the vetters.

> I understand that as a US citizen I have more freedoms than most people throughout history Maybe on paper or as long as you are lucky. In most EU countries such stories of police…

> If it's "we the people", it's totally fair and indicative of a very progressive and tolerant society. Or something. This is a very dishonest framing.

FreedomBox is the only one that security updates from Debian. And for more than five years. Without breaking changes.

No. If Signal /was/ federated it would be a strong hint that the server code stays the same. And even if it's not the same, people would be able to run their own trusted servers.

There's nothing morally neutral in exploitation.

...the simple fact that there's no guarantee that either the server or the client would receive updates. That means hard-forking the old server and client and maintain them as an i…

> It's a purity test and nothing more. Wrong. Publishing the server sources allow people to create a parallel and independent service.

> So the client is open source and guarantees end-to-end encryption regardless of what the server does. Ok, then I honestly don't care. Why should I? You should because any success…

> extracts work from wealth gradients That's an odd way to describe worker exploitation.