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>We either deal with it or accept the destruction of the country. That is a fact. No, it's a false binary choice presented by you in which the only outcomes are "dealing with it" (…

It is a huge issue, there have been plenty regimes that practically wished for this type of technology. What if Nazi Germany had access to all this tech? Perhaps this is a stereoty…

The joke was (at least to the best of my knowledge) that nudging people to use chrome is further reinstating their monopoly, leading to a browser landscape comparable to IE days, w…

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Not so much a victory considering whatsapp is in complete control over metadata. Even if it somehow lay in the interests of Facebook to give users a private instant messaging platf…

The digital source material is a limiting factor for achievable quality, but so is the DAC that is to translate the source material. Some cheap DACs are not meant to translate spec…

Not pissed enough to reconsider the heavy iphone xs max investment apparently, which, in the end, might have made a difference compared to continuously feeding them money.

having the source code be open doesn't necessarily make it trustable, but it definitely has an added benefit. like op says, proprietary code is untrustable by design. there is also…

not necessarily favourite, but very entertaining Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012 (by Thomas Figg) https://hooktube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c

yeah same here, many takeaways of the article are similar to http://motherfuckingwebsite.com to the uninitiated, I recommend also taking a look at http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite…

Finally a story I can say something to. Granted, the article isn't very informative, but to me it is a nicely written depiction of what happens when you drop WhatsApp. I can imagin…