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I don't know too much about Telegram but isn't it encrypted?

> [The characters'] goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a long-term objective to distribute Holocaust Ed…

The Snowden endorsement sure helped.

"good enough" relies on a threat model. Cryptography researchers work in the abstract - without a threat model you must consider cases where your attacker has unlimited resources. …

So, what's different about cliqz? You promise not to keep logs, skew results, and sell data? Also, > With 93% of the search market, Google’s algorithms decide what becomes truth. C…

Yep, I've been getting Russian events in my google cal that just reappear the day after I report them as spam (which does what?) Unfortunately, it's pretty inconvenient to just not…

I don't know about that. Authentication mechanisms seem within scope of any protocol, and if an implementation refuses service based on some extra requirement (such as being signed…

> But really this is Google's problem, not Apple's. I'm not sure we agree on what the problem is? If Google monopolized years ago, the story would play the same - only now it's the…

I think the Librem5 will have a CC-by-SA 4.0 license, aka copyleft, so it'd have to be open source.

While it's true that there's an abundance of water, the issue is that there's limited drinking water. You can't survive on drinking ocean water. There's currently no energy-efficie…

Devil's advocate: how can we verify these rocks originated from the moon, and not somebody's back yard?

Funny, you won't see "Mormon" ads anymore but not too long ago (2011) they ran the "I'm a Mormon" campaign: https://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/im-a-mormon

People like options, especially the Linux/FOSS people. You could come to a consensus about something but it'll only go so far until some developer decides to fork it and make their…

This should go well.

Might be a stupid question, but why is it always Telegram that gets talked about? Are other secure communications services like Signal, Keybase, etc already blocked?

I guess it removes an extra step, but is it all that useful to have every icon appear everywhere? For instance, instead of having the Facebook icon appear by a user's Twitter name,…

I think you meant The* Ohio State University

Seems to be something the author would like. Then again, hypothesis is a browser extension..

The Bill of Rights was ratified when none of those things existed. I absolutely believe the 2A is outdated, but you must consider the reasoning its creation. > A well regulated Mil…

> Any person can go buy a gun and attack a mall. Exactly. To protect ourselves from tyranny, the US established the second amendment. It is preferable if we are equally in a positi…

That design looks so sleek. I'd dream of something like this embracing 5G and open source firmware so users could add native encryption and other utility as they please. Also, "Has…

So.. a NAS? AFAIK you can't self-host google drive.

Many universities (if not most) already have technology transfer offices for this purpose. What is the difference between the Innovation Depot and [1] this department at UAB? [1] h…

Would have been over-the-top cool if RISC-V had been included as well.

I haven't used the Medium app on my Android device for some weeks now. Today I got a notification about some article and swiped it away. Then later I got another and realized: Wait…