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Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by coldtea »

rglullis wrote: post #209
simias wrote: post #199

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And that's why web3 frustrates me to no end. Decentralized services were common in the "old" internet, web3 just takes than and adds a layer of ponzi and speculation on top of them. If bittorent was invented today you'd have to buy into some pyramid scheme to use it. Beyond that having a trusted third party does suck for some things, but at least it means that I have a recourse if something goes wrong. With cryptocra…

Tell me how decentralized services allow applications to be permissionless, censorship- and sybil-resistant without a blockchain. I will make both of us rich.

Tells us how blockchain allows applications to be permissionless, censorship- and sybil-resistant in any way that matters and doesn't conflict with the use of said apps.

Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by pronik »

The same goes for contacts by the way: you can be as careful as you wish keeping your phone number and address and e-mail address private, as long as you are friends with me and I keep my Google Contacts up to date, Google has that data. And I don't think this is avoidable, unless you consider complete isolation from human contact desireable.

Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by eropple »

smaudet wrote: post #59
eropple wrote: post #47

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"Online gatherings" as in 1:M live streams, or "online gatherings" as in "pack everyone into a WebRTC room and hope it holds"? Because Twitch and YouTube do the former and I don't see anything in BBB that natively emits HLS or DASH. I see plugins that will talk to an RTMP server, but that leaves a very long row to hoe. 1:M live streaming is very, very difficult to get right--it's is why video providers can charge so…

Its not really the streaming persay its this is TV broadcast tech running over IP. Its a networking problem, not a software issue. You will have to change the format or be independently wealthy to compete, 1:M will always by nature be a matter of outsized resources on the transmit versus receive side.

You are absolutely correct.

It's one of the reasons why these days I'm bearish on the future of independently-run video. The numbers are aggressively bad. People use YouTube and Twitch because they have to, not because they want to.

Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by jhobag »

jesuscript wrote: post #173
isametry wrote: post #120

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This is a technology equivalent of “purposefully don’t drink water for several days and see yourself nearly die”.

It’s all perspective. I think your phone number is more like water. If anything happens to your phone, you can simply take one physical trip down to your carriers store and get a new one with the same number. That’s water. A bunch of email accounts that your whole life is tied down to where you can’t even get someone on customer service on the line 24/7? No, that’s Soda. I’m just saying, this is the diet equivalent o…

It's actually an exercise in True freedom, trying to detach your life from all socials/spaces

Remove/minimize socials, move to multiple countries more than a couple times a year. form new friend groups/communities, learning to min-max essentials

Diet: try fasting, appreciate simple meals after a lengthy fast

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Post by moffkalast »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #221
yieldcrv wrote: post #211

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when you get to the System Design interview, they'll be expecting a different model of application than your design written here

I don't think I'm going to want the job where "use web3" is an acceptable element of my system design.

You'd think so but those types of jobs pay twice as much haha.

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Post by jesuscript »

jhobag wrote: post #264
jesuscript wrote: post #173

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It’s all perspective. I think your phone number is more like water. If anything happens to your phone, you can simply take one physical trip down to your carriers store and get a new one with the same number. That’s water. A bunch of email accounts that your whole life is tied down to where you can’t even get someone on customer service on the line 24/7? No, that’s Soda. I’m just saying, this is the diet equivalent o…

It's actually an exercise in True freedom, trying to detach your life from all socials/spaces Remove/minimize socials, move to multiple countries more than a couple times a year. form new friend groups/communities, learning to min-max essentials Diet: try fasting, appreciate simple meals after a lengthy fast

I’m aware, but the message of was lost on a few in my original post.

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Post by thfuran »

drooopy wrote: post #207
readsadhours wrote: post #172

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This is irrelevant. Any country in the EU might do the same. I would hate to lose my domain because of this.

Again, not the same thing. British people didn't lose it. Nobody took it away against the public's will. They voted in favour of getting rid of it.

When was the last time a national vote was unanimous?

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Post by drivebycomment »

Barrin92 wrote: post #30

">I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work correspondence. I do so to keep autonomy, control, and privacy over my email" if you want to retain control or privacy over correspondence, email is a horrible medium because by design anything can be forwarded, shared and copy&pasted trivially and this is done all the time. One guy is enough to leak an entire email chain. Good rule for email is, tre…

There is no way to retain or control privacy when you send some information to another person regardless of the medium - email or paper or verbal even - you lose control no matter what, since the counter party can now share the same information however they see fit.

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Post by NikolaNovak »

Jommi wrote: post #191
latexr wrote: post #157

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> It's the only system where you are not at the mercy of some external entity to be always benevolent. Until the owners of the network run away after extracting all the value they can, or they decide to fork it because it’s in their best interest, or they end it because it’s not as profitable as they wanted, or your exchange decides to halt trading so they don’t lose money, or, or, or.

you're confusing web3 with crypto here. This is a very common mistake. There is no centralized "owner". You can become part of the network just like anyone else. No single party can do anything you describe. You also seem to being centralized exchanges to the discussion - they have no relevance here. Trading can be done in a decentralized fashion as well.

>>you're confusing web3 with crypto here. This is a very common mistake.

It's certainly one I'm making. If we take crypto / blockchain out, what IS "web3", and how is it better to web 1.0?

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Post by thfuran »

ajross wrote: post #215
Bakary wrote: post #203

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What made me switch from Gmail is stories of people losing their entire account overnight with no possible appeal process due to an algorithm deciding there was suspicious activity.

> What made me switch from Gmail is stories Yeah, pretty much. Anecdata is the bane of everything big. In a country of 330M people, you'll have a horrific murder every week. You have a billion email users, someone's going to have trouble. You do realize that, realistically, it's probably more likely that Fastmail will fail, or you'll accidentally lose control of your own domain (or have it stolen) than that Google or…

That there are occasional errors in flagging accounts is one thing. That there's absolutely no recourse is another. Why would I want to do business with a company that works like that?
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