Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Time to start de-Appling

heatherburns.tech

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

381–390 of 471 posts

Re: Time to start de-Appling

#381

Post by fireflash38 »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #199
nickcw wrote: post #87

Very clever image and caption (right at the bottom of the page) > Header image by me: Alan Turing memorial, Manchester, where he reminds you why keeping data private can be a matter of life and death. The image shows a close up of a statue of Alan Turing, his hand holding an apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Death

The very Wikipedia page you link explains in great detail why, although we can never know for sure, it's actually unlikely that he committed suicide, and more likely that his death was an accident. The suicide story will probably never go away, because it's too good a story. It fits so neatly into popular culture.

The government chemically castrated him. Is that not bad enough?

Re: Time to start de-Appling

#382

Post by port11 »

eviks wrote: post #376

> thorough job of de-Googling that I forgot to show up for a meeting with someone, because I hadn’t checked my Google calendar in ages That's a shoddy job of de-Googling, a thorough job would have seamless redirection to whatever current calendar service you use. > I’m not going to tell you where to move your stuf But that's the most important stuff!!! Don't leave poor users dry with an impractical advice that will l…

Calendars are a tough issue, I'm not sure what I'd recommend. My partner's on Outlook so many of the OSS options won't work for sharing our calendars.

I can move her entirely to the family server, but even I'm confused. There's too many Calendar servers with different features, and all with a generally terrible UI. Once I finally settle for one of the server options, I'd have to get her using whatever calendar agent is good on Android, but that's another 20+ options to look at.

Sometimes the bazaar is quite confusing and overwhelming.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

#383

Post by subscribed »

sargun wrote: post #193
ebbi wrote: post #157

Taking inspiration from the East India Company, Apple should colonize the UK and take over the government - the iGovernment, if you will. Citizens will regain their right to e2ee privacy, they will not have to deal with voting for mediocre politicians to lead them. Instead, Tim Cook will be their new leader, and every morning over the mandatory installation of HomePods in each home, citizens will be greeted with an e…

I have wondered why the likes of McKinsey, KPMG, and PWC do not put up candidates (don't even sponsor them, just say you're electing _well known consultancy_).

They do. Look at the US Democrats specifically.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

#384

Post by port11 »

alt227 wrote: post #358
thewebguyd wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but it's just so easy to fall into nationalistic prattle instead of fixing the real problem. Right. This, right now, is 100% a UK problem. De-Americanising your tech stack isn't going to fix the political issues domestically. Hence Apple pulling ADP out, they made the choice of not complying with the UK and not offering the service instead of compromising the service for everyone else in the world. UK citizens need…

> Right. This, right now, is 100% a UK problem. Do you not think every other govenrment in the world is currently eyeing this up and figuring out how to do the same thing?

Scary stuff: they've just handed the EU a reason to go after ADP. Turns out no back door is needed, you just force their position into making ADP unavailable in the EU.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

#387

Post by swiftcoder »

port11 wrote: post #379
swiftcoder wrote: post #350

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have a free and open technology that is sufficiently user-friendly that grandma isn't going to lose all her photos, I'm all ears

Okay, secure E2EE backups we've more or less perfected for a while. There's good F/LOSS solutions for that. And if you're willing to pay a bit, thinks like Backblaze come to mind. In other areas it's true that open-source stuff is less polished, but not backups. I mean, a few months back Apple had a regression where they were un-deleting people's photos, that's pretty nasty.

> a few months back Apple had a regression where they were un-deleting people's photos, that's pretty nasty

As failure modes go, not great, but I'd say strictly less bad for the average user than losing photos you didn't plan to delete

Re: Time to start de-Appling

#388

Post by zaphar »

port11 wrote: post #379
swiftcoder wrote: post #350

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have a free and open technology that is sufficiently user-friendly that grandma isn't going to lose all her photos, I'm all ears

Okay, secure E2EE backups we've more or less perfected for a while. There's good F/LOSS solutions for that. And if you're willing to pay a bit, thinks like Backblaze come to mind. In other areas it's true that open-source stuff is less polished, but not backups. I mean, a few months back Apple had a regression where they were un-deleting people's photos, that's pretty nasty.

You haven't actually listed one yet. I can't think of one myself that Grandma could use safely.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

#389

Post by pnt12 »

mananaysiempre wrote: post #190
jen20 wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be clear, Apple and Google both have huge UK presence. I don't know the extent of Google, but Apple has offices with thousands of people working in them. Compliance with what the UK wants in this regard is not optional. What the original poster does is completely misplace blame under the guise of "clever" writing - blame should be assigned squarely on the idiotic policies of the UK government.

Google has been building a huge new office in London for a bit now, with the apparent intent to move most of their EU presence there.

I'd say more likely, their UK presence. There's an increasing gap between UK and the rest of Europe, wider than other non-EU members such as Switzerland.

I see Switzerland as a country that wants complete independence, but sees value in cooperating with other countries, and does so. UK seems like on the path to becoming an authoritarian hellscape and won't allow any other country to stop its degradation.

Re: Time to start de-Appling

#390

Post by 8fingerlouie »

If you still want/need cloud storage, but don't want to roll your own (with the warts that brings), Cryptomator is an excellent tool for source encrypting your data before uploading them.

It works transparently, and has clients for Mac/Windows as well as iOS/Android.

It's also open source, and "free" (IIRC there's a one time fee for the mobile client).

https://cryptomator.org/

Post reply on HN