"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io
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Joined Jun 2019
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@brennen If the tech industry (or the finance industry, but they're almost the same thing now) ever stopped to consider the full ramifications of its actions, it would probably implode from sheer terror.
Yeah, there are so many broken things, from Intel chips to just the USB standard, that we only survive by covering our eyes.
I guess there's the hope that at some point surely somebody will sort it all out.
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Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design - Hugo Tunius: https://hugotunius.se/2020/10/31/flutter-web-a-fractal-of-bad-design.html
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give a man a fish and he'll give you some money
but teach a man to fish and he'll never give you money again so best to keep him ignorant and subscribed to a monthly fish delivery service where your fishing patents prevent him from ever being able to compete with you while you accrue revenue from him until he dies
but teach a man to fish and he'll never give you money again so best to keep him ignorant and subscribed to a monthly fish delivery service where your fishing patents prevent him from ever being able to compete with you while you accrue revenue from him until he dies
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Together with the Internet Society, we have written an open letter to the EU to explain why an encryption backdoor for the 'good guys only' is simply impossible. Keep fighting for a secure internet with us! 💪👇
https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/breaking-the-myths-on-encryption/
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"In this demo I remotely trigger an unauthenticated kernel memory corruption #vulnerability which causes all #Apple #iOS devices in radio-proximity to reboot, with no user interaction. Over the next 30'000 words I'll cover the entire process to go from this basic demo to successfully exploiting this vulnerability in order to run arbitrary code on any nearby iOS device and steal all the user data"
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html #security
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Belgium 🇧🇪 Replacing nuclear energy: Engie Electrabel plans four gas plants 🤷♂️ #co2
Fossil gas - 490 gCO2/kWh
Nuclear - 12 gCO2/kWh
@chriswere
This is same what I think about Mastodon and Gemini. If this platforms were to compete with Twitter and the Web that would destroy them, especially if they would succeed in doing so. I think that the internet is big enough to have more than one social network, web or video platform, each with specific culture that appeals to different people.
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@vertigo @docskrzyk it's irritating how often physics gets in the way of fun. we should find a way to get rid of physics.
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Statewatch | EU: Council set to adopt declaration against encryption
https://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/november/eu-council-set-to-adopt-declaration-against-encryption/ #privacy #encryptionban
Gemini is great but it must explicitly not adopt any features to enable e-comerce or its fate will be the same.
The idea that you can have a tech small enough that you can implement clients and servers cheaply is good but it will limit how far you can go with it. We need a better web for commerce. Gemini should not try to be it.
Having control over web infrastructure (search and browsers) that facilitate trillions of moneys in trade is always going to be a goal of corporations.
First it was Microsoft, it got antitrust, that benefited Google and we are back to square 1. Google gets broken down and we will be back here again after a decade or two.
Apparently problem of having safe browser for everyone that benefits people and economies globally cannot be solved under capitalism.
Mozilla should be sponsored from tax money (of all countries participating in e-commerce) as part of global infrastructure that brings trillions to global economy and protects people using the web.
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@dajbelshaw When it comes to the web though, there is now no alternative. Google run the w3c and have recently announced they will start banning all but their and Mozilla's engines from Google products, Mozilla are 99% dependent on Google for revenue and are forever playing catch-up. No other browser engine can keep up with deliberately rapid-shifting standards. There'd been a steady downward trend in practical browser-engine choice: only 3 remain. The world wide web is dead.
@alcinnz
https://lemmy.ml/post/42783
Discussion about homed on lemmy.
@asuperhero @aral
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Discussing with a colleague about whether we should switch XML parsers to gain ~ 1ms in processing time.
My position is that:
- EU-USA RTT is ~ 80ms
- opening a TCP connection ~ 100ms
- doing the TLS 1.2 negotiation dance ~ 100ms
TLDR the parser is not the problem, we should focus on draining the Atlantic, subverting the fundamental laws of physics, and inventing an entirely new realm of post-quantum cryptography, to make any meaningful gains.
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@volt4ire I love the subheading "Will the AMP format die as a result?"
On the one hand, Betteridge's law of headlines suggests no.
On the other hand, it would be foolish to bet on any Google product surviving, or to build anything relying on Google products. I have an unopened Google Daydream headset, Daydream was killed before I could open the box. https://killedbygoogle.com/
I certainly refuse to support AMP in any way, for practical as well as ethical reasons.
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@inexcode @jwildeboer oh boy, that's even better!
This is a *very* good reason to license even desktop and CLI tools udner #AGPL.
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There's a new "experimental feature" being tested in Firefox 83: sponsored sites in the URL bar.
"Mozilla works with advertising partners to place sponsored tiles on the Firefox home page (or New Tab) that would be useful to Firefox users. Mozilla is paid when users click on sponsored tiles."
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy
You can disable this by setting `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites` to `false`.
Found via https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/jybx2w/uh_why_is_firefox_showing_me_sponsored_links_in/
So you want to know about how starships work, huh? Well you came to the right place.
Joined Jun 2019
