GigglyBobble

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[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

make sure you don’t do the XY problem.

Thanks for the link. That's funny because translating Y to X is basically the core task when developing client-specific solutions.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I had no idea how to properly set up the filesystem, so I mounted them to /mnt/f and /mnt/h. It caused me many hours of headache later.

Can you elaborate? What kind of headaches? How would you set it up now? While I've been using Linux quite a while I don't have multiple hard drives and am always interested in best practices.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think it'll be as easy as calculating SHA256 hashes, so ASICs as small as this might never be a thing.

On the other hand, brains do use orders of magnitude less power, so who knows.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Proprietary messaging is worse though. Email is interoperable and relevant as ever. Just nobody bothered to seamlessly apply PGP for encryption (probably spy agencies actively worked against that too).

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

TIL IT is volunteer work.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I see it the other way around and believe it's only AR that'll be a real benefit (once it lasts indefinitely and is tiny or even implanted some time in the future). Pulling out your phone to navigate somewhere is cumbersome, for example.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 38 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I happily shelled out $600 for the first iPhone. But $3,500? For a V1 product that will get way better (and cheaper) in the next few years?

Cheaper? When has the next gen Apple product ever become cheaper?

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

According to the article, WhatsApp requires the Signal Protocol for message encryption.

Signal is the single third party that shouldn't have a problem with that since it's been using that protocol before WhatsApp adopted it, too (they hired Moxi himself to help them do it, remember?)

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Since Signal also uses phone numbers as account ID, you'll give that to WhatsApp at least. Then they continue to track metadata of the messages sent between you and your WhatsApp contacts and will be profiling you.

I don't see how communicating with any Meta service isn't compromising privacy. I'm a Signal user and won't connect to WhatsApp.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's not immoral to sell a business but anybody who actually has or even founded one and has an intact moral compass would not sell in a way you described.

You have a responsibility for your customers and employees and you don't just throw it into the dumpster like that because money isn't everything.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

they get lazy about using/doing non device things.

That's the key. Over the generations media (from books to smartphones) got more sophisticated in grabbing our attention to the point that addiction really has become a problem. While everything fun can be somewhat addictive we now have corporations optimizing their products in that way.

I'm sure kids can develop healthy habits with phone and internet consumption but I also believe they need help by restricting exposure in order to play "conventionally". It's similar to sweets - if you leave kids to just eat whatever whenever they want, they'll stuff themselves with candy until they vomit repeatedly.

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