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anafh83on How America lost its love for the stick shift

Yes, that.

anafh83on How America lost its love for the stick shift

I'm in Spain and I don't think I've seen an automatic in my entire life and it's also not possible to get a licence for an automatic car.

anafh83on How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC

I think their UX is awful, and their client is very slow in channels with thousands of users. They should open up their protocol so alternative clients can be created, or at least some IRC gateway.

I haven't made many calls but the sound was always crisp.

anafh83on How HTTPS works

You are right. I'll be using this comic if I need to teach a 10 year old what https is.

anafh83on Australia's anti-encryption law will merely relocate the backdoors: Expert

Ah okay, we have it backwards. I'm saying that people would allow LE to intercept communications everywhere in the world except in the US!

anafh83on Australia's anti-encryption law will merely relocate the backdoors: Expert

Maybe, and only maybe, you'd get a no in the US, because of the deeply ingrained hate/distrust for the government. But the rest of the world? Seriously. Maybe I'm wrong but I doubt it.

anafh83on Australia's anti-encryption law will merely relocate the backdoors: Expert

>The problem is that we as a society already agreed that it’s acceptable.

>We allowed the government to open mail, open locks and tap phones with a warrant all of which were technically challenging.

If we had a referendum on this ("should the police be able to access the communications of someone as part of the investigation of a crime?") I bet "yes" would win. Myself I also think it's acceptable. Don't think it's so clear-cut.