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masterfooo··on PayPal to lay off 9% of global workforce
Interesting that big layoff like these are not getting enough coverage in the media, and even here on HN it does not generate enough responses. It sounds like everyone is happy and well. Bear in mind you will most likely get decimated as well. These are huge numbers, and no federal or local politicians are asking what is happening.
masterfooo··on E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance
That is exactly why I have thousands of offline books in my offline library and I use a no internet/wifi Android ebook reader to read them.
masterfooo··on The Humane AI Pin Launches Its Campaign to Replace Phones
Is it safe to put a gsm device around your heart?
masterfooo··on Can I remove my personal data from GenAI training datasets?
That is an assumption. No one has ever agreed on such concept on paper.
masterfooo··on Neeva: Ad-free, subscription-based search engine launches
Is Google search engine open-source?
masterfooo··on Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality
Looks broken on Firefox Mobile, only the panel is visible.
masterfooo··on Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality
https://github.com/zadam/trilium
masterfooo··on We’ve decided to rename Riot
Will this change affect the apps on mobile as in a if we have to install new apps and start all over with key verifications?
masterfooo··on Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
Yeah? It is clearly personally identifiable. In fact it is pyschologically identifiable when Stripe can associate that with your name, credit card, Ip address, time of the purchase, the vendor, type of the item, how you get to the store, the items you are paying for, how much time you spent on the item or the store, which links you clicked, the browser you are using, the device you are on, your location etc. Do you want me to list all the possibilities they are recording?. You are out of touch with reality here.
masterfooo··on Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
You got caught, spin it as much as you want. This has nothing to do with fraud. We know you got caught because of the speed of your response. This is called damage control, there is also a more scientific name for it called plausible deniability.

I am disgusted with this form of surveillance. I will make sure that I won`t use Stripe in the future and force vendors to use something else.

masterfooo··on Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
How about Electron apps?
masterfooo··on Ask HN: What do you self-host?
I use both, and one thing I found that is sucky about WG is that it does not work well with the Windows firewall. I need to give full permission to an app to be able to access ip addresses routed by WG. Tinc does not have this problem.
masterfooo··on Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org
Installing Synapse is very easy actually with Pip, however as this OP showed that using your own identity server is also necessity. FOr that you want https://github.com/kamax-matrix/mxisd
masterfooo··on Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org
That is exactly why I had to dump my Ejabberd server after years of self hosting. The XMPP client app habitat is in disarray.

If Conversations offered voice/video, that would have been a different story.

masterfooo··on Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org
The issue with that app is that there is no voice chat :(
masterfooo··on Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org
Hi,

Yeah, the issue with all these replies is that the real replies that addresses the issues can be lost. I really recommend that you put that on your official blog so we all can benefit from reading your response.

masterfooo··on Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org
Thanks for the review. I feel like I gave them too much of a trust :(

Matrix devs, instead of battling the reviewer here, please make a proper blog post and explain what is really going on here. Tell us the truth about your data handling and the data retention.

The reviewer did his own share of work. If there are mistaken parts in his reporting, please correctly explain them in a civilized way in a possible blog post.

thanks

masterfooo··on Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org
That is just a text change, very superficial
masterfooo··on Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout
It seems still enabled in about:config
masterfooo··on All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
After learning about Normady thing, I am literally now blocking every Mozilla, Firefox and their affiliate domains and their Ip adresses. The trust is lost. I rely on Debian repo and like other's mentioned, Normandy seems to bypass Debian oversight.
masterfooo··on Practical Cryptography for Developers
thanks
masterfooo··on Practical Cryptography for Developers
it would be nice if you lay your case in under a more positive attitude. You just checked only two pages so far. I am not the author btw.