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nsbq71··on Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy
>Screw WhatsApp

Not really possible.

nsbq71··on Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy
Implementing arbitrary standards is not "the right thing". Especially failed standards such as RCS.
nsbq71··on Peter Madsen sentenced to life for murdering journalist Kim Wall
Police officers > Citizens
nsbq71··on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
I think that sound is pretty cool! It also works as some kind of feedback.
nsbq71··on Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine
This one is funny, because conservatives have used archive.is for some time to archive and mock left-leaning websites and some of them blocked archive.is in the past and still block archive.is today.

VOX for example returns a 0-sized page for archive.is. In the past VICE returned 404s to archive.is https://i.imgur.com/OnFdVpS.jpg

What I mean to say is that these services are useful but they are not faultless.

nsbq71··on So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations
The only reason I can still post here is that I don't have a static IP address. So yes, they are the root of all evil.
nsbq71··on Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave
I thought it worked retroactively too.
nsbq71··on Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave
Okay, is this really true or not? Because I marked my FB acc for deletion a few days ago and reading this so much is making me think of cancelling and waiting until now, but it really doesn't make much sense
nsbq71··on So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations
>UCSD Caida uses it for their network telescope (pretending to use it for amateur radio) and won't give it back.

Why do we have to convince them to give it back? It's not like IP addresses are tangible and we have to break into their offices to steal them. Major ISPs could stop all routes with them and those addresses could be recovered and reassigned to other AS's

I understand this is quite a big threshold to cross, but it feels necessary.

nsbq71··on So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations
Also some implementations (including Windows) [0] expose the MAC address of your device to the Internet, creating a huge privacy problem. IPv6 is a mess.

[0] https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/57...

nsbq71··on So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations
>we still have around nine million recovered IPv4 addresses in our available pool. Under current policy and growth rates, we expect these to last a further two years.

And by then they will have recovered even more. The end of IPv4 is a lie, and how bad IPv6 is and the lack of good transitioning systems doesn't help.

nsbq71··on Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 2
I wouldn't call it broken. It's by design. Proof is that most of the "exploits" were carried over Oblivion and then Skyrim. For example, creating very very overpowered potions is possible in all games. It's your choice if you want to spoil the fun or not.
nsbq71··on Finland ends Basic Income trial
What countries and how much money a month? If you can't live off that money then it's worthless
nsbq71··on Finland ends Basic Income trial
There is a big difference between "getting free money forever" and "getting free money for some time" (1-2 years or so, at least in my country). Especially, if you have a family you definitely not want to risk running out of welfare.
nsbq71··on Finland ends Basic Income trial
>free money (for awhile)

That destroys your argument.

nsbq71··on Finland ends Basic Income trial
>I mean the answer to the question "would poor people benefit from more money?" is quite obvious.

No, because:

>The real question is whether people who already are employed would stop working had they received "free" money.

So: will unemployed people stop looking for a job if they receive free money?

nsbq71··on Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 2
This is Morrowind, not Skyrim. Stealth archers are not a thing here. In fact I'd say magic-based characters are much, much better than combat or stealth-based ones.
nsbq71··on Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat messaging service
Not really trolling, think about it. Here in Europe we all have whatsapp that works right. Why would we switch to RCS, which is an inferior replacement (no E2E for example), and that does not even support all major platforms?

Back when RCS (under the name of Joyn) was about to be released everybody dreamt of switching to it, thinking that maybe, just maybe, telcos would make RCS free, so you wouldn't have to buy data to chat, like you have to do with whatsapp (back then many people didn't have data). That never happened evidently, and now most people have data because it's gotten much cheaper. So there's no way we will leave whatsapp, and yes RCS is dead.

nsbq71··on How to avoid getting stuck with the middle seat on a Ryanair flight
I wouldn't fly on anything other than Ryanair because every other airline is mad expensive. Yes, some things about it suck, but at least I can afford to fly, thanks to them.
nsbq71··on Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat messaging service
iOS does not support RCS so it's dead on arrival.