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sandblast··on `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)
Aren't these bugs that could be "simply" reported and fixed? Or maybe those would get a label "not a bug" attached by the TS creators for some reason?
sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
This is not my point. Trusting someone else's code audit is infinitely more valuable than trusting any "vibe check", since it touches the actual subject matter.
sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
I don't claim that the problem does not exist, but I haven't really felt it during my daily usage with relatives.
sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
I'll try from another angle:

If I wanted to make a honeypot that undermines users' privacy and anonymity, I would make sure to be as nice to everyone as possible. The "vibe check" is irrelevant, the false positives are far too common.

sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
It's useless in the sense that it makes an anonymity promise to users that it cannot fulfill.
sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
What types of abuse it really curbs?
sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
> SimpleX supports measures (managed transparently to the user at the agent level) to mitigate the trust placed in servers. These include rotating the queues in use between users, noise traffic, supporting overlay networks such as Tor, and isolating traffic to different queues to different transport connections (and Tor circuits, if Tor is used).

Also, most often the two parties use different receiving servers, and this aligns us more with the physicals letters analogy from the submitted article, except that each receiving server is more like a central post warehouse in a big city and not a small district branch.

sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
SimpleX is not a phone and its model of distribution and being open-source makes it much harder to infiltrate than these projects you're hinting at.
sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
And the appropriate basis of trust in the technology world would be source code audits, not scraping some individual's Twitter posts.

If the users' communications are encrypted — which they are — there is no way for the creator to "reflect his world view", whatever it might be, in the form of undermining the security or privacy for some part of the user base.

sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
Focusing on security and privacy is great, but I expected some downsides. I'm glad you decided to emphasize the dedication of the creator of SimpleX instead.

EncroChat was not open-source, so it was much easier to be infiltrated.

sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
The "police trying to infiltrate it" means nothing unless they can do so successfully. We know that it's vastly easier to undermine users' privacy on WhatsApp than on SimpleX.

So where exactly is that "much more security" you're touting?

sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
Source on the "neo-Nazism"?

And you might want to tell us how this affects the privacy or security of SimpleX why you're at it.

sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
Oh, it's very simple: those views mean nothing. Unless you can point to the part of the source code where they are expressed and explain us how this part undermines the project's technological goals.
sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
If you're so eager on encouraging cancel-culture, would you be so kind to elaborate on why exactly you want to cancel this programmer instead of just vaguely pointing in the direction of a closed platform?
sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
I don't know what you're mentioning, but let's not forget that whatever view he might have, it changes nothing in the technology he creates. It's open source, it's auditable, and the code does not have worldviews of its own.

Your comment promotes cancel-culture, and as filthy as it is in general, it's even more so in the technology world. Don't do it. Please.

sandblast··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
Since a lot of people might not reach the conclusion at the bottom of the post:

Just use SimpleX.

sandblast··on The realities of being a pop star
Sorry, I'm curious: why it "was", not "is", a really good piece of writing?
sandblast··on FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
Hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life.

"It's not a waste of time since the primary purpose is enjoyment" — in that sentence you place enjoyment above any other benefits the activity might have (but most often does not). Hence, it's a hedonistic approach.

sandblast··on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
https://archive.is/LXFyR

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291630

sandblast··on FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
Oh, there absolutely is. But most hobbies people seem to have are just pointless and waste time.
sandblast··on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
Oh, it absolutely can lead to charges (same as piracy referred to in the comment I responded to), which doesn't change the fact that it is using a resource that would otherwise be wasted. A college class is a perfect example. Not every illegal act is unethical.
sandblast··on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
Probably better phrasing than your quoted thought would be: the poor design of SNI makes privacy violation its main result.
sandblast··on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
So this, in your opinion, causes more damage than violating someone's copyrights? This is quite literally just using a resource than would otherwise be wasted. Of course, the electricity use is lower if less people use this network, but this is negligible.
sandblast··on FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
Hedonism, got it.
sandblast··on FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
I'm curious. It matters to me.
sandblast··on FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts
And why do you need all these hobbies?
sandblast··on Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab
I guess I have to implement the habit of checking such things, since I never assume such a possibility. I prefer this info to be at the top of the readme, though – much more information value than the logo that deceived me into thinking this is a mature project.

Regardless; what benefits this would have over Wireguard?

sandblast··on DeepSeek OCR
Not sure why you're being downvoted, I'm also curious.
sandblast··on Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
Yes. Just use Immich for photos. AI scanning, but local and only opt-in.
sandblast··on Launch HN: Simplex (YC S24) – Browser automation platform for developers
Unfortunately, you're name-clashing with SimpleX: https://simplex.chat/
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