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Now we're only missing what the two languages are for "cease and desist"

I have personally never heard of, or seen, any scams or malware related to mastadon - aren't you giving too much benefit of the doubt?

My best guess is that their lists of competitors to keep an eye on got mixed up with other stuff. Or, of course, that they simply don't want to promote competitors on their platform, which would be normal for any non-monopoly.

Insurance is a premium paid to reduce volatility. If one can afford the volatility, then that person should definitely not get the insurance. A typical HN'er should probably not insure things under $2K. Insurance is NOT about trying to "profit" by better analysing a transaction. It is a service purchased for volatility-reduction.

> should you just accept it when they decide to install one of those devices in your home?

The device they installed is invisible and you will never have any way of knowing they were in there, it's irrelevant what you accept.

How does 5G factor into all that?

My phone photos are 2.2 MB each. 1,000 GB's is 1M MB's which equates to approximately 450,000 photos. At $18.99/TB/year, 1,000 photos would cost ~$0.42 a year.

Photos can easily be 30 MB each or more, especially from dedicated cameras. If all photos were 30 MB it would cost $5.69 per year for 1,000 photos.

Not making any point, just calculated it for myself and thought to share.

> I want nothing of mine (of value) in the cloud.

What's the issue with the cloud if you encrypt client-side? It's off-site backup. Isn't it too risky to have your life's work on a few drives in the same location?

To be able to categorize by person, ex: "list all photos of Jim".

I love this, but that means you are now paying 3 times: ads/premium, sponsored messages, and patreon. Even if you block ads - as well as the much more complicated sponsored messages - you are still paying by having to manage that system and work around its edge cases. Direct "donation" should include ad-free and sponosor-free access to videos.

YouTube premium sends money to creators as people watch their videos. According to a redditor [1], CGP Grey (a prominent youtuber) claims to get more money from premium users than ads.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeMusic/comments/8s1b70/does_y...

You forgot the (non-linear) increased risk of getting caught with each iteration.

They gave back less than half, they still have > $300M, they are equally "criminal" as before, however much that was. I don't see the benefit they get for returning a portion.

Google Photos and Gmail openly and heavily scan server-side, and I'm sure a lot of us use them, how do we reconcile that?

> I'd very much like my next phone to run Linux

Why again? Android is already free and open source and Linux doesn't have good answers for the proprietary goodies

I thought this was going to be about advanced usage of <datalist>: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...

> I flat out don't understand the "selling without selling" part.

He HODLS 1M in his wallet in solidarity with the community to show he is not selling, but simultaneously secretly sells inflation to profit the same - is what the author is claiming.

Thank you for that response, I didn't realize the lottery was happening at the moment of payment. I thought tickets were given out then the draw happens at a later date and the tickets are redeemed then. This makes sense! Thanks for clarifying.

I understand the bit about doing less payments is cheaper than doing more payments. The part that everyone is glossing over is:

"and you receive tickets at 1/2500 probability"

How do you receive these tickets? How can they be trusted? How can you guarantee they are honored? If we can receive lottery tickets in a cheap, trusted, secure manner why don't we just use the same system for the money itself?

Where do the savings come in? If you know how to securely send lottery tickets why can't you use the same system to send the money instead?

Yes, I understand that, but that is only for the bank, society still has to pay for the 999 of 1000 transactions that the bank saved. Who pays for those, why would they be cheaper given that they are essentially money again.

Why would transacting lottery tickets be cheaper than transacting money?

EDIT: Who pays for the lottery ticket transactions that the bank is saving?

> "There was a void that was created by a lack of these encrypted platforms," Shivers said, of the initial move to take down apps previously used by gangs. "So that created an opportunity for collaboration with our international partners, to not only develop the specific tool but also to develop the process of gathering the intelligence and disseminating the intelligence."

What void? Aren't there a ton of encrypted solutions right now?

I wonder, people always reference the Streisand Effect, but for every one of those there are a thousand complaints that go quietly heeded.

The problem is a wealth tax is almost impossible to implement. People will form crappy charities or put the money in their kids' names or move it to the Caribbean or some other gymnastics that will make worse use of the money overall.

How come HN doesn't have to follow delete laws allowing users to delete their messages?

I'm not up to speed, could you expand on what happened?

The attackers already have whatever data you are intending them to steal/share. The author says this bug is no big deal:

>Can malware use this vulnerability to take over my computer? No.

>Can malware use this vulnerability to steal my private information? No.

I too built a clone for fun: https://carefulclues.com/

I added a timer, and online matchmaking, but I'm not sure the game is suitable for online matchmaking, a big part of it is chatting and knowing your teammates and opponents. Otherwise I find it better playing online even when we're in person because the board doesn't do much, you just have to be able to see it and it's annoying to see it from different angles, nice to glance at on the phone.

The rule of thumb is about 80% for me - an $80K employment salary is worth about $100K contracting.

> You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them (screenshot).

What the heck! How does anything else still exist!