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colesantiago
5,294karma·2,469submissions·July 16, 2017
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> That didn't answer my question. I did, you just didn't like the answer.
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Take a look a Signal, which the whole of Signal is to be a private WhatsApp alternative not a trojan horse to introduce a cryptocurrency pump and dump scam. [0] So for Session, I am unfortunately als…
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> Don't project that laziness onto the entire populace, enabling others to feel comfortable that it's "too hard" to use Signal....that's awful. Unfortunately WhatsApp has a…
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Yes, and everyone went back to using WhatsApp as I said, including me. Nobody bothers with Signal and all these other fringe privacy apps or alternatives. That is my point.
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To which my non technical friends don't know which to choose and didn't bother at all and went back to using WhatsApp. If that is the consequence for multiple fragmented clients then no than…
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No, the answer was WhatsApp which they unfortunately went back to. The point is, there are far too many XMPP clients for which it is very unlikely that their friends are on and have interoperability f…
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I told a person I know to use XMPP to which they said "Which XMPP app should I use" To which I dismissed XMPP its own as a viable alternative to anything, there might be hope for Jami as lon…
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But Session being linked to a cryptocurrency project is a non starter and inexcusable.
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Reading further, seems that the CTO of the project wasn't aware of this. [0] But I cannot see anything done further here, and not sure if this means all members of the session project are nazis. …
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It seems encrypted messengers are turning into cryptocurrency ponzi scam projects. Keybase -> Stellar Session -> Oxen/Loki Whatsapp -> Diem/Novi Signal -> Mobilecoin [0] There r…
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yes, replicate the experience in the metaverse.
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Very curious about the recent surge of Elixir / Erlang posts on HN, is there a reason for this? How is the the job market surrounding this as well for Elixir / Erlang devs?
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> NFT(s) are just money laundering... Would love to see some strong sources for this strong claim...
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I'm very curious if there were any reasons or design decisions on why Clubhouse didn't go for React Native from the start? Would it be fair to say they could have gotten to market quicker ha…
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Does this mean, Element, Matrix and Synapse are all compromised? If so, I want nothing to do with the Matrix ecosystem and would be searching for alternatives, I hope this isn't the case.
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Or just to save time and better yet, save you from massive security issues down the line. I've seen raw SQL queries full of fatal SQL injection bugs like these in littered in codebases, very crin…
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I agree, just had to read the article again, and took it as a fancy way of wasting money really.
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Not just you, but if it works for them, that's completely fine. But there are many ways to achieve 20K RPS without this type architecture and especially without k8s, for less than $1,500.
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Then you must have been fine with Trump trying to ban the app then? > The point is that a company that is controlled by an authoritarian regime Hard evidence for this claim? Is TikTok Inc, controll…
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OK, but irrelevant. What has this got to do with TikTok?
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So? TikTok is just an app, what is point?
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who cares about china, isn't this not the same for US companies? why the constant obsession with china? this just complete fear mongering, let the kids play on it.
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It's called Klarna. It's not just a shopping app, its a bank. > Search for Klarna on TikTok and you’ll find young people making light of the debt they’ve racked up using the wildly popula…
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So I shouldn't be able to delete account information about me on HN or Discord? Care to explain this?
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Not if one would want to choose to delete their account afterwards with the expectation that all comments would be deleted as well.