kovariantenkak
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Comment · 1 month ago
Typing German and Swiss German is entirely broken while English is fine on the Swiss German keyboard layout. It very often registers the wrong key even though a slow motion video shows very clearly that the finger hits the correct key initially.
Comment · 1 month ago
> This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.
If only the title had a subtitle or even a full article to provide more information.
Comment · 4 months ago
> 25G internet isn't available everywhere in Switzerland. It's just the fastest tier available in some locations.
It is available everywhere where fiber internet is available. As of May 2026 this is ~50% of all households in Switzerland.
Comment · 4 months ago
In many areas the train network is already at capacity.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for the explanation! That makes sense now.
I'm still confused about what level of access is given to the extension and what using the extension means. Clicking on the extension asks for access to the current website, so I'm assuming that without giving access there or clicking "Always Allow on Every Website..." in the Safari settings, the extension does not have access to the web page contents.
Basic filtering claims to not require permission to read the web page data. But the extension is still used and does content filtering right?
Maybe this is more of a comment on Safaris weird terminology in the permission settings.
Comment · 1 year ago
That does not answer the question in any way. Especially, since it claims to use zero CPU when active and because iOS ad blocking works differently.
Comment · 1 year ago
And then am I using it if I'm loading the extension by interacting with it?
Because simply enabling it will not give it access to the webpage.
Comment · 1 year ago
From the permissions in Safari:
> Web Page Contents and Browsing History - Can read and alter sensitive information on web pages, including passwords, phone numbers and credit cards, and see your browsing history on the current tab's web page when you use the extension.
What does it mean for me to use the extension? Am I using it if it is installed?
Comment · 1 year ago
Fun fact: For the first few years WhatsApp didn't have any encryption whatsoever. It took public pressure for them to even add TLS.
A massive oversight on the authors part and completely missing the point of early WhatsApp as first status update application and then SMS replacement.
Comment · 1 year ago
Looking at the locations where Cloudflare has their servers [1] in the middle of Europe. With Geneva, Zurich and Munich there is definitely the possibility that this attack on Signal will leak whether someone is at home or not.
I don't understand how Signal could dismiss this so easily. I'm starting get a bad feeling about their responses to these "low" stakes attacks. They already missed the ball on the database encryption mishap on desktop.
Comment · 5 years ago
Signal has access to more data than they would like you to believe. Each account at Signal is identified by a phone number or an UUID. This account also contains a [list of devices](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/c21eb6aa5098...). Each of the devices has some uinteresting metadata assigned to it, but more importantly it links to a specific Android or iOS device through the [push token](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/c21eb6aa5098...). This gives the authorities a link to an account at Google or Apple which then of course contains much more data.