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Comment · 1 year ago
proton account to proton account.

> how can e-mail ever be a secure medium

Email can be secure, it’s just that the big US players can’t or won’t agree to proton like privacy.

I am curious to know what is behind these big US companies being so anti privacy.

Comment · 1 year ago
People who complain about Xcode have never had to use android studio ;)
Comment · 1 year ago
Developers should be required to add flags to allow reading/writing to disk. i.e. choose —-insecure-disk—access or —-allow-read=/myapp

I hate the idea of making things a tiny bit more difficult for beginner developers, but what is the alternative?

Comment · 2 years ago
No it just means they now keep the data only as long as they are required to by law.
Comment · 2 years ago
Different countries have different laws around financial transaction data retention. US laws allow for audit up to 10 years, so they made it 11 to be safe yes?
Comment · 2 years ago
There is no way for police to know if the traffic came through tor, or was initiated by the owner of computer/server. It seems reasonable that the police have the right to investigate. If not, anyone could run a tor node to cover up their own criminal activities. Even if you did have logs suggesting it was tor activity, should we trust someone’s claim that the logs are proof that it was someone else?

It would in fact be negligent if the police did not properly investigate the server/computer/house of the device.

Comment · 2 years ago
Well they do win by intimidating people who want to whistleblow.
Comment · 2 years ago
Reputable news organisations are only reputable because of the effort made to verify all the claims before publishing. They would need to see examples of the range of types of documents claimed to be in there.
Comment · 2 years ago
Serde json has 3gb of dependencies once you do a build for debug and a build for release. Use serde on a few active projects and you run out of disk space. I don’t know why json parsing needs 3gb of dependencies.

I’m all for code reuse but Serde for json is a bit of a dogs breakfast when it comes to dependencies. all you need is an exploit in on of those dependencies and half of the rust ecosystem is vulnerable.

Rust should have Jason built in.

Comment · 2 years ago
An honest assessment would get less clicks and thus less revenue for whoever is publishing on the topic.

You need to lean all in on either the “he’s a toxic male” narrative or the “woke leftists are ruining everything” narrative for your website to make money.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, i don’t understand why anyone would ever enter real personal details into any website unless it was absolutely required for correct functionality of the website. Is it older people having a more overall general trust of institutions? or is it all ages that do this?
Comment · 2 years ago
You could have saved the people doing this study a lot of time and money. The artistic types have definitely just found the cheapest place to live that is also the best place to live out of all of the cheap options.
Comment · 2 years ago
What people don’t realise is that the true competition he was trying to enter, was to get on HN by following the correct formula of including the keywords AI, maths, an amount of money, and a novel item (WD-40).
Comment · 2 years ago
I had always assume it was generally to do with having the highest obesity rate for English speaking developed countries. It is interesting to see other factors thrown into the equation. I am curious, how relevant is (for example) gun violence as a percentage of tje total number? I also had never considered the healthcare system as a factor.
Comment · 2 years ago
No it is not clearly spelled out. So I am wondering why you think it is clear. Perhaps you are misunderstanding the problem that is being raised? I’m not sure.

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