Just stumbled upon ZenithOS, a modern fork of TempleOS
17 1 comment 19 Jul 2021 12:58 u/dubya_tp (self.technology) in g/technologyComment on: Protonmail Gets A Slick New Look, As Privacy Tech Eyes The Mainstream – Techcrunch
I've been using it for a while in beta, it's pretty slick compared to the old UI, but as others have said.. it is slightly slower. But it's not any worse than O365/Outlook email at work which has a 5-15 second delay between refreshing
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10 Jun 2021 00:27
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Comment on: Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
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....But in all seriousness... I do have a lot of memories of Yahoo Answers, particularly laying down easy bait for the 55+ crowd to hook on to.
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29 Apr 2021 01:53
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Comment on: Ruq's Random Tech Tip: How to quickly navigate, select, and edit with your Control and Shift Keys.
I rely on these shortcuts daily... if Microsoft decides to remove them one day, i'll probably loot their headquarters.
(Note NSA agents: that was a joke)
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15 Apr 2021 19:56
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Comment on: Ruq's Random Tech Tip: How to quickly navigate, select, and edit with your Control and Shift Keys.
All of them use Command instead of Ctrl on a Mac, or if you're using a PC keyboard on a Mac, the 'Windows Logo' key is recognized as Command on macOS.
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15 Apr 2021 19:54
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Comment on: android sends 20x more data to google than ios sends to apple, study says
This was one of the reasons why I switched to iOS last year - other reason being the lack of decent Android phones lately that aren't from Chinese companies like OnePlus.
While it's not the gold standard in privacy, I do have a little bit more trust in Apple than I have over Google at this point, particularly when they'll give pushback at the FBI for a request to decrypt locally stored data like they did for the San Bernardino shooter. I did disable iCloud though, backing up my files to my self-hosted Nextcloud instead.
There's also a way to set up the phone without logging into an Apple account, issue is though that you won't be able to download apps.
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31 Mar 2021 16:30
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Comment on: Judge "Disturbed" To Learn Google Tracks 'Incognito' Users, Demands Answers
Just wait until she learns that most major ISPs record your web history as well. Yes, even if you don't use their DNS, they can still sniff and log all the unencrypted lookups to your favorite single-digits DNS server.
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28 Feb 2021 16:52
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Comment on: Reddit removed privacy OptOut settings "to reduce confusion"
You know it's really bad when the top comment pushing back on the change is from a powermod.
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25 Feb 2021 18:09
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Comment on: 17-year-old Firefox feature request fulfilled 21 days ago
That bug report is older than most of the people in the YouTube comment sections
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25 Feb 2021 05:14
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Comment on: Microsoft Edge least private browser
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10 Feb 2021 20:36
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Comment on: SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code, the company says | Reuters
Does this mean we’ll get another source code leak, this time from newer versions of Windows?
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01 Jan 2021 20:25
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Comment on: Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year
It wasn't 10 cents a minute if you played your cards right... or should I say... blew your whistle right ;)
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24 Nov 2020 22:59
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Comment on: Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year
The problem is.... in most areas you have no choice other than Comcast. In my city, the only two choices we have are cable internet from Comcast, or shitty DSL from Verizon.
They also have exclusivity agreements with the city/town preventing a startup ISP from coming in. And with or without the exclusivity agreements, many startup ISPs will immediately be served with lawsuits from Comcast, Verizon, Spectrum, AT&T, and the rest of the telecom mafia the moment the startup files it's business declaration and construction permits.
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24 Nov 2020 18:53
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Comment on: Your computer isn't yours.
I have a feeling these Apple Silicon Macs will be exploited and jailbroken real quickly, they’ll find some way to get arch running on it natively.
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16 Nov 2020 00:43
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Comment on: FCC Unanimously Approves Amazon’s Plan For 3,236 5G Satellites
Crowded satellite space wouldn't be a problem if major telco monopolies like Verizon and Comcast didn't intimidate independent startup ISPs by lobbying local governments to excessively charge and/or deny construction permits to bury fiber
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07 Aug 2020 13:05
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Comment on: YouTube bans almost 2,600 Chinese channels for influence operations
Leftists be like: "That's a weird way to spell Russia"
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06 Aug 2020 22:26
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Comment on: GrapheneOS is a secure, private, smartphone operating system
Ironic that the most secure OS is only compatible with Google hardware
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25 Jul 2020 22:28
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Comment on: Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called “Cloudflare”
There is a valid reason for doing that if you're a startup that can't shell out $100k for a global CDN network, it makes sense. Once you're large enough to have an influence on the rest of the internet, you can then create your own CDN and get as far away from CloudFlare as possible.
Netflix is an example of this, they used Amazon's CDN in the beginning and then created [it's own CDN](https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/) once they were big enough to have a presence in every internet exchange and ISP
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21 Jul 2020 15:01
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Comment on: Apple wants your iPhone to replace your passport and driver's license | Appleinsider
Many times I’ve been in line boarding a flight when some guy in front of me is using his phone as his ticket, and it takes the gate agent several tries in order to get the scanner to pick up the barcode.
I just can’t see that being done for any official documents right now, at least until there’s a standard that uses NFC instead of barcodes
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04 Jul 2020 07:48
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