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  • Underrepresentation

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  • I find it weird that some people call LGBTQI+ life a "sin". On the other hand, some christian denominations accept and have gay priests. The people calling LGBTQI+ life a "sin" seem to me more like extremists in a "christian" trenchcoat.

  • Windows updating just before thesis defense

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  • If you put microphones into the table, the audio will be horrible, catching up any surface acoustic waves from any noise on the table. Like if someone touches the table anywhere, this will be caught by the microphone. If someone puts down a hard item to the table anywhere (e.g. a pen, fingertips with fingernails, smartphone) you won't be able to hear anyone in the room through microphones due to the transient noise.

  • Is there a good way to prevent apps/programs from accessing the internet, or restrict it to VPNs only?

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  • Is there a good way to prevent apps/programs from accessing the internet, or restrict it to VPNs only?

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  • Netguard is a FOSS Android app which kinda works like a firewall. You can allow/block network access on a per-application basis. You can limit access e.g. on WiFi or on mobile etc. It also supports blocklists, supplementing your ad blocker.

    To the Android OS, Netguard acts as if it were a VPN.

    Limitations:

    • if you want to filter Android system services, you will break things. You will need to spend some time to do it right.
    • Chaining it to another VPN is only possible via SOCKS proxy
    • if you want to route some app's traffic via VPN and others not, I think that is not possible. You could, however, manually turn off an app's internet connection before disconnecting the VPN, if that is not too error-prone for you.

    The app is very stable, I have been using it for about 5 years without problems. For most use cases it is fire-and-forget, i.e. I rarely open the app any more.

  • A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch

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  • I think we should not expect a volunteer (or small group of volunteers) to keep up with a billion dollar company

  • What a CASHLESS society REALLY means

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  • If our societies would be perfect (now and any time in the future), we would not need this discussion, maybe not even privacy at all. Though a lot of things are very good in our societies, I guess we will not live to see them becoming perfect, so I rather retain some caution, and privacy.

  • What a CASHLESS society REALLY means

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  • You could use WiFi only

  • What a CASHLESS society REALLY means

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  • Which country is giving away free phones? I have never heard that before.

  • What a CASHLESS society REALLY means

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  • Yes, Android (and iOS) can turn that off: torn off mobile network or don't have a mobile phone provider (SIM).

  • What a CASHLESS society REALLY means

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  • I guess almost any country has (some) untrustworthy banks. So whatever country is planning to go cashless, they will have both.

  • What a CASHLESS society REALLY means

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  • I recommended reading about statelessness. Some 4…5million people are stateless. As a result, they often don't have and cannot obtain any documents. Have you tried opening a bank account without documents? (Spoiler: basically impossible in most countries)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness

  • What a CASHLESS society REALLY means

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  • If the children are young enough, nanna can transfer money to some account the parents control. If the parents are fine, that's fine. However, what if the parents are addicts (drugs, gambling, whatever)? Or what if they are so deep in debt that every cent on their accounts immediately gets turned to whoever the owe to? In that case the kid can't even buy themselves lunch on their own.

  • What a CASHLESS society REALLY means

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  • Let me try to respond back:

    1. Depending on your situation, your identity, your society, you cannot always rely on the police helping you. There are lots of documented cases of discrimination (e.g. racism) at police institutions in all kinds of regions across the globe. The companies probably don't want to delete the data any time soon, so there is a chance that this data persists for decades. What if your country chances and starts discriminating or harassing whatever group you belong to? Can you guarantee that your government/society won't flip the switch on any group of society within their lifetime? Can you guarantee that nobody ever wants to visit a country which their group will be discriminated or persecuted?
    2. If the homeless person does not own a smartphone, how do they receive money on their Swish account, yet create a swish account? How does a person without documents create a swish account?
    3. In your case, Swish seems to be a digital gatekeeper. What prevents them from going rogue, increasing prices or discriminating people? I recommended reading Jaron Lanier's Gadget for understanding the power of digital monopolies.

    If the first point does not convince you, here are 2 examples:

    • gay dating apps: It repeatedly happened that information from gay dating apps were leaked, sold or extorted to bad governments. Those governments discriminated or persecuted, in some cases killed people just for being homosexual. Chances are high that a gay person has some digital traces to that, e.g. in Swish. Cashless puts them even more at risk in countries like Egypt. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/apr/03/jailed-for-using-grindr-homosexuality-in-egypt
    • In the 1930s, a lot of Jews in Europe were identified through state documents which (unnecessarily) mentioned their religion. In some locations, brave people protected them by destroying, hiding or faking state documents.

    In other words: If your society changes, any data that exists may be turned against you, even costing your life and the lives of your closest people. Avoiding to have this data saves lives and protects minorities.

  • I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

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  • More "conservative" in terms of preserving the planet's resources.

    You don't need Gigabytes of RAM for almost any consumer application, as long as the programming team was interested/incentivized to write quality software.

  • I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

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  • Innovation is orthogonal to code size. None of the software most modern computers are running cannot be solved on 10 year old computers. It's just the question whether the team creating your software is plugging together gigantic pieces of bloatware or whether they actually develop a solution to a real problem.

  • Turn almost any bike into an e-bike with the Clip

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  • This looks like it would cause horrible driving dynamics due to additional load on the front wheel.

  • Switching to OCaml bois

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  • Yeah, that's a very useful exception.

  • Switching to OCaml bois

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  • Operator overloading is adding complexity, making code subtly harder to read. The most important lesson for code is: It should primarily be written to be easy to read by humans because if code is not trash, it will be read way more often than written.

  • Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

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  • If it is just the location, then it could be spoofed.

    If it is something that requires physical presence, then you need both devices to communicate with each other. If it is not done via QR code (like some online banking do), then both devices need to be connected, e.g. via WiFi or Bluetooth. In this case, if an attacker controls one of the devices (that's the class of attacks 2FA should prevent you from), the attacker probably controls both devices. So what's the point then?