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  • The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda

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  • I actually don’t really understand how they would do this. Isn’t WhatsApp end to end by protocol? They’d have to share messages at the client side. What a mess.

  • European investigators say that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully cut critical data cables in the Baltic Sea

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  • This article underplays the international games being played on this right now.

    The very ship that’s being accused of the sabotage has been stopped by Swedish and Danish coast guard vessels and is currently being gently prevented from moving on. It’s a bit of a stand-off at the minute. Turns out their anchor looks all mangled up, so something has definitely happened.

  • Being an adult

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  • By Darwin, so much this. If somebody could actually convey the insane amount of work and responsibility that is heaped upon your shoulders when you start having children and running a home, you’d never grow up.

    Whatever load you think you’re carrying as a teen - it’s not as much as you think.

  • US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser

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  • Chrome has achieved its utter dominance through its sheer push on Google.com, YouTube and all the high traffic channels they own.

    If chrome is unbundled, it’ll have to compete on equal terms with Firefox. It will truly and thoroughly help.

  • D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week

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  • Oh man, it’s a nightmare and I just happened to be lucky. I ended up buying one of those passively cooled router-esque N100 boxes out of China (AliExpress) and while it was a total punt it turned out to be a great experience, and their customer service was actually good too.

    Kingdel was the make/vendor and it’s been rock solid.

  • D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week

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  • I moved to an OPNsense router a couple of years ago and I’ve never looked back. Hell is shitty consumer routers.

  • Bluesky: eXodus continues as TERFS lose their brain-rotted minds

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  • Does this belong in technology?

  • What’s an album you thought you would like at first but ended up disliking after listening to it?

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  • Exciter - when DM fell off their cliff.

  • Do you honestly see yourself ever retiring and how?

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  • Are you ok?

  • Do you honestly see yourself ever retiring and how?

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  • Yes, I’ve got a detailed plan and I’m sticking to it. In 12 years from now, my youngest will be 15 and I can start winding down. I can’t imagine doing nothing, but with some part time work I think my wife and I can stretch to make it work. Requires that the oldest self-fund through university, which I had to do, so I’m ok with that.

    Currently 47, which is probably substantially older than most people here. The concept of “retirement” (winding down) seemed so far away (didn’t start saving for it until late twenties) but compounding interest really is the most powerful force in the universe.

    Of course if the stock crashes, plans may have to change. I’m slowly moving towards a stronger bond mix but that lowers return and pushes dates out. It’s a hard balance.

    I think I’ve accounted for everything that one can plan for; late life care costs, risk of both my wife and I living to 100 (in a financial sense, we should all be so lucky), higher spend until 75, then lowered. There’s a risk that the UK removes universal state pensions, which would drastically alter my plans.

    https://imgur.com/a/MAWe4eq

  • Why do People Choose BlueSky Over Mastodon?

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  • Crucially though, for a very long time they forced you to choose a server instead of just set you up on the default on.

  • Why do People Choose BlueSky Over Mastodon?

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  • I’m not saying don’t federate. I’m saying don’t talk about that as the primary feature when you’re enticing people to sign up to it.

  • Why do People Choose BlueSky Over Mastodon?

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  • Agreed. There should have been a default place to sign up from the beginning. Leaning on federation as a feature is something very few people care about until they really care about it. The mass adopter just looks at where their favourite celebrity or talking head is and then move there.

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  • I didn’t. Thanks for the shoutout, I’ll have a look.

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  • You’re way outside my scope of knowledge - I know a bit about the decisions they took 10 years, and not very much on what is happening today. I would imagine some of these limits are configurable and dynamic. I really don’t know.

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  • Skype made the call negotiation go through a central server (as does all systems nowadays). Skype was originally built on Kazaa technology to punch through firewalls without a central coordinator and that’s what Microsoft removed. They didn’t remove it to track the calling but to enable larger group calls on weaker devices which required video mixing on a central system rather than peer to peer call (where weaker peers couldn’t decode that many video streams). Calls up to 4 are still routed peer to peer if the backend can find routes through all firewalls.

    Very very little of Skype was in the new Teams if anything. Teams was a rewrap of Communicator calling tech and was a response to Slack. The real time chatting had nothing to do with Skype either.

    Skype lingered in Microsoft for a couple of reasons; Microsoft was crap at acquiring businesses back then, thinking that a hands off approach was best. It meant Skype never really became a proper Microsoft team - they still felt and acted like Skype employees and they didn’t manage to affect Redmond very well. Being acquired is super hard especially when almost all of the bigger business was in a different time zone and a different culture.

    I was at a leadership development workshop with a tonne of Skype leaders about 10 years ago. They were still feeling incredibly frustrated and not understanding what was expected of them. It was a botched acquisition and the fault was on both sides.

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  • Of all the meeting solutions, I’ve come to the conclusion that Google Meet is the least bad.

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  • In mean aside from the fact that almost all of that story is completely wrong, it’s a good story.

    Source: Used to work at Microsoft and worked a lot with people from the Skype team.

  • Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host

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  • For anyone finding this later. Unfortunately I’ve had to come off Actual :-(

    While the gocardless syncing works really well, Actuals code for merging transactions is just too flaky for the banks I use. I end up having multiple similar transactions, done on the same day for the same amount, collapse into one and while you’re meant to be able to just set a starting date and an account value, Actual kept on syncing transactions from before the starting date.

    I appreciate it’s open source and given I’ve paid nothing I should expect nothing. All good. But there wasn’t any engagement in the discord support section nor any response to bugs filed. It’s clearly under active development but the QA side doesn’t get enough attention that I could get it to work for me.

    While I understand they don’t want to accept bugs without repro steps, there’s not enough scaffolding for capturing data and submitting issues inside the app.

    I know I could get on that and fix it. I’m not complaining. I’m glad Actual works for many. But the transaction syncing totally did not work for the banks I used and so I’ve had to stop using it.