batatati (u/batatati)

batatati commented on Android 10 android.com/android-10/?... · Posted by u/Aissen

rvz · 7 years ago

> With Android 10, you’re in control of your privacy.

With privacy being the latest buzzword in the tech industry and all this news about privacy blunders I keep seeing, For Google to market something like this for Android makes you wonder what other nefarious features that have been added to Android that they didn't tell you about.

In terms of privacy, Android 10 instead screams "Upgrade and lose control of your privacy".

batatati · 7 years ago

Entirely agree. We should educate people that privacy is not something a company can "add" to a product or to an ad like Apple and Google claim. Privacy is not just a "feature", this is whole culture, ideological and technological commitment (and sacrifices and extra challenges) you have to do (like at Purism, Mozilla, GNU, etc.) not some marketing buzzword strategy to put on ads to make more sells.

Privacy is not something you can claim, it is something you must prove through 100% full stack open source code and reproducible builds.

batatati commented on Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees sourcehut.org/blog/2019-0... · Posted by u/ddevault

zaarn · 7 years ago

This looks suspiciously like a spam campaign to fish for users desperate enough to go anywhere but bitbucket.

batatati · 7 years ago

SourceHut / Sir_Cmpwn deserves all the support he can get. I don't know if you realize that this guy is earning 10 times less that what he could earn by accepting any of the job knocking at his door. But instead he chose to be a full time free & open source developer financed only by people donations and SourceHut (which is 100% open source too)

Moreover there is very frequently on HN "Github is introducing feature X" or "Company Y is announcing product Z" where those company are multi billlionaire making money by exploiting people data and abusing their monopoly. And all you find to do is be rude about SourceHut, developed by an independent, which is 100% open source, which contains no analytics and respects you

batatati commented on A Russian B-Boy Dreams of Gold nytimes.com/2019/08/19/sp... · Posted by u/gk1

batatati · 7 years ago

Having bboying in the Olympics is an affront to our culture. Storm just sold breakdance to the mainstream for its own ego.

This is exactly like David Belle selling the whole Parkour culture to the Gymnastics & Olympics.

Those people have to big of an ego to let their reputation fade away as they get older, so they betray their own culture and people just for the sake of recognition and money

batatati commented on Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program publishes second Steam 0-day zdnet.com/article/researc... · Posted by u/tareqak

batatati · 7 years ago

Maybe it is also time to switch from the prehistoric model of "hey let's download a .exe on the web, execute it without any sandbox, and let that .exe install other .exe from thousands of other unknown sources around the world and run them without any sandbox either."

Steam or any other app should always run sandboxed with no root access, no file access, no camera access, no access to other process, etc. For most users, steam only needs a sandboxed local storage to put its game into it and a internet access (and maybe mic access), that's it.

I really hope Flatpak and something similar for Window becomes the norm, the current situation is a security and privacy disaster.

There can still be exploits of course but now you have the find a weakness both in the app + in the OS sandbox which is a whole lot harder

batatati commented on Advances in NLP to better connect people ai.facebook.com/blog/new-... · Posted by u/moneil971

farazbabar · 7 years ago

I have refused to get hired by google and Facebook because they give me the creeps. Duck duck go cannot afford me. Maybe, we can start our own search/social/nlp startup? I don't care about making any money, if you are in the same boat as I am (dreading the status quo, wanting to do something, don't need or not driven by money, reply to this and we will try to make it happen - reminds me of the hypersane post from a couple days ago btw, the crazies not driven by materialism and can see through shit).

batatati · 7 years ago

If that's true, I have a huge respect for people like you. I can't say the same for some of my friends at university who have no issue working for such unethical companies