the_third_wave (u/the_third_wave)

the_third_wave commented on Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads androidauthority.com/sams... · Posted by u/kotaKat

jdalgetty · 6 months ago

If there's a screen, there will be ads.

the_third_wave · 6 months ago

"The cause of the recent crash of flight ADZRUS-666 has been determined to be a badly scheduled ad impression which covered all screens in the glass cockpit to show aan ad of a dancing hippopotamus in a tutu selling skin care products while the plane was on final approach in IFR conditions."

the_third_wave commented on How Does the Cycle of Political Violence End? Here's What an Expert Says politico.com/news/magazin... · Posted by u/tempodox

xtiansimon · 6 months ago

> “The only person killed during the altercation…”

Wikipedia lists “deaths” as a result of the insurrection, 4 on the day and 5 afterwards.

the_third_wave · 6 months ago

Wikipedia lists whatever narrative the editors who have colonised that section of the site want to push. It is not a reliable source, this is something you learn in primary school.

the_third_wave commented on Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room fastcompany.com/91396271/... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

ourguile · 6 months ago

I greatly prefer Kagi https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/ but it's very nice to see more competition in this space in general.

the_third_wave · 6 months ago

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the_third_wave commented on Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever old.reddit.com/r/europe/c... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

reorder9695 · 6 months ago

I don't think that's the issue, plenty are already. The issue to me is I'm not going to use something my friends/family aren't using. Maybe something matrix like where many clients are interoperable will work? I still think to take off it would need to support being a frontend for imessage/whatsapp/messenger too or no one will start using it, in a similar way to how imessage falls back to sms, this theoretical app could fall back to whatever shared app the two contacts have.

the_third_wave · 6 months ago

Matrix is overly complicated for the purpose and XMPP/OMEMO already are interoperable between many different clients. Just like all other communication systems it is the network effect which makes them usable. Tell your friends to install a client of choice and - for those so inclined - run a server or create an account on one. Keep your current W/app or Telegram or whatever active for now while you slowly move more communications to XMPP. Once you have contact with most of your friends and family via XMPP make it your default wat to communicatie, i.e. do not start conversations over the legacy apps and answer those who contact you over them through XMPP. You'll find that you'll end up using those legacy apps less and less. Keep them active if you want but don't initiate conversations over them and you'll be set for the moment using those services becomes untenable.

This is not just fiction, it is what I have done and am still in the process of doing, in my case moving from Telegram - I never used nor will I ever use things which requires accounts run by metafacebook or Google or Microsoft or any of the others.

the_third_wave commented on Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever old.reddit.com/r/europe/c... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

_zoltan_ · 6 months ago

until there is a user friendly app like messenger or whatsapp, nobody is going to use these.

the_third_wave · 6 months ago

Conversations on Android and forks thereof are comparable to eg. W/app. This is not a problem, at all.

the_third_wave commented on Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever old.reddit.com/r/europe/c... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

meindnoch · 6 months ago

And what are you going to do when they write a law that requires ISPs to drop any packet that lacks a digital signature from a trusted hardware manufacturer?

the_third_wave · 6 months ago

We're not there yet, by far. Should that ever happen it will be circumvented just like nearly all technological measures are.

the_third_wave commented on Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever old.reddit.com/r/europe/c... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

rafaelmn · 6 months ago

I feel like we should create an open source P2P chat messaging with encryption thats super easy to use so that these kind of laws become pointless. Empower criminals so that they cant use this excuse to target civilian infra.

the_third_wave · 6 months ago

Just run your own XMPP server in your own domain, use OMEMO for encryption and you're set. You can communicate with others on other servers, none of them 'publically available' and the TLA's can stare at all that encrypted gibberish 'till the cows come home. Even if they break into a single server they won't get access to the cleartext, for that they'll need to access the terminal devices - phones, browsers, etc.

This is how I've been communicating for years now, it works fine and does not feed any of the data parasites out there.

the_third_wave commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

AngryData · 7 months ago

Im not sure we should allow such premeditated charge stacking, it is just further weaponizing the law and fueling our prison industrial complex for zero gain to society. Who is to say many of those people wouldn't have stopped after being caught and charged the first time? Imagine if cops sat on the side of the road not pulling people over, just recording minor traffic offenses in a file, and then a year or so later drop 10+ charges on a person all at once and turning the collective charges into felony reckless driving charges? People would be outraged and nothing of worth would be gained.

the_third_wave · 7 months ago

Time to change your laws and/or prosecutors I'd say so those 'minor thefts' can and will be prosecuted resulting in fines which need to be paid - no ifs and buts. Get them early and get them (hopefully not that) often and you may be able to keep the majority of 'proletarian shoppers' on a somewhat less crooked path. If crime pays more people commit crimes, if shoplifting is not dealt with more people shoplift.

the_third_wave commented on Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users ofcom.org.uk/online-safet... · Posted by u/HatchedLake721

the_third_wave · 7 months ago

Could you give some examples which refer to the activities you accuse him of? Examples of actual violations of the Constitution of the United States, that is, not just examples of him deciding things you happen to disagree with.