I always enjoy the vague yet threatening online comment. I'm of the opinion that this is from one of the better bot farms who have learned if you make people nervous, you can control their choices.
Readit Newstsherr commented on Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/mikece
tsherr commented on Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data? · Posted by u/timdaub
Yes we would. Since regular phone calls aren't encrypted, not to speak of E2EE, phone companies can listen on all calls.
Of course I suspect Meta actually will listen on business calls while traditional phone companies will most likely only do so after a court order, but we put the bar much higher with digital services compared to regular phone calls.
That's because there's no monetary reason for the phone company to listen in but Facebook is all about listening and recording.
1000% agree, so much so that I started such a project and wrote a blog post about this very problem[1] and launched what has become a full-time project to solve it (Snikket).
These days I believe very much in identifying and serving a specific set of users. XMPP is just a protocol, it has lots of potential applications, but it's nothing unless you channel that into a tangible usable product for real people.
This epiphany came to me after more than 10 years of working on XMPP as a server developer and spending time promoting open communication protocols to people. It was soul-crushing that at the end of a day I would still see my own family communicating with each other via WhatsApp.
Six months after the initial Snikket prototypes, and after a little user testing, I migrated my family over to XMPP by sending a simple invitation link (the start of the Snikket onboarding journey). They're now using it daily and totally happy with it. I'm beginning to hear similar stories from others who have repeated this with their own families/groups and their own Snikket setups.
All it took was to look at the issue through the eyes of "normal people" for a moment, and it changed my approach (and success rate) significantly.
This is very cool. I moved our family to signal, but this looks better. I'll be trying it out for sure.
tsherr commented on Making $5k/mo from my blog “dogfooding” my own SEO content software indiehackers.com/post/cas... · Posted by u/mattscyoc
"without any knowledge on the topic" refers to the time BEFORE the user uses the tool. During and after the tool the user will certainly have knowledge after reading and curating the questions and answers, right? Just like, before you read about a topic you "have no knowledge" but after, you might say that you have some now.
So when you say "without any knowledge" you meant, you picked a topic you didn't understand, researched it thoroughly, then made the post?
So you didn't weeks/months becoming an expert before making the post?
Then it's not spam.
tsherr commented on Making $5k/mo from my blog “dogfooding” my own SEO content software indiehackers.com/post/cas... · Posted by u/mattscyoc
I think it depends on your own definition. I think spam is highly subjective, no?
I'd suggest that any article written "without any knowledge of the topic" is of zero value. I'd define spam as zero value posts/messages. Ergo, it's spam. Not sure how you can argue it isn't.
Not attacking you, I'm just interested in your defence of this sort of thing
tsherr commented on 30 days ago I was an Apple employee twitter.com/ashleygjovik/... · Posted by u/forty
I find it interesting that everytime something like this comes up: a person (usually female) gets fired from a tech firm and alleges abuse and toxic work place, the response from the Hacker News crowd is is heavily negative (to the person) and tries to say the person is crazy/overly sensitive/hysterical.
I'm not saying this specific person is right, but if the argument in the comments of "if everyone you work with is a moron, then maybe the problem is you" is true (and I think it can be) then we must consider that some of these stories are true and some people (and it appears to be often women) are being treated abysmally at work.
If Apple can scan people's photos (just in case there's something nasty there) then they should welcome government investigation of their workplaces (just in case).
tsherr commented on Can ‘smart thinking’ books give you the edge? theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
Isn't the rule that the answer to any headline that asks a yes/no question is always no?
tsherr commented on Launching Steve.Ai – Fastest way to create Videos in seconds steve.ai/... · Posted by u/raghavanr
I hate cool services that won't let me in because they are invite only and there's no way to get one
My opinion about:
1. Every pedophile know about the existence of this system, so I don't think it will be useful to fight those monster, maybe only marginally;
2. Anyway, is that legal ? Even if some crazy store material on his Apple hardware isn't that illegal search non usable in law courts ?
3. Child abuse is often used as Trojan horse to introduce questionable practice. What if:
- the system is used to looking for dissidents: I look for people that have a photo of Tiananmen Square protests on their pc, for example;
- for espionage: I have the hash of some documents of interest, so all the PCs with that kind of documents could be a valuable target;
- profiling people: you have computer virus sample on your PC -> security researcher/hacker;
I think that the system is prone to all kind of privacy abuse.
4. this could be part of the previous point, but, because I think it's the final and real reason for the existence of that system, I give to this point its own section: piracy fight. I think that the one of the real reason is to discourage the exchange of illigal multimedia material to enforce copyrighs.
For the listed reasons, I think that is a bad idea. Let me know what are you thinking about.
As I understand it, in Canada, having a picture of your child in a bathtub is child porn. So I can see this going horribly wrong.
tsherr commented on Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/gcoguiec
> everything Apple has been marketing spin for decades.
After using Android since around 2010 getting a midrange iPhone around 18 or so months ago was almost a revelation for me, so no, it is clearly not all marketing spin.
(Why? Even on a Note II or S7 Edge something as trivial as opening the camera would have me waiting. On my iPhone XR pressing the camera button brings up the camera more or less instantaneously. And there are also a number of small conveniences that are hard to really pinpoint like actually understanding when it is in my pocket and then not turn on and burn out my battery.)
On my ancient and overloaded S8, the camera loads in under a second after double tapping power.
Battery lasts all day (and it's 4 years old). Doesn't turn on when it's in my pocket.
These anecdotal "I switched to x and its waaay better" things always reek of bias.
That a 2017 phone is slower than a 2018 phone is obvious - plus you'd need to reset the s7 to factory defaults for fair(er) comparison.
I do support on iPhones (not an Apple employee) and I've never experienced the the vaunted "this is so much better" moment.