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Given that you have said...

"the bulk of users is either too stupid or unwilling to invest even the tiniest amount of effort into their privacy."

I don't feel the need to pull my punches.

This is the most deluded, idiotic response I've seen on hacker news in a long time.

It seems unlikely that the average person (or even a non-techie person of above average intelligence - e.g. a doctor) will be able to set up matrix in a way that is more secure than just installing signal. Your security relies not just on you but on the weakest node in your network. Getting good security might require trade-offs. Your all or nothing mindset will not achieve it. The saying "Perfect is the enemy of done" comes to mind. Perfect security (or what you purpose) is not one of the options in a secure system that has to exist in the real world.

Please remove your head from it's dark cavernous home.

Love, Me

Can anyone recommend a PDF to HTML converter?

Ad blockers were a rounding error once.

I'm too old and tired to try to be clever on the front end any more. TailwindCSS is the right answer for big projects and for small. Yes it can get bloated but i'm willing to take that trade off if it means I don't have to do any more css.

If we're sharing unverifiable anecdotes about LSD, then I have one...

A friends mother took LSD in the 80s and still gets nightmare flashbacks.

Stay safe kids.

Also: https://chrisharrison.net/projects/progressbars2/ProgressBar...

This response has been written a thousand times, but here goes again...

Using a VPN or Tor is not a viable option for the average person.

This is my favourite Adam Curtis documentary...

The Loving Trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg

Only 3 mins long.

In the last 10 years have a lot of Scottish, Irish or Black people been murdered by UK police officers? 20 years? 30?

I'm sure you can think of a few examples, but the idea that the UK is equally as racist as the US is laughable.

To be clear: I am not saying that racism doesn't exist in the UK or that it isn't a problem - but the kind of false equivalence you put forward doesn't really advance the conversation.

Thanks for posting this, your website content is really interesting.

Maybe it is a bug in my version of Firefox but my processor spikes massively when I go to your site.

Congratulations, this is great. Now add a "buy" button!

Isn't this better than them using whatsapp and having everything they write read by a foreign government?

At least someone has some technical knowledge. Was a bit worried about them after their zoom screenshot debacle.

Feature request: people claiming to be experts who never make actual predictions that can be tested.

Would be good to have a block list of people who can I safely ignore.

Obligatory recommendation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

Promoting the idea that no one is complaining because of apathy is an interesting strategy.

"We didn't censor, people jusy don't care".

What do you mean by scientific advice on Brexit?

The benefits to this are substantial, which is a bit worrying.

If this style of computing becomes the norm it would centralise and fragilize any systems, companies, economies that rely on it. As well as passing control over what can be run to a third party (see: "The war on general purpose computing").

It appears as though this has only just been rolled out.

Is anyone able to view the subreddits on mobile?

Google don't want users, they want pliant consumers.

The idea that young people know more about tech than their parents will become less and less true in the future.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Every person who voted in the referendum felt the need not to read the official leaflet.

My comment was about what a person who voted understood by the time they got to the ballot box.

I didn't make that clear enough and the part of the previous comment I quoted probably helped in this misunderstanding, I apologise.

"What people understood" encompasses the messages that they have received from politicians on both sides of the debate.

The video I linked to shows many politicians from both remain and leave making the point explicit.

I would argue that many, many more people saw these prime time messages than read the official leaflet.

"They said leaving the EU meant leaving the customs union and single market"

Not sure about leaflets (who reads these?), but the main point that people understood leave meant 'leave the customs union and single market' is correct.

The idea that people didn't understand this is a useful delusion for those who want to undo the result.

Source: Me, I was there. But also a quick google search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fDn0MvcHQ4

FT have the same issue with Brexit - woah there! take your mouse of off of that down vote and hear me out!!!

Since the vote came back they have had a constant stream of negative articles both related to the current days events and repeats of what they have said on previous weeks.

Their authors are now at the point that if Brexit does happen, and it is anything less than a total economic apocalypse, they will look like they got it wrong.

Is this astroturfing? I thought the term referred to fake grass roots movements (Astro Turf being the brand name for that fake grass you sometimes see).

As a previous commenter said, this is more like grey/blackhat SEO.

Will there ever be a consumer offering along these lines? (i.e. i am travelling around and don't want to have to get travel SIMs in every different country I visit).

It may well be an emergency, but inconveniencing [1][2] the very people you are attempting to persuade (the voting public) is not a strategy that is likely to work. In my opinion it will make them deaf to the underlying message (Although, I can provide no suggestions for strategies that might work!).

[1] e.g. preventing them getting to work or flying to a holiday [2] Extinction Rebellion Protests: What happened? - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-48051776

For context yongfook is one of the origional 'digital nomads' from before people started calling themselves that with a straight face. He did the excellent opensourcefood.com and i suspect he has more of an idea of what makes a good product than the majority of clichéd responses on this thread.

wow, you really want to find out who these people are.

You were supposed to be the generation that made those things.

The porn industries focus on what customers want vs. what consumers want would certainly explain the increasingly extreme nature of free porn.

I wonder if this is relevant to the discussion:

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

Every time Purism is mentioned on HN there are always people chiming in with negativity around how it's not open or secure or free enough, based on some unachievable metric of those things and with an side dose of utopian fantasizing.

Buy one of these phones because you

- Want a 'free' phone to exist in the future

- Want an open source phone to exist in the future

- Want a secure phone to exist in the future

It may not be up to your standards now, but without your support (money) it will never exist.

If you have the money to spend, then spend it. Consider it a donation to the cause.