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That's their public core argument.

Their real argument (to shareholders etc) is that they want that 30% rake on everything you buy, so they want you to have 900 apps on your phone instead of a web browser than visits 900 websites.


Signal UX is AWFUL if you have a work PC, a home PC, a phone, and a tablet.

Getting messages to flow across all of them is impossible.


Getting messages to flow across lots of different platforms for a single account has been a source for a number of very bad security problems in other messengers. (Recent example: Matrix, Nebuchadnezzar). Different projects, different priorities.


Signal already has the ability to register multiple devices with the same account, though. The only thing they haven't done with this is support sync of past messages. That seems like it should be much simpler than supporting multiple devices in the first place, and I'm wondering if there's some non-obvious attack that they're simply not talking about or if it just hasn't reached the top of their priority list yet.


Why is it impossible?

I've had 0 issues syncing between my iPhone/iPad/Mac... and i use the app daily.


"AI behavior guardrails" is a weird way to spell "AI censorship"


I agree with the Twitter OP: they're embarrassed about what they've created.


Cops can absolutely do that. Cops posing as prostitutes can arrest you for attempting to purchase sex from them as well.


The key there is the attempt. As South Park so memorably pointed out, they don't actually go through with it before arresting you.


This is absolutely true in many states in America. Not sure why you received any down votes.


There's only Safari on iOS. EVERY browser on iOS is just a skin on top of Safari's WebKit.

See 2.5.6 here - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/


Literally specifically said that. Yet Edge and Chrome on iOS actively suppressed JXL in prior builds (yes they can do that — actually calling it a skin is technically wrong as while the engine is Safari, they have a lot of flexibility), and very recently exposed it.


Wasn’t this supposed to change with iOS 17?


Apple is dropping requirements for all browsers to use WebKit, but that doesn’t mean Mozzila/Google/Brave have started releasing them, especially with iOS 17 still being a beta.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/07/new-iphone-browsers/


Link appears to just lead to the Manjaro home page. Is there something new / exciting that HN needs to know?


There was a post from Hackaday earlier today about moving from Ubuntu to Manjaro


There are many file explorer apps ( MiXplorer is my favorite https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.... ) on Google Play that have optional root access as well. You can use it w/o root, but if you have root it prompts for elevation and then lets you use it.


I also use MiXplorer, and wouldn't be able to read my camera's SD cards on my phone without it because Android doesn't support exfat for some reason. Root is required for it to use its own filesystem drivers of course.

I don't think I knew it was on the Play store. It's a free download from the website, but paid on the Play store. I'd like to make a donation without giving Google a cut - the author deserves to get paid.


We're one killer global war / pandemic / etc away from extinction

Being on multiple planets (and eventually multiple solar systems) prevents a species from going extinct if something catastrophic happens to their home world


> We're one killer global war / pandemic / etc away from extinction

No, we're not. And whatever we end up doing to the Earth, it's still going to be vastly more suitable for human life than anywhere else in the solar system.

If you care about preventing extinction, stop looking at the stars, and start digging bunkers. Or building undersea cities, or whatever.


All true, but I say a backup plan is better than no backup plan, especially as this is one (admittedly rich) sci-fi nerd's hobby project.

As even that specific nerd is also doing a big project to reduce environmental damage, this isn't an "either/or", it's an "and".


The sun is gonna blow up anyway and eat the whole solar system


Yeah, but even the sun getting too hot for complex life on Earth in particular is something like 2 billion years before that.


Why is this important?


No company should give up it's user data without a fight

It's not even clear that who they were looking for had broken any laws


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Nazism? What a laugh. Here's the real reason for these blocks:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/world/americas/brazil-tel...


This is literally about nazism. Here’s a copy of the decision in PT https://www.conjur.com.br/dl/telegram-decisao-suspensao.pdf

Please stop spreading misinformation


Oh yeah, telegram is a nazi company, they "commited a crime". Fuck off. What is your plan to defeat nazism, ban the whole internet? Because, sorry for giving you the bad news, Telegram is far from the only place where there are stupid people.


> ban the whole internet?

These judges? I don't doubt for a second they'd do it.


In case anyone was wondering how, it's pretty straight forward:

Hamburger Menu > Settings

Privacy & Security tab on the left

Scroll down to the Firefox Data Collection and Use section (2nd section from bottom)

Uncheck all of the boxes in this section


FYI: You might be shadowbanned. A lot of your recent comments are marked as dead, without seeming low quality enough to get flags (including this one, which I just vouched for).

What's weird is that some of your comments aren't dead, and typically shadowbanned users have all of their comments auto-marked as dead. It's possible those got vouches though.


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