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Brave is a series scam company.


Still claiming WA messages are e2ee? The MITM is even paraphrasing the content back to you.


I think that “mental illness” kind of comments would come from people whose attitude for safety in many aspects of life is “that’s never going to happen (to me)”. Those people exist, so sooner or later you’ll see comments like that.

On the other hand everybody is trying to find a balance in convenience and safety and the situations and environments and life on general for one person can be quite different from that of some others’. So what’s adequate for one won’t be for another.

It’s like PPE or personal finance or many other things. There’s no one size that fits all and finding the right fit isn’t easy. For a lot of us it’s work in progress. Sometimes you know what’s definitely needed and tweak the details. Sometimes you know something is not going well and needs to change.

Maybe it’s enough to say that it’s complicated and have some compassion and support for people that think it isn’t. Or people that think it’s all too much to handle.



That’s almost always false unless the hardware is faster and thus more power hungry and hot than your CPU. That’s rarely true. Some fpga accelerator? Maybe. GPU/TPU? Sure. Your hard drive? Not a chance that it would have even remotely competitive processor.

The point of hardware acceleration is usually that your CPU doesn’t need to do a task so there’s less CPU load and it can spend that time running applications or respond faster.



Try the “switch instance” link on one of them?




Spam and other attacks did happen. And it doesn’t really handle being mobile or disconnected without some sort of proxy. Among other things.

It’s still there, but withered and infested. Kind of like Usenet and real email.



Writing is a really good tool for slowing down. Handwriting even more so.


Microsoft wants GPG/PGP dead and if it isn’t in outlook, corporate won’t use it and if corporate don’t use it, there’s no business incentive for services either.



Ingsoc was always here, just hiding.





I think searx is using POST or something, which means you can’t bookmark searches, they’re broken in history, and if when you restart a browser, your search tabs get completely lost.

It’s been the worst search UI I’ve seen in the nearly 30 years I’ve used web searches.

Still use it, because of the alternatives.



Brave is a series scam company.



Most sci-fi is. At least if you squint a little.


Your local library may even lend one or have a machine with a drive. Probably intended for digitising stuff and writing discs from them, but if there’s software, it’ll work in reverse as well.




There are probably semi ready ones. Apart from integration.




Hypothetically the hardware could have been modified, but that would take some insane level of a determined attacker to be fabricating modified pixels just to sell them on the used market.


Also unlockable and presumably has well working builds. It’s not just graphene, but just about every Android project it there that’s best supported on pixels. Other manufacturers have a crazy variety of locking schemes and required tools. Each one is a nightmare to support.



Encryption is trivial. Getting a reliable keystream is not.

It all depends on the framing 😁


The federated, foss software stacked network matrix. Right.


Yes. There are a lot of reasons why any one of us could turn into a high value target at the drop off a hat. If not to a government, then to an organisation or a lone lunatic.


Blocking, yes. Bans can be more, though. When poor opsec gets you defenestrated or shipped to an offshore entertainment facility, it’s a bit more than an inconvenience.



One of the worst names ever. Maybe also one of the worst launchers. Otherwise I really like it.


There should be an edit function on a comment. Of course clients and federation vary.


You run a scam. Then when it dries up, you start the next idea and then the next. Brave has a looong history of one thing after another.