I'd however mention, the two biggest ISPs that remain today both have adopted IPv6 on their fiber connections. They're also heavily using CGNAT for IPv4. It makes sense, the volume at which they're working makes dedicated IPv4 very uneconomical.
Well It isn't necessarily impossible, but Multi-Device encryption can get complicated.
It all depends on how things are done, one way to approach e2e with multiple devices is, each device gets it's own key, and the sender encrypts the text to all the keys. (Or usually uses a symmetric session key, that is encrypted and sent). However what do you do when a new device joins in? Someone needs to rekey all the messages for the new device.
Another way to approach this might be share the encryption keys across all devices, and make adding a new device basically sharing that key. This obviously comes with it's own set of disadvantages.
And in the end, what do you do if someone loses all their devices? The encryption keys are just lost.
I guess telegram just doesn't want to deal with that, which is kinda sad since it's a really good app and multi device encryption support would just sell me on the app.
To me a chat app not reading my messages is way more important than a chat app will not use my phone number for advertisement. Ideally I'd have both, but given a choice, the first one is way way more horrific than the other.
Though, for some cases Telegram is definately better, Groups, work related chats don't really need to be private as much and that's where telegram really shines for me. Specially since I can use it without giving my phone number away.
Oh yea, I think I got the idea. The initial direction with apps like Tez too was trying to use NFC for payment. That just didn't catch on, which I'd probably pin on the fact that majority of population here uses low-mid range Smartphones which often skip over NFC support.
Well true, I don't know what a good way to deal with this would be, blockchain based solutions also suffer from same problem, where early adopters squat on domains and offer to sell them for 10000x markup
Google Pay in India no longer has any of those features. Infact it has been completely reworked to support UPI payments [1].
And it has completely transformed how payments happen. paymets happen directly from bank account to bank account regardlessof what app you're using (Samsung Pay, PhonePe, GPay, your bank's app). You can use QR codes or simple username@bank to make payments.
I am not aware of any payment systems that support the use of NFC, (NFC is not that commonplace for anything except cards, and I have had trouble setting up cards in google pay).
One of the biggest benefits of QR based payments have been is it does not require any special hardware. Just a mobile and Internet (Which is very common and accessible here). And it has little to no transaction fees. So it has been quickly adopted by literally everyone.
Awh, Can you give a idea of how much nuisance such devices can cause you daily? Also is there a way to prevent cochlear implants from detecting these frequencies? (like do only some cochlear implants do this or most of them do)
I really wanna use tech like this sometimes in future, but I also wanna care about accessiblity.
There are already projects like Handshake, ENS, Unstoppable domains that try to do this. Honestly I like the need for renewal fees for domains personally, since it means you can't just buy a domain once and squat on it forever.
I use two note taking apps, Obsidian and Nebo, each for their own use case.
Obsidian has everything your needs are, you can setup syncthing to sync your notes across multiple devices. Everything is a .md file and organized using folders and it has great plugin support. Though ability to publish from inside the app is locked behind a subscription. You can always use pandoc to just convert the md files, there probably are some plugins that try to do that. Also i love how lightweight it is.
Second is Nebo, Nebo is for handwritten notes usecase. This isn't something many people really have a usecase for, But Nebo has AWESOME handwriting -> searchable text conversion, specially for Math! And publishing things is as a easy as clicking publish. And it has google drive/drop integration for sync (I'd rather use syncthing but the android app doesn't expose the stored files).
Oh not to mention, this might soon change as eSNI/ECH is adopted! Then the only information being leaked would be the IP address of the server. And with widespread use of CDNs nowadays would make the information collected pretty useless.
Ofcourse that is if your DNS queries are not leaking everything. (which they are! Use DNS-over-HTTPs guys!)