> Note that if provided with the plaintext of a username known to be in use, Signal can connect that username to the Signal account that the username is currently associated with. However, once a username has been changed or deleted, it can no longer be associated with a Signal account.
The "no longer associated", I will need to get Signal word for that, right. (You cannot cryptographically prove something was deleted, right.)
It's not like past always predicts the future. Apple has a lot of stinkers too, just not recently. Apple TV (the HW device) is not all that successful either.
On the other hand, this is rather hype-free (no metaverse!!!!! no AI!) and has actual usecases presented. Also I thought Apple Watches were stupid, but now almost everyone has one. So, who knows.
I tried to get into Gemini for a while - it’s like Gopher but reimagined with some more modern ideas.
However I quickly figured out there is not much to actually do there. The way modern web works is horrible (I don’t want to click just another cookie banner thanks), but at least it’s easy for all people to contribute.
Commons in particular should get a big overhaul. And ideally a phone app.
I don’t know how would it look like, but… why is it 100 times easier to upload photo of a place from phone to Google Maps than it is to Commons?
(ironically, most poor country photos are from Panoramio from before it went to Google Maps.)
Despite all the negative about wikipedia, it’s still sort of part of “old internet” that I don’t want to die.
Even wikia, which was spun at first as “slightly more commercial wikipedia”, later became Fandom, which is something so horrible that I don’t want to look at
Look at WikiTravel which is more commercial WikiVoyage… they immediately went and stuffed it with ads and trackers.
And I mean wikimedia is fine NOW, but economy is going down, I will be happy if it has a certain rundown.
I am not entirely happy about all decisions that they do, but they’re still not pushing me any tracker. I am fine with closing some pop up.
maybe if wikimedia gave more money to development and less to random grants, it would be better. but I don’t know. This community stuff is always hard to pull off.
I have no comment about the main article, but I agree about the other unrelated point below - that Commons is really start to show its age.
It’s kind of comical how YouTube and flickr is listed there as the “new boys on the block”, but I agree that there should be more development on making Commons easier to use.
Try to upload photos to Commons… they don’t even have phone apps and using the web uploader is really cumbersome.
(I also hate wikidata with a passion, but it seems like there is a push for this Semantic Web nonsense from the very top of wikimedia so what am I gonna do)
They don't run regular Android though, with Google Play, just the open source version with some Chinese marketplace. I have followed one (now dead) e-ink phone on indiegogo (forgot the name, sorry), and they wrote that Google does not let (black-and-white) e-ink smartphones pass Android certification, because they cannot correctly display the colors in their apps. So they will never run Google Play, and there will never be just e-ink phone with built-in regular Android and Google Play, sadly.
There is a hacky way to get Google Play on the hisense phones, but... ugh. That's too much hackiness for me.
Yeah so in case of Tor, people use DDG which is the default. And DDG, being bad and handling SEO spam worse than Google, often returns wrong onion address. (Which happened to me several times.)
And you cannot really check if it's the correct one.
At least on regular net, you have a chance to spot nytime5 is fake.
> The first benefits are authenticity and availability: if you are running Tor Browser and if you click/type in exactly the proper Onion address, you are guaranteed to be connected to what you expect — or not at all.
What? Writing raw onion addresses is like writing raw IPv6 addresses. Nobody can remember then and check them.
I never worked on Chrome directly, but I looked into the Chromium code sometimes when debugging some weird JS issues.
What strikes me first is how much code there is…
There are tons of code, some things copied multiple times, because Chrome nowadays does a lot of things; basically it’s an entire operating system, which accesses USB, runs assembly code, runs WebGL, basically all.
And it’s all in C++, and very verbose Google C++.
But in the end I always found what I was looking for there. And I can’t say how good or bad the C++ is, as I’m not C++ dev. Just there is a LOT of it.
https://xkcd.com/2347/
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