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https://archive.is/4ckiD prediction markets is my love

archive.is has a paywall instead of this, i haven't seen this earlier.

I am surprised the halfway crooks phrase is not coined by Tupac Shakur

Mobb Deep

I can't find the quote in the article (and for anyone wondering which song "shook ones", which is an amazing track).

Heading: "OAI-HF Incident"

First sentence: "This incident has Dario shook, there ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks."


Thanks. First time searching with my browser return no hits for shook no idea why

Part 2 is most known, but Part one is a banger too

As someone who listened to Mobb Deep in the 90’s, the way he used that line was impressive, I must say.

Reduce requires knowing that the sum of zero entities is zero but the multiply of zero entities is one. They forget to throw the correct number and think that reduce() just do not work for them.

Will I ever observe any entity banning what really matters?

Anything non-FOSS is just wrong. Banning some specific device or some specific service is wrong in so much of ways. That ape-with-tied-eyes blocking make the parents both use to consider the FOSS as another product of the same league and to consider some competing product as product that works.

Wake up, voters, federals do it because they are going to enslave your tomorrow more than today. And you are just eating what was given to you on the end of the shovel.


We don't have to choose between a world without open source software or a world without privacy, but if we did, I'd enthusiastically choose the former.

...and lose both.

Even if these were open source smart glasses they would be a creepy surveillance device.

If it would be really FOSS (not like Android) your statement is a lie.

Why? There can't be an open source app to enable the camera without the light?

because the user will be able to install another OS written by any John Doe without troubles with drivers. Haven't you acknowledged about the Four Freedoms?

How does that prevent creepshots?

How does not?

Because the user can still be recording in inappropriate situations?

I love XMPP, but its OTR plugin is kind of glitchy.

E2E encryption should be part of the main protocol spec and mandatory. It's 2026 now. Nobody needs a messenger that isn't encrypted.

> Nobody needs a messenger that isn't encrypted.

Businesses want to analyze internal company messages. Chat protocols / platforms need to make inroads with one of the core audiences for online chat. Those are largely taken right now, (slack/teams business, discord gaming/oss). If it is personal/small group messaging, several E2EE options already exist, though I understand Jabber/XMPP is trying to be in the chatroom genre


You can do E2E encryption for organizations, you just establish all conversations as at least 3-way conversations: the two members of the org, and the org itself. You let the server refuse to host any conversation it isn't privy to, and then apps that support organization mode automatically add the org listener, and users using third-party clients can add it manually.

E2EE has well known issues for scaling, which is why it's found primarily in small group / personal chat

The org can just host non-E2EE XMPP, and it'd be the same as this wrt trust, easier to implement too.

There is literally nothing about enterprise inspecting proxies that requires the client operate without default and always on crypto. That makes no sense at all.

The way businesses handle this is by installing a certificate they manage and deploy to their proxies.


one does not typically do data science on message content by capturing it at the proxy, go to the database and dump the data set

Not every messenger needs to support every use case

you'll need one major group if traction is the goal, which seems to be what the posted link is really after

chat is network effect, so a chat app needs to answer "which network of people" if the creators about traction?


True, segmentation is already happening with users choosing apps based on geography, age, and sometimes by social group. It’s possible to target and win over a select group of people if you have a compelling feature or an experience that’s geared towards their needs. You just have to decide who you are focusing on.

I can easily imagine a future where people switch between three messengers, one for general communications with acquaintances and family, one for work, and one for their social circle. Many already do this with social networks.


text, slack, discord for those three already (for me); none were my choice, unlikely I would chose any of them given better options, yay capitalism!

I disagree. XMPP wasn't designed for it, and there are already others that have done E2EE better, while still having some downsides. The only way XMPP has an edge is by not doing E2EE.

E2EE will never be the default, because people lose their devices all the time, and don't want to lose message history.

WhatsApp doesn't even have the option to disable e2ee anymore and it's doing just fine, despite their best efforts to screw over their customers.

WhatsApp depends heavily on centralization.

Who are those people having lot of time to re-read their old message history? I assume most people only read last several messages in a chat. This matches the real life conversations which are not stored anywhere. However, police will definitely be happy to discover that your many years messaging history is intact.

I would rather want a feature, like Telegram has, where you can set auto-delete of all messages older than N days.


>Who are those people having lot of time to re-read their old message history?

Everyone who has to, say, prove that they kept paying their rent for a year without interruptions. You sent a photo of your money transfer from the bank app to your landlord, and he sends the "received" screenshot from his bank app.

Moreover, a lot (even most) people make personal notes by sending messages to themselves.


For me searching my old messages is really useful. I don't scroll back through history but I'll search for things like "plumber" to find the number of a plumber a friend texted me a while back.

>police will definitely be happy

Most people trust the police. This might not be justified in your state, but most people still do.


the only people that really trust the police are ones that never actually had to deal with the police (which may be a whole lot of people). however, if you ever have an unfortunate situation to have a run in with the police, there is a good chance you will not be all that trusting any longer. people trust the idea of police more so than anything else

Well, true. But even so, having the history intact is also a way to remove suspicions from yourself.

"Where were you during the event X? I was very far from the place you are interested in, as can be proven by this photo, sent to my grandma, have a look at the history in her phone."


It's the default/only option for popular apps like Signal or WhatsApp.

If message history is important it should be backed up on the receiver's end after decryption, like WhatsApp and signal do.


Everybody has switched to OMEMO. It's the same encryption standard which Signal uses. It supports multiple devices and encrypted group chats as well.

OMEMO has superseded xmpp for a while now.

Why not to whistleblow in a classic way? If this website is a collection of links than write your whistleblowing stuff elsewhere and give here just a link. I have not acknowledged on a situation you have observed but you do not mention about deleting of some link. Maybe there is some Wikipedia-style policy here about refusal to be the original source.


looks like you are searching a drop person for some scum project.

The resource has died for me as well, but I used to read it when the post has appeared.

This service should not cost more than 3 dollars a month, for example most of my previously Evernoted friends used to migrate to Telegram free storage. Maybe Telegram provides only mediafile storage with no advanced search - but the search algorythm among your text document should not be significantly costier than GNU Emacs in Org-mode.

Stepan Pachikov is so great guy, I listened a lot of his talks. I am sad to live without his software, without screenshot editing software having red arrows of some specific form and without the search which worked really well. Good-bye yet another greedy corporation.


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