Why can't we get these kinds of policies in the US? Is it because Europeans are banding together to poke at us? I feel like they're doing this against us, even though we don't profit much from these tech companies bc of their tax dodging. Who are they winning against? Are we winning? Whats going on?
> 2. Substitute "Palestinian" for ANY other nationality, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or other adjective describing a group to which YOU belong.
Well they're not just any other "nationality, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or other adjective". They started their movement and created their identity for a specific reason. I kinda feel like we should look into the reason for their identity and factor that into how we look at this law.
> is also more or less dependent on assuming no malevolence by the certificate authorities
It doesn't have to be. Nothing's stopping you from signing your own certificates, just like nothing is stopping you from trusting the certificate your friend gave you, whether its by printing out the certificate on paper and then "handing" it to you, or sending it in an email. You're also 100% welcome to trust that your friend isn't a moron and lost control of his private key. AT THE SAME TIME, nothing stops you and abunch of your friends from trusting one or 2 dudes to be a certificate authority for your group.
Cryptography wasn't (and never tried to be) ever an alternative to not being stupid. Any 2 people can setup maximum 100% encrypted end-to-end communication using tools older than I am (or about my age). I feel like we let security and centralization blind us to solutions that we already have because those solutions are hard to onboard too. IRC is free, GPG is free, TOR is free, Email is still free.
> But what really rubs me the wrong way is when people who have chosen to steal start moralizing their position like they're standing up for some vague rights or principles
I feel like these are the same people that haven't learned how to shut up in highschool
Hardware APIs, such as: bluetooth, MIDI, NFC, ambient light, USB
A ton of media codecs. Apple is attached at the hip to the MPAA, and so they only implement standards that generate MPAA royalties such as MPEG and its descendants.
Web data storage is in pretty bad shape too. For a while WebSQL was totally broken in Safari, and they are years behind the state-of-the-art APIs.
> Hardware APIs, such as: bluetooth, MIDI, NFC, ambient light, USB
Firefox doesn't support them either, and like Safari considers them harmful. And for good reasons that Google (who are the sole authors of these Chrome only non-standards) completely ignores.
I have not found any "good reasons" in the usual issues you'd find to be honest. Many of those harmful reasons are dealt with and tbh where does it differ that much from normal apps? NFC especially. Also: if there would be any issues then try find solutions for that?
Webapps are already protected with the same privacy and security protocols the browser imposes on webpages. What can a native app possibly do that's such an egregious invasion of privacy that a webpage can't do? Filesystems are encapsulated, hardware apis require permission, and cameras now have a nice active indicator. What can anything possibly do anymore that hasn't been fixed in all of web2?
> Webapps are already protected with the same privacy and security protocols the browser imposes on webpages.
Yes. And Bluetooth/USB etc. pierce that sandbox and communicate to devices outside the browser.
And no, you can't "fix it" with a simple "oh hey this page wants to access a device".
Hint: we can't successfully ignore prevent people from phishing sites and scammers, but sure, let's give an untrusted execution environment full access to everything.
> What can a native app possibly do that's such an egregious invasion of privacy that a webpage can't do
Webpage doesn't have full access to file systems (and Chrome wants to give full access to file systems), or to USB/Bluetooth/etc. (and Chrome wants to give full access to that), and...
Once again. "Hey, we know that native apps are a nightmare for privacy and security, why would you oppose making the web more like native " isn't a good argument".
Also, hint: native apps exist beyond mobile.
Also, hint on filesystems: even though they are encapsulated, that encapsulation differs greatly between systems, and having, say, full access to cloud files is just as bad.
> Webapps are already protected with the same privacy and security protocols the browser imposes on webpages
You can disable commonly abused/exploited things like service workers and still use most websites just fine, while a webapp might depend on having that functionality enabled reducing your security when using websites and webapps.
> What can a native app possibly do that's such an egregious invasion of privacy that a webpage can't do?
Safari and Webkit definitely support WebM, but it’s disabled on iOS, making it a bit useless. Of course, it’s enabled on macOS, where Apple has to compete with other browser vendors. This leads me to believe the parent article is on the right track.
I’ve heard Opus is supported, but not in Mkv (WebM) or Vorbis containers, making it a bit pointless.
I use accessibility features, they're not enough so that I can sit a proper distance from my laptop and work all day.
My whole issue is that light isn't getting scattered properly inside of my eye, right? Hasn't anyone looked into a display technology that focuses the light I want to see into my eye anyways? I feel like this is the kind of ground breaking research that changes the world, not how to pack 10 different cameras onto the back of an iPhone, guess that's just me.
Why even do that in the first place, I thought the whole point of cryptocurrency is to have possession of your money. What's the point if you let some exchange do it for you?
Convenience mostly. If you want to sell or buy more. If I get him by a bus my partner can go through the legal system to attain the funds as opposed to trying to find and manage my keys.
Even if you are on an exchange you can always export and transfer abroad or to anyone else outside of the formal financial system. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I'm just looking for options other than 100% self custody and 100% reliance on an exchange
I understand that JSON supporting SQL databases struggle to index and search through JSON. I've had a much better time querying JSON objects from Mongo than Postgres.
