but wouldn’t you also need to verify the matrix/signal contact? both of them gives you the option to verify the other, but its very rarely used by people. so, you need either an already verified secure channel, or meeting on the street.

but then again we don’t actually know each other. so if we meet, how would you know it’s actually me, and not someone impersonating me?

yes but these stats highlight those that are only participating or creating heated debates. users that are consistently downvoted, but also users who are giving lots of downvotes

We’ve seen open-source projects requiring developers to sign up some kind of NDA before being allowed to contribute with code.

you mean the DCOs? those are nothing like NDAs. if not, which ones you mean?

artisan AI prompts. we are supposed to be paying extra!

I don’t think it’s possible to write rust code that compiles to the exact same binary as c++. compilers make different optimizations, and make overall a different structure, especially across languages.

I think they meant the rust library produces the same output from the same input as the c++ library.

if llms indeed generate worse rust code than for other languages, that’s not that big of a problem because the compiler will catch a lot of mistakes. if it compiles, it will run, and no memory safety bugs unless unsafe is also used. the llm could pick the wrong functions for some uses, but that should be caught relatively easily with testing, which can be automated partly

edit: I was wrong, they indeed say that. this is weird.

how does this work? I thought bluetooth is practically invulnerable to DDOS because of its endless frequency hopping

Depends on locations but typically in urban areas (which is where most people live now, since the rural flight of the 20th) there are multiple ISPs to chose from.

we have multiple here but there’s no competition in this regard. they are competing in speed, prices and also feelings by deceptive ads, but not in privacy. like, I wouldn’t install the apps of any of them to my phone, because they are full of data mining code.

but there are also things they just couldn’t avoid: law requires them to be keeping logs, and generally they have a stronger obligation for local laws, because the local government can threaten local businesses much more efficiently.

so, most of the cases you can choose from a few options, but regarding privacy… not much variety. you can’t even know before or even after subscribing to them, because how will you check.

VPNs are different because you can choose from thousands (though most are shit), and the claims of better ones will be proven by court.

another point, is that normally your traffic goes unencrypted through ISP equipment of whatever brands. cisco, huawei, ubiquiti, tplink, whatever. what’s even worse, personally I wouldn’t trust any that is cloud controlled through the manufacturer and there’s many brands like that from the USA even.
the ISP bought equipment that they evaluated by whether does it work, not forensically. they probably also inherited a lot of it from another company. a lot of it doesn’t receive security patches anymore, because they are old equipment that still work fine, but it doesn’t matter because they don’t even run the last released patches either.
all the while reputable VPN services are more careful about whos stuff they trust with providing their services.

Most customers are just too lazy to bother picking anything but the most popular choices.

thats right. and they don’t even know what should they be looking out for. but honestly me neither, none of the ISPs seem to be good guys, because there’s nothing in it for them.

TL;DR: most people can actually chose their ISPs.

most people can also choose a smartphone brand, they can also choose between facebook and twitter. it was not my point.

my point is that VPNs can actually give something more that local ISPs can’t, and provide value that way.

a firewall can be used to filter incoming traffic by its properties. most consumer home routers don’t expose the firewall settings

that’s exactly one of the main reason they use archive sites for citations. but when an archival site does that it becomes useless.

as I understand it does not hide negatively voted comments. these are stats, for to moderators, for helping moderation decisions. It’s not automatic.

they are visible, they do matter, just not that much as on reddit

My VPN is beholden to the

I think you meant ISP here

exactly as you say, a different company that we can actually choose, unlike our ISP, and which we can decide whether to trust. Mullvad have shown they can be trusted.

the startup costs of federation are high, but that was a technical choice.

that tells a lot.

google play integrity works at a different level. it checks if you are running a google-approved, “sealed” operating system

which is not true, as fairphones also support relocking. Besides, graphene has dozens of other very useful features that don’t rely on hardware security features or the ability to relock. and I guarantee you, if another android rom adopted their unique features, they would be loudly complaining that they are stealing code (from an open source project…)

and the tradeoff includes dozens more permissions related features that don’t rely on hardware security features

not true, fairphones support that too. calyxos makes use of it, it’s proven to be working

has much, much fewer settings for permissions and privacy leaking functions. how do you even disable network access for an app?

oh! I don’t know how nix containers work, but I would be looking into creating a shared network between the containers, that is not the normal network.