markstos @ markstos @lemmy.world

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Meta acquired WhatsApp and somehow hasn’t messed it up yet. WhatsApp has always been fairly good with privacy and doesn’t share much with other Meta apps as far as I’m aware.

That is what the article is explaining. The contact names and details are encrypted.

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/10/22/security/ipls-privacy-preserving-storage-for-your-whatsapp-contacts/

Perhaps the call times are exposed but it seems it would be difficult or impossible for them to connect this with a human identity.

Use Signal if you have concerns about WhatsApp.

They cannot see phone numbers of contacts, no.

Is this deshittification?

They already are.

This post is reporting the results of a poll. How is that trolling? Poll results you don’t like are trolling?

Also not sure why you’d think reporting Trump-favorable poll result sways sentiment here in his direction.

This news can be motivational for those favoring other candidates to volunteer, engage more.

One of the issues eight years ago was that the polls underestimated Trump so Dems weren’t as motivated to get out the vote against Trump. Let’s not repeat that mistake.

I use Asahi as a server OS on a Mac Mini where it works great. Have not tried it as a desktop.

He is polling within the margin of error.

You have no evidence of this. Pollsters may have their own political slant but candidates of both parties want to know the accurate numbers of where their candidate stands.

Some of the NYT polls have looked more favorable for Trump than other pollsters as well.

We do need bees, but that doesn’t mean the honey industry is sustainable.

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/how-honey-industry-affects-environment

Ironically, the part of Perl that looks most cursing is the regular expressions, and that’s the feature that so many modern languages have borrowed from Perl directly.

In a sense it was a $32k offer for silence, but in savings rather than earning. Since she didn’t sign the NDA, she lost more money.

Have you tried doing CAD work on a phone or iPad over a Remote Desktop connection?

Seems unpleasant enough to drive someone to buy a proper laptop to travel with.

This seems as much about converging Android and ChromeOS as anything.

The same doctor also found vaccines make you blind.

https://www.thaimbc.com/2024/08/31/japanese-researchers-link-covid-shots-to-permanent-blindness/

While the post author Frank Bergman has another one about vaccines causing organ failure.

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/german-study-links-covid-shots-to

If you don’t have a proper computer, how will you access this remote server to do your CAD work?

It’s not clear that these services need any of these things.

3 GB / day is unlikely to go unnoticed upstream.

Yes. You can run them both on the same machine and it would probably be cheaper that way.

To minimize costs, besides looking at the cost of hardware, you’ll also want to consider the amount of electricity that the server uses with the memory and hard drives you have installed.

The Monero docs say it uses 100 GB or more bandwidth a month. You may want to look at the quality of service settings on your router to make sure that it’s not interfering with other uses of your network.

I imagine BitWarden is sufficiently good. The big leap in security comes from having no password manager to a decent password manager.

LastPass does not seem as serious about security so it doesn’t meet my personal bar for decency.