“Zionism = Fascism”
“Your neutrality/apathy is enabling genocide”
and
“Free palestine”
If you call this anti-semetic, you actually deserve to get kicked out. Non of the messages even mention Jews, but Zionists can’t accept any form of criticism so they just call everything antisemitic.
Bill Gates name-checked Elon Musk and Steve Jobs during a fireside chat on Thursday. The Microsoft founder said he considers himself “very nice” compared to his fellow tech leaders. But Gates acknowledged that a certain level of intensity is required in innovative fields. Bill Gates said he considers himself a more relaxed...
Bill Gates and all of his billionaire friends can go fuck themselves. Billionaire philanthropy is the biggest lie of this century, this is a great video about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH4uh8cHuto
Ne he’s not. He uses his foundation to avoid taxes and even gets praised for it. This video provides a pretty good explanation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH4uh8cHuto
US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is one of the more technologically engaged of our elected lawmakers. And like many technologically engaged Ars Technica readers, he does not like what he sees in terms of automakers’ approach to data privacy. On Friday, Sen. Markey wrote to 14 car companies with a variety of questions about...
This is the exact same ridiculous argument that proprietary software corporations make. It never made any sense, security through obscurity will never work. Linux is open-source used on ~80% of all web servers, in your logic these servers would all be vulnerable. It just doesn’t make any sense. Linux is also used in many embedded devices and Android is based on the Linux kernel. But Android (which is also entirely open source) has one of the best security models out there.
What part of Matrix is proprietary? It’s not an app, instead, it’s an open protocol that can be used by anyone to build a messaging app or host a server.
TIL that XMPP is defined in an RFC. You’re correct, I wasn’t aware of that. I really don’t understand why the IETF take such a decision though. I don’t know why these guys are defining high-level protocols for things like messaging at all.
But back to your earlier points:
For example you can’t have end-to-end encryption if you use a non-standard protocol
This doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Matrix has E2EE while using a “non-standard” protocol. So does Signal, in fact, it created the strongest E2EE protocol out there.
VC startups like Matrix only increase fragmentation of the ecosystem
Every new project that is created increases fragmentation. So does Revolt, Discord, Skype, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc. These all use “non-standard” protocols.
Also, the author of RFC 6120 is a Cisco employee, how is a multinational corporation better than a VC-funded startup? XMPP is an open standard, just like the Matrix protocol. It doesn’t matter who created it.
Jewish woman kicked out of cafe after complaining about antisemitic graffiti scrawled all over bathroom, getting berated by workers (nypost.com)
Bill Gates thinks of himself as 'very nice' compared to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs (www.businessinsider.com)
Bill Gates name-checked Elon Musk and Steve Jobs during a fireside chat on Thursday. The Microsoft founder said he considers himself “very nice” compared to his fellow tech leaders. But Gates acknowledged that a certain level of intensity is required in innovative fields. Bill Gates said he considers himself a more relaxed...
I've earned it (startrek.website)
PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks (www.theverge.com)
Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator (arstechnica.com)
US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is one of the more technologically engaged of our elected lawmakers. And like many technologically engaged Ars Technica readers, he does not like what he sees in terms of automakers’ approach to data privacy. On Friday, Sen. Markey wrote to 14 car companies with a variety of questions about...
Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)
US announces visa bans after warning Israel on West Bank settler violence (www.aljazeera.com)
Sen. Bernie Sanders opposes giving Israel $10 billion in aid (www.nbcnews.com)
Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app (www.theverge.com)