denkmoon's comments

On: Stringly Typed

[denkmoon]

What does that have to do with type safety though? If anything, type safety improves whichever piece of the puzzle you do have control over by reducing the likelihood of you accepting malformed data.

On: iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules

[denkmoon]

I go to Settings, I go to my Apple account, I go to subscriptions, and I press 1 button to cancel the subscription and 1 button to confirm that's what I want to do and the end date. Unless I know I want the subscription effectively forever, I subscribe through apple so I can do this.

On: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

[denkmoon]

Chat. Matrix for nerds, discord for gamers and redditors, telegram for everyone else who cares and imessage/rcs for those who don’t.

[vidarh → denkmoon]

Exactly zero people I regularly communicate with other than my teenage son uses any of those regularly.

The only people who use RCS to contact me are businesses sending notifications or spam.

Unlike e-mail where I do get personal correspondence regularly.

I don't expect my experience is typical, but I don't think yours are either - we all live in bubbles.

[denkmoon → vidarh]

I suppose you could say being younger is living in a bubble. I assure you nobody under 35 is using email for the majority of their personal correspondance. Email is for business.

[vidarh → denkmoon]

The claim above that we responded to was much broader.

[recursive → denkmoon]

What's chat? I've used discord, but do 100x the volume in email and sms.

On: EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027

[denkmoon]

Monero does -exactly- what it is designed to do and is used by plenty of people for real transactions not just speculation. Grifters always gonna grift.

On: Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages

[denkmoon]

Crikey that's terrifying. Not even a US company either.

[Titan2189 → denkmoon]

TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides secure enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMessage

[bb88 → Titan2189]

Even though Israel is our "Ally" -- we really shouldn't trust a foreign company with our sensitive messaging.

If you're in the government, you should treat Hegseth and anyone who uses Signal and TMSIGNL as compromised.

[decimalenough → bb88]

It's not like Israel would ever spy on the US right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

[bb88 → decimalenough]

I'm pretty sure that the US is a high priority intelligence target for Israel. But then any of the big nations should be. Russia, US, China, etc.

[xenator → decimalenough]

US spy agencies are world famous weak and heavy relayed on UK and Israel communications.

[EasyMark → decimalenough]

Or the US spy on Israel.

[huijzer → bb88]

Please tell that to European governments too. The Netherlands military police was using Whatsapp (e.g., https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/06/15/maatregele...). Only Germany has the BwMessenger (Matrix) as far as I know. It makes me wonder what the other militaries are using.

[tnolet → huijzer]

This is misleading bordering on rage bait. There were 11 dutch military police who created a WhatsApp group. This was not allowed and is also not sanctioned or any form of official Military Police communications channel.

The leader of those 11 was fired because of it.

It says it right there in the article. Stop making drama.

[ahoef → tnolet]

I do not get the feeling that using WhatsApp was the source of the disciplinary measures here, but rather the racist contents they shared there. So to be fair to GP, this could be much more prevalent.

[oaiey → huijzer]

The matrix development is carried by France a lot for their secure communication. The German affair hopped onto that.

[mikrotikker → huijzer]

I thought DekkoSecure was a standard for encrypted govt/military messaging? Why bother with this COTS consumer crap?

[hackernewds → bb88]

trust me that's a feature not a bug

[jmathai → denkmoon]

FTA, fwiw: "404 Media found numerous U.S. government contracts that mention TeleMessage specifically. One for around $90,000 from December 2024 says “Telemessage (a Smarsh Co.) Licenses for Text Message Archiving, & WhatsApp and Signal Licenses.”"

[Hobadee → denkmoon]

Telemessage got bought out by Smarsh a couple years ago. (Which several other commenters are saying is a US company) Their service has gone way downhill since.

Source: use them for several of my clients.

On: Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor

[denkmoon]

and now you’re violating a different policy.

On: FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here

[denkmoon]

more for running oem firmware tools and such than dos games.

[arghwhat → denkmoon]

Not anymore, it's either signed EFI binaries or handled live from user space (with LVFS covering the Linux side). Sometimes vendors still ship boot images, but nowadays it's likely a small Linux live ISO.

On: "Is This Tech Dead?" A snarky autopsy engine for your dead frameworks

[denkmoon]

hilarious. you can mash f to pay respects too and it seems to count most of them.

On: Waiting 100 years for a home isn't a housing crisis, it's a moral collapse

[denkmoon]

my mortgage doesn't decrease if my house loses half its value.

On: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

[denkmoon]

As confucius famously said, any community that gets its kicks out of pretending to be idiots will soon be filled with real idiots who think they are in good company.

A lot of it is ironic, but a lot less than it used to be.

[ogurechny → denkmoon]

That happened back in the 2000s. Now the arguments are about which wave of idiots media wants to present as the treat to all humanity.