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vermaterc

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Extension members seems promising, but the way they are implemented seem kind of strange to me. I still need to create a static class to declare extension? Why not just get rid of class and declare extensions as “standalone” elements?

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Pretty good article, went into some technical stuff, which surprised me as in Linux world I’m used to articles discussing changes in wallpapers between different distro releases :D

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Wow, have they just realised that not every single thing computers do is actually useful to anyone? I think screens that show things when nobody’s looking cost a lot more on a global scale.

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So… the US government doesn’t have to fund it anymore? So that is an advantage for them in this situation, what is the disadvantage? Or was that their goal all along?

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It reportedly works entirely on your machine (as it meant to be privacy preserving by default). So it will probably see only the data you can see.

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Maybe because it is, an article says later “Saltiness aside” 😏

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I kind of understand your frustration, because it is indeed neither true E2EE (some server holds encryption keys) nor interoperable (you need to use Google service), but let’s remember that is it is meant for businesses, not private interpersonal communication. So the goal is not strictly “no one should be able to read this except Alice and Bob”, but rather “no one outside Alice’s and Bob’s organizations can read this message”. We all want to live in an ideal world that mails are encrypted using some PGP-style protocol, but as an article points out - this is just nightmare to set up.

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