I'd however mention, the two biggest ISPs that remain today both have adopted IPv6 on their fiber connections. They're also heavily using CGNAT for IPv4. It makes sense, the volume at which they're working makes dedicated IPv4 very uneconomical.

Even smaller ISP have done that. But I switched to JioFiber last year and it loses its IPv6 network every week for a few hours. Diagnostics tell me that everything is okay and the customer support just doesn’t understand the problem.

Well It isn't necessarily impossible, but Multi-Device encryption can get complicated.

It all depends on how things are done, one way to approach e2e with multiple devices is, each device gets it's own key, and the sender encrypts the text to all the keys. (Or usually uses a symmetric session key, that is encrypted and sent). However what do you do when a new device joins in? Someone needs to rekey all the messages for the new device.

Another way to approach this might be share the encryption keys across all devices, and make adding a new device basically sharing that key. This obviously comes with it's own set of disadvantages.

And in the end, what do you do if someone loses all their devices? The encryption keys are just lost.

I guess telegram just doesn't want to deal with that, which is kinda sad since it's a really good app and multi device encryption support would just sell me on the app.

I think it still shows a rough last seen (Recently, within a week, within a month) even with that off. Good enough for me.

To me a chat app not reading my messages is way more important than a chat app will not use my phone number for advertisement. Ideally I'd have both, but given a choice, the first one is way way more horrific than the other.

Though, for some cases Telegram is definately better, Groups, work related chats don't really need to be private as much and that's where telegram really shines for me. Specially since I can use it without giving my phone number away.

> is way more important than a chat app will not use my phone number for advertisement.

My profile being shown on a different platform to people that I might be close to (co-workers, in-laws, friends of friends) but I'm not interested in having on social media is pretty damn concerning, regardless of ads.

Google Pay in India no longer has any of those features. Infact it has been completely reworked to support UPI payments [1].

And it has completely transformed how payments happen. paymets happen directly from bank account to bank account regardlessof what app you're using (Samsung Pay, PhonePe, GPay, your bank's app). You can use QR codes or simple username@bank to make payments.

I am not aware of any payment systems that support the use of NFC, (NFC is not that commonplace for anything except cards, and I have had trouble setting up cards in google pay). One of the biggest benefits of QR based payments have been is it does not require any special hardware. Just a mobile and Internet (Which is very common and accessible here). And it has little to no transaction fees. So it has been quickly adopted by literally everyone.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

> I am not aware of any payment systems that support the use of NFC

I basically lumped the whole of Asia into a melting pot, whoops. While you're correct that India's UPI doesn't have an NFC mode, other countries do (NETS of Singapore and various systems in Japan for example).

Oh yea, I think I got the idea. The initial direction with apps like Tez too was trying to use NFC for payment. That just didn't catch on, which I'd probably pin on the fact that majority of population here uses low-mid range Smartphones which often skip over NFC support.

Tez did for a while support UPI and ultrasonic. It just used sound to transfer the UPI ID

Awh, Can you give a idea of how much nuisance such devices can cause you daily? Also is there a way to prevent cochlear implants from detecting these frequencies? (like do only some cochlear implants do this or most of them do)

I really wanna use tech like this sometimes in future, but I also wanna care about accessiblity.

I also have a cochlear implant; it doesn't allow me to hear ultrasonic frequencies -- in fact, my hearing range is still a subset of "normal."

I have one as well, and I've noticed that area proximity detectors (in hallways used to detect presence/motion) do get picked up and come through as loud pops.

There are also electricity poles with a strong EM field that cause a humming sound.

How loud? These are audible to me without an implant (unless some are audible and some are inaudible)

You might be hearing a relay, which is itself switched by the proximity sensor.

Honestly I'd argue that all domains are "subdomains", unless you get your own TLD from ICANN, you're renting a first level "subdomain" from someone.

However ofc getting a subdomain under a gTLD comes with all the benefits and promises ICANN provides. Which this won't.

There are already projects like Handshake, ENS, Unstoppable domains that try to do this. Honestly I like the need for renewal fees for domains personally, since it means you can't just buy a domain once and squat on it forever.

Maybe renewal makes sense to prevent squatting but the question remains: who receives the money paid??

If the money were to be used to secure the network somehow, it would make sense.

If the money just goes to the creators... it was all just a money grab.

I am unsure about the speicfics but Handshake appears to burn the money paid. So that's fine.

However most of the potential token supply (like 50%) was premined/airdropped to ssh keys of Github users with >15 followers.

Except that the money in this case is actually electricity and all you're doing is advancing global warming.

> Handshake appears to burn the money paid. So that's fine.

That's not necessarily fine if the fee is in custom tokens. By burning they are just reducing supply, locking in the amount paid and increasing the value of their huge holding. It's pretty terrible.

Oh I mean it's fine as a concept, since everybody gets the money (in a situation where all the tokens were obtained "naturally").

Ofc in this case the Devs and the "sponsers" have 10% of it, so yea.

yes you can. it costs 10$ a year to squat a 10 million dollar .com, and I bet there's a bunch of them that had been parked since the 90s

the registration fee does prevent someone from squatting the entire Library of Babel though

They taught us in Appalachia to avoid re-occuring payments at all costs, because if you forget about it they can rapidly drain your bank account.

What is your suggestion for those of us who can't spare an angel investment of "just" ten dollar a year until we die or sell the domain?

Well true, I don't know what a good way to deal with this would be, blockchain based solutions also suffer from same problem, where early adopters squat on domains and offer to sell them for 10000x markup

I have thought about it for a long time and I also don't know

I use two note taking apps, Obsidian and Nebo, each for their own use case.

Obsidian has everything your needs are, you can setup syncthing to sync your notes across multiple devices. Everything is a .md file and organized using folders and it has great plugin support. Though ability to publish from inside the app is locked behind a subscription. You can always use pandoc to just convert the md files, there probably are some plugins that try to do that. Also i love how lightweight it is.

Second is Nebo, Nebo is for handwritten notes usecase. This isn't something many people really have a usecase for, But Nebo has AWESOME handwriting -> searchable text conversion, specially for Math! And publishing things is as a easy as clicking publish. And it has google drive/drop integration for sync (I'd rather use syncthing but the android app doesn't expose the stored files).

I just use sync-thing for this, it just works flawlessly.