I'm probably one of the people you've talked to. For all his flaws, and there are many, I would give a lot for any team I've been part of since to have someone even half as good as him.

You can self-host zoom: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363093-Deployin...

Comcast advertises very clearly that unlimited is an additional $50/m: https://dataplan.xfinity.com/unlimited/

When I signed up for internet, I asked the representative for unlimited data because I was aware of this option. The representative flat out denied that it existed and refused to even tell me the price for such a thing.

It's a relatively new option. It may have actually not existed back when you signed up, or the rep just didn't know about it. Either way, I don't see why they'd want to hide it, because a consistent $50/month fee is much better than a large overage charge here and there that may or may not actually be paid.

>that may or may not actually be paid.

Please tell me, how do I avoid paying overage fees? I have zero moral qualms about defrauding Comcast to the maximum possible extent.

> that may or may not actually be paid

It'll be paid. Most of their customers don't have any other choice but to pay it. (Otherwise, most of them already wouldn't be their customers, after all.)

In the UK there are several 2-3 hour train routes that are routinely standing room only. It's not a big deal.

Do people stand for that entire time? That’s some third-world country shit.

Huh? I stood for 2 hours on the Shinkansen in Japan. The non reserved car was quite full.

You can choose to enable e2e on Messenger

Couldn't you sort of test this by enabling E2E, sending a link that was previously blocked, and seeing if it is still blocked? That would at least show some sign if it's all a sham or not.

That would guarantee absolutely nothing.

If the link was still blocked it would guarantee that Facebook is still eavesdropping.

Other guy was right. Think about this easy scenario

  If (E2E_ENABLED) {

  SkipCrawler();  

  SkipContentChecks();  

}

Again, it isn't to prove the encryption works, it is only a test that could prove that it doesn't work.

Ah, yea, I got the argument backwards. I thought he was saying if content wasn’t blocked that it proved encryption worked. Can’t prove the negative.

Yes, totally understood. I am just thinking in line with a different response that this could be an easy way to prove if they’re still snooping - not a guarantee that they aren’t.

Agreed. There is nothing stopping the sender's app from parsing and reporting URLs in any and all content before e2e occurs... Even to FB servers

This argument applies to any messenger app that claims e2e encryption. You could build signal from source. But how much do you trust your compiler?

I trust my compiler more than Facebook

For any value of “compiler.”

Can you actually use Signal built from source with official servers? Anyways, we have open-source chat platforms that have been audited by independent third parties, on one side, and closed-source mergacorporations' unaudited chat software on the other. Point being, why would you argue for using the bigger "evil"?

If you're worried about that Messenger supports end-to-end encryption, just hit the "Go to Secret Conversation" button.

What are you talking about? The United States is one of the only countries in the world where it's possible to walk into a store and walk out with an unlimited prepaid sim, and the only others have a much higher population density.

Which carrier? Maybe this has changed but it was not the case when I was living there 7 years ago.

> I personally do not believe that depth generated purely from deep learning can be used as input to photogrammetry anytime soon.

6d.ai uses depthnets in its mobile photogrammetry pipeline. demo: https://twitter.com/mattmiesnieks/status/1106722396889702406

How do you know that 6D AI uses deep learning to predict depth maps?

I'm very familiar with their work (they're doing a great job), but the demo video you linked appears to be a photogrammetric-based approach. You can tell because highly-textured surfaces are readily mapped, but low-texture regions remain unmapped, despite high coverage by the camera.

Maybe they use learned features for things like persistent AR, but I'm quite certain that they do not use deep learning to predict depth maps ab initio.

Intel chips don't support LPDDR4

the XPS 15 is available with 32gb

The XPS 15 doesn't appear to use low-power DDR4 memory - it's valid to trade battery life for performance but most users buy the former.

> I've seen no statements from Facebook about how the data is used, how it is stored, and how long it is retained.

https://www.facebook.com/help/1723057061256937

Oh wow, thanks. This must be new, I hadn't seen it before.