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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 13-Mar-2016 15:31:57 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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   • Hannes
   • Mikael
   @hannes2peer it's spy-tech!!! @mikael
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 13-Mar-2016 16:31:36 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Hannes
     @hannes2peer I guess it doesn't really matter as javascript is required anyway. People who use that don't care about privacy anyway. What I'm opposing is that servers should know about my online-time when I have closed down tabs related to it. The Push API thing is meant, afaik, to run in the background (otherwise you'd use ordinary long-polling) and thus maintains a c…
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 13-Mar-2016 16:37:41 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Hannes
     @hannes2peer But apart from that, since it's meant to run on a trusted server and the fallback is "just don't use it", I don't have any philosophical arguments against it. I'm just saying that it will be disabled by default on any browser that bothers protecting the end-user from evil servers (or middlemen monitoring the connection).
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 13-Mar-2016 16:55:51 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Hannes
     @hannes2peer Yes, that would be good for the 99% of users. But we, the 1%, will continue fighting for CLI as the primary user interface and the destruction of the World Wide Web.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 13-Mar-2016 18:05:40 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • mcscx
     @mcscx As far as I understand the browser Push API it doesn't involve third party servers. What's scary is it's marketed as "let Facebook know when you're online so they can give you advertisement^W messages!".