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8551.
by api 7y ago
Why can't people bother to construct a minimally secure encryption system given that there are so many good documents and code examples out there? I don't mean anything with ratcheting, forward secrecy, replay protection, nonce re
8552.
by api 7y ago
Yeah this. We have a Synology NAS and it's been running for four years trouble-free. It's a little sketchy for use cases other than its core purpose, but if you only try to use it as a smart reliable RAID disk with an Ethernet por
8553.
by api 7y ago
Things often seem easy to those who have done them already, but it's definitely hard for the vast majority of developers. It's also very hard when you try to do it at scale in a way that's enterprise-friendly and reliable.
8554.
by api 7y ago
I disagree. It is challenging to monetize, but so are many other things. I'll give what I think are my reasons: - It's "easy" to do a proof of concept here, but it's brutally hard to make it really work well and at
8555.
by api 7y ago
ZeroTier has punted on this problem for ages because it's extremely hairy with a very long tail of edge cases and a lot of weird configurations in enterprises that we do not want to break. We really hate breaking stuff on user machin
8556.
by api 7y ago
I haven't been offended by it, and I'm the founder of a company that's been around longer and is probably the closest competitor: https://www.zerotier.com/ I don't hate on people for doing similar things
8557.
by api 7y ago
Everyone knows the site is partial to YC companies. It's an open secret. I consider it part of the "trade" in exchange for running a decent board without any ads or surveillance monetization. They're doing this for a rea
8558.
by api 7y ago
We (ZeroTier) dragged our feet on this stuff for a long time because we are personally of your mindset, but we get asked for it a lot so more of it will be coming. The ability to use your own auth and your own other things will never go awa
8559.
by api 7y ago
CISC is basically a compression codec based on macros. Each macro encodes a batch of micro ops and core engineers are free to decide how to implement them for the best speed vs silicon trade off for each instruction. The thing that killed R
8560.
by api 7y ago
Finding things to be happy about is part of how people cope with things.
8561.
by api 7y ago
History has shown that ease of use is more important than privacy or security in nearly every case. The reason is that we are living in an age of cognitive overload and time poverty. Time and cognitive space are far more expensive than the
8562.
by api 7y ago
Locking stuff down is the best thing we can do to protect non-technical users barring a complete re-design of operating systems from scratch with a renewed focus on security.
8563.
by api 7y ago
Last straw. Goodbye Zoom. I'll use it in a VM if I must.
8564.
by api 7y ago
A lot like the early Internet. Hopefully we've learned that systems must be designed security-first to scale.
8565.
by api 7y ago
I meant it works relatively speaking. To be fair Google meet is usable too, but Zoom does better with huge numbers of participants. There seems to be a law that states that all messenger apps must be bloated slow junk and must accumulate cr
8566.
by api 7y ago
It works, the quality is decent, and it doesn't max out 4-8 cores for a simple video call. The others don't work, are Microsoft UI dumpster fires (Skype), or consume vast amounts of CPU (anything WebRTC for some reason).
8567.
by api 7y ago
The big driver for this is reducing the number of components and thus manufacturing cost, and secondarily being trendy.
8568.
by api 7y ago
I would agree were it not for the hairy yaks. As a startup founder I just don't have time for my computer to not "just work." This is the primary thing that keeps me absolutely glued to Apple. I do kind of like MacOS, but a
8569.
by api 7y ago
It does help that there is no overall competitor to MacBooks in terms of ease of use or (now that the butterfly keyboard is dead) build quality. There are decent build PC laptops but you have to run Windows or Linux on them. Windows is a du
8570.
by api 7y ago
There's a factor with OpenBSD that isn't mentioned here at all: it has very few developers. A single developer can hold much or all of the state and important security considerations in their head. A small team can communicate wel
8571.
by api 7y ago
The gap between stitches in a shirt is a gaping hole to a virus.
8572.
by api 7y ago
Apparently a big chunk of those top-bin 10nm chips ended up going to Apple for the new 2020 Air.
8573.
by api 7y ago
How many 32-bit ARM phones without AES units are there still around?
8574.
by api 7y ago
Do they actually block/throttle all UDP? What about encrypted TCP? Do they block/throttle everything but web and recognized traffic? If that's the case wrapping WG or ZeroTier or whatever in TCP would do nothing since it woul
8575.
by api 7y ago
Good point. AES hardware acceleration makes a massive difference. It's why ZeroTier 2.x will use AES. Tiny boxes that lack HW acceleration are generally not used in cases where they're pushing enough bandwidth to matter anyway.
8576.
by api 7y ago
WG is much faster in our tests than OpenVPN, and a bit faster than IPSec depending on the system. OpenVPN uses UDP too but OpenVPN is kind of slow.
8577.
by api 7y ago
We get this question about ZeroTier from time to time and the answer is the same: set rules (or ACLs in Tailscale) so as to allow only traffic to/from what you want users to communicate with.
8578.
by api 7y ago
ISPs or countries ?
8579.
by api 7y ago
I blame the insurance companies based on the simple calculus that they are the ones in your list that add the least value. Drug companies and providers make things and do things. Insurance companies push paper. By your argument we could dis
8580.
by api 7y ago
So is the opposite, namely citing the apparent effectiveness of the Chinese response to argue for more authoritarianism broadly and generally. Emergencies are not normal conditions, and it is both rational and ethical to behave differently

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