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by apple_innocent 6y ago
"In "Can't Get You Out of My Head," Curtis plays a long montage of talking heads on U.S. cable news repeating the phrase "the walls are closing in," during the final days of the Mueller investigation. He accuse
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
I was refering to Google's reliance on online advertising. The media unlike Google does have something to sell: journalism. The media relies in part on advertising, but not greater than 90%, as Google does. I never mentioned the con
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
You say you disagree with the last paragrah but you did not offer any argument against any of the assertions in the last paragraph. The asserions were factual, having to do with the need for advertisers. Unless you can claim Google does n
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
At this point, I would not even bother using Google to find news from Australia, whether Google pays or not. Just go to the Australian media websites. How hard is that. Middlemen: we do not need you.
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
"I don't get why Google should pay news sites for promoting them and helping them make money." Because Google pays massive fees to be the "default search" on millions of computers. Why would they pay so much for th
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Oil companies pay a living wage. At least they used to, before "Big Tech". People used to care about environmmental degradation. It used to be a headline issue in the 1970s. It is depressing to think of how much energy is requir
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
For a lot of folks reading HN, who are trying to excise Google from their lives, if they were in Australia, this would be a dream come true. How do you make Google go away? Force them to pay.
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Looks like Google is going to pay France.
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Doesn't Apple now own Beats.
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
How about caching proxy It has code that has been removed from Github
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Would this help. http://mirror.github.taobao.org/cgit.cgi/
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Is this a mirror/proxy of Github. IP address registered to company in Singapore. Domain registration has mainland China physical address: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25842028 https://news.ycombinat
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Wonder if there are mirrors of Github based in China that do not receive these takedown requests https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/nyaadevs This mirror shows up in DDG search (which uses Microsoft/Bing for its results)
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
The product, i.e., the Australian media, is already in the country. There is nothing to import. As for "legally operate in the country" that makes little sense either. If those companies want to open offices in Australia, they
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Australia is probably not a great example to use. The political landscape there is a problem in and of itself. Plus Murdoch, etc. They have their own problems to deal with. Google PR wants you to focus on Australia's insane politic
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
"The US government is concerned that an attempt, through legislation, to regulate the competitive positions of specific players in a fast-evolving digital market, to the clear detriment of two US firms, may result in harmful outcomes.&
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Because I the user am running a forward proxy to encrypt all outgoing HTTP requests, I do not have to rely on "HTTPS-only" on the server side. I enforce "HTTP-everywhere" on the client side. That's the theory anyw
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Analogies (such as leasing data center and commercial real estate) should probably account for the availability/lack of viable alternatives. For example, how much choice, what options does the consumer have in selecting its "serv
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Are the terms of the NDA confidential. With respect to the fact of the existence of an agreement being confidential information, usually an NDA will only apply to information that has not already become public through no fault of either par
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Are the terms confidential. Can customers "compare notes" to see if they are getting less favourable terms than others.
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
s/cancel/terminate https://www.acquisition.gov/print/11832 (I am not knowedgeable when it comes to FAR, maybe someone reading HN knows more.)
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
FWIW, I agree with your opinion. That includes not letting politicians onto these websites to do campaigning. This was a big mistake. The number of former public servants who have gone to work for Facebook is alarming, IMO. The number o
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Did you have any "disaster recovery" plans in place, what you would do if the cloud failed. I think looking at this issue with the example of "Parler" may be missing the point. The issue worth debating is surely not whe
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
"In 2010, DNA sequencing company Complete Genomics said that "an interruption of services by Amazon Web Services, on whom we rely to deliver finished genomic data to our customers, would result in our customers not receiving their
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
"Where is the encryption being added?" It is being added by the proxy server listening on the loopback which connects to the remote website. Browser connects to forward proxy on port 80, forward proxy (compiled with SSL library) c
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
I think you misunderstood. A localhost-bound forward proxy on the client side encrypts the traffic. For example, haproxy can be used for this purpose. It detects the presence/absence of SSL on connection and if absent it adds encryp
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
"If your main concern is old computers the solution is to use a proxy that strips the encryption." Why not also use the proxy to add encryption when it is missing. Then "HTTPS-only" is not necessary. The decision of wh
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Why 1.3? Most sites today are using TLSv1.2 at best, not 1.3. One argument it is/was "security theater"[1] is that there were/are numerous programs that "added support for SSL/TLS" under pressure to confo
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Yeah but there's nothing that says the Xcode experience has to be so painful[1] or that people have to pay Apple or that software has to be approved by Apple in order to preserve this flexibility. Purchasers should have options, inclu
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by apple_innocent 6y ago
Would the hobbyist projects whose development is effectively inhibited by Xcode and the Apple Developer Program, i.e., the hoops Apple makes programmers jump through, be more interesting than the apps people pay developers to create.

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