cowtools

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by cowtools 4y ago
I've always considered emojis to be an abuse of the unicode system: the purpose of unicode should be to standardize universal languages, not to let companies like apple push arbitrary vendor-specific crap onto everyone else. Not just t
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think the economic decision making eventually trickles down from banks and insurance companies who actually do the math themselves and charge building-owners/mortgage-owners competitively. It's sort of an continuous invisible ha
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by cowtools 4y ago
Okay, but wouldn't a hydroelectric dam encourage people to build in areas that would be otherwise unsafe, thus putting them at risk of a terrorist attack on the dam?
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by cowtools 4y ago
The internet did not have to overcome network effects in the same way that cryptocurrency has. If there was a "super-centralized" network that already had major success (for example, imagine a world in which teletext or something
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by cowtools 4y ago
The purpose of bitcoin, for example, is not to store a list of transactions?
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't know about Handshake, but GNS isn't block-chain. As far as I understand, it's a distributed hash-table: https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html
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by cowtools 4y ago
Will they ban every VPS provider?
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by cowtools 4y ago
Doesn't matter, it is just a bridge node. Tor is resilient to that mode of attack.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Many private bridges are distributed privately through cell systems.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Tor is not really comparable to telegram. check out that link I posted, that talk goes over a lot of details that I am currently at a loss of words for.
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by cowtools 4y ago
A solution that Tor has been using with china is to host bridges on something like AWS. In order for china to block the bridges, they must also block all of AWS IP space. https://media.ccc.de/v/26c3-3554-de-tor_and_cens
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Is it possible to defeat US and European citizenship with Tor, as well? Rhetorical question? Serve your web page as an onion service (preferably without javascript). >Looking for solutions once the "Disinformation Governance Boa
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by cowtools 4y ago
unless you are using onion services.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Specialized? Obscure? It exposes a SOCKS5 proxy at localhost:9050. If you can figure out how to use a VPN, you can figure out how to use Tor. In a way it is easier than a VPN if you are just using something like Tor Browser or Orbot.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Tor is free too, and it is distributed enough that a single node won't rat you out to your local gov. Even if you are setting up your own VPN, I recommend installing your own tor infrastructure instead. It is simply stronger than a VPN
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Harmless Guns- French 3D printer company sabotages printable firearms(dagoma3d.com)
2 points by cowtools 4y ago|3 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
The pixel 3a is still supported by AOSP distros like CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/install/
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Just make it illegal to possess, buy, or sell them How do you enforce that? This would just drive everyone to KYC-less exchanges. >corporate interest vanishes I welcome the abolishment of corporate investment. This wave of corporate
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by cowtools 4y ago
banning cryptocurrency is easier said than done.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Tommy Marcus, the content creator from Brooklyn profits from his instagram fame. Of course he wants the company do to well even if it's at the cost of the users. He does have a say in the way that facebook acts because he has leverage
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by cowtools 4y ago
that's fantastic actually! One problem might be that programs don't anticipate this behavior, like if it wears out while a filesystem is still syncing
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by cowtools 4y ago
1k writes sounds good enough for consumer hardware I suppose. As long as there's some some type of S.M.A.R.T. system to warn the user before it wears out.
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by cowtools 4y ago
the meek shall inherit the earth!
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by cowtools 4y ago
Depending on the government to step in and regulate corporate control is a fail-deadly system for freedom and should be avoided. The likelihood of the ruling government to support the interests of its citizens is dependent on the power (neg
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by cowtools 4y ago
Is android a walled garden? There are open-source distributions of Android like CalyxOS ( https://calyxos.org/ ), LineageOS ( https://lineageos.org/ ), GrapheneOS ( https://grapheneos.org/ )
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's not strange to me. iOS is far more restrictive in the type of programs it allows you to run and distribute, whereas Android allows sideloading and rooting. It's a variant of popper's paradox I suppose.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I have always suspected that nvidia's closed source drivers are an intentional result of hiding poorly-implemented limitations (see code 43 error, etc.) for the sake of market segmentation between data-center and gaming models. They w
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by cowtools 4y ago
Bot?
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VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC(hello.vrchat.com)
246 points by cowtools 4y ago|267 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
If that brings you comfort, then you should not be comforted as registrars will not do what you're describing. Domain squatters, bitsquatters, impersonators etc. create shell companies and run rampant without consequences, and the most

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