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by cowtools 4y ago
TPB is still alive on Tor BTW: http://piratebayo3klnzokct3wt5yyxb2vpebbuyjl7m623iaxmqhsd52c...
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by cowtools 4y ago
I have no doubt that there is hard work running a registrar, but it is ultimately just meaningless bureaucracy if the system it is servicing (DNS) is not actually useful to society at large. It is in essence, a "Bullshit Job"[0]:
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't have a lot of faith in the namecoin or namecoin-derivative solutions. Just because an agent has a lot of cryptocurrency or hash power doesn't mean they should be able to steal or squat a domain. There are security conseque
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by cowtools 4y ago
I was under the impression that DNSSEC is vulnerable to downgrade attacks. Is this still the case?
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by cowtools 4y ago
1) Censorship is a very real problem on the clearnet. 2) Users ultimately decide what root zones to trust or directly what nicks map to what public keys. 3) This is fundamentally the same class of attack as MITM/Evil Maid, it is imposs
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by cowtools 4y ago
The only thing that needs to be globally recognized are public keys. The distribution of those public-key/identity pairs is a social problem that the existing DNS/PKI does not solve but rather makes worse. Users anonymously subscr
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by cowtools 4y ago
The player is not banned. The player's account is banned. It is a free game- they can make as many accounts as they like. The hardware will become widely available once kernel-level anticheat becomes widely used. >if the anticheat d
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by cowtools 4y ago
Creating a system to automatically verify correct videos will take a while to come out, not to mention that it is extremely invasive for the end user and requires that they own all this extra equipment and bandwidth. The cheater does not ev
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by cowtools 4y ago
How could the cheating hardware be banned? it is general-purpose, there is no change in the programming of the host computer that couldn't be combated by reprogramming the cheating device. Security-by-obscurity is a game of cat-and-mou
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by cowtools 4y ago
Okay, but you couldn't just have a linux computer procedurally generating that video, then exposing itself to the host computer as a webcam over usb gadget driver? Not to mention that you would have to comb through all this footage to
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RDRama's Best User Is a GPT-3 Bot: The Story of BBBB(rdrama.net)
2 points by cowtools 4y ago|1 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
Someone sent me this funny link on IRC. Chaos ensues on a web forum as a popular user is revealed to be a GPT3 bot that dishes out insults. More info: https://rdrama.net/logged_out/h/slackernews/post/8847
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by cowtools 4y ago
It is a demo/photoshoot of the company's own equipment. You would think they know what they're doing: they make the damn things! On the other hand, we have some russians that have already proven themselves incompetent. Doesn&
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by cowtools 4y ago
It does not excuse such a reckless use of industrial equipment around people without appropriate failsafes. A robotic arm like this not a toy, is a deadly machine with a lot of force and a lot of mass. If you were standing next to it for so
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by cowtools 4y ago
Interesting. I look forward to this. What I've been doing now to embed a source.png file is something like this, where I generate source code from a file's data: in embed_dump.cpp: #include <fstream> #include <iostr
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by cowtools 4y ago
You can't just run normal linux on them?
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by cowtools 4y ago
Depends on Proof-Of-Work method.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Choose a homeserver you like and go to the discover or trending page. here are some big instances to try (many are european, you may want to choose an english language one): https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=
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by cowtools 4y ago
It depends on the instance you are on. I don't think I have ever seen child porn or terrorist recruitment videos on peertube, but only about half of peertube is english-speaking so I can't speak on behalf of the whole network. Mo
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by cowtools 4y ago
Interesting. I am sorry to hear that. You may be better off going to a large instance that follows many other instances and search for videos there. For example, kraut.zone seems to index many other instances: https://kraut.zone&
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by cowtools 4y ago
>I don't understand what PeerTube is for, concretely. (I've read parts of your docs before, and understand what federation is.) I get the impression that it's for personal video sharing. Technically competent users will ho
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by cowtools 4y ago
You stay on the same site. It fetches the video for you from the other server. For example with this URL: https://kraut.zone/w/aWCVkSQTXKJ1yuR6o8zjDY Kraut.zone is fetching this guy's vlog from his personal server
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by cowtools 4y ago
NewPipe supports this.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yes, it is federated. You can search, like, make comments from one server to another so long as they are federated together. Here is a pretty good search engine: https://search.joinpeertube.org/ I usually try that if i&#x27
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by cowtools 4y ago
It is a statement of an obvious truth. It does not need to be "brave". If you find the point true but irrelevant then you would be better off not acknowledging it in the first place.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>If the majority of miners agree to it then the rest of the network either goes along with it, or they're forced to do a hard fork themselves. The only the hashrate attacks can do is alter the order of transactions (for example allo
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by cowtools 4y ago
>No thank you, it should be a huge red flag to you that the only way for someone to get involved is to become a bag holder. When have I ever said that you should invest in cryptocurrency? I have made it pretty clear that I am skeptical o
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by cowtools 4y ago
How could the miners soft fork to increase the bitcoin supply? That would be a hard fork, because they will not be able to spend those "higher" coinbase outputs, which are seen as lower to the rest of the network. >An uncoordin
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Nano has the same ponzi-like economics as the rest of the cryptocurrencies so that's a no-go. Then fork it yourself and change the tokenomics to suit your interests. If others agree with you, then your fork may become popular and u
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by cowtools 4y ago
There are cryptocurrency systems like Nano or GNU Taler which can be broadly competitive with the alternatives AFIK, so long you are using them in a peer-to-peer manner that doesn't involve Fiat. >And the fees charged are vastly m

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