cowtools

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by cowtools 4y ago
What, just based off of the custom-ness of the device? I think the endgame of this type of security-by-obscurity is like a randomized FPGA computer trying to fool a hypervisor in the same chip.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>This doesn't apply to the population at large. Most people are on phones or laptops on WiFi. They're not running 24/7 and in the case of phones a background service isn't even viable. They don't need to serve 24
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Bitcoin is worth a trillion dollar. Bitcoin is """"worth"""" a trillion dollars. It's not a free money machine, It's is a shitty payment system, not a P2P network unless you are sharing
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by cowtools 4y ago
What if instead of QR, it was a special human-readable text format that was optimized for image recognition? Like a special font or something.
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The Internet Is Broken(secushare.org)
1 points by cowtools 4y ago|0 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yes they do. See: bittorrent and webtorrent-based streaming services. My friend uses private trackers and his download speeds are unbelievable. But even on public trackers the download speeds are quite good. It does not take that many seede
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by cowtools 4y ago
people have extra storage and bandwidth that they don't need. Anything that the public decides not to rehost is not worth being published.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Secure boot is opressive when you don't have the keys. So is encryption.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The hammer here is both. Cryptocurrrency is solving an incentive problem here that doesn't really exist. If anything, File hosters should not be the ones that pay for the hosting, it should be whoever is retriving the file, and those f
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by cowtools 4y ago
Blockchains are only useful for low-bandwidth tasks that require complete consensus.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't think you need to incentivise people to host each other's data. People will host their own data, and they may host others' data for free like in BitTorrent. I am skeptical of the need for filecoin-like systems in the
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Parts of the earth are off limits because of nuclear errors. And there will be more as long as we continue to use nuclear power. How long will it be until parts of the earth are inhabitable due to climate change? There will be more as l
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Fossil fuels are horrible too, but the disasters they cause we can clean up. Huh? >We don't just have to stuff it in a mountain and pretend it doesn't exist. What is your problem with the current state of nuclear waste mana
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by cowtools 4y ago
The law could create a precedent that leads to greater censorship in the future.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I've looked into this the other month. There are a number of obfuscation networks that have tried this to some extent (including IPFS and GNUnet), but I am yet to find a network that works exactly as you've described: where you ca
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by cowtools 4y ago
Brits don't have freedom of speech AFIK. it was never in their social contract.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Sure, but there is some limitation to what they could feasibly restrict. Tor with WebRTC bridges?
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yes. You have made a false/weak assumption. Humans do not always favor centralization, if we did then you would expect our society to be eusocial like bees or ants or something. Humans aren't machines, we adjust our level of coope
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by cowtools 4y ago
2FA is a major pain in my ass and it is the only reason why I am forced to own and use a "modern smartphone" which is essentially a corporatist surveillance device. If more organizations just allowed me to have custodianship over
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by cowtools 4y ago
2FA is a pain in the ass and provides minimal extra security. The reason why companies employ it is because their users are incompetent and will install malware on their desktop OS, so they shift the burden of security to locked-down mobile
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by cowtools 4y ago
>PyPI is proactively considering critical packages without 2FA protection malicious And it's ridiculous for them to do so. How can they verify that the 2FA program is not just being run in a virtual machine? At the end of the day it
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by cowtools 4y ago
I'm not talking about the names of the copyright holders or contributors. I'm talking about the name of the software.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Okay, but just because they can unfairly discriminate on "their" operating system doesn't mean that they should or that we shouldn't resist/discuss it. I don't care if microsoft's store is a private market
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by cowtools 4y ago
I know, but if the program is licensed with GPL somewhere, what is legally stopping another person from distributing it on the windows store or whatever (other than trademarks associated with the name, for example the "Ubuntu" tra
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by cowtools 4y ago
Who "owns" a free/open source program? Many of these programs are not trademarked.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think it's only feasible for nvidia to release GPL-violating closed source graphics drivers because of the leverage that BSD provides them against Linux.
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by cowtools 4y ago
All those kernels are legally required to be free by the GPL. Those OSes have "non-free" userspaces.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>So you can reliably install rpm's in debian and vice versa with .deb's? Yeah, just use a chroot. It's the same kernel. You could also just distribute static binaries or have your dynamic libs bundled in a single .AppImage
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's irrelevant because they are all GPLv2 and intercompatable. Distros are just that: different distributions of the (largely same, interchangeable) software. There is no splintering where it matters: legally and technically. In the B
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by cowtools 4y ago
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Horse, is in fact, Cart/Horse, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Cart plus Horse.

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