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by cowtools 4y ago
>Hate speech in the United States cannot be directly regulated by the government due to the fundamental right to freedom of speech protected by the Constitution. While "hate speech" is not a legal term in the United States, the
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think the internet is just irrecoverably broken in a way such that technical problems like DDoS or NN escalate to social problems. We should not even be having these discussions in the first place: It should be infeasible for attackers to
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by cowtools 4y ago
I genuinely believe that it's entirely possible to be seen as very neutral and also just ban anyone I disagree with or who even just annoys me.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet(web.archive.org)
3 points by cowtools 4y ago|0 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
The law describes DDoS attacks as a felony. The technology makes it such that it's infeasable to prevent DDoS attacks without a centralized entity like cloudflare.
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by cowtools 4y ago
This is just IP-based filtering, which is useless as the attacker can purchase more IP space. What you need is something like a whitelist-by-public-key or hashcash or something.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Interesting. I typed up a comment that mentioned the name of the person co-ordonating the DDoS campaign, and I got instantly flagged. Test.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The weakness in the internet that allows for DDoS is that you can't tell your peers to filter incoming traffic on your behalf, so you need to discriminate on the edge. The attacker still gets to eat up your bandwidth and CPU time.
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by cowtools 4y ago
DDoS is a product of an inherent weakness of the internet infrastructure, namely BGP. Cloudflare "solves" this by acting as a middleman, and charging for their service. I don't know if I would describe a DDoS attack as "
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by cowtools 4y ago
See, what I would do in my case is I would just make a bash script for sftp. I'm not even sure if small devs benefit from such a bloated editor: the time you have to invest in writing a script or learning a command-line tool is to some
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by cowtools 4y ago
Generally true, unless that vendor is google. Manifest v3 is still in recent memory.
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by cowtools 4y ago
As far as I understand, it's not a big deal as this is sort of the dumb end of the IDE- just the text editor part, not the compiler or debugger. Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know why anyone would bother using a microsoft
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by cowtools 4y ago
It depends. Pulling out of afganistan earlier would have saved us a lot of time and money.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The Silk Road. But in all seriousness, if you are a vendor then any purchase by a customer that is not associated with a legally accountable entity must be settled with finality, because you have no way of preventing charge-back fraud yours
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by cowtools 4y ago
Okay, but the business has no way of stopping this attack, so it is fruitless.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't know, I hear all the time about people buying things on amazon or something and when it arrives it's just crap and you can't get a refund. At the end of the day, getting a refund is not about the payment method, it is
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by cowtools 4y ago
There is a feature in bitcoin called replace-by-fee ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Replace_by_fee ). But that is not completely analogous to a refund because vendors will wait many blocks before accepting a transaction (to
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by cowtools 4y ago
Then the dissatisfied customer throws a fit and warns their peers that the vendor isn't trustworthy. There is an asymmetry here because anyone can be a customer but not everyone can be a vendor- that requires a certain level of reputat
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by cowtools 4y ago
then the cook should be left uncompensated for their work? There is no "fair" outcome in this situation, so you should at least make the system fail in a reliable way.
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by cowtools 4y ago
If the chinese people had the option between the censored and uncensored version, which one do you think they would prefer? On an individual level it is obvious that almost no one advocates for self-censorship. Most people are only enthusia
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by cowtools 4y ago
I had no idea about this helvum thing- this is great!
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yes. This is a major benefit of free software- you can hire contractors to add whatever feature you need.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>I mean, just look at HN for examples. Quite literally yesterday it happened again: Heroku decided to turn off all old free apps. That's a whole bunch of my old apps that are about to deprecate and break unless I do some work on the
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think this is a self-aggrandizing myth that is common in forums like HN with lots of programmers and designers: - UI's usually do not improve. They "improve" by making subjective changes for the benefit of the maker (often
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by cowtools 4y ago
It doesn't really seem like a big deal to me. The emissions due to that rocketry is nothing in the grand scale of things. Think of all the emissions that are spent globally on maintaining terrestrial telcom infrastructure. 5000 tons of
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by cowtools 4y ago
You only have to build the alternative once. Yes, there have been some areas where proprietary software has held its ground, but has done just that- it has not replaced free software in the areas that it has control over. The takeover of fr
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Will Bitcoin Lightning Network Hubs Be Regulated? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by cowtools 4y ago|0 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
> they will either use a permissively licensed open source project as the base which will be less feasible if people don't contribute to permissive projects in the first place, and basically serve as free labor for corporations to t
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by cowtools 4y ago
Bitcoin and Etherium are probably amongst the most inefficient cryptocurrencies on the market.
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by cowtools 4y ago
etherium is hardly low-cost

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