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by dagenix 8y ago
The definition of conspiracy theory is: "a theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators" ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/con
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by dagenix 8y ago
We all know the types of ads that Google is saying they are going to block here - and good riddance. I really wish I knew of some study - but, my personal theory is that roughly 100% of those ads are trying to sell some scam or download som
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by dagenix 8y ago
Many users aren't going to be equipped to make a good decision when presented with that alert. Just explaining what the alert is saying is probably going to involve more text that most people are going to read. Doing a full block isn&#
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by dagenix 8y ago
> don't get all emotionally worked up about it. Not constructive
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> Rust has no undefined behavior because it only supports one CPU ... That is not true. Rust works on multiple architectures.
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by dagenix 8y ago
> Ignorant nonsense. I could do without that - it's hardly constructive.
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by dagenix 8y ago
The number of requests sent to Google or Apple seems like a poor metric to judge privacy impact. A single request with my bank account number carries a lot more information about me than 1,000 with my battery status.
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by dagenix 8y ago
> It's not one standard. Do you have specifics? > It's about having a huge head on the on all the important internet standards and pushing their cloud interests Is Google not supposed to be trying to improve the services the
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by dagenix 8y ago
I don't know comesee - but their saying it isn't at all hypothetical for them. It's called basic human decency - maybe give it a try?
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by dagenix 8y ago
So? If what is claimed to be true is true, maybe Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft won't implement it - and that would be a big deal to the alleged nefarious plot. But, that won't happen if no one speaks up. That is, of course, if thi
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by dagenix 8y ago
I really can't figure out what you are saying. I don't see any evidence of bribery. And the technologies we're talking about have pretty legitimate reasons for existing. So, ...?
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QUIC is hardly a product - very few users will ever know what it is. That Google has significant influence on internet infrastructure is hard to deny - but saying they are in control is ridiculous. And a lot of that influence comes from hir
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by dagenix 8y ago
The article is literally about the IETF standards body making a decision. If working with the IETF to propose and refine a new technology is, by your definition, "subverting standards" I really am at a loss for what a company shou
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by dagenix 8y ago
Nginx can support HTTP 1.0, 1.1, and 2 all at once. I'd suspect one day it will be able to support 3 as well. And I'd imagine that any other server software of consequence is going to as well.
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by dagenix 8y ago
> I assume the QUIC protocol also comes with some "happy accidents" that allows Google to more easily collect data on us, too. This is just conspiracy theory nonsense. If QUIC has such a flaw, it has an open spec and you are fr
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by dagenix 8y ago
> No it doesn't. Saying that anything has no drawbacks is pretty much always going too far.
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by dagenix 8y ago
> That said, male Google employees are probably less likely to sexually harass. They tend to be more nerdy, introverted, and less masculine(lower testosterone, less aggressive). Citation for either point that Google employees are "l
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by dagenix 8y ago
> touchy about the cancer thing Wow. That is technically a valid English phrase. What boggles the mind is that someone could be so out of touch with societal norms and basic human decency that they would actually use it.
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by dagenix 8y ago
> Thomas Ptacek (the guy whose blog post you've linked) agrees with Thomas Ptacek (tptacek, the guy whose sub-thread you're replying to)? Not exactly a revelation. Lol, I didn't read the username. > So, that post is wro
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by dagenix 8y ago
That example does make a very strong case for the feature - which I guess was the point. But, the audience for the post already knows that encrypted SNI is and why it's important. And if they don't, a much more light-hearted examp
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> having to get one significantly ups the ante for them. I see this as a good thing. I do sympathize with small businesses that, when gaping holes in internet security are closed, are forced to retire technologies that exploited those ho
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by dagenix 8y ago
And definitely read the post by Thomas Ptacek linked to from that article: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/ . He makes the excellent point that DNSSEC (and thus DANE) doesn&#x27
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by dagenix 8y ago
Thats not remotely true. ESNI is a draft IETF spec - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/ . It just so happens, that right now CloudFlare and Firefox are the ones that implement it. But any particu
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by dagenix 8y ago
I'm very confused - are you saying that the announcement of experimental ESNI support is an example of companies "attempting to operate outside of the formalized process for internet standards"? If so, I really don't see
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by dagenix 8y ago
What did the parent comment say that you disagree with?
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> Software deliberately designed to go against the wishes of its users is defective, malicious, or both. I think its quite a stretch to say that Mozilla choosing not to support a technology makes their product "defective" or &q
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by dagenix 8y ago
How many users: a) Know what TLS is b) and, have a secure channel to their destination website that allows them to determine that it intends to serve TLS 1.0 c) and, aren't in a position to just upgrade the darn thing to at least TLS 1
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by dagenix 8y ago
Regardless of if comex's comment was fully accurate, I was mostly responding to "Most languages survived without that" which isn't productive.
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Prior to their invention, most drivers survived without airbags in their cars too. comex just noted that the design decision here has some tradeoffs. One of those tradeoffs is that you can't define wrapper types for units. Such a featu
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by dagenix 8y ago
Making it artificially harder to push out an update doesn't sound like much of a good idea, if that is what you are suggesting.

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