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by haakon 2y ago
Gleam seems like such a nice language. The language server integrated in its single-binary toolchain looks nice. The only unexpected thing I've found is the lack of structs/objects. Instead you only have "enums", which t
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by haakon 2y ago
Your understanding is correct. It happened to me; someone made a Workspace for a domain name I own, and made a user on that workspace to match an email address I have on that domain, and then used "Sign in with Google" on Dropbox.
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by haakon 2y ago
More on that here: https://proton.me/blog/climate-activist-arrest They swiftly went on to win a court ruling that would prevent this specific situation from repeating. https://proton.me/blog/court-
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by haakon 2y ago
They were legally compelled to add IP logging for that specific user. After this incidence, they went on to obtain a court ruling in Switzerland, where they operate, so that this specific attack cannot happen again. In their blog post about
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by haakon 3y ago
I still do it, and have been for over a decade, and I'm rarely bothered by it. I think I get a few more captchas because of it, and I can't load https://www.investopedia.com , which I would frequently like to, but that&
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by haakon 3y ago
Lolita is covered by an exception for art. I doubt such a book could be written in Norway today, but you can't really ban historical literature.
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by haakon 3y ago
Generated CSAM is equally illegal as "real" CSAM in many countries, such as Norway. Here, even fictional descriptions of such material in written form is illegal.
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by haakon 3y ago
Domain names can also be taken from you if your adversaries are powerful enough. It happens regularly to controversial websites.
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by haakon 3y ago
It wasn't early; v2 desperately needed to be phased out. The crypto was obsolete and the protocol had known flaws. Over a year's lead time was given (see timeline: https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timelin
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by haakon 3y ago
Communities are namespaced. You'd have news@foo.com and news@bar.com. The local server is an implicit namespace for its own communities, so for local users of foo.com, news@foo.com is presented as simply "news".
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by haakon 3y ago
Snowden became a Russian citizen last September: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63036991
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by haakon 4y ago
> The "cryptocurrency" concept seems to be based on a mistrust of government-issued currency and a mistrust of government more generally. This is the classic notion of cryptocurrency, but the field has grown and changed a lot.
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by haakon 4y ago
If FBI really has compromised Tor, there's no reason to believe they would be helpless against a VPN service.
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by haakon 4y ago
> This isn't the case anymore for Onion v2 addresses You're right, except you meant v3.
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by haakon 4y ago
Also worth noting that v2 domains are phased out now and will no longer work. Facebook's new onion address is facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd.onion, which is not exactly human-meaningful.
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by haakon 4y ago
No, the point (if we go by Bitcoin's whitepaper) was to be digital cash transactable without middle-men.
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Congestion Control Arrives in Tor 0.4.7-stable(blog.torproject.org)
149 points by haakon 4y ago|24 comments
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by haakon 5y ago
Earning interest like that requires leaving your money with a custodian, which negates any protection against confiscation.
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by haakon 5y ago
I was surprised to find I had telemetry enabled. I could have sworn I disabled it, but it would have been a long time ago, so I was thinking maybe I remember it wrong. I would like to see any source that may exist on it having been silently
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by haakon 5y ago
I've been running a Tor relay from my home for a decade, at least. It's not an exit relay. Never had any issue.
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by haakon 5y ago
That makes little sense to me. Each post contains a pointer to its parent post in the thread. That's how the client side can construct the thread.
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by haakon 5y ago
It doesn't have to be an SSD. My node runs on a regular, inexpensive mechanical disk.
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by haakon 5y ago
There are no such plans, and it's extremely unlike there ever will be.
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by haakon 5y ago
Oh man. I discover an album I really love, and next time it takes such effort to find my way back to it. But that silly, boring podcast I listened to for a few minutes last year? It's the first thing I see when I open the app.
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How to build a small town in Texas(wrathofgnon.substack.com)
256 points by haakon 5y ago|213 comments
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by haakon 5y ago
If you don't mind a completely centralised cryptocurrency, https://solarcoin.org distributes coins based on how much solar energy you produce. That's great, but doesn't really compete with Bitcoin and others, whic
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by haakon 5y ago
No. Bitcoin was launched publicly and announced, and anybody could mine, even on the most dinky laptop. Nothing was mined prior to launch (aka a premine).
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by haakon 5y ago
Home computers in the eighties weren't that expensive. That was the whole point – you could actually have a computer in your home now. Kids got them for Christmas.
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by haakon 5y ago
He's so frequently called "colorful" and "successful". In fact, he was a nutjob who most likely did unspeakable things when he wasn't busy doing just terrible things.
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by haakon 5y ago
In the early days of Bitcoin, P2PK was used, where the public key is exposed instead of a hash of it. At least a million coins are covered by that. I would expect someone yielding a theoretical QC to attack those first.

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