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by kodablah 8y ago
From what I've seen, GitHub will only respond to a DMCA request for takedown, and Google very rarely files those (I think I saw one in the GitHub DMCA notice repo for an entire internal published source repo once, could be misrememberi
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Like I said, I would appreciate someone explaining why I’m wrong but I’ve been closely following Tor for years and I haven’t seen anything to refute my opinion. That's gonna be tough, as the network would be broken if we could sho
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Consider adding forward-secrecy Considering. But since it is user-to-user, you can only trust the user to store it how they want since they are gonna see it in the clear at some point. Forward secrecy for the data at rest (i.e. in the
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by kodablah 8y ago
Yup, saw them, they had even looked at using my Tor Go controller lib. I look forward to watching it develop towards end user friendliness. I am a fan of the project.
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by kodablah 8y ago
In very early stages (like too early to know what's going on or why I'm taking certain approaches). However, I have built a couple libraries I leverage. There is a Tor embedder/controller [0] (with a project assisting with st
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by kodablah 8y ago
I'm building something similar using Tor, but using v3 addresses. As v3 is now the default and recommended onion version, will this project move to them? The address are much larger and more unwieldy. However, I've found publishin
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by kodablah 8y ago
They are struggling with something, not themselves struggling (I shouldn't have said adjective earlier, that is used as a verb it's different). Either way, with the really bad journalism these days about tech companies, this speci
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by kodablah 8y ago
I hate inaccurate journalists as much as the next guy, but I think you're being a bit hyperbolic on a single adjective while also misreading it. I think they mean it's the sluggish sales they are struggling with, not a struggling
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by kodablah 8y ago
That's not true. CSP can have a specific host/path for scripts and won't even run JS in the page without explicitly opting in to 'unsafe-inline'. It's an important prevention technique against XSS for pages sho
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by kodablah 8y ago
Likewise, but I have just come to accept that although I don't care what font I code in (just disambiguate the look-alikes), lots of others do, in nauseating detail. So I just lurk on the conversations as I might on plenty of other nua
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by kodablah 8y ago
> My take: Migration out of California has increased, but it's not clear why. My personal guess would be cost of living. Understanding "why" also requires looking at where people are migrating to and why. Quite possible th
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by kodablah 8y ago
People tend to use "SSL" to mean "CA-based TLS" these days, as in "SSL certificate".
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by kodablah 8y ago
The obvious problem with in-home edge compute like that is the shittyness of router implementations, combined with the shitty software out there, combined with the lack of common interfacing with the router by a human just begs to open up a
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by kodablah 8y ago
> Setting aside the fact that most people would look unfavorably on yet another box in their homes, how does any of this help you avoid the blocking and tracking of the ISP? Meh, don't need another box, just keep the family desktop
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by kodablah 8y ago
> First someone has to make a server that is perfectly secure and lasts for 50 years without any updates. Nah, your auto-updating desktop is fine. The software itself might evolve to an hands-off, evergreen-type of approach, but for now
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by kodablah 8y ago
> How could decentralized applications/services be sustainable funded? If not advertising, how? How any other open source is funded (e.g. corporate/individual donations, grants, crowdsourcing, support, ancillary products, etc).
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by kodablah 8y ago
/me goes to sandstorm.io, click install, skip past the paid version on to self-host, see it only works on Linux, close tab ^ That is your expected reaction by normal desktop users. I mean literally download an exe and up pops up your f
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by kodablah 8y ago
I think the part ignored by so many is the need to decentralize the computers into the home. I'm not talking meshes or shared resources. For the majority of use cases, we don't need distributed storage, compute, etc. Just start ma
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by kodablah 8y ago
This is about partnering with carriers that do bad things. One company that partnered with these carriers said "stop that" (granted not with enough eagerness/transparency for me). Another that partners with carriers remains m
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by kodablah 8y ago
Of course I understand. What I'm saying is that comment/information should be available eagerly, by the company, upfront to all of their customers when they found out about this problem without requiring a journalist.
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by kodablah 8y ago
Let's translate PR speak here... > "We have never sold Fi subscribers' location information," In other words "we never directly sold the info, but we never contracted them not to do anything with subscribers&#x27
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I think calling GDPR over-regulation is extremely suspect. I don't. I find it an egregious example of over-regulation. I think not recognizing the obviously large scope of such regulation is extremely suspect. > The GDPR does a
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by kodablah 8y ago
> I can see most of the obvious impetus for this, but don't feel it's going to work out very well at all. You can see this reaction to the GDPR where the discussion of benefits are hypothetical. Most of these pieces of legislat
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by kodablah 8y ago
> [...] might [...] Punitive measures on information like this rarely encourage anything. The worst part is people look at the intent and potential effects of legislation as though it is the actual, realized result. I have to assume the
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by kodablah 8y ago
> You can advocate using them, but they only help the big players Not true, they also help the end users, who often get lost in these discussions of big-vs-small companies. Turns out these "whales" everyone is so anxious to tar
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by kodablah 8y ago
> This is exactly the ongoing problem with the EU they don't distinguish between large corporations and small businesses Personally, I don't think laws should discriminate like this, and if a law is not good for business overal
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Because it's often applied across borders, and in cases of late, potentially by independent bodies of different countries. IME, it's often brought up on any large set of laws, especially those governing freedom of information, and
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by kodablah 8y ago
"They broke our made up rules". I don't think after that post anyone is going to claim Improbable was right. But Unity cutting off access sends a we-can-kill-your-access chill which to many isn't "right". A mor
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by kodablah 8y ago
Where is the data stored? How is this funded? If out of pocket, why, and how will it be funded beyond that? Would I be unwise to use this with such an unclear future or funding source? Are the videos encrypted at rest with a key as part of
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by kodablah 8y ago
They don't always [0] (or, a more dramatic read: [1]) 0 - http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2016/chapa/ 1 - https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-cartel-next-door/

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