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by sentenza 13y ago
You might also want to check if you have IPv6 connectivity on your home connection. If all you want to do is to ssh/rsync/sftp etc to your home computers from the VPS, you might get lucky if your provider assigned you a static IPv
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That last line is quite curious, though. As far as I know, only a very small fraction of modern day anarchists is self-describing as anarchists. Most of the others consider the term unfashionable and derogatory. Here in Europe the self-desc
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You make an important point, but I want to add a caveat. We know a lot about how long we have to wait to deal with "regime crimes" in order not to jeopardize the political system of the successor state. It seems that in the case o
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You (Americans) should treasure the existence of the minimum wage. One of the black spots on our otherwise rather generous social framework here in Germany is that there exists no minimum wage. I don't know if the lack of a minimum wag
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If that is against a trade law, then the trade law has to go. Having the ability to easily spy on us is not a free market principle. Also, you shouldn't try to gain goodwill by bullying tactics and strawmen. How is this measure a tacti
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You non-Germans don't know how mind-boggeling insane this whole story is. There is a governmental agency, the BSI, whose job is to be on top of everything regarding security in information systems. They tell us that millions of email a
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This scandal was really weird from a HN commenter's perspective. For me it was the first time I experienced "wild veering" of comments, where I would write a comment that was downvoted multiple times within a few minutes and
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So you're not interested in history and thus it is OK to destroy it? Allowing the circulation of illegally obtained cultural artifacts allows the market of grave-robbers, looters and "amateur archeologists" to prosper. Whenev
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We are in the lucky position, however, that there is an EU parliament election coming up. Since the national parties feel quite embarrassed if their representatives don't perform, nobody will be willing to oppose the immensely popular
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It is also important to always remember that a crypto app isn't like other apps. If the protesters in Turkey rely on shoddy crypto today, it might cost them their lives a few months from now. I sincerely hope it doesn't come to th
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Oh, I misunderstood. Then that example is indeed an interesting counterpoint. You are of course right in that human rights issues are special. But there are also other human rights issues for which this could be done. The death penalty come
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I chose this particular example because it is a rather uncontroversial human rights issue here in Europe, whereas the Americans are still undecided. Here in Europe it is seen as imperative that the state should never be allowed to intentful
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Hm. Your examples are good, but have one flaw, though: Both the NPD thing and the food bank example are cases in which the controversial act is, thematically, close to the professional role of the person in question. A politician should be
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How about the death penalty? It is a violation of human rights with a clear right and wrong side. Where is the public outrage over death-penalty supporters in the FOSS world?
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After seeing the shitstorm on here about the Brendan Eich issue, I was very confused. Now I remember that I have seen this before and feel the need to warn you (Americans) about what (could) be coming out of this: The GPPD-spiral. The Germa
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But that implies that, as employees rise through the ranks, there must come a point at which their political stance starts to matter. We had such an arrangement here in Germany (then West-Germany) a few years back: When you wanted to become
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Wow this is surprising, I honestly didn't know that. My first hand knowledge is limited to Spain, which is very relaxed about these things and to Poland, where the situation is rather bad. My assumption was that in countries where the
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I am also having problems with placing this whole thing in my worldview frame-of-reference. As a matter of fact, I'm a gay-friendly man from Germany with friends and family who are gay. Thus I could, in the future, theoretically become
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Ok I see that it is quite unrealistic to go community-wide with a Javascript boycott (and I was talking about developers, not users). It's just that singling out Firefox to me seems so arbitrary. Now the target is Firefox, the last big
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So I'm downvoted to hell, but what about my question? It's easy to do a boycott that doesn't hurt you. Everybody can live without Firefox. So why not get serious about this and show people that you are willing to make an actu
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Wait. The guy is also the inventor of Javascript. Shouldn't everybody be boycotting that? I mean it has a lot more to do with him than Firefox does. After all, he's the CEO of Mozilla Corporation (not the Foundation), which is onl
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Never, ever think about doing any of your startup business in Belarus. It is _not_ part of the common market and your operation can be annihilated by the (still autocratic) state at a whim. If you find good people from Belarus (which undoub
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No new info here. Dropbox de-duplicates using hashes, so they would use them against a blacklist. The main problem with Dropbox still remains: They can read your files if they want to and you have only their word that they don't. For n
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Games on the big board are irrelevant compared to the intelligence service of a nation state ripping your life appart because they want your access credentials to do some industrial espionage. Because this is what this is. A nation state co
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So even though the US is allied to the state I am a citizen of, should I ever work for any sort of communications company, I'll be fair game for US intelligence services. Got it. For practical purposes, the alliance is worthless then.
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What I wonder is this: Everybody who enters the information age slowly (and mostly without noticing) adapts to it and develops information processing skills. So why not just present a table and/or a graph? Maybe we're already capa
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There are a bunch of policemen stationed permanently at the street corner, day and night. The daily cost for this is 11000 Pounds, total cost so far is more than 6 Mil[1](video is in German). Is that usually done in the UK? I don't kno
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Russian names are also much more likely to get mangled, as you'd have to do a very careful sound-by-sound transfer. You can't just go by the letters, because the vowels are pronounced differently if they are emphasized in the word
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The fault line in this discussion lies between the different perspectives on the common good in question. Here's a hypothetical: What if we "disrupted" the regulation on what you can hook up to the electric grid and how you h
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Prolonged Windows XP support for Lower Saxony until 2015 (Google translate)(translate.google.com)
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