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by sintaxi 10y ago
If it doesn't happen this year, just wait longer.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
I agree. He saw the government doing illegal shit. He raised his concerns internally and only after they fell on deaf ears he released incriminating documents to veteran media to decide for themselves what the public has a right to know. Sn
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by sintaxi 10y ago
I agree but I will correct you in that Snowden made it clear many times his intentions were for the public to know and have a conversation about the mass surveillance not that it should necessarily stop.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
...under penalty of perjury.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
Humans, we like to build fences.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
We expect Digital Ocean to not remove content unless they have been given instruction to do so by the rights holder. I don't see that as special treatment.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
We did not force Digital Oceans had by leaving them with only those two options. a) We told Digital Ocean that if push comes to shove we will remove the domain not resist and risk having all our customers sites taken down. We explicitly sta
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by sintaxi 10y ago
You're right. I openly accept this criticism. Steps have already been taken to to get us to the point where a provider is no longer a single point of failure. To be honest this isn't a problem we had anticipated. I expect Surge wi
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by sintaxi 10y ago
Please know more facts before passing judgement. We told Digital Ocean that we were open on the issue and that we would rather take down the site than risk having all our customers disabled. We asked for one of two things either 1) we be se
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by sintaxi 10y ago
If that is true that is entirely unintentional and Im sorry. There is a lot going on all at once for us right now. I'm willing to clarify to avoid further to confusion if you can provide more detail.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
> Why wouldn't you simply forward the notice to the customer and tell them to respond within 48 hours? We would have had we been sent a notice from the trademark holder but we weren't. Or even had DO been sent the request from
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by sintaxi 10y ago
We responded within 22 minutes of the claim and was in frequent communication with DO over the 5 days.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
No cease-and-desist was sent to Digital Ocean or Surge but there was one sent to CloudFlare. Digital Ocean acted on their own behalf.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
There was no court order, no.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
Sure. 5 days ago we got forwarded a forward of a takedown request that was sent to CloudFlare from a representative of the trademark holder. We responded to that forward within 22 minutes of first receiving it and have been in communication
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by sintaxi 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010521
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by sintaxi 10y ago
We were in frequent communication with Digital Ocean and when we last spoke it was still an open issue. They had asked us to file a counterclaim but withdrew the request 39 minutes before shutting us down. 5 days total had elapsed from the
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by sintaxi 10y ago
We responded within 22 minutes of the original complaint and have been in frequent contact with Digital Ocean over the course of the 5 days including a phone call only hours before where they asked us to either remove the content or fill ou
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by sintaxi 10y ago
we provide more specifics on timeline here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010521
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by sintaxi 10y ago
Brock, Founder of surge.sh here. 1. Digital Ocean did NOT receive a complaint on behalf the trademark holder. CloudFlare was the company sent a complaint on behalf of the trademark holder, which was forwarded to DigitalOcean which was then
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by sintaxi 10y ago
I've been down this road so many times and I always end up at the same conclusion. When you consider security, privacy, usability, and portability of each authentication system there are only two that are really viable. SSH keys OR Ema
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by sintaxi 10y ago
Well played.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
Ah ok, thanks. What is China's motivation for removing these villages?
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by sintaxi 10y ago
Under what legal authority does that cap exist?
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by sintaxi 10y ago
but is it worth the extra weight and complexity of a second engine and fuel source?
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by sintaxi 10y ago
Hats off Samsung. You have just acquired a truly world class Engineering team. Congrats to all my former colleagues who are absolutely amazing at their jobs and wonderful people to work with. Samsung looks like a very good match. Hope the t
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by sintaxi 10y ago
Agreed. It's looking more and more like we collectively screwed ourselves by turning our noses up at Wave.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
This is what I was thinking about. Thanks.
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by sintaxi 10y ago
I actually think this very situation is happening in the states right now where someone is "required" to unlock their encrypted hard drive and the defendant is claiming to have forgot the password. Not sure what has happened with
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by sintaxi 10y ago
If you are properly preparing your assets for web distribution you really don't want those files in a git repo. it messes up your commit history and doesn't provide much value. I think gh-pages is fundamentally broken for this rea

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