snakeanus

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by snakeanus 9y ago
Yes, they do https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd . They even said recently that they are not planing to letting you disable it/remove it/share the source of it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> Now urandom is based on chacha Did Linux follow the example set by OpenBSD?
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Also an interesting and related article https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-rando...
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by snakeanus 9y ago
How about authentication with public keys? You can store them encrypted in a smartcard, on your computer, on your phone, or even write them down.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Isn't viewing child porn also a thoughtcrime? Obviously this would apply only to viewing it and not creating it. If I am not mistaken Japan illegalised viewing CP in ~2009 but distributing it was illegal beforehand.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
He did say that the list is endless.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> I don't think Cloudflare is providing the DDOS part I did not claim that they did. > Their involvement is limited to serving the web sites i.e. speech I guess so.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Free speech harms nobody. DOS attacks harm the people whose service is denied to.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> Discriminatory hateful speech absolutely limits the freedom of the discriminated group How so? Speech is just speech.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> I don't allow white nationalists into my house. That reminds me a joke that someone made during a family meeting. It was something along the lines of "What? You are going to marry a COMMUNIST?" and "I don't wan
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> and ISPs are free to cut off my internet service if they don't like what I'm hosting The solution for this kind of thing would be using something like tor or i2p. However, if these companies start banning these services as we
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by snakeanus 9y ago
The Pirate Bay is fine. DDOS gangs however? I would argue that they are worse than people who express a fascist ideology online.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> That's a fallacy because "free speech" is not unlimited - every civilization recognizes its existence is the result of limiting specific freedoms in order to guarantee everyone other freedoms. Speech can't limit any
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> The distinction is that neo-nazis chose to follow a hateful ideology Did they?
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by snakeanus 9y ago
You don't choose to have a certain ideology.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
If you use a mode like CTR you just flip the corresponding ciphertext bit. As for CBC there are padding-oracle attacks.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I just see a "CALCULATING...."
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Draw a girl, call it a boy.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Sure, this might be a private business and they might be free not to deliver certain content but this does not exempt them from criticism. Just like they are free not to map the address to the ip of that site so are people free to criticise
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> Do terrorist organizations deserve a place on the internet where like-minded people can communicate and meet each other? Everyone does.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
They wouldn't have to deal with that if they used tor/i2p instead.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Under CC-SA nonetheless. In fact, Hal Abelson (one of the authors of SICP) was also one of the founders of Creative Commons. Moreover the other author (Gerald J. Sussman) is in the board of directors of the FSF.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming And the books in the "The Little Schemer" series. I would also suggest "Artificial Intelligence: A Moder
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Archive.org is one of the greatest sites in the world right now. The only negative thing that I have to say about it is the retroactive removal of sites that have a anti-bot stance on robots.txt (even if it does not ban archive.org specific
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by snakeanus 9y ago
To be frank these videos should be public.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I wonder, why is it an extension for a specific browser instead of a blacklist that can be used in any browser that has a blocker?
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by snakeanus 9y ago
It seems that we really need to find a new distributed/decentralised censorship-resistant way to distribute videos.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
If you have mpv with youtube-dl installed then you can watch the video without using anything non-free.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I would argue that you are evil if you do not allow the user to use for any propose, distribute, and modify the software.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
And this is a good thing.

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