waterhouse23

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by waterhouse23 10y ago
Yes, actually I'd like to better understand what China does do with their state control of social media. Clearly you can explicitly suppress certain political views. But I think there's probably a lot more you could do. For exampl
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by waterhouse23 10y ago
They could probably shut down his account for terms of service violations. Actually kind of interesting to imagine what a state could do if they owned twitter or a similarly large social network.
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by waterhouse23 10y ago
This is awesome, and actually a pretty neat way of evaluating websites. A surprising number of people are still on low bandwidth connections, while it's probably not reasonable to optimize for them, it's at least worth considering
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by waterhouse23 10y ago
This seems like a really awesome idea. I'm curious to hear how it works out in practice. There are various (obvious) issues with it being remote and working with strangers. But sounds like a great way to meet and work with new people.
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by waterhouse23 10y ago
The reason they chose this Broadcom part is because they could get it cheap from Broadcom (founders have an association with Broadcom). So, basically it was a political choice to use this part. I think it also helped Broadcom sell a part wh
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by waterhouse23 10y ago
No, Broadcom is quite unique in requiring blobs to boot. There are plenty of SoCs that are functional without firmware blobs. Generally there are issues getting the GPU working well without firmware blobs but other aspects work fine. Check
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by waterhouse23 10y ago
I don't have any specific recommendations (though I'm happy with my provider). What I would say, is go with a provider who accepts bitcoin and doesn't require an email address. Even if you end up paying my card/PayPal, a
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by waterhouse23 10y ago
Yes, that's a sad prospect. However, at that point I assume there'll also be no countries to host content in either so VPN would be useless in any case. I assume at the point Tor's popularity will surge.
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by waterhouse23 10y ago
Same deal in the UK. I wonder how long until the US goes down the same route. I'm quite surprised that they've gone down the DNS based filtering route. I'd expect that to change in a few years time. I recommend investing in a