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by wybiral 7y ago
They can block sites that serve the download and they can block any seed nodes that link to hosts in the p2p network. Tor is blocked in similar ways, which is why we have the battle of maintaining a constant supply of bridge nodes and using
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by wybiral 7y ago
Aside from situations like China where state censorship of history and news are an actual thing, or in situations where whistleblowers need to protect their identity... Some people just want privacy. Give me a solid reason for why you want
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by wybiral 7y ago
Just because it's hard to do in a way that ensures the safety of the sources doesn't justify any sense of trustworthiness. In national security matters like this it's okay to be skeptical about reporting and sources because j
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by wybiral 7y ago
Regarding the "spy chip" story: Other sources. Or other news agencies confirming the sources used. Or any evidence of the chips being planted on any hardware at all. To be clear: I'm not saying it didn't happen, just tha
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by wybiral 7y ago
To be fair to Bloomberg, some of the companies involved were also complicit with the NSA PRISM project and in the initial reporting of that they all denied giving the government a backdoor. But you're right, it's been a year now a
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PrivacySafe: The Anti-Cloud Appliance(boingboing.net)
1 points by wybiral 7y ago|0 comments
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by wybiral 7y ago
In all fairness to the GitHub account, the Python logo itself could be perceived as the same logo made out of two snakes. But troll culture masquerading as innocent plausible-deniability really is ruining the internet because it's hard
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by wybiral 7y ago
I have a small flock and can confirm a similar "hypnotic" behavior. Sometimes when my rooster is being a punk I'll pick him up while I feed the rest. If he keeps trying to attack me I hold him on his back and he almost instan
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by wybiral 7y ago
This reads as "save the cookies" to me. From a company who specializes in tracking of all forms including location from our phones and parsing all of our emails to enumerate our recent shopping orders on 3rd party sites. What if w
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by wybiral 7y ago
Some of the accounts were so obvious that I accidentally found them just reading tweets in Hong Kong related hashtags. There were random-looking screen names with stolen images for avatars tweeting almost verbatim the same messages: https:
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by wybiral 7y ago
But the application of law should be explicitly defined in order to be applied equally by law enforcement and courts. If you define the law to be "all people have the right to live as decided by local law enforcement and courts" t
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GitHub Government Takedown Notices(github.com)
3 points by wybiral 7y ago|0 comments
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by wybiral 7y ago
Yeah, for me Go is a specialized tool mostly for dealing with IO. The entire standard library and all of the builtin types are really designed for IO-centric applications which is why it's a natural fit for servers/microservices.
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by wybiral 7y ago
They make it hard to correct those things too. You have to re-upload the entire thing as a new video instead of being able to edit or replace existing videos to deal with copyright claims. But then their algorithms also seem to demote conte
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by wybiral 7y ago
This is too similar to interfaces for me and seems like it would only add to the complexity of the language, documentation, and compile time for a small increase in generic code. One of Go's core strengths is simplicity. I've pers
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by wybiral 7y ago
I'm not saying that there aren't content producers who want that or would benefit from it. I'm saying that they probably won't make as much money that way. And if the only way to do it is to use pervasive tracking and di
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by wybiral 7y ago
> Right now you can make a new site, sign up with an ad network, and start showing ads. With the tiny payout you get from Adsense, unless your site is really popular to begin with, you're not going to make much of anything. Pennies
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by wybiral 7y ago
I don't use any of the methods they mention there (although I know that they can use my credit card info to track me as well). But, yeah, I'm still offended by that. It doesn't justify the widespread behavior on the internet
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by wybiral 7y ago
You can make the same argument about podcasts, television, radio, magazines, billboards, etc. At some point you rely on statistics that someone is giving you in all of those mediums but they still made money. I've personally made much
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by wybiral 7y ago
That's a completely different discussion though. Personally I'm not offended by seeing a brand placement if it helps the content creator and is transparent (meaning I know it's an ad, and it's not collecting data about m
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by wybiral 7y ago
Podcasts are a great example. They've had to do advertising the old fashion way, by market research and trying to figure out which ad campaigns are more effective without mass surveillance. Often they use the strategy of widespread nam
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by wybiral 7y ago
I don't actually want to block ads. If you want to put a small text or image blurb anywhere on the page... Good for you. I'll gladly accept those on a webpage so that the content creator can make a bit of cash. But these companies
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by wybiral 7y ago
There's a 26+ year old bug in the markup at the end of the source code (The extra </A>): <DD> Getting the code by<A NAME=49 HREF="LineMode/Defaults/Distribution.html"> anonymous FTP&lt
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World Wide Web (1992)(info.cern.ch)
2 points by wybiral 7y ago|1 comments
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by wybiral 7y ago
This is off topic, so I'll understand if it gets downvoted, but... Why are other, normal comments in these threads about GitHub being downvoted so quickly?
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by wybiral 7y ago
That's exactly how leadership manipulated soldiers during the Tiananmen Square massacre [0]. They weren't given clear orders and were basically only told where to go and when. With that much force and tension anything can set it o
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by wybiral 7y ago
Adaptive stream encoding: https://puffer.stanford.edu/static/puffer/documents/puffer-a...
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by wybiral 7y ago
Bob Ross is the only thing good on right now but I do have to say that while the quality isn't the best the stream performance is really nice and stable. Works great.
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by wybiral 7y ago
This sounds very familiar. Oh yeah, 4 years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232689
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by wybiral 7y ago
> Because it encourages nesting function calls, which is harder for a human to parse than separate statements across lines. I absolutely agree. Beyond the human parsing aspect it also makes commit changes easier to reason about and revie

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