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by xrisk 6y ago
... You realize that it set pricing across operators forcing literally every single one of them into losses?
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by xrisk 6y ago
Because the APMC has to pay the cess and they supply India's PDS and various important things? Or would you have them do away with those too?
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by xrisk 6y ago
I never claimed that they always work as expected. That is not an excuse to do away with them. As for the shtick that they will not abolish mandis, that is already demonstrably untrue [1]. It is trivial to observe that big corp will utterly
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by xrisk 6y ago
> Where are the mandis going? If they are non-competitive, they are out. They would be non-competitive because of the no taxation clause that the bill has -- allowing big corp to undercut the mandis. Not to mention that corps are known
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by xrisk 6y ago
The Indian government actively colludes with big corp; forget about breaking up monopolies (see: Jio). As for the claim that the new laws allow anybody to approach a farmer with a better deal; sure that works in theory -- but notice that 1)
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by xrisk 6y ago
> There was monopolies of mandis(farmer are restricted only to sell here) now government allows them to make contract or sell anywhere. This is factually incorrect [1]. Only about 30% [2] of produce is sold in mandis. Any anti-mandi law
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by xrisk 6y ago
Once the mandis are gone, what prevents a monopolized market from then strong-arming farmers into bad deals? Farmers do not have leverage to negotiate good deals with big corps, and when the mandis eventually die away (simply due to this bi
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by xrisk 6y ago
He's talking about the fact that the RSS did not raise the Indian flag till about 2002. And that their historical opposition to the flag is well documented.
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by xrisk 6y ago
> It's also true that existing power nexus like these farmer brokers who are spearheading the protest. You may ask where they get their money from go continue the protest? Basically from the existing network of exporters of fruits,
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by xrisk 6y ago
I wouldn't conflate privacy with encryption necessarily.
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by xrisk 6y ago
What do you mean by autogenerated content? Nothing comes to mind that's also not super niche (stuff like generated music etc)
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by xrisk 6y ago
Yes, the solution is … allow the protocol to let people run their own servers?
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by xrisk 6y ago
Sure it does, but I'm more inclined to trust my own server than trust Signal's server (thus reducing the need for that verification to happen in the first place)
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by xrisk 6y ago
Yeah, TLS solves that right? So we can agree that a decentralized system effectively removes the need to ever trust any third party system?
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by xrisk 6y ago
Not if it's targeted towards a particular pair of people.
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by xrisk 6y ago
> An attack would only be invisible if it happened from the first communication. This is the scenario I'm talking about.
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by xrisk 6y ago
Yes, but I can get all the parties I want to talk to on my own server (if the need arises). About your point the connection itself being MITMed, I don't exactly understand how an active attacker sitting on my connection would undermi
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by xrisk 6y ago
Copy pasting my comment: Consider this paragraph from the Signal protocol > ...For example, they may compare public key fingerprints manually, or by scanning a QR code. Methods for doing this are outside the scope of this document. >
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by xrisk 6y ago
Why? I trust that my own server is not backdoored (thus reducing the need for off-channel fingerprint verification), I have no such guarantee about Signal's server.
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by xrisk 6y ago
> If we could do better, we would have done better by now. We should have given up on Linux UIs way back then. They're still garbage when it compares to the alternatives.
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by xrisk 6y ago
So one of the things that feels the most damning to me about Signal-like protocols is that you have to inherently trust their server. Consider this paragraph from the Signal protocol > ...For example, they may compare public key fingerpr
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by xrisk 6y ago
Why would they blacklist IPs? The bans I've seen (in India) are based on sniffing SNI. Using AWS doesn't help at all in that case.
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by xrisk 6y ago
Reading a bunch of computational social science papers and trying to figure out whether pivoting into social science halfway through a CS degree was a wise choice :) In general: trying to figure out if academia is worth it or whether I shou
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by xrisk 6y ago
Somehow I don’t buy it. Care to explain? One would think that being hosted on US soil makes it more likely to get backdoored by NSA type agencies.
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by xrisk 6y ago
So is the model similar to that of WhatsApp web? can you receive messages on the desktop app if your phone is switched off?
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by xrisk 6y ago
Off-topic but does Signal support independent multi-device yet? Sorry I can’t find reliable information about it online!
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by xrisk 6y ago
I’d rather take the service which is not hosted on US servers over one that is, given that I can verify neither of their server code.
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by xrisk 6y ago
This… is not the place to rant about Linux? Desktop compatibility is not the goal of CentOS style distros.
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by xrisk 6y ago
Use a 2FA that lets you take backups?
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by xrisk 6y ago
The web is useless without basic priors.

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