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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Is Monty Python lost on this generation? Could you elaborate? Looks like a UK television thing from the 70s. I'm not familiar with UK television culture references.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Yes, FSF basically forked into its own not so free software movement, especially after some FSF people publicly joined the attack on Stallman. Old movement is dead, split, new movements are not going to be the same.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
I think it's pretty obvious that US propaganda and censorship machine pushed into tech at full force in the last couple of years, with all the manufacturing consent at all levels. When they forced codes of conduct, inquisition was alre
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's not a real objective feeling, so no, it's not bad, it's subjective.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's actually not that simple, the freedoms are conditioned to satisfy them all, not just one. But even then Free Software philosophy is not ideologically pure. In particular gaining competitive advantage is fundamental to players in m
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> And all this is in a context were fewer and fewer developers are interested in desktop development, and fewer and fewer companies are interested in investing in desktop development. Which could make X11 the last linux/unix desktop
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Well, removing or not implementing such features because of security is always a big fat sign of something sneaky or even worse, outright incompetent going on. As such security risks of features can always be addressed through some sort of
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Giving people money at minimum redistributes wealth, so it cannot possibly be any worse, than letting wealth concentrate.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Well, if governments let corporations dominate, monopolize markets they are inevitably giving up competition and therefore innovation. Forcing talented people to work on evil things that advance company's dominant position, rather than
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> but the problem is if everyone starts blocking ads then the current free internet cannot be sustained as it is today No, it's a myth, the web doesn't work like that. There are many millions of websites, but only some thousand
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> And it definitely is never easier than opening an app on your smart tv/console/etc and clicking play. It is. For everyone who cares about privacy, security implications of using an app on a smart tv, for everyone who doesn&#x
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> It seems like everyone here thinks torrenting is as easy and simple as using streaming services actually is, and that streaming is as complicated as torrenting actually is. Would be weird if people here didn't find torrenting easy
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It seems to me neither your case nor what parent comment describes is about convenience, but merely about not wanting to pay too much for all the streaming services. I mean I don't think you would pay 10x more for netflix if it had eve
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
You are missing the point here. It was a targeted attack on Stallman through mass media, social media.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> At some point, most Internet protocol privacy issues boil down to who you're willing to leak information to They don't. As you can leak all your information to a single party or leak smallest necessary bits of information to
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> But, some of these VC-backed businesses also go on to be wildly successful and valuable to society (in a way that would have been impossible without this growth first mentality). Why would it be impossible? It would be equally possible
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> They can simply sue you in the jurisdiction in which you live, getting a court order for you to reveal the information. > Unless you don't mind serving indefinite jail time for contempt of court. Not how it works internationall
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's mostly about accessibility though. If something can provide a lot of value, but is inaccessible for people using an ipad with voice typing, it's the same as if doesn't exist at all for those people. And since most things
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> The alternative to sending everything encrypted to Cloudflare is sending everything in plain text to your ISP and anyone else who wants to snoop on your DNS. It's not the alternative. With DoH you are sending DNS queries, IP addre
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> The problem is that not getting those people to stop doing that - or, if necessary, excluding them - causes them to exclude other people. And getting those people to stop excludes people who don't like for anyone to force them to
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> They concluded that working in communities that wouldn't tolerate people like RMS was more important than working on free software. This is clearly a fabricated justification. But if such people were to actually exist they would n
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> If your movement's leadership acts in a way that hurts the movement, what's the appropriate response? Everything short of pushing RMS out has been tried already. You are making a baseless assumption that it hurts the movement
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
There are people and organizations that gather and store historical data on which websites resolved to which IP addresses at what time from where. Sometimes they run a service allowing you to freely query what other websites resolve to whic
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
You don't need a PoC, you can just go through research of traffic analysis to see what's out there. But you are welcome to fund a challenge for it or something like that.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
But it's not more difficult, it's just a bit different approach, where you need to do some work besides parsing to get those patterns, i.e. visit websites. It's more work for software engineers, but not difficult work.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> > But if they do DPI, it will be resolved once ESNI starts being deployed. > Once. This underestimates DPI vendors. eSNI can't stop them, they will just move to exploit side channel information (traffic patterns) to identify
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> This could have been handled between operating system developers and DNS infrastructure but they didn't care to. No, there was a lot of caring over the years as DNS is old and insecure, in particular unencrypted communications wit
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Drop DoH, then it could be true. As it is DoH is invented to preserve and centralize snooping on DNS.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
And eSNI is not even a solution to anything, it merely pushes a bit of cleartext identification data from one protocol to another, while assuming that lots of websites share a single IP address and that it's not possible to correlate w
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> I'd rather trust unecncrypted plaintext DNS queries that go to my ISP and government! Your ISP has access to more detailed data on you than DNS queries. Also CF servers are typically located in the same jurisdiction as your govern

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