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841.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
So, small in-order CPUs will be the future of commodity distributed computing after all? I doubt they will resort to that though. They can do other tricks, since they control the infrastructure, like turning on process isolation automatical
842.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
It's not that mild. Still an attempt to stop information government doesn't like from spreading. Still targeted, more broadly, but targeted. Still requires internet censorship infrastructure to even be able to order ISPs to block
843.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
DHT doesn't need every node to have a persistent reachable address from every other node directly. It's ok if some have persistent addresses, some can be reachable after NAT traversal or only through other nodes acting as relays.
844.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
You are not describing a terror attack then. The point of terrorism is propaganda.
845.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Terrorism doesn't require hidden communication channels. But it is actually propaganda, usually foreign, so governments feel threatened by it and naturally want to block it. If they can't, they can decide to block the next best th
846.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
I sometimes wonder that too. There are tons of simple things HTTP and web browsers could implement to make everyone's life better and easier. Make redundancy built-in, for example, or a primitive peer-to-peer content delivery for stuff
847.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Technically stub resolvers and recursive resolvers are the same thing (one is an inherent part of the other). So all is needed is recursive resolvers to communicate securely with authoritative servers. Tunnels to third party recursive resol
848.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Yeah, this is weird, I guess some people mistake X for K.
849.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
> I don't think it's true that "a time series CRDT is just an append-only log" You are correct. Append-only log as an implementation detail doesn't converge and cannot be a CRDT. Although semantically logging can
850.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Political ideologies are for the masses, not elites.
851.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
The law will not create an independent infrastructure though. It will give power to Roskomnadzor to control the flow of internet traffic in Russia between ISPs.
852.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
I actually used that example because they had this exact problem in the past, here's the link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/todays-outage-post-mortem-82515/
853.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Well, you are assuming incorrectly that I didn't read anything in full. I did read everything and I understand your views. But I didn't misinterpret them, I didn't think your views on the issue are very relevant here to even
854.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
> It seems like all that his Twitter feed confirms is that his page shows as 404 That's pretty much what I implied. But added twitter so that people can see his perspective.
855.
Tell HN: GitHub deleted anti-censorship activist repositories
293 points by zzzcpan 8y ago|63 comments
856.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
I meant single kind of component, not one thing handling everything. If you use juniper routers, for example, a juniper specific software, hardware problem or a mistaken assumption about juniper specifics could take down all routers and an
857.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
This is rather weird claim. Getting your account hacked is the least of your worries, when every single thing is maintained by a single organization, a single team, on a single autonomous system, with lots of reliance on single hardware and
858.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
You can't disable javascript in a browser, but leave "a few minor javascript improvements". So the difference is between allowing all the ad tech, surveillance, malware or not.
859.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Within next 10 years maybe. It doesn't solve anything though and is plenty of time for DPI vendors to pursue other snooping techniques.
860.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
If you can't trust your ISP, leaking all of your DNS traffic to another party still doesn't let you trust your ISP, but now you have to trust that other party too, hence net negative. To avoid trusting your ISP you need at least a
861.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Your ISP doesn't really need DNS traffic to know things about you, IP addresses alone leak a lot of information, add to that SNI, response sizes, active probing, clear text traffic, etc. and you should realize that the only thing DoH d
862.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
> but now you have to establish some form of IPC Shared memory for threads is a form of IPC too, except one where it's very easy to make a mistake, introduce concurrency bugs. > I also certainly cannot see any sensible argument f
863.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
The memory is not shared, but copied, so you don't have to care about concurrent memory access.
864.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
It's hard to take them seriously when they imply the mess that threads are is somehow acceptable and necessary, but nicer, less error prone and simpler fork isn't. Threads are a nasty hack and a liability for the modern programmer
865.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
I guess you didn't get my point. You can subscribe to multiple independent ISPs in one house. You don't get that while renting a server in a datacenter.
866.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Probably nothing new. Seems like just supporting PR for all those more expensive "cold plasma" air conditioners at the beginning of the season.
867.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Of course it's not a solution for countries that block VPNs, but most countries that block websites don't do that.
868.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
In addition to ad blocking, VPN is becoming a very important feature for modern web browsers. With so many countries blocking websites and websites geoblocking users it becomes necessary to help users circumvent that to access a wide web. T
869.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Flatpak, Snap are not significant contributors to desktop fragmentation, unlike Gnome 3, Wayland, dropping Unity, all forcing people to try different distros. I switched to Lubuntu myself after Unity and probably going to switch again to Xf
870.
by zzzcpan 8y ago
You got resilience pretty wrong here. If you start with a single PC at home and a single ISP, you actually get like three nines of availability, not everywhere of course, but in urban areas you mostly do. Which is almost exactly what a data

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