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by jk700 6y ago
> We have lots of RCTs on mask wearing (mostly in healthcare professionals) and they struggle to find a benefit. This is false. If you look around and read actual studies, not demand other people to do it for you and not cherry pick ga
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by jk700 6y ago
> It is a common human tendency and the US is merely a vanguard of what will eventually be a global reality. No, it's not. The US is the one pushing other countries to implement US-like copyright laws, as it has a huge music and t
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by jk700 6y ago
Too bad, because there was no false information. Plenty of countries don't have not just anti-circumvention laws for copyright, but also DMCA-like laws and may even require you to obtain a court order before you can get something taken
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by jk700 6y ago
As someone who uses youtube-dl for all the videos online, it's presence in any repos isn't as important as it may seem, because it breaks from time to time for some websites and you need to update it in order to keep using it, whi
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by jk700 6y ago
Luckily they don't need to consider what some rich capitalist CEO thinks and don't need to return to MicrosoftHub and hopefully they won't. Especially given there are plenty of easy options available: self host gitlab outside
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by jk700 6y ago
Could you please stop with this ideological political activism? There is no inherent sexism in any language, ancient historical origin of the words isn't carried over to modern meaning, semantics of the words and doesn't create an
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by jk700 6y ago
> So whether you can legally use WWW browsers is not the point at issue. It is whether youtube-dl is a tool that enables access to YouTube contents by circumventing a "cipher". But by that logic if youtube-dl circumvents a &q
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by jk700 6y ago
> That’s not so clear, but YouTube does obfuscate its code to make the task of tools like youtube-dl harder. Not for tools like youtube-dl, but for tools that let user manually extract links, such as viewing the source code of the docu
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by jk700 6y ago
But in that wording they do allow downloading. Features of the Youtube service accessed thought the Chrome browser don't have to be exactly the same as accessed though other browsers and tools, other tools are not prohibited to provide
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by jk700 6y ago
> you circumvented the technical copy protection mechanism (no matter how ridiculously trivial it was) They can't do ridiculously trivial copy protection legally, depending on the country they might be required to do at least auth
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by jk700 6y ago
> The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use It's an alternative web browser for videos, of course it was intended for copyrighted works, just like Chrome is. I don't unders
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by jk700 6y ago
CDC and healthcare in general are not scientific institutions.
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by jk700 6y ago
No one can sincerely follow those rules, because they are too subjective. The only reason people tolerate them is because they are not enforced. But when you do enforce something from them, it's always unjust and unfair, like in this c
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by jk700 6y ago
No, dang is purposely vague in all of his warnings, as if he wants to make sure people won't be able to follow them and it will be up to him to decide whether they did or didn't. If somehow he slips and they manage to do it, he wi
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by jk700 6y ago
> I've spent 1% of my remaining life under lockdown so far, and expect to spend an approximately equal amount before a vaccine. At what point is it not worth it? If you understand that vaccine won't solve anything, i.e. it&#x
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by jk700 6y ago
Except maybe for current comment (not really, HN just has more replies on anything these days), nothing actually turned into flamewars, most out of his few "flamewar" comments over many months barely had any replies at all and wer
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by jk700 6y ago
But if an attacker can intercept domain validation to issue a certificate, there is little reason not to protect his own certificate from revocation by preventing subsequent validations until it is used on a target, if he can't hide th
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by jk700 6y ago
It doesn't. Pretty much no one monitors CT logs and for those who do there is no way to prove misissuance of domain-validated certificate and revoke it, they don't have private keys.
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by jk700 6y ago
That's the thing, they don't seem to bother actually addressing the problem and assume no other interception capability than hacking BGP. But we are talking here about exactly that, i.e. if you can intercept traffic in any other w
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by jk700 6y ago
And MITM is still possible for https, just a bit different with two points of interception, rather than one, see my other comment [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24711111 EDIT: what are the downvotes for? If f
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by jk700 6y ago
MITM like that still works for most https websites because of the automatic domain validation by ACME-based certificate authorities. The only caveat is that now an attacker has to get a valid certificate, so first he has to do MITM on the r
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by jk700 6y ago
It's a simple way I know that significantly improves reliability of wifi in most circumstances.
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by jk700 6y ago
Maybe. Although switching wifi router into something like 802.11b-only or a-only mode and selecting a fixed least busy channel might be a better long term solution, as USB3 isn't the only source of EMI.
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by jk700 6y ago
Bad hardware compliance is only part of the problem. With higher speeds all the user facing stuff, like cables, connectors, power without noise - all start to matter too. You know how 100 mbit ethernet works well even with crappy connectors
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by jk700 6y ago
A typical FTTB ISP providing services to people living in apartment buildings isn't doing a "carrier ethernet", I guess it's more like a datacenter. It just has a media converter connected to a switch or these days a swi
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by jk700 6y ago
Privacy became a reason when ISPs started providing internet access over Ethernet. As hubs and unmanaged switches are vulnerable to sniffing, ISPs had to either give everyone separate VLANs or use managed switches with protections from snif
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by jk700 6y ago
> Not economically competitive with a gas-turbine power plant powered by methane. This assumes natural gas is cheap and not imported, most countries don't have it that way.
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by jk700 6y ago
> It can't possibly be economically competitive if it is driving a steam turbine What do you mean by "economic competition"? Generally speaking with current technology there is no power cheaper than nuclear power. In th
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by jk700 6y ago
> This is true, but I imagine your scenario might be followed by threats from the CEO to X about noncompete clauses, confidential information, and theft of the company’s IP. Those are empty threats if the team is not from the CEO'
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by jk700 6y ago
Right, it's even more complicated. Such breakers also don't trigger at specified current exactly. They have two breakers inside of them, one for overload protection triggering once it heats up, could be an hour for 2x current if s

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