johansch

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by johansch 9y ago
Not going to answer this because a) I already answered a very similar question of yours in a separate thread b) you hijacked a subthread that was particularly talking about the politics involved
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by johansch 9y ago
You are not going to convince me, or anyone else who understand the tech, that this is a fundamentally unsolvable technical problem, I promise. It all boils down to compromises between regulation vs freedom, etc. So, I do take issue when
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by johansch 9y ago
Seems like a lot of people here really want VOIP to be anonymous/unregistered. You know, so that the nazis can't get you if they seize power. But they also seem loath to acknowledge this desire, particularly in this context.
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by johansch 9y ago
Somehow, having a well-recorded connection between identity and phone line didn't lead to "fascism" in your past though.
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by johansch 9y ago
Okay, I get that complexity, I think. But then the question shifts to: maybe your country is too large to govern effectively - if you can't make changes like this quickly, something is wrong, I think.
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by johansch 9y ago
>A policy decision by whom? By your government? > Specifically, how do you do this when IP spaces are controlled by various unfriendly countries around the world You begin a "911-certified program" that requires your local I
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by johansch 9y ago
Thanks, but I somehow get the feeling that it's more about not wanting outsiders telling them how to solve problems they know they should have solved a long time ago by themselves.
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by johansch 9y ago
"IPs are just too ephemeral to trust for any form of location data" That is just policy decision. It would, for example, be possible to declare that no single IP should be used for more than two customers during a single X hour bl
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by johansch 9y ago
"0 points" Ah, well, Jingoism is an american word. I guess I just thougt the crowd here could agree that it's retarded to not have a political policy against fake VOIP numbers.
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by johansch 9y ago
Well, I do agree. I shouldn't take more than a few months to fix this. I don't live in the US, but I get the feeling something is terribly wrong with the way you're handling such a basic thing as a phone call, be it VOIP or n
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by johansch 9y ago
That's extraordinarly retarded.
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by johansch 9y ago
People generally caring about declaring img size attributes died out like 15 years ago. grumble Declaring image sizes doesn't fit into the distributed model that is that is the rage these days, so I guess people don't care since
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by johansch 9y ago
I agree; it should be technically trival to implement this. All of my comments along the lines of this are wildly downvoted though; I'm not quite sure why. Maybe privacy cowboys?
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by johansch 9y ago
Sure, but that only works so far. Even a european-style police force would eventually snap if they had to do 100 break-ins to combat ongoing crime if 99/100 calls were fake. Both issues need to be addressed.
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by johansch 9y ago
Edit: Ah, after reading more from that link you provided; the issue is stuck in your dysfunctional government. I'm so confused right now. Does the US not have a central agency that allocates phone numbers and operators? Does that agenc
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by johansch 9y ago
Well, then, fix it.
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by johansch 9y ago
So the solution is to regulate the assignment via phone numbers via VOIP providers. Which I perhaps, naively assumed was already happening. WTF?
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by johansch 9y ago
I could actually imagine things being better if proof-of-identity was required for a phone number. I really don't want IP access to run by the same scheme though. How do these swatters fake phone numbers?
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by johansch 9y ago
They are optimistic about getting paid next month.
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by johansch 9y ago
I think the technical wtf should become clear if you look at the entire comment tree starting at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041209 But yeah, to clarify: What they primarily need is someone who gives a shit abou
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by johansch 9y ago
I don't think this project needs more money; they need people who give a shit. (There's a setting that makes the site functional, but you have to register to get to it? What?)
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by johansch 9y ago
Maybe changing the default would be a good idea? Just a thought :)
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by johansch 9y ago
There probably are no intricate plans for the future on an executive level, besides having some smart people enjoy their work while building something that may or not be useful in the future, depending on a) how their effort, and b) the fut
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by johansch 9y ago
The difference is that Lambda is a) way more annoying to use, b) gets way more coverage, because developers are locked into the AWS ecosystem and often don't pay the bills.
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by johansch 9y ago
I bought some book of his in the late 90s and upon reading it kind of quickly realized he was pretty much a grade A douchebag. It was a shock, I remember. How could a douchebag be the creator of Dilbert?
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by johansch 9y ago
If that's true, wow, that's some hostility towards newcomers.
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by johansch 9y ago
Well, Google App Engine (both the standard/classic and flexible kinds) has been and still is pretty awesome for people who don't want to worry too much about SRE stuff but still not pay through the nose. AWS Lambda just seemed lik
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by johansch 9y ago
Using Firefox instead seems to help. Loading the grid pages is still super slow and rendering is broken, but at least you can use the rest of the browser/other tabs.
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by johansch 9y ago
Intrigued by this I visited https://www.shadertoy.com/ . There does seem to be a thriving community there. Problem is, the browse pages have a 4x3 grid of live WebGL previews (rather than e.g. static images) of the shadertoy
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by johansch 9y ago
Two hours later. Wow, you weren't wrong about the down-voting. The lack of a sense of history here is disturbing. I thought HN was better than this.

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