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by prosody 7mo ago
There's positives and negatives to each. For government domain seizure, there's due process involved but working around it is harder (the service provider either has to acquire a new proper domain or onion domain, then disseminate
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by prosody 8mo ago
> in an attempt to hurt relations with freer, traditionally more conservative nations I don’t think those are the salient characteristics of the US from Canada’s perspective in this development, and because of that I don’t think of your
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by prosody 9mo ago
What's the motivation for blocking VPN read access for this and other services? Are AI scrapers using commercial VPNs to get around rate limiting?
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by prosody 9mo ago
Advertising a VPN endpoint in country A which in reality is in country B is a security concern for users trying to reduce their visibility to country B’s authorities. You’re right about the more fit to purpose tools, of course, but they’re
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by prosody 9mo ago
Kibbutzim in Israel from the 40s-80s tried a fairly radical project of communal child-rearing. It failed when the generation raised there rejected the choice to continue the project. Viz: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands
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by prosody 11mo ago
The specific structure and presentation of it could be, and the items individually could be. There are some jurisdictions where a dataset as such rather than just the structure and presentation have legal protections, but those are slightly
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by prosody 1y ago
When I read about the leak of the new Meta internal guidance for content moderation[1], my first thought was that the only things they banned were likely things that they understood to be pre-genocidal speech (eg comparisons of a group to v
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by prosody 1y ago
As I understand it, Cisco licenses the relevant patents and sublicenses them gratis to every user who uses Cisco’s binaries obtained from Cisco directly and not redistributed (thus also the difficulties in the article with working with Cisc
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by prosody 1y ago
This article isn’t about that. It’s about the externalized costs that LLM companies are pushing onto webmasters because of their aggressive scraping. It’s one thing to believe that LLMs are a good thing, it’s another thing to believe that i
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by prosody 2y ago
I recall now the shutdown of Nekochan.net, which had been the main hub and message board at the time for SGI retrocomputing for several decades, due to concerns about the GDPR. While that might have been an overwrought reaction, and that la
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by prosody 2y ago
Isn’t that significantly on the Linux kernel not having stable driver ABIs?
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by prosody 2y ago
The oldest Sanskrit text, the Rigveda, is usually dated to 1500 BC as an oral tradition. It wasn't written down until much later. The oldest surviving unambiguously Sanskrit writing is from 100 BC, using the Brahmi script. It actually
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by prosody 2y ago
In the case of this lawsuit they're suing unknown individuals. The case is Cengage Learning, Inc. v. Does 1-50. Apparently it's a US legal convention to just spitball the number of members of a group of unknown alleged coconspirat
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by prosody 2y ago
Would you object if the FBI deputy director encouraged FBI agents to lawfully use their service firearms in the field to demonstrate their use to the FBI? There are real harms involved with increasing surveillance of the public and reducing
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by prosody 2y ago
Interestingly, Wikipedia editors are aware that Wikipedia articles are used to find the current URL of sites that are forced to change URLs frequently due to legal or moral issues, and they face the same dilemma registrars and service provi
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by prosody 3y ago
This seems like confused causality. The ban bill was put forward and passed because TikTok asked their users to contact their representatives and share their opinion about the ban bill?
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by prosody 3y ago
Somewhat connected question, what is WPE? It’s something that got abstracted out of WebkitGTK, right? Is it a standalone port itself, or is it more like the framework to build a highly specialized one? I’ve seen at least in past versions
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by prosody 3y ago
Adding to this wishlist, if it were available on Windows then it would be an option for a cross-platform webview widget, but it hasn’t supported it for a while now.
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by prosody 3y ago
It's deprecated for removal.[0] [0] https://openjdk.org/jeps/411
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by prosody 3y ago
To be precise, the US does have life+70 for works published after 1978. The rest of the world went that route and the US begrudgingly followed, but the works published before the switchover date are grandfathered into the old system. The US
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by prosody 3y ago
I've always liked the visual effect of the East Asian typographic rule that commas and periods at the end of a line hang. Makes the entire block of text look better aligned.[1] Probably matters more for text in those languages since th
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by prosody 3y ago
In addition to what the sibling comment said, the developer does in fact have a recourse to the legal system, which they wrote that they are preparing to make use of. Attempts to analogize the TOS dispute mechanisms of companies to the lega
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by prosody 3y ago
I think it might become a little more useful in some contexts at least once ECH gets wider adoption. In that case afaik only the DNS server and the remote host you’re connecting to would know what FQDN you're connecting to—anyone else
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by prosody 3y ago
Of possible interest to HNers, kinship terminology of different cultures is a subject that has a very elegant taxonomy. It was a major line of inquiry in early modern sociology, which tried to link other attributes of how societies were str
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by prosody 3y ago
The answerer does say that either the perfect past (Latin’s closest to -ed) or the pluperfect past (Latin’s closest to had -ed) would work, they just chose perfect past. Maybe that choice was because the perfect past has a sense of finalit
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by prosody 3y ago
The term FUD makes sense in low-risk applications where the benefit of the doubt ought to be given. In safety-critical contexts it should be completely reversed, and confidence, certainty and trust should be looked at extremely critically.
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by prosody 3y ago
> As well as being genetically related, Langley says it’s likely that the people who inhabited these islands in the Pleistocene era, 12,000 years ago, had “an image of an inter-island ‘community of practice’ with shared values and worldv
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by prosody 3y ago
It’s a little bit interesting to me that XBill has the eponymous figure replacing a diverse ecosystem of OSes, not just Linuxen, with his own. That probably is a sign of the times, when that diversity existed in fact and you might be playin
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by prosody 5y ago
An example from Umineko that might tickle an HN reader's fancy: six people are found murdered in six different locked rooms. In the room with each body is the sole key to the door of one of the other locked rooms. Together they form a
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by prosody 5y ago
If you didn't already know, the standard OTP schemes used in many systems have desktop and hardware security token implementations. Doesn't help with systems that use non-standard schemes unfortunately.

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