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by yanmaani 5mo ago
One would sort of expect the NSA to be able to get ahold of the weights and have the budget for a few graphics cards.
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On the Cult of Meetings(yanmaani.net)
5 points by yanmaani 5mo ago|0 comments
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by yanmaani 4y ago
Already exists, see < https://cryptpad.fr >. Open-source. Google's paid alternative does not share your data with advertisers.
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BEREC supports ISPs in implementing the EU sanctions to block RT and Sputnik(berec.europa.eu)
1 points by yanmaani 5y ago|0 comments
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30530876 (Title of this post changed due to length constraints, original was "BEREC: Open Internet Regulation is not an obstacle in implementing EU sanctions to
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BEREC: Open Internet Regulation not an obstacle to EU block of RT and Sputnik
3 points by yanmaani 5y ago|1 comments
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Europe, Europe, and Europe. But it isn't actually a war. A war is a horrible, brutal thing. Wikipedia tells us: > War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, i
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by yanmaani 5y ago
No. They are not at war "in all but name". War is a brutal thing, involving the deaths of thousands of young men. The EU is not by any stretch at war with Russia, nominally or otherwise. The entire point of a free country is that
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Probably not. The technology still exists, and nothing beats it on P2P file transfer. From the economic point, the fragmentation of streaming services will probably give it a resurgence.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
A determination subject to whom? 1. RT does provide a view, and I would like to hear it, thanks. 2. Who decides what are the "actual news reports"? Who decides that RT is not "valid"?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
No, encryption isn't going to help, because they can still block on IPs. Encryption plus eSNI helps, and if, for example, Yandex.Cloud sets up a big "shared host," I fully expect that to get the Kharkiv treatment, like Roskom
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Yes, and I earn money to pay my bills from global business dynamic economy enterprise trading. How are you to get on the Tor network?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
I am not talking about the economy, I am talking about the Internet. Cutting RT off from the European Internet requires cutting the EU off from large chunks of the global Internet. If Russia responds, that would have the potential to get ve
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by yanmaani 5y ago
IANAL, but as far as I know, EU laws are more important than national laws (you can search "Supremacy of EU law") except in Germany, so the question is if it violates the equivalent of the constitution of the EU. According to EU o
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Where will you go when they block the VPNs?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
The previous regulation didn't ban broadcasting, or anything relating to it. Re: "knowingly and intentionally," I will repost my comment < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30537459 >: > "Knowi
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by yanmaani 5y ago
My concern is that with this, you're not just segregating Russia from the world, you're segregating the EU from the world. You're going to get a new Iron Curtain, only this time, the restrictions are going to be on both sides
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by yanmaani 5y ago
"Knowingly and intentionally" seems to apply to the operation (e.g. "you know that you're running a Tor node") - "circumvention" is on the basis of "object or effect". (For ESL speakers: "ob
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by yanmaani 5y ago
If you like laws, how about Cunningham's Law? :) No, but I am aware of this, I even thought to mention it, and I sorely hope that I am proven wrong. However, my concern is that the ban explicitly does apply to the medium itself. In p
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Does the EU's ban on RT also ban Tor?(yanmaani.github.io)
85 points by yanmaani 5y ago|230 comments
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by yanmaani 5y ago
What if you explicitly target it with respect to the money? Most of the crap on Google is going to be monetized sites. If you just block/downrank all the sites with e.g. ads, then the profit motive for spam goes down - the more value y
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Step 1 is quite difficult, and step 2 has the downside of disincentivizing people to use it. There are some attempts to make search engines where you pay per month.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
That's not a hard fork. A hard fork makes a previously invalid transaction valid; this made a previously valid transaction invalid, e.g. a soft fork. Bitcoin has had many soft forks.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Yes, but new technology makes it easier. Think of all the logistics associated with burying $10,000 in a hole in the ground and the skills you need to do it properly, and compare to the relative ease of acquiring and stashing $10,000 in cry
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by yanmaani 5y ago
If I want to remove the airbags from my car and strap a gigantic bomb in there instead, this particular method of doing it makes sense. I mean, yes, that's true, but it's still a bad idea. > Balance between security and usabili
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by yanmaani 5y ago
It's certainly a thing for the payment rail - Bitcoin qua payment rail is entirely irreversible. So as a category in the real world, it is trivially a thing. Whether such storage exists is a much better question. I think it depends o
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Right, it's certainly cheaper, but my point is it's not a fundamental game-changer - she could've done it 5 years ago with the technology we had then, too.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
There's no such thing as secure web-based e-mail, because web-based e-mail has the flaws outlined in the article. Try running Thunderbird or a similar client locally, and use PGP (ugh) or something similar to encrypt messages. (Theoret
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by yanmaani 5y ago
> Because everyone uses reproducible builds Of course not, but it is possible to do so. It can also be verified by trusted third parties, etc. > However, I believe that most people use protonmail for convenience and that it fits the t
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by yanmaani 5y ago
I don't think the first point is accurate. You have to study the entire system, which is made up of two parts: 1. Storage 2. Payment rail If your storage is solid (e.g. keys in brain wallet, account in crooked bank, money in shoebox) a

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