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[Idea] DNS Fog, a tool to protect DNS privacy
DNS requests are logged either by your DNS provider or/and by your ISP. They log them to track each domain you visit or connect to.
This cannot be fixed by using Google DNS because your ISP can (and will) also log requests to third party DNS servers.
My proposal is the following: make this DNS logging plausible deniable and unusable by clogging it with random DNS requests, these requests would be generated by a software or daemon running on your PC or router.
The software would fire DNS requests for random domains (all of them should be real, for example, domains in the Alexa Top 1 Million and weighted by rank (so popular domains get requested more)).
This bogus DNS request would be fired randomly and, for example, at an average rate of 6 per minute, that way the cpu and bandwidth usage will be negligible. Also, the requests could be triggered just when you make real DNS requests.
When checking your DNS logs, the attacker will have no way to find your real requests, its like looking for a needle in a haystack.
(I am only suggesting this idea, I am not currently developing it).
> There is no community voting in Bitcoin. Only miner signalling.

no, there is the open market. 2x futures traded well below btc's value.
From the article:

> GPS receivers will benefit from onboard clocks. This is perhaps surprising, given that the GPS signal itself carries time information, but it happens because the signal from the satellite is weak—comparable to the power of a lightbulb transmitted across a continent. Landscape features, buildings, and interference make it harder to detect. To track this weak signal, the receiver must precisely lock onto the broadcast frequency. The more stable the local frequency reference, the faster and more reliable this tracking can be.

> In hostile environments, such as battlefields, this becomes even more important. The GPS signal is vulnerable to jamming, and effective (but illegal) jammers are widely available and likely to be encountered in future wars. With precise timing information, GPS receivers could isolate the true signal above the noise of the jammer. The receivers could even allow navigation to survive partial destruction of the satellite network.

> Present-day receivers must determine their positions by using signals from four or more satellites simultaneously, but a sufficiently accurate clock could instead use successive signals from a single satellite. Other defense applications include frequency-hopping communication, bistatic radar (in which an attacker stealthily acquires a radar signal from a target illuminated by a distant transmitter), and sensitive monitoring of enemy communications. For these reasons, portable clocks are of great interest to militaries in several countries.
What is the modem doing to cause v6 to break in such a way that it affects the user's experience? In theory, broken or degraded v6 should be taken care of with Happy Eyeballs [1] at the user's device, so the user doesn't even know anything is wrong. I'm really curious what kind of breakage would slip through the cracks.

eg, when Netflix started blocking IPv6 tunnel brokers in their VPN crackdown, my house was affected and Netflix was broken. As a "short term" fix, I blocked traffic towards the v6 tunnel at the firewall, but was too lazy to disable v6 prefix advertisement or actually take the tunnel down. I intended to revisit the whole situation, but forgot.

Despite all the devices on my home network having global v6 addresses, you'd never know that anything is broken because Happy Eyeballs is working as intended across everything - Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs
Setting Up InfluxDB, Grafana and Telegraf with Docker
Here’s a nice white paper from Valve with diagrams on lag compensation, prediction, authoritative server, etc:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...
There are cultural issues at play there which will take quite some time to overcome. High rises in Sydney are popping up around train stations now, but the vast majority of the metropolitan region's land area is taken up by single or double-storey family homes with yards. Pretty much every new high-rise development in these sorts of areas is met with substantial resistance. I don't blame them either - after living in medium-density places in Europe for a few years, I'm sick of it, and want my own house.

The problem with Australia is that too little thought was given to making viable cities outside of the state capitals. I would love to live in a smaller town but my partner needs a major STEM research university to work at. Europe has such universities in small towns, but Australia does not. Everything is too concentrated in the capitals.
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KeePassX is not actively maintained, as already mentioned but the original KeePass project (https://keepass.info/) that KeePassX was based off and the new cross-platform fork KeePassXC (https://keepassxc.org/) are both active and highly recommended.
I completely agree. I spent quite awhile setting up a Hugo powered blog, getting my theme just right, getting GitHub pages with CloudFlare for SSL working. And then...nothing. Because there's just too much friction.

I'm going to move to WordPress and be done with it. No I won't have faster than lightning page loads anymore, but it'll be much lower friction to publish something.
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I know it's present in Zen poetry, but not sure beyond that.

As a semi-related concept, I stumbled across an entry on Haragei [1] (non-verbal, implied meaning?) in Japanese culture yesterday.

The myriad of ways that necessary communication is accomplished in different cultures is fascinating.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haragei
What do you have this implemented with?
Yeah, personally I'm happy having multinationals regulated in multiple countries. It gives us laboratories of different regulatory regimes, allowing trial and error to iterate more rapidly. If anything, I think we need more of that.
The difference is that there's competition in the hosting/domain business. So if you're denied services from one of them, you can still get hosting by going elsewhere. If you can't go elsewhere, then we can all be assured that dozens of people at various companies have looked at it and chosen not to host it.

And if you don't want to accept that, you can probably still get it hosted (with enough money) by building a data center in some place that doesn't care.

In the ISP space, there's no competition for a good many people. One person looks at content, decides it's not worthy, and it's blocked period. No appeal, no asking others for their opinion. And if the end user doesnt like it, they can move, sell their house, find a new job in another area.

That's a much harsher, draconian result.
there seems to be a lot of room for difference, since the segwit2x cancellation notice explicit states that consensus was weak (certainly not 95%):

from https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x... :

"Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time."
Hopefully you can see how "this will probably only make the problem worse" doesn't quite stir people's stumps the way "this will create a new problem that we've worked very hard to avoid up until this point."
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Yes: your six-digit PIN is physically secured in ways your online passwords aren’t.
I'm not decided either.

One of the scenarios certainly is an implicit regulation of BTC (and with time Ethereum) trading. Currently, I'm not sure the authorities can call market manipulation happening on the crypto exchanges. But with futures being out there, traded on a regulated market, then manipulating the underlying would surely qualify as market manipulation (not an expert on US securities regulation).

But this is just one aspect. I'm wondering how soon it will take for us to see various trading strategies playing both sides of the market (crypto/fiat), and what effect will that have on the price in the short term, and the future of BTC going forward.
A couple of fun demos:

Search San Francisco movie locations: https://san-francisco.datasettes.com/sf-film-locations/Film_...

Search trees in San Francisco with a simple map interface: https://sf-tree-search.now.sh/
If you're on macOS, iTerm2 has support for using control mode in tmux so the tabs/panels are real tabs and panels and can be scrolled normally. I don't know if any alternatives exist for Linux/Windows.

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/TmuxIntegration
> Taxpayers building modern ISP infrastructure is a myth.

The deregulatory 1996 Telecom Act included provisions for a particular level of broadband penetration and performance. Those provisions were not met. Instead, now we have an FCC trying to reclassify broadband to 10 Mbps.

Look at the distribution of throughput speeds in the green image posted here [1]. ISPs haven't fulfill their end of the deal with regards to speeds, and the country is mostly covered by regional broadband monopolies.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15191048/fcc-chairman-ajit...
First read up about going cold turkey with alcohol. I think sudden withdraw can be deadly
Intellectualism isn't predicated on being correct. There are communist intellectuals, radfem intellectuals, etc. The major alt right intellectuals of note are people like KANTBOT, Frame Game Radio, and the bleedovers from the manosphere like Illimitable Man. I've debated with them multiple times on Twitter as a means of reaching out. They take it seriously and aren't pure ideologues.

Edit: It should also be noted that even the widely-hated Richard Spencer is not a moron. He has a Masters in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and was a PhD student in European intellectual history at Duke until he left after 2-3 years to pursue activism.
Well, when relatively few people in favor of NN are in favor of regulating content (under the shield of "they're private businesses, they can censor what they want!"), it's hard to criticize McArdle for taking the side of the free market with ISPs as well.

I largely believe the problem isn't ISPs anymore, it's content-providers. Content is getting increasingly centralized by so-called "content providers" instead of ISPs. People's experience of online censorship is probably a couple orders of magnitude greater when it comes to the increasingly restrictive rules of Facebook/Google/Twitter/Pinterest/YouTube/etc.* (all in the name of being advertiser friendly). My one and only experience with ISPs censoring content was a long time ago when my torrents were throttled. I've never had the ISPs (short of government intervention) block a tweet, a status update, a video, or an online service since then. So when people's experience of online censorship is with content providers, not ISPs, how can we expect to sell the public on Net Neutrality when it doesn't touch the largest experiential part of online censorship? There's an elephant in the room and we're screaming about the mouse in the corner.

*EDIT: Let's not forgot the app stores which give two companies the power to essentially erase you from mobile devices if they decide to.
> why should a CDN be allowed to?

Because CDNs don't have monopoly/oligopoly power over most US consumers. The major ISPs do.

Indeed, the reason we can let CDNs decide what to host is precisely that we have neutral networks that will connect consumers to many CDNs with all sorts of hosting policies.
wifi seems overkill to send on off signals. i would use 433mzh
Here's a few recruiters I've seen that have functional jobs. No affiliation.

https://functional.works-hub.com/

https://www.signifytechnology.com/job-search
Taxpayers have done more than ARPANET.

This is about the 1996 Telecom Act, and how the public has allowed private companies to acquire regional monopolies while using public resources.
The DoD “Rainbow Series”. Computer security standards published in the 80s.
So you're saying that there are only 5 companies in the world that can host a website? That seems unlikely.
This remark reeks of ignorance and classism.

Someone homeless for a long period of time is likely to have valid input on topics such as neo-socialism. Their views are arguably going to be more relevant than what you may be able to share (assuming you’ve never been homeless for any non trivial length of time nor spent a lot of time directly working with homeless folks).
Or as I saw misattributed to Keynes in a comment here:

"It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong."
-Carveth Read

With humility for one's own skills and respect for the author, there are many times a literal translation would not accomplish the author's intent (in the target language).
+1 for not being afraid to ask the tough questions, especially when it makes you vunerable.

You are definitely going to grow from this experience.

Best of luck.
Only danger is if Taleb's "The Most Intolerant Wins" thesis holds, and we all end up conforming to Chinese regulation. There were several articles about Hollywood self-censoring for that market.

Aside from that, great point!

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/8/how-chinese-...
There are tons of explanations. If you want a fancy one: depending on whether you type 23 on the numeric row with your left hand or on the numeric keypad with your right hand, the finger order is reversed.
This is why it's really an art. Games have tried using "medieval" dialogue before, but that usually entails something that sounds like 20th century dialogue with a couple substitutions of "thou" for "you" and an occasional "-th" ending on things.

Alexander Smith's translation took some care in making it a thorough--I even spotted a few instances where he used an implied verb of motion. In earlier forms of English, verbs of motion like "to go" could be implied rather than explicitly stated (cf. Taming of the Shrew: "Come, Kate, we'll to bed."). It still exists in languages like German but has long since fallen out of favor in English .
I second this. As an adult with kids, I rarely make new friends that are more than acquaintances. However, running with groups have given me more than 10 friends the last two years. These are people I've socialized with while running mile after mile. Running puts you in a mood quite like being moderately drunk.

It's also a great way to meet people who couldn't care less about what you do for a living. That's a win for me.
And Safari seems to give me better FPS than both Chrome or Firefox Q.
Can you add an email or website to your profile?
Is there a world of software architecture that exists outside the "OOP" patterns we have seen in the last 2 decades? A quarter of the way through my career and I have already grown weary of OOP. It's promises are never realized. It is full of zealots who can argue with you for ages but don't deliver very much on real world, performant software.
There certainly is a double standard. I.e.: it is creepy when FB listens to you conversations. But if they use AI to derive their knowledge about you that somehow makes it alright.

For me personally, the fact that they can learn so much about me is what's creepy and reason enough to not use their services. The how is merely an interesting bit of trivia.
>I strongly believe that anyone who cares about the internet and its culture of free ideas will recognize it as a place where people can be judged based on their skills and the quality of their ideas rather than their race or gender, and will harshly judge anyone who attempts to exclude others based purely on such superficial metrics.

The internet doesn't have a culture.

It did once, but only because the pool of users was small, but as the internet became mainstream, "internet culture" became a reflection of humanity in general. That's not a corruption of anything, it's just the maturity of the platform.
You still didn't answer why would I want to migrate away from Rails. Python has no advantage I can think of (unless one has to work with data analysis).
The argument in the article is deeply flawed. It goes like this:

With net neutrality, ISPs would be over-regulated, and competition/ease of market entry would be hampered.

The article then goes on to claim this competition is needed, because Google and Facebook already have so much power over the internet.

But this is deeply flawed, because big compabies will only have more power over the net without net neutrality: they can just pay for the net to behave as they want.
I've had a suspicion for a while that "Flat Earthers" are trolling everyone into giving them a free ride into space.
There are several versions of this game online. Here's an explanation of the game that includes a simple, single-player version. https://forio.com/about/blog/bullwhips-and-beer/
To expand on that, the iPhone hardware (secure encalve) limits the number and rate of PIN attempts. Depending on configuration, after a number of incorrect attempts, it either takes an increasingly long time to make a guess or just wipes the device (by destroying the encryption key).
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Because intelligence agencies buy or hack antivirus software because its access patterns don't look suspicious. Scanning your harddrive and uploading random contents? What AV is supposed to be doing.

Windows Defender is different because if Microsoft wants to fuck you and you're using Windows, they already can.
The argument for net neutrality is entirely that it is necessary in the absence of competition, and that competition is indeed absent in practice. The two things are inseparable - if there were a competitive market for internet service, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Your ISP can STILL track when you do a TCP connection to any web page.
Plenty

Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Yahoo/Flickr/Tumblr, Baidu, Twitter, Netflix, eBay, Alibaba/AliExpress, PayPal, Rakuten,The Priceline Group (Priceline, kayak, etc), etc.
I'm now buying into this idea more. He's not just any other eccentric flat-earther.

He could actually be a brilliant con man that, as with all other crowdfunding schemes that turn out to be work of con artists, doesn't believe his own words and is preying on the wishful thinking of their funders.
It does not.

The issue is that the population of localities does not want competition. That's why the population does not want cell phone towers ( eyesore ), the population does not want more wires on poles (wires, eww!) etc etc etc. And the population wants to protect the busy bodies that attempt to block things ( because busy bodies are typically nice old people who should really be helped to remain in their homes and they really really really like stuff to be the same as it was fifty years ago ).
Expenses rising to meet revenue is a pretty common pattern everywhere. (Except for many VC-backed companies where they rise to exceed revenue in the name of growth.) It's a pretty natural tendency because there are always people you want to hire, amenities that seem eminently reasonable, investments you think will pay off, and gear/services that will make work easier/faster.
> This isn't an argument that an American ISP could use to censor content under our current regulation, why should a CDN be allowed to?

I think most people would agree that the most fragile piece of the Internet ecosystem deserving of protection in the US is the end-user's eyeball network providing them with service. It's the component which is most often affected by monopoly providers, and where most of the hijinks have occurred. (Ad injection, http header injection, protocol inspection & blocking, etc.)

There may be problems with other large social networks and hosting providers - Facebook, YouTube, Cloudflare, whoever - but if neutral IP transit for end-users isn't available those problems seem much less important.
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Almost 36% of US based Google traffic, and 18-20% of worldwide Google traffic. It’s not exactly tiny anymore. Akamai claims over 40% of US traffic, 46% of Belgium, 36% of India, etc. The old meme that nobody is on IPv6 isn’t true anymore. Almost every major ISP from cable to AT&T has an IPv6 deployment in progress with considerable progress.
What does this have anything to do with UX?
If in doubt, it's probably an MTU discovery issue. Initial TCP handshake succeeds, then the connection hangs on the first major payload packet (e.g. HTTP response). At least I've seen that happen on lots of awful setups. Many ISPs seem to have routers that neither fragment packets, nor do they respond with ICMP Fragmentation Needed packets. So the connection eventually times out.
> if a "net neutrality" framework becomes US law,

"net neutrality" is the term for the body of existing law, as it has been enforced for the past couple of years since classifying ISP's as "title II" common carriers. That classification was to clarify and enable enforcement of already-existing law, and had bipartisan support. The FCC is currently in the process of dismantling existing policy to abandon "net neutrality".
Agree entirely. Free throws are a different matter than in-game shots.
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A Video would be nice ;)
It would be worth adding to the article registering your Google account for the Advanced Protection Program: https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
> When I was at FB, I happen to know that a team of size S conducted X experiments in 6 months (I can't disclose the number). As it happens, I have worked in similar size teams in other companies, and there the number was ~X/20, and sometimes 0. It don't matter how good your software architecture is, if you're trying out just 1 thing instead of 20 things... I call this velocity.

Exactly! FB has the most productivity per developer of any company I've seen, and this efficiency is a direct result of management systematically lowering barriers to writing code and investing in developer productivity tools. Other companies have elaborate rules and procedure and committees and style guides built around stopping code. Facebook encourages writing code.

(And before you say: no, the codebase doesn't take a quality hit. Turns out that this ceremony around writing code is just unnecessary, contrary to population opinion.)
Awesome concept and tool. Love Datasettes. Added it to the new category "SQLite Web Service (JSON API) Publishers / Containers" in the Awesome SQLite page [1]. Keep it up.
[1] https://github.com/planetopendata/awesome-sqlite
I used to drink a lot, but I eventually came to realize that I wasnt drinking for the alcohol, I was just drinking because I wanted something to drink. I remember back in high school I'd drink soda all the time, and lots of it, which I think was for the same reasons.

I started drinking LaCroix, and its to the point where I'm going through a 12 pack every couple days. I had to start buying the generic brands to save money.

I still drink beer, wine, and whiskey, but not nearly as much as I used to. I think I've saved a lot of money this way too. I also took up running about a year ago, and that got me to stop smoking too, even though that was only like 1 or 2 cigarettes a day, and not even every day. I've been changing up my diet too, and that's had a huge impact.
I'm gonna try this out for myself. I love graphics projects like these and the algorithm is straightforward to implement. Most of the additional work is boilerplate, setting up canvas and resource management of images.
Yes censorship by content providers is a (relatively small while Tor exists) problem, and it happens currently in real life. Censorship by ISPs is devastating, competition cannot help, and it is impossible to circumvent and is a real possibility. Because something is not currently happening does not mean we should not be concerned about it, rather, the opposite.