skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Due to the architecture of DNS, DNS is not end-to-end encrypted. There is a potential solution (djb's DNSCurve), but it will not be deployed. As a result, let's do an assessment.

Using Google DNS, self-hosted resolver, or your ISP's DNS: NSA, your ISP, everyone and every dog at the middle of your link to the Internet can track and see your requests.

Using CloudFlare's DNS w/ DNS-over-HTTPS: only NSA (via a NSL or subpoena), Cloudflare and CloudFlare's upstream can track and see your requests. And I guess 10%-20% of the domain names already use CloudFlare, so for some domain, it's end-to-end encrypted, nobody but NSA and CloudFlare can track you. Even better, Cloudflare is experimenting with peering to upstreams (e.g. Facebook) using private encrypted connections, so the point-to-point encryption ratio would be even higher in the future.

Therefore, using CloudFlare is a net positive.

But one also needs to consider its second-order effect: is giving CloudFlare more leverage over the Internet infrastructure in the long run an acceptable choice over unencrypted DNS? I guess everyone has a different opinion.
Mastodon is like email. How do email users feel about other people sending nazi stuff via email?
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Yes, absolutely. Let me pay them exactly the revenue they lose from my use of an ad blocker, in exchange for no ads.
> Except there's absolutely nothing inferior about Firefox nowadays.

I mean, maybe for you. But for me, with the add-on that I use, and the computer that I am on, FF is not the most optimal, Chrome is. FF is slower for me and my set-up.

EDIT: I'm not joshing here or trying to trash on others. FF may be faster for you, that's fine. But in my own personal little corner of the world, FF is slower than Chrome. I've no idea why, maybe I could spend a few days trying to figure this out and then optimize FF to make it faster. But, for me, out of the box, FF really is slower.
What type of overhead is associated with this? Are you experiencing an increase in server costs? What about the resources it takes to build those relationships, maintain the content, or manage the infrastructure?

I'm very interested in learning more...
So it's less about the common good and more about spiting companies (who are just never going to use this v3 code now so nothing was accomplished except wasting dev time on a global scale)
I never said we shouldn't have rules. I'm saying we should not have harmful rules.

Rules which limit speech are harmful. This is because free communication of ideas is the foundation of a free and democratic soceity.
<Wild Armchair Speculation>
It comes down to what you're allowed to advertise I think. Vegas doesn't (and probably legally could not) market itself as a legitimate money-making investment, it's just selling games. Gambling = Entertainment expenditure with the possibility of prizes.

Meanwhile, hedge funds do market themselves as legitimate money-making investments, even if there is some risk involved. Unlike Vegas, who may welcome all comers who might pay the fee, hedge funds hold a fiduciary responsibility to act in their clients' best interests. That means having a policy on minimum assets or income to ensure that the clients whose money they are legally required to act in the best interest of would be able to somewhat safely absorb the losses associated with the short-term, higher-risk investments a fast-moving hedge fund might make.

On a different tack than marketing and fiduciary responsibility, nobody can sue Vegas when they bet it all on black and take a dive. Casino managers don't get daily calls from their patrons asking why the dealer keeps winning at blackjack. Hedge Funds ensuring that the people they're dealing with have lower income worries and likely some investment experience probably reduces their customer service load by a lot.

Although, after typing all this, it seems I was answering the question "Why is it alright for hedge funds to have minimum qualifications on investors?" rather than the question I think you were originally asking, "Why is it okay for Vegas to let people gamble without so much as a credit check?"
And yet, many SJW's and Berniebros are white dudes... Self-hating, perhaps? Or maybe the whole narrative that "the right is powerful because White guys are furious about having to give up their inherent power!" just doesn't stand up to even the most cursory scrutiny. It's blatant propaganda; fake news meant to demonize and discredit conservative thought, even to make it "radioactive" in the eyes of the (largely bandwagoning) general public. And these people have the gall to say that their political opponents are tantamount to Nazis? Sad and despicable!
Have being using my own DNS server with pihole, couldn't be happier. https://githuh.com/yegle/your-dns
And I think you're being a little unfair to Terry. Sure, he wrote humorous fiction, but his grasp of human behavior is the source of much of the observational humor of his books. They are, essentially, spoofs of society.
The Guardian became a joke, they are so biased they can't even recognise humour.
I'm not sure what line of reasoning you're following here, other than that time is socially constructed?
It might be worth considering carefully how safe the practice of opening essentially random email links might be. Are you opening the links with a full suite of forensic measures in place, or are you dropping curl $URL into your terminal on your workstation? It looks like WSL isn't exactly a sandbox. It does seem to already be used by some malware: https://research.checkpoint.com/beware-bashware-new-method-m...

In a world with drive-by exploits and where opening a link leaks information, it perhaps could be considered unsafe to open essentially random links from emails. I've definitely worked with developers who seem to believe that curl is magical and inures them against every possible attack.

Curiosity is a wonderful thing! It's just sometimes it can be dangerous to a person and to the people around them. It might not be a bad thing for people to learn a smidge of caution.
"Tout message ayant le caractère de propagande électorale".

Tu vas devoir prouver que la page Facebook des gillets jaunes diffusait des messages ayant "le caractère de propagande électorale", en premier lieu, d'une. Il n'est pas interdit de discuter politique sur un forum le jour même de l’élection.

Il n'y a aucune loi en France interdisant les gens de discuter politique le jour du scrutin. Il est interdit aux candidats de faire campagne.

propagande électorale =/= propagande politique.

La différence est évidence.
Many people come to a conclusion that that the classical definition of free speech is easily abusable when enough people gather and utilize free speech to promote hatred, closed-mindedness and bigotry. Thanks to free speech instances we get hoaxes like the ones that way 5G is a mortal danger, vaccines are a mortal danger, women, Muslims, Jews and people of color are despicable, and many other interesting "100% verified truths and facts".

I know that the perfect solution for this problem does not conflict with free speech, but if that perfect solution (whatever it is) doesn't come soon enough, the world will get fed up with waiting and implement imperfect solutions, and limiting free speech is first on that list.
If your run a NAS on your network that has some extra horsepower, most of them can run containers now.

I run both pi-hole and my own DNS server inside my network as containers on the NAS. I then have my router configured to default to the pi-hole and then the DNS server.

Advantage of my own DNS server is it exclusively resolves using DNS-over-TLS so my queries are private.

Final fallback for resolution is 1.1.1.1 but based on logs my setup hasn’t hit the fallback.

I imagine you could also use a container to host VPN.
This seems available under GPL v2. v2 is okay with App Store.
> They actually are in some European countries. France included.

No there is none in France. Discussing politics isn't the same as campaigning.

And again, your "edit" changes nothing to what I'm saying, the law you quoted does not bar people from discussing politics, it bars candidates and their supporters from promoting their candidates or their parties, the yellow vests are not a political party.
The argument you are making is a huge stretch.. Cloudflare is one of the bigger driving forces for DoH and they have nothing to do with ad revenue. Claiming that DoH is some sneaky way to get rid of things like pi-hole is just ridiculous.
Could do with an executive summary at the top so that one doesn't have to wade through a lot of text to find out what the document is for.
I am not required to host your speech on my platform. The only free speech protection that is guaranteed in the United States is from the government stifling a citizen's speech and even that is fairly limited with free speech overridden by safety and security concerns on a fairly regular basis. That a particular platform doesn't want your speech is their right under their ability to speak. You cannot be forced to advocate a position you do not agree with.
Maybe it is the opposite of what you're implying. ex: The creation of value is so high that the discrepancies increase, but everyone is reaping the benefits, just in different proportions.
The issue with that is that WiFi is a lot higher latency than Ethernet (even rPi Ethernet which goes over USB) and DNS is one of those things that hurts a bit with higher latency.
That's right. I would like others as well as myself to be easily able to download the PDF files without having to compile it. I tried out GitHub releases and it works okay but not great. I cannot track all the compiled PDFs I have at a single place or move them easily from one system to another like I could with GitHub repos. I am also trying to avoid getting locked into a specific service like GitHub releases.
I bought a TV that, because of the pihole, I know phones home approximately once every thirty seconds about my viewing habits.

In the world we live in something like a pihole isn't an ideological position, it's a necessity to not have everything we do end up rolling into someone else's ad profile on my household.
We've banned this account. We can unban you if you email hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you won't post like this again—it simply doesn't matter what you're replying to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
People got very mad at this, but it seems preferable. Movies/TV shows that you "like a lot" versus movies that you "just like" are both movies that you'd watch, and watching is what you're buying.
They feel great because in all likelihood it will lower the cost and increase the quality and breadth of their service.

Also, I doubt anyone of those investors would want to sell at cost. Gab is the main censorship-free social platform. It's likely worth 10 to 20 times as much by now.
Not that its a deal breaker: Blockada doesn't yet do DoH, which limits its abilities to circumvent censorship.
We all know that when people talk about coercion of removal of online content, they're talking about content they deem worthy of removal.

You can avoid cognitive dissonance if you assume you have the "right" perspective on how to bucket content into two groups, acceptable and unacceptable, and that the bucketing made by regulators will be identical to yours, since it's clearly the only objectively correct one. Of course, this is so far from reality if such a thing were to be implemented that it's not worth taking seriously.
First Rust still requires some ergonomic improvements to handle GUI coding in a better way.
Most likely because it has gone under the radar thus far.

I'm just waiting for the first scandalous "here's how Apple is promoting rampant racism" article to pick up steam.
That all depends on who is doing the voting.
Unfortunately I don't. I started to learn Unicode, then realized how complicated it is to do right and stopped because I realized that nobody really cares if it works almost all the time.

As Joel below demonstrates, you can get away with 29 languages by treating code points as characters and without knowing about grapheme clusters and other stuff.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...

>When CityDesk publishes the web page, it converts it to UTF-8 encoding, which has been well supported by web browsers for many years. That’s the way all 29 language versions of Joel on Software are encoded and I have not yet heard a single person who has had any trouble viewing them.
If adults enjoy his writing, in what sense are they children's novels? Speaking personally, they were all fairly over my head when I was a child. As an adult, they sparkle.
Tell that to someone making 35K/year.
while we are on that subject..https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
It's usually wrong, but you have a large number of people who don't get regular expressions. It's hard to visualize an automata crawling over a string and handing out matches.

The simpler mental model of splitting and splicing is easily grokable, so there's a lot of utility in supporting it.
It does already - I looked it up. It even applies to interstate lines with varied age of consent - although it is a bit more intent based and grayer.

For example - going from say California - an 18 age of consent state to sleep with a 16 year old in Nevada is illegal sex tourism. Likewise bringing a 16 year old from California to Nevada to try to evade the age of consent is illegal.

But going to Nevada from California and sleeping with a 16 year old while not there for that purpose (say on a business trip) would be legal.
I guess there's a /s missing?
Well, the argument seems invalid, as they obviously use energy to run their oil field (look at these huge hammer-like machines). They could use this energy. Even their very local grid is a grid.
> Bitcoin mining required more energy

This is only part of the story, you should ask yourself “why did bitcoin mining require more and more energy”? And “if there was no bitcoin, would similar amount of energy have been spent via different means to satisfy the demand from whatever is the answer to the first question”?
I'd assume it's due to the designers and devs not doing proper WCAG contrast testing.
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The most interesting bit is that out of that 10 percentage points growth (60% to 70%) for the 10% wealthiest, 9 percentage points are attributed to the top 1% (23% to 32%)!

So, the rest of the top 10% have remained basically at the same level of (relative) wealth (37% to 38%), and the wealth from the poorest has moved to the top 1%!

So, looking at the top 10% here paints a less bleak picture of where the wealth is being accumulated/moved.

IOW, it's not even the rich getting richer, it's just the super rich!
Speed and tracking. Cloudflare claims they don't keep logs
GPL v3 very clearly requires it. "Corresponding Source conveyed under this section must be accompanied by the Installation Information".
And if your friend has not verified the watch, and you set it against theirs and tell your friends this time which you believe to be correct when asked, you are now unknowingly propagating incorrect time.

In fact, if you get a bunch of people who, say, want to get up a bit later, they can band together to set their time deliberately wrong and influence as many people as they can to synchronise with their incorrect time (whilst all along pretending it is the correct time), and soon it becomes hard to know which groups are telling everyone the correct time, and which groups are disseminating the wrong time to achieve their political ends...
Tracking ads are collecting data on people without their explicit consent or knowledge. The trade in bulk personal data is a stain on the internet.

I am quite content to block these sorts of adverts and I'm not worried by the site's loss of revenue. I am not responsible for their slimy choice in business model.

Let's get back to context based adverts like DuckDuckGo use. There was no need for the internet to take this path - it only did so to rapidly monetise after the dot-com bust blew their VC funded rapid growth plans out of the water.
Depending on your opinion of content blockers, not on iOS.
Hate speech is a well-defined legal term in the US.

On its own, it is protected, but it is also sufficient evidence to establish that some other act was a hate crime:

https://legaldictionary.net/hate-speech/

> In October of 1989, a group of young black men were hanging out in front of their apartment complex, discussing the movie Mississippi Burning, in which a number of black people are beaten. As a young white boy walked past the complex, and Todd Mitchell, one of the group, called out “Do you all feel hyped up to move on some white people?” then said, “There goes a white boy; go get him!” and led his friends in an attack on the boy. The black men stole the boy’s tennis shoes, and beat him so badly that he was in a coma for four days.

> Mitchell was convicted on charges of aggravated battery in the Circuit Court, but because the jury ruled he had chosen the victim based solely on race, the crime was elevated to the level of a hate crime. In this case, Mitchell’s words were intended to incite violence against a person, based on a trait or attribute – his race. Although Mitchell appealed his conviction, claiming the conviction violated his right to free speech.

> The question of constitutionality in this case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993, which held that the First Amendment does not bar the use of a person’s speech as evidence to establish elements of a crime. In fact, such evidence is commonly used to prove a defendant’s intent or motive, as well as to determine relevancy of certain evidence, or reliability of a witness’ testimony. The crime in Mitchell’s case was aggravated battery, not the words that he spoke, which provoked his companions to engage in the crime. Therefore, Mitchell’s free speech rights were never impeded.
The post war consensus, or the long boom as I think it was called in the US.

A period of sustained growth that saw full employment, adult vocational education - in the US in part from the GI Bill, healthy and rising welfare, rising wages, good pension provision and an unprecedented growth of the middle classes.

High income taxes, sometimes extremely high, from both sides of politics saw greater opportunities for infrastructure and redistribution.

It started to fall apart with the 73 oil crisis, that in good part marched us into neo-liberalism and Thatcherism/Reaganism.
As I said above, the energy is very usable locally too.
Agreed. The irony of it all makes me really wonder: is the yellow vest leadership really that stupid to not know they would be throttled before the elections? No, they are led by expert manipulators that are playing a zerosum game -- if some uneducated person cements their belief that they are being silenced by Facebook unreasonablly that's a win. And if you know the laws you can shrug off the lie.

Welcome to the era of zerosum politics.
You’d have to think we live in some kind of simulation if this happens with such invariability...
Do we know how much the new Edge will phone home to Google? What about raw chromium? Alternatively, are there settings you can change in Chrome to prohibit it talking back to G?
Well, the upside is that this is still empty after I disabled everything last time this was posted.
I think they both missed the mark.

Pratchett says: "there’s no way of finding out whether this stuff has any bottom to it or whether someone has just made it up." But that's not really true. It's not hard to evaluate fantastical claims by cross-checking them with other sources.

What I think both men missed is that people would be happy to believe fake or misleading news without cross-checking it if it reinforced their world view.
blocking your TV from dialing home is reasonable. You have paid for the TV and thats the end of the transaction. It would be another story if you took the TV for free in exchange for ads :)
The real estate bubble popping. To a first approximation the bottom 9.9% of the top 10% in wealth are older upper-middle class folks who have their mortgage paid off and some retirement savings.

(Wealth and income distributions have significant differences)
Was not my intent, but I see where I went off the rails. Thanks for the feedback and I'll rethink this.
The article points out that record low interest rates have pushed easy money into the hands of the already-wealthy, exacerbating wealth inequality.

I see that as only half the story. While 0% loans were filling the coffers of Bank of America and Sallie Mae and Chase and Wells Fargo, those same banks were turning around and loaning the money out for consumption at 25% or for assets that rapidly depreciate like cars and TVs at 5-25%, or purchases of questionable value like college tuition at more variable rates.

r > g is still something of an open question in my mind, but the economic weaponization of debt and the inability of consumers to shield themselves from its adverse effects seems to be the reason for the wealth gap and why the increase in capital returns has payed better than overall economic growth, effectively transfering the future wealth of the poor to the present assets of the rich.

It could probably be solved in a generation with stricter regulations on consumer lending and the conversion of social security into a mandatory 401k, similar to Australia's "Super" program.

The fix for capitalism is to force everyone to be capitalists.
The settlers back then were not trying to settle a barren rock with no breathable atmosphere or heat. If Britain had tried settling Antarctica, things would have gone very differently.

And as others pointed out, America was already settled when Europeans arrived, so what innovation even occurred there?
What are people going to discuss on a Yellow vest Facebook group on an election weekend?

How is "political propaganda" different from "electoral propaganda" on an election weekend?

You're obviously in bad faith here.

My argument is intellectual honesty and the law in all its glaring clarity.
If you are leaving your account logged in on a computer you are sharing that's kinda expected I'd say? The person could also just read all your emails, reset all your passwords or look at all your pictures.
Reminds me of that time I worked at Microsoft and they grabbed datasets from social media to be processed by GPUs to ensure that their brand reputation was strong.

TLDR: Microsoft uses bots and other means to try to control narratives and opinions on social media.
> Not too long ago this was a classical liberal position. Today free speech is passé. Guess I'm just old fashioned.

It's not old fashioned, it's just that people differentiate free speech in principle from paying the server bills. Just as freedom of the press never meant the newspaper had to publish your op-ed, free speech online doesn't mean Twitter has to give anyone server space to post Nazi stuff.

(I agree that there should be more platforms, but that's why I've supported other Mastadon instances instead of Gab.)
I don't like most of the content you mention, but I still don't understand your pro-censorship viewpoint.

What's your goal here? Do you honestly think that preventing these people from having a public voice will make them disappear? Or do you simply want to brush them under the carpet so you can pretend they don't exist?

I think a much better approach is to allow free speech, and to spend some of our time kindly and empathetically trying to understand these people so we can address the underlying issues that cause them to believe what they believe. That's what Martin Luther King did, if you read his more theoretical writings. And I think it's what we should be trying to do today. Gutting free speech isn't the solution.