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Public VPN services should not be trusted blindly. Online anonymity is very hard. However, you can still create your own VPN server on cloud providers for at least have some privacy while you are on an untrusted network.

Because of this reason, I created https://zudvpn.com - It is a free and open-source mobile application that's used to deploy a private VPN server on major Cloud Providers!

Github repo: https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN
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Pirated movies represent a substantial vector. A substantial minority even in the US pirates movies. Once a person is infected other means can be used to attack machines which share files or communicate with the infected computer.

Given a company with thousands of employees what are the chances that several pirate movies? Patient zero acquires an infection and sends email to many employees which contains a link to say a url when viewed results in other employee machines getting attacked and ultimately company machines compromised.
Wow! Even if this is a coincidence, the rest of the evidence presented by the author is pretty sound.

Truly a plot against America. I used to think that calling trump a fascist was overboard but maybe it's getting closer to being applicable...
Maybe I just missed it on your site.

I see your mission, but how are you going to go about achieving it?
> In reality, they do nothing to improve security

This is a bad take. I don't have the energy/time to go too in depth at the moment, but I've commented in more detail in the past. The short version:

- HTTPS isn't perfect, sites sometimes support old encryption protocols that can leak resource information. Most users aren't checking packets from native apps to ensure they're being sent over HTTPS, and browsers don't mark sites that are configured for old SSL/TLS versions as insecure.

- Most people aren't currently using encrypted DNS, and even as browsers like Firefox and Chrome move to turn it on by default, there will still be tons of older devices and native applications that lag behind.

- VPNs only encrypt your connection from you to the provider, but the space between you and the provider is the part that's most likely to be targeted by attackers. You are far more likely to accidentally send a plaintext POST request to an infected router than you are to be targeted by a nation-state actor on the open web.

- VPNs aren't just for hiding what sites you visit from your ISP, they're also for hiding your IP address. The linked claim that IP addresses are irrelevant is just outright wrong, IP addresses are extremely helpful for doxing, and sites like forums don't always secure them[0]. If you know my IP address, you'll be able to get surprisingly close to my real address.

A VPN on its own will not protect you or provide you with a noticeable privacy increase. And a VPN should not be the first thing you reach for if you're trying to improve your privacy. But if you're already using an adblocker, if you're already taking steps to mitigate tracking in Firefox, if you're already disabling Javascript on most sites, if you're already avoiding native apps that break the browser sandbox or engage in hardware tracking, you do eventually reach a point where your IP address is a concern you will want to address.

Ask yourself a few questions:

- If IP addresses don't actually matter for tracking, then why is TOR wasting so much time and energy trying to mask them?

- If masking an IP address doesn't provide any extra privacy, why do some services like Google Captcha penalize shared IP addresses?

- If IP addresses don't matter for tracking, why are so many sites using IP bans at all?

The answer is that IP addresses do matter, they're just not the only thing that matters.

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[0]: https://danshumway.com/blog/gamasutra-vulnerabilities/
Yes, it is true. I only have the time to refute one of these "examples" but:

> https://www.cafepress.com/+red_triangle_antifascist_antifasc...

Nobody actually involved with an Antifa group is selling Antifa-themed cafepress merchandise. The idea is laughable.

"MartStore", the vendor in question, sells a variety of politically themed merchandise, including "thin blue line" and "Trump 2020" designs. https://www.cafepress.com/profile/martstore
I think this is the key question, and doing this will enable numerous interface improvements for people working with software (Eg: separation of content and presents means that everybody can use their favorite view — three-space-tabs, extra-long lines, whatever).

The challenge is that version control on text files (list of lines) is fairly straight forward and language agnostic, while OTOH the VCS would have to run after the language parser processes on the text file, and then be able to interface with the AST generated by the parser (for multiple languages). I presume this would become easy if different languages have the same parsing setup, or we have language/project-specific VCS tools. While the answers are not obvious (to me, at least) this definitely seems like the right direction to move in, instead of getting hung up on plain text and formatting issues.
Placating the base is pointless, it thinks what it's told.
I used to think this too, primarily because I read Cryptonomicon and it states as much. But it’s simply a myth, and one that I wish would die.
This is just a random Facebook page.
It’s also their colors and groups sometimes coöpt imagery of their adversaries, so it’s not unprecedented for a repressed group to take a symbol back for themselves (not saying antifa is repressed, but they act on behalf of other groups).
I don't have much too add, I'm just replying in case Mozilla devs see this. I want this so much as well! I don't mind the VPN though. I pay for it now even though I run mostly Linux
What editor or IDE do you use rust-analyzer with?
The Navy is good at training; I assume the other branches are as well. The Navy took both of my grandfathers, one urban, one rural, both very poor, both of very modest education but apparent potential, and in months turned them into electricians. They both made careers of being in the Navy based on that training, one as an electrician and one moving into logistics, both becoming Master Chiefs. They had the 1940s versions of these books and I learned a lot from them.
I just got a G4 Mac mini and I'm working on getting OS 9 running on it (not officially supported). It's been fun to tinker with so far.

I need to set up stunnel or an Nginx proxy to deal with the lack of SSL support. That's up next I think.
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An excellent book, thank you. I picked it up on Scott Aaronson's recommendation and it is very good indeed.
So Google takes a 30% cut? Meaning, Apple’s cut is the market rate?
Oral traditions record, among other things, historical events.
That's intentional, to avoid giving it a yet broader platform.
Big problem is the Supreme Court said states can't ban handguns. Which is sort of insane because they allow states to ban 'assault weapons' and sawed off shotguns.
The irony is that all commercial UNIXes have moved beyond init for their daemon management, yet on Linux it is still highly debatable.
> You also lost me on your n-word logic.

Quelle surprise.
I think that's true for the beginning, and I'm not disputing your statistic, but as a percentage of the total userbase today, people using it for non-porn-related purposes are the vast majority. Even if nearly 90% of porn stars use it, nowhere near 90% of Snapchat's users produce or consume adult content on the platform.

Do you use Snapchat? Do you have friends who do? It's the de facto communication standard for teenagers because of Quick Add and the gamified nature, not porn.
How long to start seeing advertisement like "Linux, best viewed on Windows".
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Are you saying that this is only an effort in the US? I’d imagine this kind of movement would want wider reform?
> the branch of physics _and technology_ concerned with the design of circuits using transistors and microchips, and with the behaviour and movement of electrons in a semiconductor, conductor, vacuum, or gas.

Yep; it is explicitly is talking about either active devices or literally cases where the topic of focus is control/behaviour of electrons.

> If you are physicist you might envision electronics as control of emission of electrons. If you are an actual engineer you will have very different definition and understanding of what electronics is.

It has nothing to do with the level of abstraction at which you're working, which is my entire point; whilst an engineer may very well not be considering the behaviour of electrons in day to day work, if she is doing electronics, she is working with devices/technologies which involve the control/emission of electrons. If she is working on, for example, an induction machine, she is not doing electronics.

Again, I'm not contesting that people work at different levels of abstraction within a field, just pointing out that the term "electronics" as opposed to "study of electricity" has absolutely nothing to do with abstraction; it refers specifically to whether <active devices/transistors/semiconductors/control and behaviour of electrons/whatever you want to call it> is involved.
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1. This is the antifa symbol: https://imgur.com/0S81Ht6

2. The president did not use the symbol you linked.

3. Focusing on the antifa symbol used in the city of Utrecht, Netherlands is the definition of cherry picking.

The president's ad has more in common with the Nazi political symbol than a facebook group from Utrecht, Netherlands, and I'm sure you agree that they were not referencing the latter given it's not even in the U.S.
Sure. Another commenter pointed out it's literally "emoji &#128315;" which, you can see for yourself, is identical to the ad on Windows: https://emojipedia.org/red-triangle-pointed-down/
I'm surrounded by self-described antifa who cover themselves in anti-fascist symbology. I have never seen this outside a list of symbols Nazis used to label people.
Only Mozilla can make me pay for Google services like Email/Calendar etc. I think I subconsciously trust the brand more than most internet companies out there.
That's correct. Or, $1 for 1 day. Or, 1 hour for free.
"Somehow we afford paving streets in cities"

There's two explanations:

1. Previously, the streets were simply pavement and a ditch. Now they're being upgraded to pavement-sidewalk-internaldrainage-internet-power. It's more expensive and potentially unsustainable.

2. We can't afford it, b/c we're relying on all of these bonds. If _every_ block in the city requires a bond that the property tax from that block can't pay, eventually the banks will recognize that this city isn't a good debitor.

But furthermore, is this the best use of funds? Is adding a sidewalk worth 1.5m, when it could be spent elsewhere?
I really don't understand why people are defending Apple on this. It seems shameful of a $1.5 trillion company to do this to developers. Even more so when they themselves don't abide by their philosophy. They are extracting out a competitive advantage from this on other services like Spotify or Netflix( even without this they have a big one at app discovery and pre installs on iOS). Kudos to Google for allowing the developer to choose the app store/payment method.

Are you guys really fine with living in a world where one/two companies own everything you consume? This sounds like an antithesis to the hacker culture I would associate at least HN crowd with.
The number of deaths for the SF Bay Area is not 58, either. It is:

San Francisco: 47
Alameda: 116
Santa Clara: 152
San Mateo: 99
Contra Costa: 50
Marin: 18
Solano: 23

In other words, about ~500 deaths. If you had 60% of the population infected, you might expect 20x that figure.

Why would it matter that California had daily flights from Wuhan? It changes the math almost by nothing. Whenever an initial seeding occurs, domestic cases rapidly and overwhelmingly takeover in spread.

Wuhan has, as of early June testing, a SARS-CoV-2 seropositive rate of approximately ~3%. There were very few infected people coming on those daily flights in January, and by February domestic spread was many orders of magnitude larger than any seeding event.

California also shutdown earlier than other states, especially in the Bay Area, where essentially all major employers implemented work from policies 7-10 days before the official Shelter-in-Place notice.

California may have had an earlier seeding, but we know for sure it was spreading domestically by mid-January in several cities around the country.
The reason for the low cutoff is to correct for multiple hypothesis testing.

Any what do you mean by "opposite of how p-values work"?

Obviously if P(data or more extreme|null hypothesis) = 10^-8 it's significantly less likely to see the data if the null hypothesis was true, than if P(data or more extreme| null hypothesis) = 10^-7.
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Whether the symbol is used by Antifa or not doesn't really matter. What matters is if people in general associate the symbol with antifa. I almost always think of two flags (a red and black flag) when I think of Antifa, or just the regular anarchist flag.

Look here: https://www.google.com/search?q=antifa+logo&tbm=isch&ved=2ah...

The google image search for "Antifa logo" does not show the inverted triangle, except in a post explaining the ad we're all talking about.

Nobody thinks of an inverted triangle when thinking about Antifa. Some people in the antifa movement may have used the symbol, but it's not associated with them enough for an ad calling them out to use it.

Why run an anti-antifa ad and use a symbol that people don't associate with antifa?
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> ok hand and pepe frog were secret symbols of white supremacists.

They are dog whistles, together with "kekistan" and few other hand gestures.

You can find various pictures of known white supremacists groups prominently showing the gestures.
As someone who's had a love-hate thing with domain-specific languages - reading your story was a good learning experience.

There's great value in sticking with "inert" data formats like XML or JSON, which have standard parsers in most languages, developed over years.

Once data crosses over into code, there's a whole host of potential issues to consider, including the requirement of an interpreter/compiler and a sandboxed environment, with all that entails. The Emscripten config needing Python is a perfect example.

Another example I thought of, is Markdown and MDX. The latter allows the use of JavaScript and React components mixed with markup, for dynamic content. It's brilliant in its own way, but I'm wary of using it as a document format precisely because it's no longer just data. Documents in MDX can't be consumed by other languages, and will always require the full JS/React environment.

Tcl actually feels like it could reasonable to use for data, due to its ubiquity/longevity. Lua, or better yet some kind of Lisp, also seem attractive as a serialization format. The interpreter could be small and stable, and the latter at least might even be simpler to parse than XML or JSON.

> We still have to drag a stripped down Tcl interpreter along in our asset pipeline 20 years later because it's nearly impossible to switch away

This makes me see how the decision created a long-term dependency to a language, where the data was no longer in a portable format. Good to keep this in mind next time I'm tempted to allow data to become code.
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Create your own VPN server on major Cloud Providers from your phone in minutes
Public VPN services should not be trusted blindly. Online anonymity is very hard. However, you can still create your own VPN server on cloud providers for at least have some privacy while you are on an untrusted network.

Because of this reason, I created zudvpn.com - It is a free and open-source mobile application that's used to deploy a private VPN server on major Cloud Providers!

Github repo: https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN
Ask HN: Why do I keep seeing `btc giveaway` on YouTube?
I keep see stuff like this [0]. But it's not just videos, even the ads keeps saying "BTC giveaways" and such. I have not actually clicked any of them. Wasn't sure who else to ask about it.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/sa97FHj
What a messy situation. In today’s day and age you never know what’s real anymore.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this group was ran by some trump associate in secret to peddle their narrative.

I’m not the conspiracy type but I find with the trump campaign the ordinary gets thrown out of the window. Just crazy allegations after one another.
Of course trying to declare antifa as a terrorist organization is just about as useful as charging all of anonymous with cybercrime. Creating a common enemy out of a nebulous group of people that share a political leaning... come on people this is fascism 101.
Are they actually useless? I recall there was substantial controversy around studies not specifically pairing Hydroxychloroquine along with Zinc, which is needed for it to be effective. I think https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v... was one of the few studies that specifically incorporated zinc. Does anyone know where that line of scientific study ended up?
That is AN Antifa symbol.

I thought a couple weeks ago we were arguing whether Antifa existed or was a splintered group, now they have an official logo?

The fact the logo exists and an Antifa group used an upside-down red triangle gives plausibility to the Trump campaign's reasoning.

Those two examples was just a few minutes of searching, I'm sure there are others.

Maybe we can ask the Antifa group WHY they decided to use that triangle.
You know what they say about assumptions.
> systemd has long since outstripped what’s required of an init system

I think this is the fundamental disconnect.

systemd isn't an init system. It's a collection of useful programs for general running of a system, including but not limited to an init program.
I'm Googling for this everywhere, but I can't find a good blog post on what they actually do.
You're saying that if a person chooses to use a symbol that Nazis used to identify their political enemies in their prisons, that person can't be expressing anything hateful because other countries also use symbols to categorize prisoners. I almost can't believe that you actually think that.
It's wrong to generalize from one page linked to a specific city in the Netherlands; during WW2 there was a small concentration camp at Amersfoort, a suburb of Utrecht about 10km from the city center. That likely resonated with contemporary anti-fascists in Utrecht, but the red triangle is absolutely not in general use as an Antifa symbol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amersfoort_concentration_camp
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Not just that. People in CA with lupus (husband of a coworker) were told (by Kaiser) they would no longer be able to get the drug, which is very important to their health. Really disgusting how this whole thing played out.
There is a simpler explanation.

1) European Court of Human Rights will publish a set of decisions about Russia blocking access to different websites. [0] All those decisions are expected to be in favour of plaintiffs.

2) Court would soon communicate first case about blocking of Telegram by collateral party.

3) Communication of primary case by Telegram LLC [1] is a matter of weeks, it was delayed due to company restructurizing.

Russia gonna face direct lifting order from ECHR and that would be a Zugzwang: position, from which any move is losing.

Besides, blocking of Telegram for at leas last year and a half was inefficient, if not nonexistent. It is a common subject of satire towards state actors responsible for blocking.

So, I take it as a face-saving move, according to Hanlon's razor.

[0] https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf?library=ECHR&i...

[1] https://agora.legal/fs/a_delo2doc/97_file_Report_2018.pdf
Let's not bury the lede here. The problem is with coordinating, not the colorful selection of technologies used. Most teams use abstractions on top of Webpack, because they are not interested in how a bundler works, and would rather focus on product features (from a business perspective: I can somewhat appreciate this sentiment). Since most teams haven't ever picked up Webpack, and barely touch facades surrounding it, good luck telling them to add module federation to their configuration.
These are the states their basing their victory on.

Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

I'm sure if you look at population density we might figure out why those states could work without lock downs.
> Facebook is in a difficult spot right now.

Nonsense. Banning all political advertising is the most impartial option. They just prefer money to even the vaguest approximation of doing the right thing.
Here is an example of Google’s homepage not rendering correctly in Chrome:

https://twitter.com/sroussey/status/1273341472398381056?s=21

Really, if they have these kinds of problems, then the rest of us... :/
Some papers meaning power of attorney. People can generally let others represent them by signing a power of attorney. Hobos are people. Hobos can sign papers than let me get money from insurance company that can't price risk properly. Presumably they get a cut, but they could also just sign the papers in exchange for a small sum paid immediately. Details of arrangement between hobo and the representative are none of the insurance company's business.
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Was any thought given to libp2p? The IPFS project is also using Kademlia and they're on top of that.
Do you really think the president was using a symbol from Utrecht Netherlands in a U.S. based political ad?
I've never seen AFA Amsterdam or AFA Nederland use a red triangle with the exception of that one conference, and in that instance the triangle isn't even upside down.
And it's certainly not "far left". Being against Nazis and other Fascists seems like a pretty middle of the road idea.
> I use Mullvad, paid using BTC that came straight from a tumbler. I don't use it for any nefarious reasons, just wanted to see how such a setup would work.

> But again, I didn't do it to stay "safe" or anonymous.

I sincerely hope that you're trying to stay safe if you're admitting to money laundering on a public forum.