skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like he's paid his ISP for a (dedicated) public IP, so it should be 1:1 NAT, which doesn't really need connection tracking.

For the rest of the customers that don't pay extra for a public IP, all the crappy things you mention do apply.

Hopefully, the ISP does native IPv6?

And, while 60 minute timeouts violate the RFC, it's a whole lot better than I expected. Usually CGN timeouts are around 15 minutes for nice ones, and I've seen 10 seconds at the bottom end.

I wish the longer ones would probe both ends of the connection to see if it's still live a minute or so before they intend to kill it.
[mosh or eternal terminal] + tmux combo solves the problem (and adds other cool functionality)

https://mosh.org/

https://eternalterminal.dev/

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki
Setting a bad precedent by banning a bad president
After the next wave of attacks, they probably don’t want to be blamed.

Similar to the FBI making a press release today about upcoming “protests”.
My point is what my original comment says.
> If we are ok with that reason, then we are ok with that reason, ...

This is a slippery-slope fallacy. Facebook removing content containing speech directly associated with highly illegal activity doesn't mean the country is becoming socialist.
They used to say the same thing about wiretaps. Now the government can enter your name into xkeyscore and have access to your life
We could just start requiring a university account for connection to the internet and finally end the eternal September! /s
Why Simulate Belief Systems?
You think you don’t have a voice, I cannot even downvote
They were too small to bother with. If they had been perceived the exact same way but with 100x the userbase, they would have gotten banned.
No, the entire rest of the argument rests on the claim that section 230 creates an inducement to moderate by removing liability. It does not. If anything, it creates an inducement to do the opposite, by removing liability for third party content.
> stupid minority

It's a stupid majority.
Amusingly a lot of the concerns about embedding applications in other web applications have finally been mostly covered by the browsers adding the capability to sandbox iframes. We used Caja at Yahoo but it was a nightmare at the time.

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/sandboxed-i...
Also an outside observer, isn't the ability to do that the entire point of having electors in the first place? As terrible as the electoral system is, it wouldn't be illegitimate to use it for its intended purpose.
But the price is not merely monitary. People buy things because they've invested an amount of confidence in the quality of something, not on a lark or some dispassionate experiment to find out whether something is garbage or not. That part of the price cannot be so easily refunded, and CDPR did as much as they could to get people to invest their non-monetary coin in their product. It's a kind of theft.
That statement is correct. E2E encryption is only in effect between two devices communicating with each other. The moment the messages leave the app in any capacity (e.g., screenshots, backup, forwarded to another convo/contact, etc.) it is not longer protected by E2E encryption.

The backup file itself that is uploaded to iCloud/GDrive is encrypted; see: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/136072/how-can-...
I have one remaining worry about Brave: If I choose to auto-contribute to sites, would it be possible to deanonymize me and derive what I look at from the BAT blockchain? E.g. if someone knows some of the sites I look at can they find out the rest?
The chronology of that association doesn’t work. Democrats were staunch opponents of civil rights until the 1960s. Even then, more republicans supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats.

Even in 1976, Carter won with the traditional new deal coalition of southerners and northeast progressives. He won South Carolina by the same margin as Massachusetts. Even in 1980 against Reagan, Carter performed much closer to Reagan in the south than his overall national performance (outright winning Georgia, but coming close in most southern states).

The current alignment of southern states with Republicans really dates to the late 1980s to early 1990s, when Republicans started flipping Senate seats in the south.

Pinning this on Democrats’ support for the Civil Rights Act two decades before is one theory, but another is the industrialization of the southern economy. Southern New Deal Democrats represented agricultural states against protectionist northern industrial interests. But look at the economy of places like Georgia and Tennessee today. They’re built on low taxes and low regulation to draw companies away from high tax high regulation northern states. That started happening in the 1980s. Georgia is a really archetypal example of this: it’s probably the most openly pro-business big city in the country, and has a famously cooperative relationship between Atlanta Democratic mayors and Georgia Republican governors centered around attracting companies from places like New York: https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/with...
As long as we’re talking about banning people for saying things against the consensus view, we can wipe the books of Galileos name
It looks to me like they repurposed all the ones they did not sell into their door access line.
I'm not clear what you were trying to achieve?

You had unmanaged switches on your network, and were trying to manage thier downstream connections?

What exactly do you mean by 'breach the firewall'?
The SPD took a picture of a candle and called it a thrown explosive. They also blamed last week's events on BLM and several officers participated in the Capitol Riot and are on admin leave. There miiiiight be a bit of a bias in that dept.
Honest question: What happens to Facebook if the government that rules it collapses?
Are you talking about quarterly security patches...?
On the other hand, how many of the left-leaning politicians in the USA have criticized Twitter/Facebook banning Trump or Apple/Google/AWS banning Parler ?

Here's an example from Europe :

https://www.worldstockmarket.net/twitter-when-francois-ruffi...
Could you have purchased, configured and productionised 500 machines within 24 hours?

Parler had 24 hours to migrate from AWS.
My microwave. The door keeps sticking.
You're putting the cart before the horse. No government body ordered any of this.

Trump approval remains at 40%, that's more than enough to build counter-platforms for literally everything.

I would like to welcome this as an opportunity to break the power of major tech corporations and move towards open platforms.

Unfortunately, the trend seems to be towards closed platforms that are simply echo chambers of a different persuasion.
Glad I'm not the only one that thought of Front Row for Mac :)
There has been a persistent campaign by people to get Facebook to take responsibility for the consequences of allowing this sort of thing - in this instance, they have served the same role that certain radio stations did during the genocides in Rwanda.

None of this is news to folks who have been grappling with the responsibilities of social media companies, the tension between the value of grass-roots organising (often positive, as we've seen in the likes of the Arab Spring, or Hong Kongers agitating for their rights) as it pivots into these kind of actions.

The sudden interest in this mostly ends up looking like concern trolling from people who have been comfortable enjoying the dominance of "their side" in the political process for decades; "their side" in the overwhelming media presence directly controlled by, or underwritten by, the Mercers, Murdochs; the think tanks underwritten by the Kochs, and so on.

I find it hard to grant much credibility when folks who have, for example, seemed comfortable with the idea that bakers should be able to turn away wedding cakes because of the sexual orientation of the purchaser, or that employers ought to be able to refuse contraceptives to employees because of the religious opinions of the owners now suddenly affecting concern for a slow-motion genocide in a country they likely couldn't locate on a map yesterday.
Any good, comprehensible-to-laymen citations?
It's too bad that critical thinking and rationality aren't considered integral elements of preparing students to join the workforce.
> Unfortunately, they aren't.

Yet they are allowed to drive cars, fly planes, raise children, buy guns and vote but somehow cannot decide for themselves what’s good or bad, and need a higher moral entity like Facebook to babysit them. I find this a weak argument.
>This isn't a new form of justice, this is how the civil legal system works.

Funny, Hitler and Staling would agree with you 100%
The real problem is people knowingly spreading fake news in order to bolster their cause.
Spoiler alert: it's Holocaust denial.
They host content that YouTube will not. That seems to be enough. Peertube is federated, and I haven't seen them attack a federated service, yet.
I'm not saying a hypothetical terrorist would kill people that support his cause.

I'm saying a hypothetical Timothy McVeigh would kill people (ie: target Mike Pence or Joe Biden), then hide in the mob to prevent police from chasing him.

EDIT: Or any number of "more intelligent" schemes that takes advantage of a rioting mob. I had a bunch of specific examples, but I feel its not moral for me to discuss specifics and help any would-be attackers plan their stuff.

But ultimately, its not very hard to think of ways to take advantage of a mob.

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The main good news is that the National Guard is deploying in major force: riot shields for protests, and even are equipping themselves with lethal weaponry if things get out of hand.
Aaron Swartz died by suicide 8 years ago, after committing intolerable crime
Interesting, and thanks! Normally DHKE is authenticated though with public key cryptography? The way I understand is DHKE establishes a secret... with someone but in order to ensure it was your intended party, not a hostile government, usually a public key signature exchange takes place.
After 60+ court cases challenging the election fail, and half the population still believe it's stolen, we're completely beyond the realm of misinformation (though there's plenty of that still going on). One side simply wants to seize power and is leveraging the tools at its disposal to do so.
People on parler and other platforms did conspire to storm the capitol.
From their app store of choice or directly from the signal website?
This is a false equivalency. Facebook, unlike the Catholic Church 500 years ago, doesn't rule anything.
> You people need to look at history.

Yeah, Weimar Germany could teach you some lessons, apparently.
Frankly I've never seen any connection that didn't use keepalives stay up for very long on my LAN, much less the Internet at large.

Keepalives are a basic requirement for persistent connections. It's literally what they're for. Harmless enough solution.
Ah see, I disagree that an ISP is in itself an adhoc communications system.

An ISP hooks up the wires, lays and maintains the infrastructure for web connections for which you can build communications on but are not in themselves sufficient as communications. You can also build more than just communications on ISP infrastructure.

As examples, you watch Netflix on the infrastructure of an ISP but Netflix is not communications and you may bank on your bank's website on an ISP and that is not communications those are movie watching and banking respectfully.

I could continue to provide examples, but my point being is an ISP is not in itself sufficient for communications to be established and that you can establish more than communications on an ISP and that is why I don't agree.
The KiwiSDR Time Difference of Arrival Network (2018)
No more than "Black Lives Matter."
Does anyone have a right to mass audiences? No.
She was halfway through a smashed in window, charging secret service members in the room directly outside where Congress was sheltering in place. Your characterization is wildly inaccurate.

Behind her was a surging crowd who were chanting smash it down, and slamming objects into the doors in an attempt to violently break them down.
You will find in this store all the designs that you want for yourself
The posts in question are there to organize an armed assault next week, before the inauguration. The literal planning of an illegal act is where the "free exchange of ideas" argument falls flat.

Your rhetorical question reads to me no differently than "Why bother giving people freedom in the first place if we're just going to punish them whenever they murder someone? We might as well just drop the pretense and imprison everybody by default"
The rest of the argument rests on the claim that government officials threatening to adversely modify Section 230 if companies don't engage in censorship the government itself could not require, is a constitutional violation.
Look, all I'm gonna say is that the social media are not a free speech refuge. You still can't say anything that your government made illegal. Just as the article you posted says, Jaś Kapela was put on trial for something he said on the internet. So I really can't see how this could backfire at people in any way, as it can only expand the freedom. Unless you believe that you can trust private corporations with censoring what they deem as harmful of course, and in that case I would just like to remind you that Google supplies the Chinese government with surveillance technology and companies like Apple and many others benefit from the slave labor.
This reminds me of the first ever "hack" that used semaphores (not the ones you're thinking of): https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/03/the-worlds-first-cyber...
If you just want dumb WiFi, you can provision and remove the controller. Nowadays you can even do this with the UniFi phone app (standalone mode let's you configure and update firmware).

I've had a UAP AC LR at home for a few years and we've got about 6 UAP AC HD at work. We used the phone app to provision and after that you can pretty much forget about it. Great for small startups that want great coverage and dont have someone who's supposed to mess around with it.
That's my opponent's position, not mine. When creating an opposing argument it's almost certain you will have to state their argument (in whole or in part) to produce a refutation.
Yep, that’s how they come by default, booting into RouterOS. I prefer my switches to just be switches, though, so I run SwOS and do all that service stuff jailed on a FreeBSD router PC.
Cambridge Analytica happened because the same folks who fund Steve Bannon and Parler wanted it to happen.
I think it’s quite a step to say all comments with the phrase Stop the steal want to overthrow the government.

We, as a society, should be allowed to be very critical of our election process. Stifling discussions about the legitimacy of the election actually reduces my confidence in the election process. I’ve listen to their arguments and I didn’t believe them, but I feel good that people are allowed to do openly question election process and I trust the American people to make rational decisions about what constitutes a fair election.
First it was the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.).
Then it was the app stores (Apple, Google).
Then it was the payment processors (Stripe, etc.).
Then it was the cloud computing platforms (Amazon).
Now its the domain name registrars (GoDaddy).

We're working our way up the stack on censorship.
"The FBI warned for years that police are cozy with the far right. Is no one listening?"[1]

"A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans"[2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/28/fbi-fa...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-w...
Some of the richest companies in the world are actively dedicated to pushing people to the fringes because they make more money that way. Blaming voters seems a little unfair to me.
Bitcoin’s Slide Dents Price Momentum That Dwarfed Everything
Stoners
A NAT is going to have to have a timeout, otherwise it will gradually leak and run out of ports. All protocols that operate behind NAT must implement keepalive.

The solution is IPv6. Then you don't need your ISP to maintain a stateful connection table.
The negation of a contradiction is a tautology:

¬(A & ¬A) = ¬A | A = True

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Ordinary Americans understand the First Amendment better than the elites do. Users who say Facebook, Twitter and Google are violating their constitutional rights are right. Aggrieved plaintiffs should sue these companies now to protect the voice of every American—and our constitutional democracy.

Does anyone find it amusing that Facebook and Twitter, which are basically venues for cheap entertainment, are now considered an important part of democracy by this author? If both these sites didn't exist people would go to Reuters, NYT, Imgur, etc directly. And nothing of value would be lost.

> Suppression of dissent breeds terror. The answer to last week’s horror should be to open more channels of dialogue, not to close them off. If disaffected Americans no longer have an outlet to be heard, the siege of Capitol Hill will look like a friendly parley compared with what’s to come.

What did domestic terrorists like Timothy McVeigh do before Facebook and Twitter? They killed people.

> Liberals should worry too. If big tech can shut down the president, what stops them from doing the same to Joe Biden if he backs antitrust suits against social-media companies? Our Framers deeply understood the need for checks and balances in government. They couldn’t anticipate the rise of a new Leviathan with unchecked power to make extraconstitutional political judgments under the mantle of private enterprise.

That's fine if a website doesn't want to feature Biden. The framers couldn't even imagine the amount of media exposure that politicians have achieved from the internet.
I can't tell you that, I'm sorry.
It's an interesting of reasoning but comes with a caveat - Reducing externalities to a price figure allows you to trade them away on a balance sheet as nothing more than a price figure. This is fine if pricing accurately reflects value, but that's not the same as allowing a market to set the price. You lose a huge amount of detail in the process that can't simply be captured in a price signal moving up or down.

You may end up with things that have infinite price, at which point I think we're begging the question.

There's also a question of how commodified the things we're talking about here can actually be - If you can sell it one day and it's impossible to 'buy back' tomorrow at any price, then it's a fundamentally different kind of trade that doesn't really fit the framework as neatly as first appears.
Democracy can function if they are incompetent and stupid. It won't function optimally, it may not function well, but it will function, even if to absurd ends.

Democracy doesn't need to make people richer, healthier, or safer to function. Oklahoma's population is anti education and this is reflected in their government. Will that damage their children for the future? Likely. But democracy continues to function in Oklahoma anyway.

It cannot function if the losers turn violent and attack the government. At this point, "stop the steal" is almost a rallying cry for militant action as every other possible remedy has been exhausted. That is what makes it distinct.
RIP Jack Steinberger,Nobel Prize winner for physics
For sure, I'm just saying there are plagues, and then there are plagues.
I liked Swartz a lot. He was idealistic and brilliant. His death was as sad as it was unnecessary.

After his death though, I always found it inappropriate when obituaries and memorials called him a reddit cofounder. He joined reddit as part of a merger and didn't stay on long before being let go. The original founders didn't consider him a cofounder, and until his death did not have the nicest things to say about him.

Personally I think there's better things to remember him by than that rather negative chapter. He created a lot of good outside reddit. Personally I still use RSS to this day, and am occasionally reminded by that of his story.
Twitter is different than plumbing, sewage, currency, etc. because it was not created in response to an urgent need of sustaining life. While it might not have been clear at its inception, Twitter has changed how we thing about public discourse and politics. In the case of simple technologies, the needs of society drove the creation, implementation, and use of such things. Now, we have Twitter, the existence of which has changed our society in ways that Jack Dorsey & al. probably didn't intend.

The big idea from Postman on this is that with simple technologies, the culture and the society drive their development and use. Whereas with bigger technologies (Internet, statistics, Twitter, etc.) start to shape society around them.

I'm doing a poor job of explaining myself; Postman has more to say on page 23 onward of Technopoly if you're curious for a better explaination.
It doesn't help though that marketing presented it like a GTA in the future. Story is IMO very weak. So weak story, weak open world... this is rather average game. I don't know how it ended up hyped so much.
I live in germany and whatsapp is dominant in all social circles i have been in.
Do groups of protesters who boycott companies invade the US capitol with the intent of overthrowing the government or undermining a democratic election?

This doesn't really seem comparable, does it?
I would echo the words of that black dude in that show about drugs and cops in Baltimore:
"Diversify yo bonds, nigga" aka "Don't put all your eggs in one basket".

Apply them to your scenario if you can. Two cloud providers from different countries. Duplicate your data across both, which is good for backups anyway. Maybe try and use chaos computing to stimulate entire data centers going down on you.

Parler would've done well to encrypt their data and use some kind of distributed data storage for their usecase. Probably should've gotten servers in Russia, China, Romania or something and maybe even hosted an eep- or onion-site. They were obviously on the fringe and hosting their stuff on mainstream services would've ended badly sooner or later.

Know your usecase, know your risks, and prepare accordingly.
Can you elaborate on your understanding of all the sides involved and which rules they felt were broken?
I think we're talking past eachother because it seems you're being descriptive of what is, and I'm being more prescriptive about what ought
> If physicists adopt this humble mindset, and resist their craving for certitude, they are more likely to seek and hence to find more even more effective theories, perhaps ones that work even better than quantum mechanics.

Why thank you, Mr. Science Communicator. Such a tremendous insight that all I needed was a mindset to find, eh, quantum field theory?

(Apologies for the sarcasm, but - really?)

(Also: no disrespect intended to (other) science communicators.)
The Donna Brazile issue did highlight how callous the media has become. It seems there was no fallout from her making such a dishonest act ... basically openly cheating the election process.

Ironically, she now works for Fox News.
‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947

Don't give up on democracy. It is hard. Nonetheless, it will always remain the best form of government we have seen. The United States Constitution is resilient as it has proven time and time again.
Spam can be blocked, though, right? Edit: To address the commenter below, Congress has addressed spam before, in the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.