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Interesting. Never ran across someone who worked for Yandex. Overall are you happy with your employer?

If you read the article you would understand this is about biological protection and not asteroid defense.

Created an account just to say that. So brave.

What is your background? Your experience sounds very interesting.

Needs to be accessible real time.

I believe google has cut a deal with advertisers to ensure they can always identify incognito.

Flip side argument: I have moderated forums and bulletin boards going back to around 2000. Every time we were "attacked" or "raided" the people would IMMEDIATELY create new accounts after being actively banned (telling the user they are banned, and publicly labeling their "rank" as BANNED). When we switched to shadow bans (I think it was termed "global ignore"), the attacks would immediately stop, because the [usual] script kiddie / troll just thinks he isn't getting any bites, and leaves. Of course a few figured out what was going on, but it was seriously one or two orders of magnitude better in terms of manageability, specifically dealing with trolls and spammers.

That said, I would never support something such as disallowing shadow banning in an internet bill of rights. That goes way overboard and just ties the hands of legitimate platform operators.

Congratulations on your success! I have never heard of Webflow, but after checking out your site it seems pretty slick. I will consider it for future projects.

Again congratulations!

As a network architect this seems pretty cool to me - incentivizing individual node/router operators. How is billing & payment reconciliation handled between parties?

You have very cute cats!

Good points.

RE CIA v. FBI - I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being a loose handshake that they (CIA/NSA/FBI) will allow Tor (benefits CIA), in exchange for technical assistance in investigations (benefits FBI) -- namely the ability to own an endpoint. Don't need to own the service/protocol if I can own the host it is running on.

Weird. Seems like a fork for a fork's sake, with a lot of attitude sprinkled on top. If there really are flaws in NTP they should be fixed - but I am unsure if it really should necessitate a fork.

You are ignoring the bandwidth differential of RF v Fiber-based transmission systems. We don't care if some random unknown crypto session happens on the internet - there is near infinite bandwidth - and someone is paying a bill (on both ends).

With amateur RF it is different - it is a shared, finite resource (in a given area/radius).

Not allowing enciphered communications is a fairly easy way to be able to audit what is taking up the spectrum. If it all goes enciphered, you have no idea what is occurring, for what purposes.

It doesn’t work that way. The person with a cell bill will still be charged the downloaded data.

Yup. One of those few areas where the capital required is so massive it can bankrupt even big dogs if they fuck up. See Westinghouse. Need some more gov joint investment or it will be the same state in 20 years as it is now.

No reality is usually boring. It came from an opensource github repo. It was an oversight.

Dial down the conspiracy-factor brother.

That is amazing - the generational spans. I was born in the 1980s, but I can only imagine the feeling of that day in 1969.

That's amazing. Congrats!

No position? You realize TSMC makes stuff for Apple, right? Saying that are in no position to mess with them is a bit of an overstatement.

My opinion? Because CloudFormation is full of shit regarding "always being able to rollback". After dealing with a 100+ failed CF rollbacks, I stopped caring about that phantom feature. That's around the same time I started using Terraform. At this point I only use CF for things I can not put in TF directly - namely ASGs.

Regarding IaC "rollback" capabilities - I don't think it really exists in a way that makes it reasonable for people to depend on. The path forward is to stand up new infrastructure, canary test, etc - then steer via load-balancers the traffic to your new nodes, and then finally destroy the old ones. I loathe trying to maintain a fleet of nodes that can drift into various states of dis-repair. I love the idea of blowing everything away and having a 100% clean and predictable environment again. It makes me happy.

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Hope that helps - I really have fallen in love with Terraform after having to cobble down N number of CLI tools for various cloud providers, hypervisor providers, etc. Terraform at least gives an easy to use language and abstracts me above recursive API call logic that I would otherwise need to write for basic things.

The Netflix example is a poor one. They have a friggin fleet of CDN-boxes around the world that are as locally close as possible to eye-balls. To say they are "100%" on AWS is disingenuous - they still have their own hardware deployed all around the world - just closer to the edge.

AWS is used for control-plane / management-plane tasking - but the bits are pushed from locally-peered CDN boxes at all kinds of ISPs.

Also he could consider adding in some fancy redundancy (SD-WAN, BGP, IP-SLA, whatever) to ensure that a single point of network I/O failure does not cascade to a split-brain scenario.

Might reduce bandwidth or increase latency, but a total outage is pretty painful when you're taking about distributed/replicated databases.

Wow - That sounds like a massive logistical efficiency failure.

I could even see people tolerating higher prices (as it is a Tesla, etc) - but that long of a delay is insane. I wonder how many Tesla owners regret their purchase after experiencing a crazy-ass long delay like that.

To be clear: I want Tesla to succeed. However I am also a realist - they have a lot of PR issues that would sink them if they were for example Ford/Chevy/BMW/Mercedes/Audi/etc.

Yeah I fucked around with random internet-accessible systems (late 90s, early 2000s). However, I never wrote malware to steal credentials or the like. That strikes me as fairly targeted.

Yup it is possible. See the Assault Weapon Ban from 1994 to 2004.

It isn't really the Nav/Positioning that has issue- but the time. Check the time on your Tom Tom unit. Is it 2019?

Makes me wonder if there is some value in converting these to digital, then running each scenario through some kind of Machine Learning setup. Learn what makes for successful v. unsuccessful from a tactics perspective.

Why not setup an autoscaling cluster in AWS for your build jobs? It is cheap as hell these days.

I think you're spot on regarding the free/open-access platform inviting this kind of thing. I don't know if there really is a feasible solution - maybe a delayed-broadcast setup where a human moderator reviews each feed/view? Also maybe automatically have a human attach and watch feeds that are spontaneously getting popular without a clear reason, etc.

I've read some folks floating the thought of requiring a Gov ID to livestream, etc. I am not in favor of this.

How would that stop a psycho like this? He wouldn't care if you knew his real id. He would just pretend to be docile / normal until the second he starts broadcasting his horrible intentions.

I wonder if just using standard OTR over slack for sensitive stuff is viable.