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The linked article is incorrect nonsense.

From a five minute look, this appears to be a useless pile of crap.

I don't see anything that "neutralizes 0days" or does "cutting-edge artificial intelligence" as claimed.

previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34216316

Years ago, there were a couple of newspaper websites where adding a dot after the domain name bypassed the paywall.

From using a vpn, I find that youtube adverts are different between countries.

I find the adverts aimed at Panama to be least displeasing, they get adverts for South American soft drinks that I'v not heard of before and real estate agents that talk rapidly in Spanish.

Personally, I find adverts in a language I don't understand at all to be more tolerable.

I figure that I'm being nice by not using an advert blocker.

The hnn submission title does not match the link.

Discussion of wifi at the "Bay view" building

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39671129

Two years ago discussion of the link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704063

Cheap electronic gadgets that are made in China.

If China wants to be paid the couple of trillion dollars that they are owed by other countries then the cost of electronic devices will go up.

Cheap semiconductors, such as chips for TVs, smartphones, computers and cars.

China considers Taiwan to be a rogue province that should be part of China.

If China invades Taiwan there is likely to be major disruption to semiconductor manufacturing.

Cheap telephone calls

(if you don't mind if you don't mind computers at Three Letter Agencies analyzing your communications)

Legend has it that a significant number of people got a shock when they were verbally told to create an email address and typed in hotmale dot com.

https://archive.is/BNp58

You have asked for minimum development work so ...

"Write your email address legibly on a piece of paper and mail it with a US $1 bill to $ADDRESS."

Obviously 1) it will cost people 68¢ for a stamp, 2) won't really work for people outside the USA and 3) if you only sell fifty copies it's not a wildly silly suggestion.

My view on web forum spam from my experience a few years ago, so possibly slightly out of date:

Once a web forum has existed for six months the flood of spam will be greater than a single person can manually moderate without giving up or going crazy. You can't check your forum every eight hours every day for the rest of your life.

The stopforumspam.com list of spamming ip addresses is useful to reducing abuse to a manageable level. You need it fully automated. You want to use the api, downloading a copy of the blocklist every 24hours would be somewhat less effective as new ip's start spamming constantly. Their list of email addresses that are being used to to to create accounts on every web forum in existence can be useful.

There are boxes at large VPS providers that have been constantly attempting to post automated spam on every forum and wiki that they can find for years. Sending complaints to the hosting companies does nothing.

There will be occasional collateral damage from CGNATs getting blocked.

Every commercial VPN server and tor exit will be blocked and occasionally someone will whinge about that.

Restricting new accounts to only being able to post in one area of a forum and telling people they have to write a message introducing themselves and manually approving people seems to work reasonably well. If you are one person trying to run a web forum on your own then you will still find that you don't want to check it every day for the rest of your life.

Captchas can help but you need ip blocking as well. You often see the load of the signup page and the submission of the form from ip's in different countries, presumably captcha solving services.

My opinion is that for a web forum to exist in a useful state for a decade the minimum requirement is to have half a dozen volunteer moderators who visit regularly. (or it's a company forum where part of someones working day is checking the forum.)

The metal cables that held up the tower have been laying on the ground for long enough that plants have grown over them then died in the winter.

Three foot tall plants have grown in front of the door of the equipment cabin that would have been trampled down if anyone removed the radio equipment recently. The cabin looks like it has been derelict for years.

The electricity meter is missing and the place where it should been looks like it has years of corrosion.

It is a muddy field with no signs of recent footprints or gouges that would indicate the tower was removed recently.

Anyone looking at the state of the site would think that the medium-wave AM station has been off the air for years.

The radio station had an FCC license that required they operate an AM transmitter. Now that the FCC has found out that they are not broadcasting on AM , the station is not allowed to continue on FM.

I strongly disagree.

The EU wants to force browser makers to have their browsers trust root certificates issued by EU governments.

Mozilla should have already closed their offices in Europe and done everything they can to remove themselves from EU jurisdiction.

https://archive.is/Dpduw

I used to read a forum about Visual Basic programming.

A recurring theme was "I put an X byte message into a TCP connection and I have written the software at the other end with the assumption that all X bytes will arrive at the same time every time ..."

If the message is under 1500 bytes it usually works until it doesn't.

If ten thousand people have a copy of the source code for bash 5.1.4 then do you count that once or ten thousand times?

If you only count each version once then do you only count official releases or do you increase the count by 500MB when someone corrects a one character typo in their copy of the linux kernel source on their laptop hard drive?

How do you count the size of the git repositories that can check out a million different versions but only store the differences?

I think I have some very old CD-ROMs of compressed debian source code, does the compressed or uncompressed size count?

https://archive.is/DEqAN

https://archive.is/q9Xtv

As far as I can tell from googling for a few minutes, in this context "RCU" is a linux kernel thing for arbitrating different threads accessing the same memory using Read-Copy-Update method.

I'm guessing that you are using the internet connections of people who install 'free' apps?

Are you installing these proxies in an ethical and legal manner?

I am not any kind of lawyer, including not being an intellectual property lawyer.

In my view, ignoring all the froth due to fools thinking NFTs are a get-rich-quick scheme that might actually work, it is all governed by the usual copyright, trademark and contract laws and what matters is what a court is likely to decide when someone sues.

Suppose a case goes to court to decide who own the copyright on an MS-paint badly drawn cat. Party A says they bought it from scam-see dotcom and they have an emailed receipt and payment record. Party A says they never sold it. They can subpoena records from scam-see

Party B says that they bought the NFT from a Russian hacker on IRC, they have a secret magic number that they could use to add an entry to blockchain. Party B says that means they own the copyright.

The judge is going to ask Party B if they have a signed contract.

The judge is going to ask Party B if they can point to the section in copyright law that says knowing a magic number means you own the copyright of an image.

In my view, the judge will rule that party A owns the copyright.

At that point all the blockchain bullshit falls apart.

If someone wants to sell the copyright on a badly drawn picture of a cat outside of a 'crypto market' then they can write a contract on a piece of paper and have both party's sign it, perhaps getting a notary to stamp it and getting someone to witness the signing.

In my opinion, that is likely to be more expedient then hoping you can convince a judge that whoever has the newest secret magic number owns the copyright.

I can see it, my guess is that an algorithm at Meta Corporation does not like you.

I'm slightly surprised that I can read the threads website, from my static ip address Facebook has always showed "Log In or Create New Account" and not let me browse for years.

Microsoft, please stop making things worse.

(This is about adding an extra key to keyboards, for a moment I guessed this would be about a license key to enable "AI" features, sigh, it would make too much sense if people could avoid having more stupid bloat in their windows installations).

I agree with the sentiment. I loathe windows 10.

I ran Windows Server 2016 as a desktop operating system for a while, you can use a trial version for six months, which I found much less annoying but is not a solution to all the issues this guy is complaining about, and driver signing was a hassle.

Presumably you want managed web hosting where someone else applies security updates?

If you are willing to be a linux sysadmin then a VPS is incredibly cheap these days, but you are responsible for fixing security holes before the box gets hacked and keeping backups.

I'm just going to point to this blog post by a reputable data recovery company that tested spinrite and found that it "fixed" a bad sector by overwriting it with irrelevant data from elsewhere.

https://www.recoveryforce.com/spinrite-a-data-recovery-progr...

There is a thin layer of soil and tree roots on top of solid rock.

The trees are bending over in the wind and lifting up the roots and soil.

Just some trees with roots that don't go deep down.

You have truncated a character so that url does not work

https://archive.ph/GxPxr

https://archive.ph/BHYHA