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immibis

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This account has been banned for disagreeing with dang too many times as of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699941 so now I use an array of sockpuppets instead.

This account has been secretly marked so the votes and flags I cast do not have any effect. This is because I disagreed with dang. Dang has confirmed this by email.

I am also blocked from emailing hn@ycombinator.com.

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lwn.net 6mo ago

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

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www.youtube.com 6mo ago

A post-American, enshittification-resistant Internet [Cory Doctorow, 39C3]

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www.dlp.rip 6mo ago

The Brick Test

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www.arin.net 7mo ago

ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error

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nixsanctuary.com 7mo ago

PRQ sued by .se domain registry

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torrentfreak.com 8mo ago

LaLiga says ISPs joining its piracy war is mandatory for broadcasting rights

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adguard-dns.io 8mo ago

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

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www.bbc.com 8mo ago

US Senate passes deal to end government shutdown

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www.immibis.com 9mo ago

Why do we need MAC addresses?

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phrack.org 11mo ago

The Hacker's Renaissance – A Manifesto Reborn

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zedshaw.com 1y ago

Authoritarianism of Code

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (2019) [video]

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fosdem.org 1y ago

The Growing Body of Proprietary Infrastructure for FOSS Development [video]

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orib.dev 1y ago

Gefs [the good enough file system]

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

The genius of the N64's CACHE instruction

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dashboard.congress.ccc.de 1y ago

38C3 Grafana Dashboard

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ncase.me 1y ago

The Evolution of Trust

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old.reddit.com 1y ago

Advent of Code player threatened with $150k lawsuit for sharing problems/inputs

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www.gnu.org 1y ago

The Bug Nobody Is Allowed to Understand

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world.hey.com 1y ago

Dare to Connect a Server to the Internet

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dn42.dev 1y ago

About dn42

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meta.stackexchange.com 1y ago

Preventing unauthorized automated access to the Stack Exchange network

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zedshaw.com 1y ago

The Beggar Barons (2022)

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world.hey.com 1y ago

Dare to Connect a Server to the Internet

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lwn.net 1y ago

Maximal min() and max()

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www.urdn.com.ua 1y ago

Stealh [Email] Blocking

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github.com 2y ago

'systemd-tmpfiles –purge' deletes your /home directory, not just temp files

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You said you banned me, but what you actually did was reduce my rate limit to 2 comments per rate limit period.

You deleted a comment from me where I said that drugs don't let you access extra dimensions or planes of existence, just alter your mental processes so you feel like you do. Care to explain that one?

Other moderated comments included: "HN has word-based flagging" and "flags should not be used to indicate disagreement".

Also every mobile phone network ever (with a handful of exceptions) is IPv6-only, with a slow translation layer to reach v4 sites. Your app or website literally runs faster if you use IPv6.

For some background why IoT products will stop being insecure: if you sell one in the EU, you're liable for all the damage your botnet causes.

Luckily, common EU home routers have firewalls, even for IPv6. And it's so much easier to punch holes on purpose! Instead of messing with port forwarding and internal and external IP addresses, you can just say "this device is a server, please allow traffic on port 80 and 443, thank you"

It costs eight figures to create the masks (patterns) to use in the process of creating a modern chip. Just because it doesn't cost the eleven figures of the factory itself doesn't make it cheap.

The whole economy will crash. Probably won't be due to China invading Taiwan though. More likely because the president decided to delete their country's world reserve currency status (which is another word for a trade deficit).

It's easy to predict that a bubble will pop, but there's a variance in the timing of approximately half a human lifetime, and if you don't guess that correctly, you throw away yours.

Everything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. But when?

"Trade deficit" is another word for "free stuff" and also another word for "being the world's reserve currency". America receives massive quantities of free stuff from other countries and gets to control the banking system of the entire world as a side effect (this is how it manages to collect taxes from non-resident citizens and how it makes sanctions meaningful). Why doesn't America want that to continue?