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My point is that the "space race" didn't really have a finish line, and despite early Soviet successes, the Americans ultimately took the lead. Because they sustained that momentum continuing to explore deep space, putting people on the Moon, and achieving all kinds of successes while the Soviets stalled and scrapped their programs, it's commonly understood (in the West, anyway, as Moon landing denialism is surprisingly rampant elsewhere) that the Americans won the race.

No need to apologize. In any case, I should apologize for hiding my point behind sarcasm.

/s

Well, because obviously the finish line of the space race was the Moon.

Had the Soviets declared the line on the "first woman in space", now we probably would use Soviet GPS, we would use Soviet maps of planet surfaces, we would have Soviet Mars rovers, Soviet Voyager... You get the idea.

I guess the argument is that if Ukraine hadn't willingly handed over the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world after its independence, Russia would have not started a war against them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

Helping solve kidnapping cases is a direct and straightforward application of vehicle intelligence data.

>By way of demonstrating that such power is unacceptable, it sounds like LaLiga is also trying to get Spanish ISPs to block all VPNs whenever a game is on.

What LaLiga did was get some VPN providers (NordVPN and ProtonVPN) to start blocking pirate streaming websites. They're not trying to block VPNs themselves unless there's other news I didn't find.

Can you qualify "relatively helpful"? If you send them a ransomware site, a person looks at it, and still demand a court order... A company like them should know the scale at which these things are run, and that courts can't keep up with the speed.

>And this is a good thing.

Disagree. Demanding a court order for every single clear-cut case of infringement reported by the rightful owner of ephemeral content that is a infringed upon hundreds of times every day, causing nearly a billion dollar of losses per year... This is what the ISPs were trying to do and LaLiga successfully sued them, creating the modern fast-lane that CloudFlare complains about. Furthermore, unlike CloudFlare, the ISPs were not even profiting from the illegal content! This is a huge difference in the Spanish legal system. This will not end up good for them or for the open Internet they claim to defend (presumably as an excuse for taking their cut from cybercrime.)

I assume the problem is Cloudflare wants a court order that mentions the specific infringing domain name. The problem is: what's faster, spinning up a new frontend for a livestream or getting an order from a court?

Courts orders are, rightfully, slow. A court order is a serious thing and we shouldn't be wasting judges' time and resources to determine if hundreds of domains in CloudFlare, during every single match, are infringing on LaLiga. This is why the Spanish ISPs have a fast-lane with LaLiga to block infringing websites quickly. Why is it ridiculous and unreasonable? If LaLiga starts abusing this power to attack competitors or do anything malicious they will lose that power instantly.

Fastly understood the problem and will start running detection software to ban infringing livestreams in real time. https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/fastly-and-laliga-team-up-...

What's CF's solution?

Going to play devil's advocate here but I suspect if Cloudflare had been more cooperative about taking down illegal content, LaLiga would not have resorted to blanket blocking individual IPs.

I would really like to understand more about the process that they should follow but didn't / followed but didn't satisfy them / doesn't exist, in order to remove infringing websites quickly from CloudFlare.

Basically you're introducing a hole. For example, if you have some devices in your network (like a dodgy TV box) that are not supposed to reach the internet or other parts of the network, the computer with net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 could be used as a pivot. Depending on the routing tables you probably would also need to enable IP masquerading (NAT) to allow bidirectional communication.

Can you elaborate? What scale? What kind of mistakes? This sounds quite interesting.

Isn't the whole point of a dictatorship that you don't get to choose?

>the only player to have the supply chain locked down enough to not get caught off guard What?

>Most developers in the third world don't make that in a full year

And many in the first world haha

What about life expectancy? If smoking makes you die 10 years earlier, that's ~10 years of pension savings for social insurance. Sure, an unlucky few may get lung cancer at 50 and cost a lot of money but most smokers will die, retired, of cheap ailments like COPD or hypertension without fully realizing their social security investment.

Can you share more about your particular setup? I use a pretty vanilla setup of Doom emacs on Linux, and while I really wish to give exwm a try my experience with emacs has been too unstable so far. E.g. it sometimes crashes when it gets an I/O error trying to write a file (which happens when a USB drive is removed by accident). A more common annoyance is the entire program freezing while waiting for plugins that should be asynchronous, like Tramp or some LSP servers.

It is a thing.

For livestreams there's AceStream built on BitTorrent, but I think it's closed-source. They do have some SDK but I never looked into it. It's mostly used by IPTV pirates. I've used it a few times and it's hit-or-miss but when it works well I have been able to watch livestreams in HD/FullHD without cuts. Latency is always very bad though.

Then for video-on-demand there are some web-based ones like PeerTube (FOSS) and I think BitChute? Sadly webtorrent is very limited.

Like fingerprint fingerprinting?

In Linux (with the necessary packages) this shell oneliner can more or less do the same.

    shuf -n 5 /usr/share/dict/words

I think it's RAT (remote access tool)

The post links to this GitHub issue [1] where the critic explains his issues with the design and the programmer asks him to elaborate on how those crypto issues apply to his implementation. The critic's reply does not convince me. It doesn't address any points, and refers to some vague idea about "boring cryptography". In what way is AWS secrets manager or Hashicorp Vault more "obviously secure" than the author's 72-line javascript file?

[1] https://github.com/gristlabs/secrets.js/issues/2

For hacks that don't access program memory directly, would external hardware make things less detectable? I don't know how anti-cheat programs work but I'd be surprised if they banned every skilled player that happens to be running AHK and OBS. More likely they work with heuristics that try to detect super-human mouse movements, precision/speed-wise.

Why was this downvoted?

There are many ways. A simple way is to simulate a USB hub with an input device and a usb drive. You use the input device to execute whatever is on the drive. Another way is to identify as a device whose driver has some vulnerability. Windows auto-installs that driver, then you exploit it.

This goes a step further than a typical CD key because the license is contingent on one's Steam account. If you lose your Steam account you lose all your licenses.

>The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services. To make use of the Content and Services, you must have a Steam Account and you may be required to be running the Steam client and maintaining a connection to the Internet. [1]

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement#2

The short-lived country of Serbia and Montenegro got assigned .cs (from Crna Gora - Srbija) which previously belonged to Czechoslovakia, but it seems it was never used (they kept using .yu).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cs

And blackface is just a costume. I think there's some necessary context to understand GP's comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians

I'm no biologist but the samples seem to survive being shipped by standard mail so it doesn't look like they would need very strict storage requirements. If for any reason they do, since they take very little space it shouldn't be too expensive per-sample. What am I missing?

You can faintly hear the accordion near the end of the recording.

I don't like that it shares the recordings though. It doesn't add much value and it's a privacy violation, even if it's legal.