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As if Congress has any balls. James Clapper perjury case in point.

If yt/g isn't careful they are going to start bleeding out users even faster than they already are. I've seen a huge uptick in comments like yours the last few months. To go from 1k/mo at peak down to 100-200 largely due to their arbitrary algorithm fuckery is... really fucked up.

I thought that dnscurve was the method to actually prevent domain snooping. Regardless, I think running your own authoritative dns which updates from root servers is the real way to go.

The problem currently is that they aren't getting warrants!

You shouldn't have to, but it should be offered for multiple reasons. It eases the hs college transition, it gets you a head start on prereqs and credits, among other things.

I will be forever grateful that my high school encouraged this.

What did you think of the ending difference between the book and the movie in ACO?

Honestly it's about ownership of homes and debt levels. If you aren't in massive debt and you own your home, small efforts can easily pay off other costs and you can live a comfortable life. If you lose your job but you own your house and have a small amount of savings (most don't), at least you won't get evicted...

And because wages are so artificially depressed by the suprarich, it takes two jobs to support a life far too often. Noam Chomsky talks about how at the beginning of the industrial revolution the people were skeptical of the 6-9 job that payed a pittance as essentially not much better than chattel slavery, the only difference being you got to go home at night.

This is about class warfare, this is about the oligarchs fucking us all constantly and consistently while we do nothing because the people we expect to do something (the government) are corrupted, blackmailed, coerced, and lobbied into the ground until they break to the oligarchs will (which is why there is truly only one party at the moment, the oligarchs party).

Add on top of that the unconstitutional private banking conglomerate known as the fed and the 16th amendment, and you have a recipe for runaway inflation, devaluation of purchasing power, and increases in poverty, homelessness, and work hours needed to support the cost of living per area.

Jackson was a piece of shit when it came to the natives, but that far too often overshadows the importance of his effort to fight the banks. (Also, him beating the brits with marines, sailors, militiamen and pirates is a movie I want to make someday.)

Shades of Smedley Butler if you ask me. Anyone remember that? Oh yeah, they don't teach you in public school that a bunch of facist corporate oligarch banker types tried to attempt a coup on the American government via a Marine Corps general who double-crossed them and reported it all to congress all in ~1933? Oh yeah, they blacked out the names until John Spivak published them.

(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McCormack%E2%80%93Dickstein_C...)

(http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/spivak-NewMasses.pd...)

"Descending into lava lamps and nonsense." is hardly what I'd call it. Kubrick is all about subtext.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

DMCA was crappy and we should have never allowed it to be passed in the first place. It has been used to censor more than protect IP.

Don't forget DNSCurve (thanks again djb!)

Also taking things apart is a great way to know how to start a bottom up build.

It is also very easy to do this with dnsmasq or powerdns, djbdns, etc.

I'm increasingly beginning to think that every node should be it's own dns so it's cache blacklist can be verified (checksums?) per node instead of per request to the dns provider.

70 dollars for 9ft of fiber with connectors? I almost always make my own cables (fiber included) but for some special jobs where it was a time contraint I'd use pre-made but that still seems very steep. Where are you sourcing cables?

I also suppose not everyone knows how to terminate fiber and I've done it so much it's become second nature.

I've implemented powerdns in prod a few times and really like it. There are some quirks but it has good documentation and a huge point for me is it is gpl (or gpl compat, I can't remember which)

Yes and irc and usenet.

Let me know when everyone is ready to get down to brass tacks... and discuss the CIA, NSA, InQTel, and tech companies. There is something much more widespread and insidious in tech than just Facebook. Facebook is one of many created surveillance orgs. These issues are systemic, and I mean so much more than just the fucked up SV advertising model.

For that I do an ssh shim at initram (with portknocking) for key entry preboot

Senior sysadmin here, and I agree this is one of the most common methods. I have also had great success tying in the ossec or pam module notifications into syslog messages that all go to the central syslog (nsyslog/rsyslog etc) server. The problem with the elk and similar stacks imho is lack of security and speed. Things this old school setup doesn't have a problem with. The problem is that too many managers don't like not having gui dashboards... which is why splunk et al have really taken off.

This re-enforces my idea that a purely terminal based business dashboard might be a cool product with a fairly large market. I've been eyeballing some of the go/ncurses work for this.

Not if grub is encrypted, better even behind FDE.

To be honest all a VPN does is add another layer of protection. It's not that secure because they can be subpoenaed or NSL'ed into giving data over, which is why a VPN's log policy is important to pay attention to. So in reality, you are mostly just trying to not reveal traffic to your ISP which the various LEA's can get access to far too easily (read: without a warrant).

For those really serious about privacy that's why I think actually owning a colo space where you own and control the hardware can be a preferable solution. For those who don't like that try setting up your own VPN on a VPS, etc.

One of the key things most people miss is DNS. I personally also suggest running your own DNS server, even if just a local dnsmasq that's outgoing to opendns or internic or something.

One more thing most people don't think about is attackers pivoting from other compromised devices on the internal network. If you think that Amazon/Apple/Microsoft etc device isn't sending checks out on the local network and then reporting back stuff like internal IP topology and MAC addresses you got another thing comin. Check your iptables or nftables (bpf?) and block internal hosts you know don't need access.

The same thing that happens any time the oligarchy wants legislation... they just took the losses and kept trying until one time we weren't paying attention. I have seen this coming for a while now. Once the oligarchy understood the internet is the last bastion of anarchistic fredom of thought they immediately wanted to take control over it somehow.

This is a product of monarchy, and going to your parliment won't fix it.

Here is the question all Americans should ask about legislation: "Is it constitutional?"

If no. Discard or modify.

I know most here are focused on the dev side of things, but coming from the sysadmin side where I've had to deal with the technical debt of devs + the entire rest of the business IT technical debt, it is anything but good.

I've seen the insides of hundred of companies, and the number one cause of technical debt is lack of proper manpower to work ratios. Usually due to short term thinking of IT as a janitorial cost sink instead of as an investment.

any company that can break this mold is going to be light years ahead in the long run, because I have a secret to tell you all...

The infrastructure holding most businesses up is set to crumble at the slightest puff o wind, whether that wind be legal, like a lawsuit or an audit, or technical like an internal data breach...

Newspipe is my yt client of choice on android. Otherwise mps-youtube.

That statement is a thesis paper waiting to happen.

I agree, I just worded it slightly poorly. My point is that the biggest focus should be on reproducing studies, not that peer-review shouldn't be revamped also.

I mean, isn't reproducing a study the ultimate peer-review?

This is why I never got into the elk craze. Especially coming from oldschool syslog/syslog-ng/rsyslog/journald/etc... and usually searched from the command line.

For some reason though the past few years companies and people have become obsessed with gui's, and nagios/cacti were falling out of favor, so people started just dumping elk/graylog so randoms could quickly and easily get that gui... without considering the resource requirements and lack of scalability. (graylog2 fixed a lot of the graylog problems)

It seems a lot of managers also started wanting gui-dashboards, which is probably the big reason behind the push. Regardless, I don't think the trend is going away, so the market is ripe for disruption for something that does the same thing but faster and with less resources. The real problem is most of the competitors for some reason decided proprietary was the way to go, and the people using these tools don't want more proprietary bullshit in their stack.

The feature that makes them different from other web-gui-graphing tools though is the search/query customization.

I wish webdevs would stop this bullshit yesterday.

"Bbbut, everyone does it. It's industry sop..."