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That site having neon ADHD CSS is making it harder to take this seriously.

arpstickon Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists

most academic peer review is at this point is a joke though. i know everyone wants to hold onto it as some kind of high standard but it really isn't all what it used to be, it functions almost identical to SEO for academics at this point. this dated mentality combined with wikipedia's culture of inconsistent topical gatekeeping is the source of much strife.

arpstickon What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft

minneapolis got hit pretty hard.

arpstickon What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft

not in the usa, "no child left behind" did a lot of damage on the futures of the generation going forward here.

arpstickon What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft

it's checkbox compliance all the way up to the top. it's only for show as if people wanted a rigorous solution the problem, the mechanisms in play and each possible solution would have been documented in autistic detail before anyone put it out. this is a kind of issue you would keep junior talent and HR far far away from at all costs. this is software after all, people who care about something specific, care a LOT. this topic is a real issue but it has been tainted by racial political framing. imo, start with women in tech first, then go from there.

arpstickon What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft

with a push for "racial equity" combined with an inept middle management and hr who in order to get equal outcome will push people down instead of lifting people up, the only thing i can see from this is a sharp rise in ethno nationalist idiocy across the board.

i dont want to be right about it but i am not going to be shocked if i start seeing such bubble up as a reaction to this kind of short sighted strategy.

arpstickon Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

I mean....

arpstickon Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

it is in fact very easy to not fully believe conspiracy theories, those who do go all in with those are not the primary demographic that enjoys thinking about conspiracy theories. It is primarily an activity practiced by people who are capable of entertaining wild ideas without believing them as truth, aka skeptics. I never understood the massive public stigma around being able to have a wild imagination but stay grounded regardless.

arpstickon Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

Okay, then there is no reason to ban this twitter user at all, because there are plenty of ways to follow this trial and have the public decide for themselves what they think.

arpstickon Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

very convenient that a lot of bot accounts suddenly follows an account for people trying to amplify the accessibility of information of a trial that is suspiciously low profile considering the people involved.

arpstickon Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It

you know, one surefire way to signal to apple that deployment of such technology is detrimental to their bottom line is to just not buy apple products anymore.

arpstickon Audacity fork dev quits due physical abuse by 4Chan

I would be more inclined to believe that the /g/ board (the board implicated) did what was accused if what happened was that he did something far more grave like saying he has an iphone that he absolutely loves and loves using MacOS.

arpstickon Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting

do you happen to have a list of the phone numbers harassing you so i can pre-preemptively block them for the future?

arpstickon Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

MA resident as well, what worries me more is that someone thought that this method of installation was a good idea and even more worrying is that they were also able to execute on it. It feels rather shady and nefarious the lack of public announcement on it. Shenanigans like this how you get the populace to trust the local government less, which is the last thing this country needs.

arpstickon Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

defaults absolutely matter, which is why surveillance being the default is deeply troubling to me. I do not care what the justification flavor of the day is, it's not a good trend to normalize. all it takes is another donald trump type figure to abuse this for evil. hell even a 3rd party could if this was implemented poorly, which is an all too common occurrence.

In the USA, nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program, keep that in mind.

arpstickon Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

the difference is that there is a fundamentally different power dynamic, you can just not do business with microsoft, you can't do that with the government.

arpstickon Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

I live in MA, i had no prompt asking me to activate this at all. it was silently installed without any notice. this isn't an auto update, this was an unsolicited app install.

arpstickon Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

a government installing a software without notice or consent onto their population's devices is not something a healthy functioning democracy does, it's what a psychotic paranoid despot does. if the Mass Gov truly wants to minimize harm this is the opposite of what needs to be done. all this will do is drive conspiracy theories and deepen a very legitimate mistrust in the institutions that plague the USA (which helped give rise to people like donald trump)

arpstickon We Must Revive Gopherspace (2017)

I wouldn't really classify it as a "good" nntp server (nor would I recommend it as it's probably not fully compliant) but nntpchan is one possible route if you don't mind the imageboard aftertaste. it's not meant for mainline usenet. I made it out of frustration with INN's feed syntax and because another daemon that I used at the time was abandoned written in python (it was an abomination but it worked).

https://github.com/majestrate/nntpchan

arpstickon Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)

That reminds me of this little onion routering thingy i made that spiraled out of control into a semi functioning project that I got hired to work on full time

(https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network)

arpstickon NNTPChan: a decentralized image board

huh, neato one of my projects got on hacker news.

arpstickon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

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arpstickon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

I work on the fork I think is most likely to succeed.

arpstickon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

I have such functionality in i2pd, what would help a lot are more hints on capacity bandwith and latency from the network. I added "aligned outbound tunnels" which make things MUCH more responsive and snappy. i think that lowering the latency on the network is probably the only way to make i2p faster again.

arpstickon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

https://github.com/monero-project/kovri/blob/3dbfb89d07a82d5...

there is an off-by-one that prevents the dht from working properly, it actively poisons the network. i fixed this in i2pd last year, the code changed so much I think that's where it is located now. there are a few more bugs like that i know of off the top of my head but i'd need more coffee. i got kicked off kovri for trying to fix bugs, good luck to them in the future. they're going to need a major management additude readjustment if they want to provide a proper functioning i2p router, so far all they have done is shoo away competent developers with the way they treat PR.

further updates:

kovri does not provide extra "security" or "quality" as seemingly none of the bugs I and many others fixed in i2pd have been fixed in kovri. that document is a huge load.

if anyone wants to contribute to i2pd see: https://github.com/purplei2p/i2pd/

arpstickon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

Tor is fast because they have a birds eye view of the entire routing concensous where as i2p does not as it can not. The latency suffers as a result in i2p. That is why tor is faster, it's not because of coins.

I have considered adding such a thing for i2pd optionally enabled but there is no such interest from the community to maintain such entities.

arpstickon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

Yet they haven't even fixed the bugs they started with....

kovri is a rebrand of i2pd, someone took one of the worst revisions of i2pd back when it sucked more and called it kovri and to this very day still have loads of bugs that are fixed for over a year in i2pd. somehow the kovri people managed to make the code worse than it was when they started complexity wise.

disclosure: I work on i2pd a bit.

arpstickon I2P: Invisible Internet Protocol

I don't think it's much of an issue to work on i2p in the clear. It may be that is a main component why tor was able to thrive so well, their developers weren't shadowy internet nyms so people felt more comfortable giving money to fund them. The dev channel is also on freenode via #i2p-dev if anyone wants to join and contribute.

arpstickon Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

The Japanese government payed him to take down politically sensitive posts on 2channel[1]. He's probably the worst person to put in charge of a community according those who were subjected to him in the past.

[1] http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/

arpstickon Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

Hiroyuki Nishimura the previous administrator of 2ch.net sold the user data of 2channel users and he was fired by Jim, who happens to be the host of 8ch.net.

Sweet sweet irony.