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presumably··on GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL
There are actually several (published and non-published) ways to exploit that type of configuration, here is one example:

https://samy.pl/slipstream/

presumably··on Six Months of Tiny Projects
Seems to be listed on the site: https://devgarden.macalester.edu/projects/1
presumably··on Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox
There is only a single "archive" that does not allow access to Cloudflare DNS users - not many.

It is also exceedingly unlikely that you have greater density of anycast PoPs than Cloudflare's 200+. In your case, you have zero...

presumably··on Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox
What you're claiming is false.

Cloudflare has over 200 PoPs; in your own name servers, you can use the Cloudflare Resolver's IP (which will be a "close to the user" IP, not 1.1.1.1) to do geotargeting and serve from your closest IP address/server.

presumably··on SQLite 3.32
What’s not reasonable about TiDB?
presumably··on Ask HN: VPNs for Hosting?
For hosting, I’d suggest to look at hosting providers rather than VPN providers.

Here’s one: https://freerangecloud.com/cart.php?gid=11

Cloudflare’s Argo Tunnel is another great option.

presumably··on ICANN delays .org selloff after California’s attorney general intervenes
> As long as a third party central authority controls our money system, we will always be subject to the whims of the few. Bitcoin is helping to liberate us and it’s absolutely working.

A bold claim without evidence. In fact, the opposite may be true [1]. This is but one counterpoint; another notable problem is the centralization of bitcoin mining in China [2].

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitco...

[2]: https://thebitcoinnews.com/study-argues-chinese-mining-centr...

presumably··on Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar
SARS had escaped no less than 4 times from Chinese labs[1]. It’s not implausible at all that coronaviruses have a history of escaping Chinese labs.

Meanwhile, this[2] is a terrible source but some of the info can easily be verified. We know that China was researching exactly this type of virus and gain of function in Wuhan after the U.S. stopped due to “biosafety and biosecurity risks” exceeding benefits. [3]. The US explicitly ended that line of research due to the risks; China continued it.

[1]: https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/how-dangerous-viruses-c...

[2] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/exclusive-dr-shi-zh...

[3] https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/documents/gain-of-function.pd...

presumably··on New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns
There is no question that it was a real problem, details available in the linked post: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x56.html

The only question is different interpretations of “fake”: it is a real system dialogue, invoked by a deprecated API; it is fake in that the text is set by Zoom to trick the user into allowing it to install itself without approval.

presumably··on If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7, guess again
Clinton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_National_Stockpile

Republican ideology is abhorrent; one doesn’t have to be part of the Democratic Party to recognize that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/conservati...

presumably··on A Message to Our Users
Google is great at security. Privacy, ... not so great.
presumably··on Show HN: DNS Live on Handshake
That article is incredibly misleading in what it leaves out: by using same logic, our existing CA system is equally a “backdoor”.

We have certificate transparency to help address that, and were DANE to be in actual use similar systems would quickly appear, for example using the RIPE Atlas.

DANE is not a backdoor. To exercise it as one would require replacing operator-controlled keys with government (or other) keys. This would be no less visible than doing the same with an existing certificate authority.

presumably··on The story behind a photo of a snow monkey using an iPhone (2019)
He owns the rights to the pictures he takes. No purchase necessary. Especially in the context of wildlife, there are no human subjects to cloud the issue.
presumably··on Show HN: DNS Live on Handshake
Your [18] is a 404.

Would like to hear more on your allegation regarding DANE.

presumably··on Bruteforcing Beautiful Cellular Automata Rulesets with Golang
Great post, I especially appreciated the extra detail on generating the gifs for the post at the end. Thank you.
presumably··on Panic buying, lockdowns may drive world food inflation – FAO, analysts
There is no need for such facetious argument.

Your post is strikingly similar to a modern “let them eat cake”.

What does your idea of economic theory suggest for the masses living paycheck to paycheck due to ever increasing wealth inequality as capital begets capital, facing loss of income due to the virus?

Should they be priced out of buying food so that the rich and privileged can continue to do as they please?

presumably··on Ask HN: Are Hacker News URLs safe to open?
Yes, absolutely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21992491

presumably··on Ask HN: Why did programmers forfeited their intellectual license?
One of the core, fundamental concepts in Computer Science is composition.

We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, building on the work of those who came before us.

Therefore, to the greatest extent possible, our work should be available for all to build upon to the benefit of society.

Music is a more pure creative endeavor; artists generate a specific instance that is unique to them. Copyright applies in the same way that it does to a specific implementation of a program or algorithm.

Software patents fill the role you ask about for programmers. Some companies name their employees in patents, some don’t; and some “programmers” patent their ideas on their own. However, it is quite expensive to apply for a patent.

In addition, it is seemingly impossible to develop any new technology without infringing on unknown patents even for obvious ideas that you can have independent independently. Thus the balance is weighted toward large companies, who may have patent portfolios they can use defensively.

In summary, software patents are an abomination and the reason that programmers are not like musicians.

presumably··on MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester
https://sci-hub.se/downloads/2019-12-06/f645/10.1038@s41370-...

> “ Our study was conducted at one U.S. university, which may limit generalizability.“

presumably··on ‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially
Please respond to the actual contents of my post, and not a strawman version of it.

I’m saying what I said, nothing more.

> Software absolutely can and does lead to unintended outcomes, else there would be no bugs.

Edit: also see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22429620

TFA explains how the system was added, it’s absurd and intellectually dishonest to interpret my post as saying what you wrote.

presumably··on ‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially
> "unintentional" is a straight up lie based on how software works

This is a very dangerous statement to make.

Large systems are not like hackathon projects where you might understand and hold the entire scope and flow in your mind.

Software absolutely can and does lead to unintended outcomes, else there would be no bugs.

presumably··on BlurHash: Algorithm to generate compact representation of an image placeholder
s/g\//g#/

    assets/example.png#LEHV6nWB2yk8pyoJadR*.7kCMdnj
    assets/example.jpg#LEHV6nWB2yk8pyoJadR*.7kCMdnj
No need to send the extra data to the server for each request.
presumably··on Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps
For (2), you may find the section 'Other useful autocomplete values' from this article helpful:

https://www.twilio.com/blog/html-attributes-two-factor-authe...

Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22022106

presumably··on OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager
In that recommendation, they provide clear and easy to follow instructions for doing the checksum verification manually before applying the update.

> Compare both checksums and, if matching, proceed with installing the package

presumably··on Open Wi-Fi Security
Requiring the attacker to be active to view traffic, rather than passive (broadcasting it openly) is a very real security improvement.
presumably··on Man diagnosed with coronavirus near Seattle is being treated largely by a robot
What will your company do for California users, and other states as they adopt similar privacy laws following the success of the GDPR?
presumably··on Private equity firm wants to buy .org for $1B. Berkeley-based coop:‘not so fast’
> In this particular cooperative, if we’re successful, the members are every .org registrant, which means 10 million members. We’d need to get five million and one of them to agree, to change the articles.

Okay, so... what is their plan to get these five million .org registrants to “agree”?

The article seems to be entirely fluff.

presumably··on Unbearable news
I don’t understand the relevance of that argument in this context.

Computers can cut ads that do tracking out of the page with the same effort they can cut out anything else from the page.

The difference is that ads without tracking remove the incentive for the user to block them. This is why people don’t cut ads out of the newspapers before reading. If the ads in newspapers were cameras, analogous to the tracking used in online advertising, you’d see people expend that effort. Just as you see people blocking ads online.

presumably··on Unbearable news
> The advice to use the text only versions for NPR and CNN is solid advice.

Is it?

https://text.npr.org/

You can access some 10 stories, not much more. There is no apparent functionality beyond that.

At least for NPR, their text interface is a step in the right direction - but a slap in the face at the same time.

presumably··on Unbearable news
That sounds an awful lot like how ads in newspapers used to work... you put the ads in the paper, and whoever reads the paper sees the ads.

So why do we let people tell us it can’t be done on the internet?

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