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I don’t think that’s necessarily a cat.

If you were interested in intelligence, and you wanted to maintain that pipeline of intelligence, would you give up that information?

Act in plain sight and do good, and you’ll be ok.

SSL alone is not enough to protect data.

Any proxy could act as a MIM, so someone using a malicious fork of Stealth may cause problems.

But, the net is like this already. One site may send you to another site that tricks you into stealing your data. And, a relatively recent vulnerability subverted any WebKit-based browser from stating whether the site’s URL was using the correct server, so you’d have no visible way of knowing a site using HTTPS was legitimate.

Using a VPN could be better, but it’s sometimes worse, because you change who is trusted more (the VPN provider), as they know one of the addresses you’re coming from and everything you’re doing, and can record and sell that data.

If the network isn’t free and data is centralized, one day you think you have it all and the next you could have nothing. Tor pretends to be secure, but is dark and compromised. This project seems to understand that and wants to try again to fix via P2P in a way that has promise.

The simple implementation of web forms is broken in today’s web. It’s an input field or other element styled as an input field that may or may not be grouped or in a form object, possibly generated dynamically. Websockets, timers, validations, ... it’s a huge PITA.

The DOM is a freaking mess. It’s not there until it’s there, it’s detached, it’s shared. It’s been gangbanged so much, there’s no clear parent anymore.

ECMAScript- which version and which interpretation should Babel translate for you, and would you like obscufation via webpack, and how about some source maps with that, so you can unobscufate to debug it? Yarn, requireJS, npm, and you need an end script tag, should it go in the body or the head? You know the page isn’t full loaded yet, and it won’t ever be. There, it’s done, until that timer goes off. Each element generated was just regenerated and the old ones are hidden, but the new ones have the same script with different references. Sorry, that was the old framework, use this one, it’s newer and this blog or survey says more people use it.

For a P2P open data sharing network over https, the proxy could allow a request to get someone else down the path. Not everything is direct.

I feel like this is Christmas. Thank you.

Calling it “moving to the cloud” has such pompous overtones. They stopped giving away access to their source for free, just like the majority of the rest of their community. Atlassian might as well be any other company now with a really good product suite. Years ago, they were awesome. They gave free licenses to open source projects. I still think they’re the best, but this cloud-only thing sucks. The software has value outside of their hosting it.

Definitely. Windows got worse after XP, mostly with 8. Why did they move things around and setup multiple ways of doing things? Gnome got worse after v2, and what was Ubuntu thinking with ads? OSX/macOS/iOS got worse with flat design (which thankfully morphed) and AppStore and awful windows-style install nanny.

It’s not just the interface. iOS and macOS got embedded spyware years ago, and it’s still there; they can backdoor whenever. Dig through your logs and sometimes you’ll see output of a menu choice upon being connected to. Windows has similar from what I’ve read. I’m willing to give up some privacy, but it seems like B.S. to make people pay for things that do that in such a hidden way. It leaves things exposed. Unfortunately, the desktop OS alone is not enough for security either. Hardware doesn’t lock down, with potential openings for instructions in multiple places in modern computers.

Security is hardware level first, at multiple levels. So, I don’t think we’ll get it back, at least until eternal love beats evil.

I want old pre-AppStore OSX/macOS that doesn’t nanny my installs or screw old drivers, with a good package manager, and easily tabbed and gridded terminal windows without tmux necessarily.

I’d also like GPL’d Windows XP running flawlessly like a mac.

I’d use Linux on the desktop, but I’ve never liked any of the desktop managers and it was never as reliable as OSX/macOS.

I’m with you that it’s a serious problem. If it weren’t, Amazon and others wouldn’t be working so hard on AI to combat the AI or human that’s beaten their AI.

Those aren’t “fake accounts”, though. They’re real accounts being abused. There’s a difference. If Amazon and Twitter allow it to happen, it will happen. But what does shaming accomplish here? It just means people waste time talking about it. It has little chance to change behavior. More likely the outcome could become Reddit and HN enforcing a real ID. That may hurt the community, because not all of us want our name on everything; it’s not because I don’t stand behind what I’m saying- I’m just not going to treat every post like I want to carry it around with me on a sign for the rest of my life, even though at some point, maybe I’ll have to!

There are no fake accounts. There are only accounts or not.

There are no sockpuppet bloggers; those are called bloggers.

If you go down the fake road, you have to realize real news by real reporters is often wrong. I’ve had someone in law enforcement tell me the news accidentally labeled them the victim on televised news and didn’t correct it.

Classbooks written for US public school students- I understand that some content in them has been incorrect and intentionally biased.

There is truth, but it’s an ideal.

I’m glad that this is calling out those that are manipulating people, but on the other hand- what is the goal?

Will shaming bring fairness?

We could have communist dictatorial leaders enforcing their version of truth, if you’d rather have that sort of thing.

Our president should tell the truth, and it should be a scandal if not, to a point of course, because I’d bet most have lied at times.

But if it’s time to activate something like a libel superpower on the internet, how would that even work in a fair and practical way?

Freedom of speech cannot be freedom only to tell truth; truth can be aspired to, but not necessarily known by all, and what’s understood to be truth by some may change. So, really, what should be done?

Btw- I’ve done my best in past years to tell the truth as much as I can when I’m not kidding around, and it typically makes things difficult, but better. I’m not recommending anyone fake up things to boost rep. But, it’s happening, it’s not good, and I don’t see how AI or oversight or a control play would end well when it comes to enforcing truth. However, the notion of a “fake” account is what allows most of the users to post content on HN and Reddit more freely.

If the author were to release the source and GPL it, that’d be more helpful to everyone than pointing it at Reddit.

If it’s not by default there’s a reason. Bash is literally running commands in a shell session. Think terminal session. When a command fails, would you want the terminal session to end? That’d be annoying.

Same theory for unset variable. Referencing an undefined variable shouldn’t break your session. Why initialize it anyway? It’s more code to change if you don’t use it if you have to initialize it when it might not be needed. And, you’d have to call the script with A= just to check A wasn’t defined, and in the process now you have A assigned to an empty string, instead of only defaulting to one when called, which uses more memory and execution time.

The pipeline doesn’t die because && and || and parens are seriously helpful for one-liners.

Don’t think of it as a script. Think of it as a script for a shell.

meat not meme.