betaby

Joined 11 years ago

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Telecom eng., but you will downvote anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering List of truisms you believe and thus want to downvote me: 0) ISPs charge both ends 1) ISPs intentionally make your tube, flix, etc experience miserable 3) Everything should be 'unlimited' 4) Bandwidth is basically free
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Comment · 6 days ago
> But big tech cannot be regulated at all.

As far as the censorship goes UK is trying hard. So follow the money?

Comment · 8 days ago
Green? NDP?
Comment · 8 days ago
Comment · 8 days ago
I too receive auto-replies from my MP.
Comment · 9 days ago
4chan has a privilege of being based in the USA.
Comment · 9 days ago
US ISP ignore blocking orders and that was never challenged.
Comment · 9 days ago
Bad example, especially githen the fact that Durov is a french national.
Comment · 21 days ago
> All interest groups should have the ability to talk to lawmakers and present their viewpoints.

No politician or party is willing to listen to me since I'm not a 'paying customer'.

Comment · 28 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
If those countries worried for real they would have built open platforms themselves. In reality they are making running any social platform next to impossible operate legaly.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Can't we just ban Facebook everywhere?

That's not that EU asks. EU asks to have a direct interface to delete posts EU elites don't like.

Comment · 1 month ago
This thread is quicky suggests that Brazil should just ban Twitter/FB/What'sUp. And as matter of fact Brazil did that couple of times. As for today Brazil orders ISPs to block ~15k sites. Mostly gambling. However plenty of sites in the lists are political in nature.

Another argument, that blocking is not doing any good to the citizens. See Russia where FB/Linkedin and many other sites are blocked. That's not helping democracy at all.

But the most important sad realization that besides the USA there is NO other country where one can host and run even slightly popular forum site. Even forum related to stamps or railway models. The regulatory burden and the harassment from government agencies makes the exercise impossible to execute. HN front page had a plenty of examples of the niche forums/sites shutting down in UK/Germany because of the regulatory risks.

Think for a second, Brazilian candidate complains that the private USA company blocked him. Bu the problem is that Brazilian elites made Internet regulations so hostile that there is absolutely no open platforms do discuss political mattes there, thus even those elites have to rely on US-based platform. And they do, with all that hipocricy, i.e. advertise there then in benefits them, ban quickly once not.

Comment · 1 month ago
Intel was seling 386 CPU up until 2007. I personally was using brand new special equipment with 386 soldered to custom MBs with no VGA, serial only access. I suppose you can purchase such boards from ebay/recyclers today.
Comment · 1 month ago
That's interesting. That means there are fewer checks for hardware than software?
Comment · 2 months ago
Better be safe I guess:

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