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Comment · 6 months ago
It's a somewhat preoccupied and privileged pov.

There absolutely are 10h+ workdays in europe where ppl are not treated well.

Comment · 6 months ago
tbf there are reasonably priced bare metal hosting providers that don't have maintenance or other regular outages.
Comment · 1 year ago
bittorrent will make best use of what bandwidth is available. better think of it as a dynamic cdn which can seamlessly incorporate static cdn-nodes (see webseed).

it could surely be made to care for topology but imho handing that problem to congestion control and routing mechanisms in lower levels works good enough and should not be a problem.

Comment · 1 year ago
although e2ee does raise the cost for an attacker, the perceived gain in trustworthiness of the system is unjustified
Comment · 1 year ago
suggestion to install apps in a detox thread
Comment · 1 year ago
sounds like the primary goal was better attestation
Comment · 1 year ago
lack of touching grass seems to be a prohibitive factor; besides the radiation
Comment · 1 year ago
the 'novelty of the ways' is usually not nearly as much a factor in adoption than if said change would contribute to the amassing of revenue.
Comment · 1 year ago
maybe $author has contact information or even a donate button up somewhere
Comment · 1 year ago
exit node is not really a colo.

though there are commercial residential-proxy services available

Comment · 1 year ago
> Firefox natively supports sidebar tabs now without needing hacky extensions

glad you mentioned it!

edge and opera do too

Comment · 1 year ago
well done, replying to continue a great thread
Comment · 2 years ago
maybe spacebar heating is a reasonable requirement after all and the joke was just that it's easy to get it wrong
Comment · 2 years ago
ping is synonymous with echo-request, which is largely transport agnostic.

but you're right

Comment · 2 years ago
supposedly not besides being a good shibboleth

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