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Comment · 8 years ago
I think that could be solved by having a button to mark something as watched, removing it from recommendations and the catalog other than the list of things you watched.

You could hide episodes you've seen or entire seasons up to entire shows. Would fix a lot of the issues I'm having.

Comment · 8 years ago
I don't think encryption hinders the true ideas of the web, it merely blocks malicious actors, of which there are many in almost all areas and connections.

The entire set of encryption can be easily opened up for inspection and manipulation if all parties agree this is good idea.

Comment · 8 years ago
The resolver is less of an issue because you have free choices there, ISP is harder to change. Plus you increase the number of parties that need to collude (ISP + RR provider) to spy on your traffic.
Comment · 8 years ago
Not necessarily, think CDNs or Shared IPs for Webspaces.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is sorta it. SNI is the only unecrypted part that leaks the server hostname. CN/SAN blocking usually has a middlebox that decrypts the connections so there is nothing to be done here.

If somebody can MitM your encrypted connection to both server and DNS, encrypted SNI stops working to my understanding.

Comment · 8 years ago
This is amazing work, can't wait for this to be finished and deployed on the internet. Together with encrypted DNS (DoT and DoH) we finally get fully confidential connections to a server without leaking anything other than Remote IP.
Comment · 8 years ago
It appears to be brighter because LED parts occupy a different spectrum. Sodium lamps only light up in a very narrow orange spectrum of light (you can't even tell colors under sodium lights). This spectrum is great under photopic vision (ie Daytime Vision) but terrible under nighttime vision. (~0.8 relative brightness vs ~0.1 brightness)

LED lights used for street illumination use a part of the spectrum that is much more visible during both day and night vision.

There is of course also a tradeoff because making a lamp more visible and thus allow safer driving, it will disrupt the circadian rhythm much greater.

It is certainly possible that the illumination is exactly the same but the wavelength of light outputted is different and you're much more sensitive to it.

Comment · 8 years ago
Contractual relationships have limited conditions under which they can be terminated. If you die, your heirs (or in this case parents) can inherit the contract and continue it.

Additionally, not everything the T&C says, up to and including "accounts are not transferable" is not automatically legal.

Comment · 8 years ago
Has been linked in this thread already but here it is; https://twitter.com/delafina777/status/1000045432007938048?l...

She even got into a video by the youtuber SidAlpha thanks to that clever tweet.

Comment · 8 years ago
Witnesses can be raided under german law, there are some reasons for it, esp. when it's suspected the witness is hiding evidence.

However, the raid is still out of bounds in certain other aspects (though I suspect the "take everything" the police pulled is more related to the officers having no idea what a server is vs a desktop computer. It wouldn't be the first time police officers simply don't know so they take it all)

Comment · 8 years ago
I'm using protonmail via CC, don't see the problem tbh.

Security and privacy aren't binary options, it's a multi-dimensional spectrum where the optimal point depends on your threat model, budget and other factors. For me, it's not relevant if the police finds out if I use protonmail.

Comment · 8 years ago
And then what is the problem with continuing this but reinforcing this business structure? Because shitty registrars could now be more shitty?

Honest and good registrars don't have a problem with WHOIS services, you claim they would since the emails they forward could lead to lost sales.

The WHOIS service is just as incentivized to filter out certain mails since they are paid by the registrar and thus get profit of sold domains.

Comment · 8 years ago
You cannot learn to make a secure lock if you don't know how to pick a lock.

Similarly, you can't build a secure system if you don't know how you'd crack a secure system.

Of course, you don't have to really know exactly which tools to use but you'd still have to know the common methods of attack, how they work, what type of tools people might use.

Once you know that, you can take steps to defeat the tools and workarounds.

Comment · 8 years ago
I have no problem with the former but they do have incentive for the later as not delivering the abuse reports will lead to the domain being decommissioned because it's on every spam and blacklist ever.

WHOIS Privacy Services have been doing exactly this for a long time and they are usually paid by the domain registrar.

I think that problem is more imagined since there doesn't seem to be this problem in the real world.

Comment · 8 years ago
Well, even an UG (Hb) needs a business address which you will have to put in the imprint and to my knowledge you can't put a PO box as business address in the register.

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