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Comment · 6 months ago
One would sort of expect the NSA to be able to get ahold of the weights and have the budget for a few graphics cards.
Comment · 4 years ago
Already exists, see <https://cryptpad.fr>. Open-source.

Google's paid alternative does not share your data with advertisers.

Comment · 4 years ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30530876

(Title of this post changed due to length constraints, original was "BEREC: Open Internet Regulation is not an obstacle in implementing EU sanctions to block RT and Sputnik")

Comment · 4 years ago
Europe, Europe, and Europe. But it isn't actually a war. A war is a horrible, brutal thing. Wikipedia tells us:

> War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.

When you describe what the rest of us would call 'poor relations' as war, it raises the question of what you call it when thousands are drafted and brutally slaughtered. If this also is to be called 'war', then it raises the question: if you're already at war with them, what difference does it make if you decide to draft a few million young men and send them over there? Or for that matter a few strategic offensive weapons (colloquially known as nukes)?

Alternatively, you may contend that what everyone else calls "war" you call, let's say, "war 2". But in that case, your definition is unique to you, and is not terribly useful for communicating with other people.

Comment · 4 years ago
No. They are not at war "in all but name". War is a brutal thing, involving the deaths of thousands of young men. The EU is not by any stretch at war with Russia, nominally or otherwise.

The entire point of a free country is that people can handle the information. If not, why even bother?

Comment · 4 years ago
Probably not. The technology still exists, and nothing beats it on P2P file transfer.

From the economic point, the fragmentation of streaming services will probably give it a resurgence.

Comment · 4 years ago
A determination subject to whom?

1. RT does provide a view, and I would like to hear it, thanks. 2. Who decides what are the "actual news reports"? Who decides that RT is not "valid"?

Comment · 4 years ago
No, encryption isn't going to help, because they can still block on IPs. Encryption plus eSNI helps, and if, for example, Yandex.Cloud sets up a big "shared host," I fully expect that to get the Kharkiv treatment, like Roskomnadzor tried a few years ago with Telegram.

Tor operators can see the IP, they can see the DNS, and their operation has the effect of unblocking RT.

Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, and I earn money to pay my bills from global business dynamic economy enterprise trading.

How are you to get on the Tor network?

Comment · 4 years ago
I am not talking about the economy, I am talking about the Internet. Cutting RT off from the European Internet requires cutting the EU off from large chunks of the global Internet. If Russia responds, that would have the potential to get very ugly.
Comment · 4 years ago
IANAL, but as far as I know, EU laws are more important than national laws (you can search "Supremacy of EU law") except in Germany, so the question is if it violates the equivalent of the constitution of the EU.

According to EU officials, it does not.

I've sent out some e-mails, if what you say is true I will amend it.

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