Is there a non-Facebook link? Facebook is blocked at my work.

There is no easy way to say this, and certainly no easy way to hear it. I am writing this on the evening of August 7th, 2018. Jerry died last night.

He's been in poor health, but this wasn't expected and Dani is coping with all of the things that need to be done. I told her that I would announce it to his friends and colleagues on Facebook, since she doesn't use social media.

I've been using the things he taught me a lot this summer, with some challenging personal and professional situations. I'm so glad I managed to tell him that while he could still hear it.

Knowing him made me a better person. His life goal was to empower Smart People to Be Happy. He succeeded.

Requiescat in pace, Jerry.

Interesting how this kind of news always drops whenever there is bad press about Facebook.

I suspect the same thing. There's NEVER anything in this industry that is a coincidence. You might not get a lot of people agreeing with you right now, but just wait a few months and your comment will be spot on.

Are you planning on making it for Firefox?

I don't currently have plans to port it to any other platform but I would consider it if there is strong interest

What does this mean? It sounds interesting. Thank you.

According to various analysts, Saudi Arabia is sitting on an ocean of oil that they can't possibly find a buyer for until renewables take over completely.

So they have a big problem 20-30 years from now.

Thank you!

Hate speech doesn't have a legal definition in the USA (that I know of). It's defined in each service's ToS if they choose to restrict it. Facebook is pretty clear about what qualifies. https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech/ https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/hard-questions-hate-spe...

The best analogy I've seen is this: You have the right to say what you want, but I don't have to invite you into my living room to say it.

These aren't public spaces -- they are private spaces that are available to the public.

I think the ban is legal, yes, and in this case I also think it's correct. But correct on what terms? I'm not really sure where I draw the line between "hate speech" and not.

The good news then is that you don't have to, each service has done so for you in the TOS that users sign.

Freedom of speech is not freedom of speech anywhere you'd like, nor is it freedom from consequences of speech.

The notion that a private company has some obligation to uphold First Amendment rights at its own expense is ridiculous.

So you're against net neutrality?

No, we don't need any further discussion about hate speech, any more than we need further discussion on whether murder is bad, or torture is acceptable.

We need swift and clear action to remove it from the commons.

There's no reason to pander to anti-semites like Jones and his ilk.

He's only ever married Jews... all of his children are Jews.

Your forum is very fast, did you do anything specific to make it that way? :)

That’s just the magic of using old php forum software. This is just phpBB running behind nginx on a cheap digitalocean droplet. It’s just not using a bunch of heavy JavaScript or anything like most modern software, so even though it’s not a SPA it is still very speedy.

What are some good providers for binaries these days?

Been using newsgroup.ninja for a while Without problems.

Astraweb is good but I ditched them after they had some drama a while ago.

Aren't there only 3 main providers, anyway? Everyone else is just a reseller?

Basically, there was a spreadsheet floating around that showed who was reselling what. Really just buying on price and retention.

Thank you!

For videos, Usenet is still going strong.

I wish I had done this in 2015. I lost the only pictures of my now deceased dog in Google Drive when I was locked out for no reason. Except I didn't regain access because I didn't make a popular Reddit or blog post.

Apparently Google's "customer service" runs as follows:

1. Don't provide any customer service email address.

2. Don't provide any contact form.

3. Don't provide any phone number.

4. Don't respond when people resort to sending snail mail. (Yes really I tried and I'm not the only one).

5. Provide a forum where 999/1000 posts don't get a response.

6. Suddenly respond if it affects public relations. (ea. a popular Reddit post).

That is horrible. Also why I will likely never pay out of my own pocket for their services.

Google is just far too big. They don't have time for you. There are loads of smaller service providers that are great with customer service and don't use scripts that will randomly ban your account.

If you pay even just 5 bucks a month, you get access to their support which is overall pretty good.

G Suite is worth the price tag just for that if you actually use Google products seriously...

Until you get banned and then your voice is no longer heard? like this and many more examples...

You'll note that the user in question was banned after cancelling the subscription...

I could be wrong but I'm not sure this is completely accurate. There are HTTPS proxies listed on the page it's fetching proxies from.

And it's been a while but I could have sworn you can do DNS requests through a proxy.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.

You can proxy DNS requests through SOCKS proxies and trough normal ones but it’s not common or at least airtight (e.g. a none http/https resource request can bypass proxy even in Chrome, addons, flash and other system calls also may be used to reveal the original IP), and proxies do not preserve HTTPS without being able to MITM it, if you want to anonymize something use TOR at least non-state actors likely can’t trace the source of the request since no one is operating enough nodes and has the capability to run timing analysis on the entire network.

If you have something that is sensitive enough to require anonymity you do not want to disclose it to another party.

Proxies are also finicky my honeypot tries DNS resolving via multiple vectors including applets, flash and more recently the dns.resolve API Firefox implemented with 60 onwards. I also return an SSL cert and use OCSP and CRL resolutions to try and get the actual IP address.

Overall proxies and OpenVPN provides are unasked in about 50% of the cases TOR in the high single digits and im not doing anything super sophisticated.

You can ofc go beyond that and fingerprint the browser, use zero days or abuse headless browsers or other frameworks but I’m not that bored yet.

>and proxies do not preserve HTTPS without being able to MITM

This is simply not true in the slightest.

Web newb here. Why are these things so hard to mask? Can't redirect be denied/caught by the Python requests libraries?

It can ofc, but the question is always what do you do with the content :)

But in any case anything that is too sensitive to send from your own IP should not be sent over a medium that you have no ability to verify if it's being logged and by whom.

Open proxy operators aren't charities most of them are dubious at best.

If you want anonymity cryptocurrency VPS in data heaven jurisdiction or TOR is the best way to go, if you don't need that much anonymity than "proven" no-logging VPN providers are also better since they guarantee higher privacy than unauthenticated open proxies.