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Bender
68,554karma·24,252submissions·June 16, 2015
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The term "rolling your own" as it applies to the internet means writing your own code. For example, "rolling your own encryption" would mean writing your own protocols, algorithms…
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For what it's worth, two or more things can be true or even partially true. I think all options should be on the table to discuss potential mitigations. Incentives and incentive driven laws can…
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No need to roll your own. There are many open source VPN's, proxies and much more. When dozens, hundreds or thousands of people share and forward load balance their traffic across hundreds of …
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If I were a governmental body I would do everything I could to keep citizens using paid VPN's and big CDN's. Money trails are easy to follow and the majority of people are just paying with …
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Probably more applicable to large scale internment camps where people do not have a choice.
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Some new accounts are likely getting buried by the AI countermeasures. The only thing I could suggest is to temporarily avoid the disagreeing comments and keep the comments and submissions interest…
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This may be a really dumb question but what are all these data-centers really for? I can't imagine after all the billions already poured into AI data-centers that there needs to be more. Data-s…
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That's just the title of the video. It's not my channel. AFAIK I do not believe Nate has an account on HN.
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And not having a distinguishable Bluetooth device ID to detect when one is near. [1] not tested as I do not know anyone with pervert glasses [1] - https://github.com/alexh-scrt/…
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Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification? Stand-up comedy, specifically including jokes that are racist and/or highly vulgar, for now at least. Someone will probably tweak a loca…
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The closest thing to social media I use is this site and as long as team dang keep doing a great job of moderation I will stay here. Aside from this site my little private and semi-private sites are …