Highly inflammatory clickbait title IMO

They have already been arresting people for using VPNs: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/man-booked-for-using-vpn-in-j-ks-rajouri-3rd-such-case-in-2-days-5612508

lol only took 15 years… that’s how long ago it was when I had to write complete/custom replacement software to handle HDR on blackmagic devices instead because gstreamer couldn’t do it.

I certainly wouldn’t call that pixel perfect either though.

Wouldn’t an exact replica be technically illegal?

Open source is the very worst thing currently going on because it is so incredibly exploitative, it’s far more exploitative than any actual company is of the workers who work at the company.

Even the people who are getting paid in open source are getting massively underpaid to do it compared to how much the people who are using their code are making, it’s nothing compared to the power that is accreted by the people who have co-opted that work thanks to the open source model. And then mark zuckerberg gets to define how the internet works despite having paid for almost none of the software that his company actually needed to make that work.

It’s like feudalism or serfdom, these people did the work and got nothing for it. It’s like you took the worst aspects of capitalism for workers and the worst aspects of socialism for workers and put them together, that’s open source. You get no power and you get no money.

It’s exploitative whether the people chose to be exploited, just because someone chooses to let you exploit them does not mean that you didn’t exploit them. And for the record that’s how most exploitation works; convincing people to do something that turns out to be very bad for them and very good for you, and that’s exactly what the open source movement has turned out to be.

I really don’t see the “we post stuff on github under a gpl2 or lgpl or apache or mit license”, all that is to me now is just exploitation. You can say that there’s solutions but until someone demonstrates that those solutions work, it’s the standard “real communism has never been tried” argument. AGPL is the only thing that I’ve seen so far that’s an attempt to fix these fundamentally unfair compensation practices.

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It works similarly to tor so yes you can host stuff on it, but also just like tor, you have to trust that the nodes that get used are not all compromised.

I would still consider that a software bug on Linux’s part if it allows a USB device to bring the whole system down.

I see nothing wrong with it personally /shrug

payoneer

Usually entire repos are disabled in that case. I’ve never tried to access hidden content on a DMCA-removed repo, but I assume it would not work.

There’s lots of content sitting just below the surface on github. Any time you make a PR on a repo, even if it gets closed or “deleted” by the repo owner, the actual link to the file itself stays there forever if you save it. Github’s own dmca repo even has warez links on it, sitting there for years.

p4merge

This is exactly what I do… and then never touch it again.

someone who knows everything about you can easily manipulate or even blackmail you

To that end, the ability for people to not only fabricate completely new evidence, but also manipulate existing evidence, I think deserves a lot more attention.

For example, imagine the damage someone can do simply by taking leaked corporate data and slightly messing with it. Who second-guesses the accuracy of leaked data?

the “nothing to hide” argument implies that if you want to keep certain aspects of your life private (i.e., hidden), you must have done something wrong

What has also become more sinister as of late is that the definition of “wrong” can change at the whim of whoever is running your government right now.

POS

works fine for me /shrug

Yea every network may do things differently… in my case tcp/443 openvpn is blocked at several places that I frequent.

I assume this is because, in addition to the missing ciphers as referenced in the linked article, OpenVPN, even though it uses TLS, it initially uses a very identifiable handshake before initiating TLS, which is not hard to block. I have personally had problems specifically with OpenVPN being targeted/blocked in this way.