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New comment by Dibby053 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

Dibby053 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:54:47 +0000

>By way of demonstrating that such power is unacceptable, it sounds like LaLiga is also trying to get Spanish ISPs to block all VPNs whenever a game is on.

What LaLiga did was get some VPN providers (NordVPN and ProtonVPN) to start blocking pirate streaming websites. They're not trying to block VPNs themselves unless there's other news I didn't find.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

Dibby053 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:24:56 +0000

Can you qualify "relatively helpful"? If you send them a ransomware site, a person looks at it, and still demand a court order... A company like them should know the scale at which these things are run, and that courts can't keep up with the speed.

>And this is a good thing.

Disagree. Demanding a court order for every single clear-cut case of infringement reported by the rightful owner of ephemeral content that is a infringed upon hundreds of times every day, causing nearly a billion dollar of losses per year... This is what the ISPs were trying to do and LaLiga successfully sued them, creating the modern fast-lane that CloudFlare complains about. Furthermore, unlike CloudFlare, the ISPs were not even profiting from the illegal content! This is a huge difference in the Spanish legal system. This will not end up good for them or for the open Internet they claim to defend (presumably as an excuse for taking their cut from cybercrime.)

New comment by Dibby053 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

Dibby053 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:10:27 +0000

I assume the problem is Cloudflare wants a court order that mentions the specific infringing domain name. The problem is: what's faster, spinning up a new frontend for a livestream or getting an order from a court?

Courts orders are, rightfully, slow. A court order is a serious thing and we shouldn't be wasting judges' time and resources to determine if hundreds of domains in CloudFlare, during every single match, are infringing on LaLiga. This is why the Spanish ISPs have a fast-lane with LaLiga to block infringing websites quickly. Why is it ridiculous and unreasonable? If LaLiga starts abusing this power to attack competitors or do anything malicious they will lose that power instantly.

Fastly understood the problem and will start running detection software to ban infringing livestreams in real time. https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/fastly-and-laliga-team-up-...

What's CF's solution?

New comment by Dibby053 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

Dibby053 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:09:46 +0000

Going to play devil's advocate here but I suspect if Cloudflare had been more cooperative about taking down illegal content, LaLiga would not have resorted to blanket blocking individual IPs.

I would really like to understand more about the process that they should follow but didn't / followed but didn't satisfy them / doesn't exist, in order to remove infringing websites quickly from CloudFlare.

New comment by Dibby053 in "What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router"

Dibby053 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:59:19 +0000

Basically you're introducing a hole. For example, if you have some devices in your network (like a dodgy TV box) that are not supposed to reach the internet or other parts of the network, the computer with net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 could be used as a pivot. Depending on the routing tables you probably would also need to enable IP masquerading (NAT) to allow bidirectional communication.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

Dibby053 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:22:07 +0000

Can you elaborate? What scale? What kind of mistakes? This sounds quite interesting.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables"

Dibby053 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:18:41 +0000

Isn't the whole point of a dictatorship that you don't get to choose?

New comment by Dibby053 in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

Dibby053 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:08:55 +0000

>the only player to have the supply chain locked down enough to not get caught off guard What?

New comment by Dibby053 in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

Dibby053 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:45:20 +0000

>Most developers in the third world don't make that in a full year

And many in the first world haha

Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985)

Dibby053 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:05:47 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20090325194547/https://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933083

Points: 2

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New comment by Dibby053 in "CT scans show cigarettes are harder on the lungs than marijuana"

Dibby053 — Sat, 10 May 2025 14:24:12 +0000

What about life expectancy? If smoking makes you die 10 years earlier, that's ~10 years of pension savings for social insurance. Sure, an unlucky few may get lung cancer at 50 and cost a lot of money but most smokers will die, retired, of cheap ailments like COPD or hypertension without fully realizing their social security investment.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager"

Dibby053 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:22:00 +0000

Can you share more about your particular setup? I use a pretty vanilla setup of Doom emacs on Linux, and while I really wish to give exwm a try my experience with emacs has been too unstable so far. E.g. it sometimes crashes when it gets an I/O error trying to write a file (which happens when a USB drive is removed by accident). A more common annoyance is the entire program freezing while waiting for plugins that should be asynchronous, like Tramp or some LSP servers.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?"

Dibby053 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:53:21 +0000

It is a thing.

For livestreams there's AceStream built on BitTorrent, but I think it's closed-source. They do have some SDK but I never looked into it. It's mostly used by IPTV pirates. I've used it a few times and it's hit-or-miss but when it works well I have been able to watch livestreams in HD/FullHD without cuts. Latency is always very bad though.

Then for video-on-demand there are some web-based ones like PeerTube (FOSS) and I think BitChute? Sadly webtorrent is very limited.

New comment by Dibby053 in "23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself"

Dibby053 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:14:02 +0000

Like fingerprint fingerprinting?

New comment by Dibby053 in "A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec"

Dibby053 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:33:05 +0000

In Linux (with the necessary packages) this shell oneliner can more or less do the same.

    shuf -n 5 /usr/share/dict/words

New comment by Dibby053 in "VSCode's SSH agent is bananas"

Dibby053 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 05:51:39 +0000

I think it's RAT (remote access tool)

New comment by Dibby053 in "Hell is overconfident developers writing encryption code"

Dibby053 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 04:54:36 +0000

The post links to this GitHub issue [1] where the critic explains his issues with the design and the programmer asks him to elaborate on how those crypto issues apply to his implementation. The critic's reply does not convince me. It doesn't address any points, and refers to some vague idea about "boring cryptography". In what way is AWS secrets manager or Hashicorp Vault more "obviously secure" than the author's 72-line javascript file?

[1] https://github.com/gristlabs/secrets.js/issues/2

New comment by Dibby053 in "How to run Deepseek-R1 locally for only $6000"

Dibby053 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:06:38 +0000

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1884244369907278106.html

New comment by Dibby053 in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

Dibby053 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:14:57 +0000

For hacks that don't access program memory directly, would external hardware make things less detectable? I don't know how anti-cheat programs work but I'd be surprised if they banned every skilled player that happens to be running AHK and OBS. More likely they work with heuristics that try to detect super-human mouse movements, precision/speed-wise.

New comment by Dibby053 in "M4 MacBook Pro"

Dibby053 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:58:13 +0000

Why was this downvoted?