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New comment by pocksuppet in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

pocksuppet — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:11:43 +0000

Oftentimes the government drops the case. When people get convicted for things they did on Tor, and don't settle, the government often drops the case so they don't have to reveal how they got information about activities on Tor.

When Germany, which doesn't play by the same rules, got DiDW and then Boystown, that was quite revealing on how authorities can break Tor.

New comment by pocksuppet in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

pocksuppet — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:10:26 +0000

Airlines can refuse to carry people whose name starts with a vowel, if they want to. That's a principle of free business.

New comment by pocksuppet in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

pocksuppet — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:15:07 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_beliefs

New comment by pocksuppet in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

pocksuppet — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:37:32 +0000

Is Elon evil?

New comment by pocksuppet in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

pocksuppet — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:36:36 +0000

Trust... and encryption. That second one's quite important.

New comment by pocksuppet in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

pocksuppet — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:06:22 +0000

Ironically this page has censored me, it shows "Please wait while your request is being verified" indefinitely.

New comment by pocksuppet in "The compiler was supposed to end programming too"

pocksuppet — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:09:56 +0000

Not true, never was true. You can't write real code for either Linux or Windows without venturing into what C calls undefined behaviour, but Linux and Windows don't.

New comment by pocksuppet in "The compiler was supposed to end programming too"

pocksuppet — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:08:47 +0000

It did. Programming used to mean manual register allocation, and we don't do that any more.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off"

pocksuppet — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:52:10 +0000

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good

New comment by pocksuppet in "Found archive.today debug dump glitch"

pocksuppet — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:30:57 +0000

no, I'm sure many people are. Great powerful interests want that site shut down and there were many attempts to doxx and swat the owner. It's basically another Anna's Archive.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Found archive.today debug dump glitch"

pocksuppet — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:27:00 +0000

no info provided and nothing interesting leaked

New comment by pocksuppet in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

pocksuppet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:58:00 +0000

A social contract towards a profit-maximizing corporation is not real. They are amoral entities with only one goal. The real implicit contract between you and a business is simple: they will do everything they can to make you give them money, and you will do everything you can to not give them money, or else you're a sucker. "Everything they can do" includes convincing you there's a social contract involved.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

pocksuppet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:54:11 +0000

The centralized platform in open-web shopping is Google, which is how you discover shops.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

pocksuppet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:53:12 +0000

technical solution to a social problem

New comment by pocksuppet in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

pocksuppet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:52:22 +0000

Or make users scan their passports to log in.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

pocksuppet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:53 +0000

git hosts get the same effect - ddosers request a diff of every file between every combination of first and last commits.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

pocksuppet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:25:52 +0000

Everyone is for their own automation and against their competitor's automation. It's just how business works.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

pocksuppet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:25:11 +0000

Average log size is about 300 bytes. 1GB of logs per day is approximately 40 requests per second average.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

pocksuppet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:23:42 +0000

Make your site performance fast enough that bots don't bother you.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

pocksuppet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:21:54 +0000

Cloudflare doesn't even stop bots very well. Many bots are using real browsers, which pass all fingerprint checks, and scripts that can click the checkbox. What Cloudflare has is mindshare, and being a checklist item and an accountability sink.