CWuestefeld (u/CWuestefeld)

CWuestefeld commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

NoMoreNicksLeft · 7 days ago

Does that even work anymore? I thought plain IP addresses were a thing of the past ever since we started doing virtual hosts 25 years ago. I just get a 503 when I use the address you posted...

CWuestefeld · 7 days ago

If you just point your browser to https://<ip_address> then it won't work. You also need to have the correct hostname in the http request headers.

The easiest way to accomplish this is to add the address into your .hosts file (as sibling post says) and just use the name.

CWuestefeld commented on VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video] youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWH... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

reaperducer · 7 days ago

It's so sad how back when Sony was an electronics company, it fought the content makers in court for the right for people to make recordings.

Then Sony became a content company, and stopped making things to allow people to make recordings.

With advances in technology, I should be able to pop an SD card in my TV and record what I see, then bring it over to a friend's house and pop it into his TV so we can watch together.

The future has been monetized.

CWuestefeld · 7 days ago

It happened 20 years ago, so some folks around here might be too young to remember the Sony rootkit fiasco [1]. Sony decided it would be a good idea to put on their music CDs an auto-run program that would install a rootkit on your Windows computer, whose job it was to be a watchdog for Sony's copyrights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

CWuestefeld commented on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death energyvanguard.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/almuhalil

chopin · a month ago

Do you have a source for this?

CWuestefeld · a month ago

With some AI-assisted searching:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3257884/

e.g., "An explanation of the mechanism of action for the effectiveness of concentrated heat in this study can be found in the activation and suppression of receptors. A rapid temperature increase to a maximum of 51°C leads to an activation of transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1 (TRPV1) via C- and Aδ-fibers."

CWuestefeld commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy

username332211 · a month ago

The global issue is that elected representatives are becoming weaker.

The idea that a city hall would need to organize some sort of public meeting before approving a construction project is a fairly new one. The city council is elected to represent the people. If they need "community input" why are they even here? (Nevermind the obvious problem with such participatory process - sane and normal people can't participate in every local government decision unless it's their job. Hence why we have representative democracy.)

If you told someone in the 1980s that the British parliament couldn't impose its will on QUANGOs and local governments to build a rail line, they'd look at you as if you were insane. Parliament's power is supposed to be absolute. Yet that's what's happening with HS2.

CWuestefeld · a month ago

Is this because the representatives are becoming weaker - or is it because we're asking the government to get involved in such a huge portion of what used to be free (as in speech) that it's impractical for them to pay attention themselves at the necessary level, and have to offload the work somehow?

That is, I'm claiming that government can't scale to the levels that the 20th Century escalated it to, with any degree of efficiency at all.

CWuestefeld commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy

firecall · a month ago

Depending on the specifics of the publication, we can broadly say that print media used to get more revenue from advertising than people actually buying the physical media.

You could Google it and read about the decline but Wikipedia is a place to start:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers?wprov=sf...

Newspapers used to give copies of their daily paper away in bulk to distribution hubs so as to boost circulation. In fact, they still do.

You can often pick up a paper for free when boarding a flight.

CWuestefeld · a month ago

You're really just observing that the marginal cost of reading is tiny. That doesn't mean that the fixed cost of producing an article or edition isn't very large, and needs to be paid for somehow.

CWuestefeld commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy

carlosjobim · a month ago

> The problem with current paywalls is that each one wants you to purchase a monthly subscription to read the article, I don't want to have a subscription for each news site I might want to read an article from.

Yet people love their monthly subscriptions to listen to a song or an album (Spotify), or to watch a movie (Netflix). It's clear to me that the future of written content, especially news, is mass syndication (like you mention). Where you pay a monthly subscription to get access to a wast library of content from different sources.

CWuestefeld · a month ago

One big difference there is that for the vast majority of people, they can get the vast majority of their music or video content from that single service (or at worst a small number of them).

But for reading news articles, there's a LOT of diversification. It's nowhere near one-stop shopping. In fact, a responsible reader ought to want to diversify points of view to avoid bubbles.

Of course, that doesn't eliminate the possibility of an industry consortium allowing a reader to pay into a single pool and read content from many sources, with payment distributed in some equitable manner.

CWuestefeld commented on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death energyvanguard.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/almuhalil

telecuda · a month ago

Related, I've found this to be the most effective gadget to stop the itch of a mosquito bite: https://www.amazon.com/Vibis-Rechargeable-Mosquito-Chemical-... (Source: Floridian who has tried everything)

CWuestefeld · a month ago

These sort-of work, but not in the way they describe. It doesn't work to break down the mosquito "venom" through heat.

What's really happening is that the heat basically overloads (I don't recall the exact biology, but this is the gist) the sensory neurons that would be reporting about the itch. For a short time, until the neurons get unscrambled, the itching sensation is blocked. But it'll likely be back again if you're sensitive to bites.

CWuestefeld commented on The United States withdraws from UNESCO state.gov/releases/office... · Posted by u/layer8

Sabinus · a month ago

> Operation Downfall, the Americans were planning literal genocide against the Japanese.

If you're at war and your opponent has lost but is foreign to the idea of surrender and fights to the last man, and you oblige him, you are pursuing war not genocide.

CWuestefeld · a month ago

Can we apply this to the current conflict in Gaza?

CWuestefeld commented on The United States withdraws from UNESCO state.gov/releases/office... · Posted by u/layer8

nonethewiser · a month ago

And congress increasingly wanting to do nothing.

CWuestefeld · a month ago

I think it's a little more subtle. It's not that they want to do nothing. It's that they're terrified of being seen to have done something, if for some reason that thing turns out to be a mistake.

For all the talk about wanting to do things scientifically, there's a remarkable lack of willingness to actually experiment. If a failed experiment is fatal, then we'll never do anything, bad or good.

CWuestefeld commented on The United States withdraws from UNESCO state.gov/releases/office... · Posted by u/layer8

wredcoll · a month ago

What is it with people and their blind faith in this kind of dogma?

If you think something is "cruft", then name it.

CWuestefeld · a month ago

I think pretty much everyone acknowledges the cruft. They are always, for example, paying lip service to ending waste and corruption. But for all of their speechifying, nothing of note has ever been done in my lifetime[1].

The fact is that it's damned near impossible to build anything in America today, whether that's physical building or organizations. There is just too much vested interest, regulation, and unwillingness to just try something for fear of making a mistake (no politician can ever admit "I was wrong").

[1]actually, I guess I'm exaggerating. I can think of one significant thing: Clinton's changes to welfare. But the fact that there's only the one thing kinda underscores how vivid this is.