> And almost every time I see this “nagging” I want to leave the website
Well, just do leave, what's the problem?
Readit NewsYuyudo_Comiketo commented on You don't need live chat on your website timharek.no/blog/you-dont... · Posted by u/5amdotis
I've downvoted you for being combative, wide-sweepingly conspiratorial, off-topic, and thinking everyone who disagrees with you is out to get you.
Count yourself downvoted for disguising your own combativeness as didactic neutrality, not being pinpoint-factual and on-topic and for actually being out to get me with your downvote for disagreeing with people who you think were right.
Sigh, I need to stop engaging with obvious tinfoil hats.
Oh boy, all my points are definitely beaten with this single one of ineffable precision and efficiency!
What you need is to learn to reinforce your opinion with counterarguments instead of allegorically admitting your inability to formulate them.
That sounds unlikely.
> Then you probably make him a key figure in exposing the medical fascism of Corona Era
Can you provide a source for that government claim?
- Comment sections getting closed for anonymous replies almost everywhere over the course of the last 15 years
- Undisguised surveillance becoming the new normal
- Confinement of all communication to a handful of platforms
- Snowden's disclosures
- Huge datacenters built by NSA to tap into telecom
- Crackdown on p2p sharing
- Push for The Cloud
- Closure of Lavabit and other independent email providers
- Rabid push for phone-based 2fa
- Ongoing merger and conglomeration of everything into a venture-fund-owned megacorporation invisible only for those who call these obvious practices "conspiracy theories" with religious zeal
- Failure of everything initially claimed to be decentrallized to live up the name, including blockchains, IPFS etc
These and many other similar issues combined don't quite make for an illusion that the govenments are willing to allow us to communicate freely via a greater number of tapping and datamining points than they could possibly manage.
Now burn this heretic!
This seems like a poorly-researched conspiracy theory. Nobody is forced to use double-NAT, and if there was some secret policy which somehow has avoided leaking for a couple of decades, you'd think they'd have blocked IPv6 deployments, too.
I expected that someone would plant this prefabricated gag phrase of "conspiracy theory" as an argument, thanks for confirming my gut feeling.
All ipv6 shortcomings discussion aside; What I think is the more vital problem to focus on is that the governments clearly don't want us mere mortals to expose our own servers running on our own hardware to the outside world (most often justifying that with "it's for your own security" mantra, for we're all deemed too dumb to figure that out for ourselves).
ISP-imposed ipv4 double NAT (imposed on ISPs by the governments, I am pretty sure about that) reduces our devices to all but dumb receivers which are scarcely superior to TV sets. And no amount of STUNning and TURNing, or buying VPSes can realistically fix this situation, when we can't simply connect our devices directly without resorting to some service provided by some Men in the Middle. And it gets worse, 10 years ago I could buy a static public IP from my ISP for some affordable extra - all ports open unless blocked manually in my firewall - nowadays there remain no ISP around to sell those to the general public. Just no such option anymore. Too much freedom it gave, I guess.
So this begs the question: can ipv6 fix that? Will ipv6 fix that? I'm afraid not.
Yuyudo_Comiketo commented on What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me vitalik.ca/general/2022/1... · Posted by u/anonu
It's easy to paint conspiracy theories and it's hard to actually do the work. Vitalik is not in any way attached to the EEA - he's just some guy doing work because he thinks it will lead to good things. I think relative to most of the cryptosphere, or most of tech even the guy is practically a saint. Remember these are actual people behind the screens when you spew comments like these.
It's easy to gag opponents with "conspiracy theories" when you don't cut through the actual message. Academician Andrey Sakharov also did his work thinking it will lead to good things. Later in his life he had the gut to admit he was wrong. A researcher's good intentions and the actual use of his product when it falls into the hands of those who sponsored the work are orthogonal.
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Yuyudo_Comiketo commented on What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me vitalik.ca/general/2022/1... · Posted by u/anonu
As much as I would like to argue against it, things do degrade over time. It is very much unknown how much Linus' passing will change linux ecosystem as a whole ( and one could argue some of his original vision was distorted already ). It is a king problem. Even if you find one good king among all men, what are the odds whoever follows will be at least as good? Usually not great.
And ethereum is very much new. While I personally think it will exist for a little longer, because there is now real money behind it, I think you are right on that generic point ( if I understood your argument correctly ).
You parsed my sarcasm right.
It's apt that you bring up another leader, whose ostensible independence from big-money-driven agendas went up in smoke with his initial refusal, then embarrassed acceptance of the CoC that was peremptorily imposed on the Linux project.