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blahaj commented on Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site prison.josh.mn/lessons... · Posted by u/zuhayeer
Author here. This is funny to wake up to. A version of this microsite was posted previously (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434062) though it didn't have much of the content that exists here.
If anyone has any general questions (it seems like my little “startup lessons” page is as popular as the others) I’m be happy to answer them as long as they’re not too technical or related to my finances. However, the specifics of the technical side of my site are best found on TorrentFreak, and, in short: curl commands.
Were you aware of the risk you were getting yourself into when you built heheStreams? Did you take any precautions and how did you sleep at night?
blahaj commented on Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification gist.github.com/JWally/bf... · Posted by u/jwally
Okay, and those 5.6 million probably aren't accessing sites that require age verification. Not every solution needs to work for 100% of people.
> and those 5.6 million probably aren't accessing sites that require age verification.
Why would you presume that?
> Not every solution needs to work for 100% of people.
A solution that censors large amounts of speech and culture from millions of people is clearly either insufficient or, if it is deemed sufficient, authoritarian.
I've been using it for over 2 years now and I agree there's a spam problem on public chatrooms.
However, what's making me want to quit is that for more than 3 months now, message notifications have been completely broken on Android (Element X and its forks), and there's no fix for it. I completely miss out on important things and now have to build the habit of opening Element X once or twice every 15 minutes, so that it loads the messages from the server, and shows what people have been messaging me lately.
I no longer get message notification details on my phone, instead a generic "you have new messages" pop-up. There are at least 6 issues on GitHub detailing the same issue, but there isn't a fix and it looks like this is not a priority for the development team right now, even though it makes Element X practically unusable.
You might want to look into Unified Push. Although you need to use a Unified Push server that supports the differing Matrix endpoints because for some reason the Matrix devs decided to do their own thing. I wouldn't call using Unfied push with Matrix reliable, just like nothing with Matrix is ever truly reliable, but it works much better than native notifications for me.
blahaj commented on Where's Firefox going next? connect.mozilla.org/t5/di... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
blahaj commented on The $25k car is going extinct? media.hubspot.com/why-the... · Posted by u/pseudolus
How can a house stop depreciating if every part of it and everything in it becomes older as time passes?
The only thing stopping depreciation is regular maintenance which costs money.
A fancy old house is more fancy than a new fancy house.
Here is a Technology Connections YouTube video about the toaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
IPv6 essentially enables "universal internet IDs" for every device, which could streamline a lot of things, but enable a lot of weird surveillance/power balance issues that the cruft of IPv4 is actually incidentally helping guard against.
Again, I'm old enough to remember when e.g. the ISPs were going to try to charge per device in each household.
I don't really see that coming again and if it does you can just do NAT66 just like you can do NAT4.