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chgs commented on Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 appears to be down · Posted by u/Wingy

I agree. Modern day man-in-the-middle attack via a corporate entity. Rationalized as a protection racket.

chgs · 7 months ago

HN loves cloudflare. The majority here aren’t of the ethos of the distributed internet of days of old, it’s the “how can I monetise this hustle” ethos. Sad really.

chgs commented on Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 appears to be down · Posted by u/Wingy

guluarte · 7 months ago

raise up chads using their own custom DNS resolver with 10+ upstream providers

chgs · 7 months ago

I have 6 upstream, but that’s for each of two dns serves in home (one on my pi, one on the jellyfin), so I guess that’s 12 upstream together.

chgs commented on Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07... · Posted by u/exiguus

genghisjahn · 7 months ago

I'm pretty sure it was over when we switched to debit/credit cards. Everywhere you go, how much you buy, all that stuff has been sold for quite a while now.

chgs · 7 months ago

People voluntarily used loyalty cards well before then.

chgs commented on Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any nytimes.com/2025/07/13/bu... · Posted by u/perihelions

ironyman · 7 months ago

The Pentagon has recently recognized small drones as 'consumable commodities' like bullets and grenades so there is a role for them to play but U.S. military isn't about to pivot to a strategy of winning wars with swarms of cheap quadcopters. The core of American military power is firmly rooted in long-range kill chains, which is about finding a target to take out (often far in advance of the operation) and then precisely killing it from far away.

chgs · 7 months ago

How many years did it take to take out bin laden?

chgs commented on Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any nytimes.com/2025/07/13/bu... · Posted by u/perihelions

Incipient · 7 months ago

Probably not. Nuclear deterrent is just that, a deterrent. Once it's used, it's done. I don't think either side would use it on a "that's not fair" play - they'd really be reserved to respond/prevent/equalise some event/situation that would cause them to lose a war.

chgs · 7 months ago

China killing millions of Americans as they cook in their batteries is different to a nuclear bomb or a biological weapon?

Hell it’s more attributable.

chgs commented on Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any nytimes.com/2025/07/13/bu... · Posted by u/perihelions

amelius · 7 months ago

Also, if we keep buying Chinese EVs then in a possible war with China all they will have to do is turn on some power-mosfets in the battery circuit and they turn entire cities into smoke.

chgs · 7 months ago

You think that wouldn’t escalate to nuclear exchange in days?

chgs commented on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online ellsberg.substack.com/p/f... · Posted by u/blurbleblurble

sigwinch · 7 months ago

Break the key in half.

Otherwise, why wouldn’t I just try the last entries from that list?

chgs · 7 months ago

They key would be hashed with the user’s details (ip address, value in a session cookie etc) so someone else can’t reuse it. Hell there are things like elliptic curves and DH which still seem magic to me.

Now sure if the identity provider and the site work together they could negate the anonymity, but given that for the identity provider anonymisation would be the key selling feature they wouldn’t want to risk that. Mullvad I’m sure would be trustworthy enough.

chgs commented on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update 0x44.xyz/blog/web-request... · Posted by u/deryilz

tonyhb · 7 months ago

if they’re not funded by adverts then you don’t need an ad blocker, right?

chgs · 7 months ago

bbc news is full of tracking despite not showing adverts.

chgs commented on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update 0x44.xyz/blog/web-request... · Posted by u/deryilz

aziaziazi · 7 months ago

I can’t help seeing ad blockers as fairless content consumption, like choosing to download films, musics and books without paying the creator and the distributor (VOD, MOD, concerts, libraries…). Sounds great for you but how would that work if everyone would do the same?

Although we all be happy to se more competition, using an ad blocker on Google sites (and G-add financed-sites) have no positive effect for the competitors.

Don’t take me wrong, I hate Ads and Google methods but we can’t all rob the same store and hope there will be infinite food on the shelves and that the next store will benefit from that.

chgs · 7 months ago

Almost all content I consume is not funded by adverts, it’s funded by passion or subscription or donation.

Adverts have no positive effects for anyone other than the advertising firm. They cost the viewer more than the provide the advertiser

chgs commented on Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program Designed to Prevent Satellite Collisions skyandtelescope.org/astro... · Posted by u/bikenaga

bryanrasmussen · 7 months ago

I sort of wonder when the UN is getting thrown out of New York by the current administration.

chgs · 7 months ago

I have no doubt China would offer a far better location somewhere like Shanghai. The intelligence benefits of so many foreign diplomats and spies walking your street, drinking in your bars, paying your hookers, is incalculable.

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