iqkznnft (u/iqkznnft)

iqkznnft commented on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/mritzmann

dcow · 4 years ago

Wireguard is your plumbing layer. OpenVPN is an entire application stack. Wireguard is super simple because it's low level. If you wanted to compare something (as a user in terms of feature parity, etc.) to OpenVPN a more accurate comparison would probably be nebula or tailscale (private/mesh network management tools that are built atop wireguard). I'm a wireguard fan and it's true that its crypto is much simpler, smaller, and harder to fuck up than OpenVPN but that is really only something that matters to the security hats.

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

How is openvpn easy to fuck up? I just run sudo openvpn file, and that's it...

Also, I didn't really understand any of your explanation about layers. How is openvpn an application stack? Surely applications are the applications?

iqkznnft commented on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/mritzmann

dcow · 4 years ago

It's not hub and spoke. Any existing network topology can be mirrored essentially 1:1 with wireguard. With hub and spoke VPNs the model constrains your deployment somewhat. Now I'm not saying key distribution with wireguard is easy, that's a different problem. But wireguard is literally like "let's take your existing network interface and give it modern fast impossible to fuck up encryption".

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

I have no idea what you just said.

Can you dumb it down maybe?

iqkznnft commented on Since '67, households making $150K+ (inflation adjusted) grew from 1.8 to 23.8M twitter.com/jmhorp/status... · Posted by u/KoftaBob

hollerith · 4 years ago

Which pills developed in the 50s cost much more in the US than in the rest of the world?

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

Ask Martin Shkreli.

iqkznnft commented on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/mritzmann

number6 · 4 years ago

It is also much faster and allows p2p networks

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

What does "allow p2p networks" mean exactly?

iqkznnft commented on Since '67, households making $150K+ (inflation adjusted) grew from 1.8 to 23.8M twitter.com/jmhorp/status... · Posted by u/KoftaBob

tptacek · 4 years ago

The second pill costs almost nothing to produce. The first pill costs billions, plural, and the successful minority of new drugs have to foot the bill for all the unsuccessful first pills.

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

I'm talking about pills developed in the 50s, and which cost nothing to manufacture, and almost given away in most of the world except in the USA.

iqkznnft commented on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/mritzmann

simias · 4 years ago

I also like that they let you download the raw wireguard config files so that you can connect without having to use their client. You can just plop them onto your filesystem and use wg-quick to get going.

Since I'm also a ProtonMail user and I considered switching to them for VPN as well but their python client doesn't seem to work correctly on my Arch Linux install and it doesn't give me anything useful to debug it beyond "An unknown error has occured" so I couldn't be bothered to investigate beyond that.

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

I've read some articles online, but I still haven't managed to understand the hype around wireguard. It's lighter than OpenVPN, but has more obscure primitives? Doesn't seem like a great trade off...

iqkznnft commented on Ask HN: How do you monitor your young kids' computer usage? · Posted by u/KennyFromIT

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

I'm more concerned about their interaction with addictive apps than with strangers on the Internet. I'm confident that I can educate them to have a skeptical view of the world them and exercise common sense, I'm not sure I can stop them get more and more addicted once they get started down that path.

iqkznnft commented on Since '67, households making $150K+ (inflation adjusted) grew from 1.8 to 23.8M twitter.com/jmhorp/status... · Posted by u/KoftaBob

rayiner · 4 years ago

Drugs cost money to produce. Pharma R&D spending has gone up by a factor of 10 since 1980, to almost $90 billion/year. And manufacturing, sales, distribution, etc., aren’t free. EBITDA margins in the industry are typically under 30%. And drugs are just 10% of health care spending. When a cancer or heart attack patient survives instead of dying immediately, they need decades of doctors visits, nursing care, etc.

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

I think that when people complain about the cost of health care, they're not talking about things which cost a lot to produce. They're taking about things that cost almost nothing to produce, but are priced outrageously because of some wonky market dynamics

iqkznnft commented on Since '67, households making $150K+ (inflation adjusted) grew from 1.8 to 23.8M twitter.com/jmhorp/status... · Posted by u/KoftaBob

inglor_cz · 4 years ago

"Health care was not nearly as expensive"

True, but its capabilities have grown since then, too. Things like monoclonal antibodies can now cure very serious conditions, but they are very expensive to produce.

In the 1960s, cancer was an almost certain death sentence, nowadays, it is often manageable - but that increase in survival comes with a price tag.

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

iqkznnft commented on Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal github.com/smmr-software/... · Posted by u/figbert

iqkznnft · 4 years ago

I hope this is a good place to ask: what do people in HN use for torrent client?

I recently learned that transmission got hacked (more than once apparently) so I decided to stop using it. The alternatives seem to be deluge or qbittorrent. I picked the latter because it has labels (and supports moving finished downloads to different folders depending on label), which is a feature I'd always wanted in a torrent client. But my point is it seems to me all the torrent clients seems very similar, barring very minor features.

Anyway, what do you people use and why?

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