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> We have lots of RCTs on mask wearing (mostly in healthcare professionals) and they struggle to find a benefit. This is false. If you look around and read actual studies, not dema…

> It is a common human tendency and the US is merely a vanguard of what will eventually be a global reality. No, it's not. The US is the one pushing other countries to implement US…

Too bad, because there was no false information. Plenty of countries don't have not just anti-circumvention laws for copyright, but also DMCA-like laws and may even require you to …

As someone who uses youtube-dl for all the videos online, it's presence in any repos isn't as important as it may seem, because it breaks from time to time for some websites and yo…

Luckily they don't need to consider what some rich capitalist CEO thinks and don't need to return to MicrosoftHub and hopefully they won't. Especially given there are plenty of eas…

Could you please stop with this ideological political activism? There is no inherent sexism in any language, ancient historical origin of the words isn't carried over to modern mea…

> So whether you can legally use WWW browsers is not the point at issue. It is whether youtube-dl is a tool that enables access to YouTube contents by circumventing a "cipher". But…

> That’s not so clear, but YouTube does obfuscate its code to make the task of tools like youtube-dl harder. Not for tools like youtube-dl, but for tools that let user manually ext…

But in that wording they do allow downloading. Features of the Youtube service accessed thought the Chrome browser don't have to be exactly the same as accessed though other browse…

> you circumvented the technical copy protection mechanism (no matter how ridiculously trivial it was) They can't do ridiculously trivial copy protection legally, depending on the …

> The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use It's an alternative web browser for videos, of course it was intended for copyright…

CDC and healthcare in general are not scientific institutions.

No one can sincerely follow those rules, because they are too subjective. The only reason people tolerate them is because they are not enforced. But when you do enforce something f…

No, dang is purposely vague in all of his warnings, as if he wants to make sure people won't be able to follow them and it will be up to him to decide whether they did or didn't. I…

> I've spent 1% of my remaining life under lockdown so far, and expect to spend an approximately equal amount before a vaccine. At what point is it not worth it? If you understand …

Except maybe for current comment (not really, HN just has more replies on anything these days), nothing actually turned into flamewars, most out of his few "flamewar" comments over…

But if an attacker can intercept domain validation to issue a certificate, there is little reason not to protect his own certificate from revocation by preventing subsequent valida…

It doesn't. Pretty much no one monitors CT logs and for those who do there is no way to prove misissuance of domain-validated certificate and revoke it, they don't have private key…

That's the thing, they don't seem to bother actually addressing the problem and assume no other interception capability than hacking BGP. But we are talking here about exactly that…

And MITM is still possible for https, just a bit different with two points of interception, rather than one, see my other comment [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2471…

MITM like that still works for most https websites because of the automatic domain validation by ACME-based certificate authorities. The only caveat is that now an attacker has to …

It's a simple way I know that significantly improves reliability of wifi in most circumstances.

Maybe. Although switching wifi router into something like 802.11b-only or a-only mode and selecting a fixed least busy channel might be a better long term solution, as USB3 isn't t…

Bad hardware compliance is only part of the problem. With higher speeds all the user facing stuff, like cables, connectors, power without noise - all start to matter too. You know …

A typical FTTB ISP providing services to people living in apartment buildings isn't doing a "carrier ethernet", I guess it's more like a datacenter. It just has a media converter c…