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> Users are allowed to think it's censorship once they lose their value or become a liability. To someone who happened to live under a de facto Soviet occupation (not de jure, afte…

"By helping users to understand the error of their ways and have a chance to redeem themselves" Could you elaborate a bit more on this part? I find your post quite insightful and w…

Is this definiton of censorship from Wikipedia incorrect then? "Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information that may be considered objection…

"Censorship by Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China" How about: "Curation by Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China"

The downvote(s) on your comment were really saddening, though I was expecting exactly that when reading it few hours ago. This is sadly a trend with any discussion platform becomin…

Out of curiosity, what is your reason to run DD-WRT on a GL? Considering you have Shibby also deployed and are thus presumably familiar with its feature set, is there something in …

> Of course I understand it if you prefer not to run beta software, Oh not at all, this is good news that there is still some activity wrt 54GL (pun intended). Having alternatives …

Besides DD-WRT, which can be at times quite flaky a unreliable on WRT54GL with its outdated OS base and a slow UI (and also a real pain to keep track on the few working firmware re…

> and I am not willing You live with your choice. > and I can't get You try to look harder for other options.

For the moment, you still can, in a certain way. I've just made another lengthier comment about it elsewhere in the thread [1], before noticing yours which sadly got buried at the …

Semi-hijacking your question to mention the other side of the pond too, which many people do not seem to know about and I run into this issue quite regularly. While the laptop situ…

I can confirm that sadly - this exactly mirrors my own experiences with DDG XMPP. Sometimes for entire weeks I have been what looked like the only person reporting (or caring) that…

Though not a simple remote attack in that sense, AMT has been used by rootkits before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno... A nice overview of what AMT a…

From https://libreboot.org/faq/#amd # Why is the latest AMD hardware unsupported in libreboot? It is extremely unlikely that any post-2013 AMD hardware will ever be supported in li…

I second that. I browse, guessing, about 95% of the public web with NoScript + uBlock on and unless the content that doesn't work without JS is especially crucial to what I'm doing…

Yep, that's exactly what happens: https://duckduckgo.com/?q="domain+transfer"+"remaining+time" (Can actually confirm that from this month's experience, so it's even freshly verifie…

Same here - a satisfied Namecheap customer for years, but forced to move my domains away recently. Ironically, what originally brought me there was exactly the huge level of suppor…

> I'm being pedantic here. Please be. Seemingly random bits of (honestly - actually very useful) information like yours are why I'm reading HN in the first place instead of, say, r…

Well, browsing with NoScript, I wasn't even aware of this gag until I returned to read HN comments some 20 hours later (as it looks, the Comic Sans is firstly set via JavaScript, a…

Few minor corrections as several posts in this thread suggest outright installing bash just to achieve tab completion in FreeBSD. The default root shell on FreeBSD is csh (tcsh) [1…