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He was under threat of prosecution from the FBI.
So he suicided without mental issues, just to "make a statement"? Sorry that's not a martyr.
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It resolves for me! Try installing a handshake resolver directly like hsd [1] for full chain or hnsd [2] for SPV. [1] https://GitHub.com/handshake-org/hsd [2] https://GitHub.com/handshake-org/hnsd
Neither of those have binary releases. I just wanted to install some handshake addon to nextdns and visit sci hub. Is this possible at all or is there non-zero configuration required?
I enabled Handshake in the NextDNS settings and it resolves fine for me.
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> Aaron Swartz was a martyr, and I don't mean to disparage him or his legacy. Who killed him? According to wikipedia it was suicide. Did he have a mental issue?
the pressure the US DOJ attorneys put upon him became unbearable. their high pressure tactics which involve piling on charges and threatening the target with so many years in prison as to be lifetime for some can had adverse affects on people. Sadly this is par for the course as the prosecuting attorney and their office do not get called to account for their methods or out comes. this is very difficult to correct as…
It's important to understand the historical context. Aaron was arrested in 2011, when a lot of other internet politics was happening. Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, LulzSec (remember Fuck FBI Friday?), Wikileaks, SOPA. "The block was hot" so to speak.
The attitude in DC was, "those people on the internet think they can do whatever they want, we'll show them." Well, they showed us and we lost a truly inspiring person.
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#195I’m supportive of free distribution of scientific knowledge, BUT HN has a significant bias against believing in the power of legal systems. No matter how good the technology, it can eventually be censored if the law is strong enough. In the past, it was hard to separate “useful” internet activity from “illegitimate” because things were changing quickly. Today, a government might say its simply illegal to use end to e…
> doesn’t sound friendly to new idea entrants) or acknowledge that we need some kind of rules to ensure equal access (requiring law or some other consensus mechanism
We used to have that, it was called "net neutrality" and it was killed by Parler's political party.
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Well, they should not have given him such a job title then.
Suppose you get together with someone to found a company as cofounders, but then your cofounder nearly immediately leaves the company to pursue other projects. Why is it wrong to annul the designation? Swartz contributed technology (web.py) that Reddit used briefly, and deserves as much credit as other technology contributors of the same scale.
That doesn't seem to be a fair description - it seems like he originally ran a software house that were paid to build a lot of the original reddit, was acquihired and given the title founder, and then stuck with the company through acquisition before being re-assigned to another of the acquirers properties.
Founder, not sure, but your narrative of someone barely involved doesn't stack up either.
Also, early on, it seems he brought the technical knowhow, acting as an outside CTO, and also had high PR / name recognition value, so I think they owed him some recognition for sure.
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Stupid question, is this the issue that was at the core of net neutrality? I may have misunderstood the entire thing if so.
it's related. ISPs and telecom in the US do not invest adequately in infrastructure, and the existing infrastructure is overloaded. net neutrality was all about how that infrastructure can be utilized; ISPs want to profit off the scarcity by allowing big companies to pay for priority so that their website would load faster at the expense of everyone else (big companies want this too, and they want it to be expensive,…
> some ISPs also wanted to sell "internet lite" packages that are cheaper and only allow you to connect to a fixed set of websites. presumably they would also take money off the back end from those websites that want to be in the list.
In the U.S.? I thought this was only in India with Facebook's non-internet Internet.
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Hopefully with Dems in control we will see these companies punished for their bad behavior. Or at least laws passed that make the publication of research more open. The science should be funded and free. The applications of the science are where the money is to be made. These companies are unnecessary dinosaurs from a bygone era. It's time for them to fail and die off naturally. But it will probably take legislation…
> These companies are unnecessary dinosaurs from a bygone era. Elsevier is a very diverse company with a lot of product offerings that are not antiquated. People here tend to just think of them as a journal publication company, but they are much more than that. The company sells (through subsidiaries) a lot of IT products to governments and law enforcement around the world. They, as a small example, offer a service t…
Then Elsevier should be just fine when it loses this part of its business.
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> A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phone book "Phone[ ]book" is the 12th word on the page you linked, and described there as a synonym to "directory". There's no need to be that pedantic.
It is not "pedantic", rather literate, to note the word directory instead of grasping for DNS. "A telephone book was a directory for telephone numbers" is clear and accurate. Unless knowing what the word "directory" means is asserted to be the domain of pedants. "By providing a worldwide, distributed directory service, the Domain Name System has been an essential component of the functionality of the Internet since 1…
>It is not "pedantic"
It's quite pedantic.
I'm the same way, here's an interpersonal relationship tip I've had to learn: If someone calls you an asshole, you can't say "No, I've thought about it and you're wrong, you don't really think I'm an asshole." Well, you can say that, but it just makes you come off as even more of an asshole.
Re: Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’
#200I’m supportive of free distribution of scientific knowledge, BUT HN has a significant bias against believing in the power of legal systems. No matter how good the technology, it can eventually be censored if the law is strong enough. In the past, it was hard to separate “useful” internet activity from “illegitimate” because things were changing quickly. Today, a government might say its simply illegal to use end to e…
> No matter how good the technology, it can eventually be censored if the law is strong enough. I won't repeat sibling commenters here giving examples of where this is not true (US encryption mainly). I'm wondering if you have any examples of where it is true. What has been censored effectively? As far as I've been aware, legal censorship has never worked. "Cultural censorship" (a.k.a. "taboo") can be quite effective…
Not by censorship alone, of course, but here's J. S. Mill: "But, indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries. To speak only of religious opinions: the Reformation broke out at least twenty times before Luther, and was put down. Arnold of Brescia was put down. Fra Dolcino was put down. Savonarola was put down. The Albigeois were put down. The Vaudois were put down. The Lollards were put down. The Hussites were put down."