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Re: New standards for a faster and more private Internet

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The internet is moving towards a place where it might not be possible to self-host anything important without getting DDoS'd. Companies like Cloudflare provide a solution to this problem, but that also creates a crutch that means no effort is expended to solve the problem at the root, which means the day may come when you don't have any option left other than Cloudflare. I think these are important issues and worth t…

Those issues are absolutely worth discussing, in a reasonable way. Cloudflare isn't the bad actor perpetuating these DDoS attacks, and they aren't forcing website operators to use their services either.

They don't need to be a bad actor. They just need to be big enough and follow their incentives.

Companies aren't binary good or bad. They go through a lifecycle. Today's young and scrappy startup fighting for the people and the CEO making house calls is tomorrow's big tech with AI chat support.

It's worth noting where a company is in its lifecycle, and what the world is likely to look like if it continues to grow.

Re: New standards for a faster and more private Internet

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>I'm confused why you expect most compression schemes to be necessarily seekable after all. Wtf, you were the one who brought that up.

What? Reading my comment just in case, most other compression schemes are "only seekable with an additional index", thus not seekable in general.

I never said compression schemes have to be seekable, you were the one arguing most other compression schemes are seekable.

Re: New standards for a faster and more private Internet

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post #78
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet is moving towards a place where it might not be possible to self-host anything important without getting DDoS'd. Companies like Cloudflare provide a solution to this problem, but that also creates a crutch that means no effort is expended to solve the problem at the root, which means the day may come when you don't have any option left other than Cloudflare. I think these are important issues and worth t…

Those issues are absolutely worth discussing, in a reasonable way. Cloudflare isn't the bad actor perpetuating these DDoS attacks, and they aren't forcing website operators to use their services either.

> Cloudflare isn't the bad actor perpetuating these DDoS attacks

How do we know that? Who else benefits from most of them?

Re: New standards for a faster and more private Internet

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> Zstandard’s branchless design is a crucial innovation that enhances CPU efficiency Given how branchless algorithms are helping optimize not just network transport (compression) and even OS system libs (no citation for this one, but I’ve heard), that I really wish colleges begin teaching this along with DS/Algo course material.

what’s DS stand for? discrete structures?

Re: New standards for a faster and more private Internet

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> Zstandard’s branchless design is a crucial innovation that enhances CPU efficiency Given how branchless algorithms are helping optimize not just network transport (compression) and even OS system libs (no citation for this one, but I’ve heard), that I really wish colleges begin teaching this along with DS/Algo course material.

what’s DS stand for? discrete structures?

Data Structures probably

Data Structures & Algorithms is also sometimes abbreviated as DSA

Re: New standards for a faster and more private Internet

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DPI systems in Turkey weren't even checking QUIC packets when I was there, let alone ECH. But, browsers usually start with TCP first to negotiate QUIC support, which prevented bypass of web blocks. If you could force your browser to establish connection directly using QUIC, you could bypass all the blocks. That was last year though. Not sure about the current situation.

They usually won't bother with blocking if the site owner just hosts the site under a different domain name. It could be like news.ycombinator1923.com or something. wink

Re: New standards for a faster and more private Internet

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> Zstandard’s branchless design is a crucial innovation that enhances CPU efficiency Given how branchless algorithms are helping optimize not just network transport (compression) and even OS system libs (no citation for this one, but I’ve heard), that I really wish colleges begin teaching this along with DS/Algo course material.

what’s DS stand for? discrete structures?

As the sibling comment mentioned already: Data Structures & Algorithms.
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