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Sleepytimeon Do patents kill innovation? The US patent office is asking

Most IP should be scrapped completely in the age of free and cheap information. I really don't have any sympathy to big corps making money from IP, and small entities are finding more and more ways to give their IP away and find revenue elsewhere (hardware, swag, live events, Patreon, etc).

Scrapping IP would be a big step in making more, smaller, and more sustainable businesses instead of our current 'grow or get bought out' mindset.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is all that matters. I would wager that most reading this website have had strangers and family alike approach them for help with with their huge ideas, which really means "you are the programmer you do it all". Most of which are utterly unoriginal, yet they want you to sign an NDA or promise to keep it secret. Patents and to some extent copyright/trademarks tilt the scale heavily away from innovative ideas toward 'derivative but licenseable'.

I am running on 4 hours of sleep, hopefully my word salad makes sense.

Sleepytimeon Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network

I'm getting sub 100ms latencies across the continent with multi hop routes through public peers.

Sleepytimeon Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network

I haven't used tailscale so... I think so? Tailscale is pretty light on the details, and even their docs say that they have been reluctant to describe how it works.

>People often ask us for an overview of how Tailscale works. We’ve been putting off answering that, because we kept changing it!

Yggdrasil is fully peer to peer and doesn't require a central coordinator like tailscale does. Ygg is closer to a global network than a private one. You can make a private network, but if any peers on the network peer to the global net then your whole network is now peered. this should be handled at the firewall level, or with an overlay VPN.

Sleepytimeon Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network

This is correct in the sense of peering, however hosts behind a NAT can simply connect to any other host on the network such as a pubic peer and then they can accept incoming connections over the yggdrasil network.

I use yggdrasil for NAT hole punching my VPN, for example.

Sleepytimeon Kids need freedom, too

The computer that you used required skills to use and maintain, and stayed at home. It is vastly different than a dumb (yes) internet appliance kept in a pocket all day long subjecting children to dark patterns and dopamine hits for hours a day.

Sleepytimeon Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower

Even on a street only trip I'd prefer an adventure bike to most street bikes, the rugged factor shouldn't be discounted when you're 1000+ miles away from home and outside of cell signal.

Sleepytimeon Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower

Dual sports can usually withstand a few drops with nothing more than new levers, parts are cheap, and maintenance is usually easier than street bikes. I almost always recommend a small dual sport as a first bike. If you get a used one for a decent price you can almost always sell it for what you paid for it even if it takes a couple of tumbles, and you can see if you like off-road too.

>At least they're not as silly as the trend of sticking knobbly tyres on road bikes for that "scrambler" look.

FWIW I've got a mid-weight streetfighter that I'd love to put some 50/50 tires and a skid plate on. But I already take it into the dirt so it would be an improvement.

And yes, supermotos might be the ultimate motorcycle.

Sleepytimeon Let web applications be file handlers

I don't consider a closed source browser on equal footing. Is there a safari equivalent to chromium?

Sleepytimeon Let web applications be file handlers

In practice when Mozilla is the only real competition to Chrome and wouldn't exist without Google's funding, it's a conflict of interest regardless.

All it does is make the situation more 'death by a thousand papercuts' than any single standard/extension.

Sleepytimeon Let web applications be file handlers

Mozilla is also funded nearly half a billion dollars a year by Google, so that makes three that are controlled directly or indirectly by G.

Sleepytimeon I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

Unregulated encryption will be out in the next decade, it's too powerful for us plebes to have. Things will be safer when only the paragons of infosec like big corporations and banks get to use it freely.

Sleepytimeon I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

Based on the direction the web is going, it might continue to be true. Easily 90% of the bandwidth a typical webpage uses is trackers, battery/CPU drains, and assorted worthless fluff when some text and a few pictures would suffice just fine in the majority of cases.

Sleepytimeon I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

IPFS mirroring would probably be ideal for simple websites like this.

Sleepytimeon Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines

Pfizer has a long history of criminal behavior. This was written in 2010.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875889/

Sleepytimeon Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals

The vaccinated are still vectors for the infection of those who cannot be vaccinated.

Sleepytimeon Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

>(and points out that the Trump organisation might be in trouble ....)

Thanks for that line, I was starting to worry that there were things going on in the world that weren't about Trump.

Sleepytimeon NixOS 21.05

It's been my daily for not much longer than that, and almost every time I play with NixOS itself I get the sense of wonder and possibility in computers that I haven't had since I was a teenager. It's definitely a force multiplier.

Sleepytimeon King County, WA bans facial recognition software

Fascism or public-private partnership... It's the same in-group in power, protecting each other, regardless of which arm of the state (corporate, government, religion, media, universities) is currently doing the most effective social engineering.

Sleepytimeon NixOS 21.05

>It doesn't work so well for I borrowed my coworker's computer for 5 minutes and want to use my own Vim configuration

You could use something like nixos-shell[1] to spin up a headless VM of your machine into your current shell.

[1]https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-shell

Sleepytimeon NixOS 21.05

>Is there some way I can boot-to-git-configuration?

Yes, the NixOS installer is a live disk with all the features of NixOS. I have booted configurations directly from IPFS in the installer, and many nix commands and functions support git (or GitHub) natively.

You can declaratively specify your whole infrastructure from software configuration to remote machines with their own VMs.

For example here's my nix function for matrix: https://0x0.st/-2CA.nix

It does a whole bunch of stuff.

First it reads in the hostname and domain from the system configuration and put that in a variable to be used when configuring the subdomains later.

Then it opens up your firewall, starts a postgres service, creates the matrix db/user, configures nginx for matrix.hortname.domain, gets your SSL certificate (and sets up automatic renewal), sets up matrix, and lastly a hosted web client at element.host.domain. All services run under their own users on the host system.

It's zero configuration, I just import that to any machine that I want and it's running a matrix server with all appropriate ancillary configuration done.

Sleepytimeon YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

This is Google making the first steps to block alternate/privacy centric interfaces such as NewPipe/invidious/youtube-dl. Push back now or never.

Sleepytimeon YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos

Just checked the video in the issue, it doesn't work in newpipe.

Sleepytimeon What is traceability and why does WhatsApp oppose it?

"we kill people based on metadata"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxwEwwlDM8Q

Sleepytimeon Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

https://christine.website/blog

The NixOS infrastructure is awesome, and of course the whole blog is open sourced and served from the nix store.

Sleepytimeon Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC

Alyx is fun to play but the jokes and dialog are really bad. Previous half life games did a lot more with a lot less.

Sleepytimeon The Limits to Blockchain Scalability

The internet was around a lot longer than a decade before aol showed up and started pressing CDs.

Sleepytimeon Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0

I'm tab addicted. Reduce-to-buffer is so cool, and I like being able to save tabs to a file.

Sleepytimeon A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop

Ever cop knows the phrase "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride". Arresting people you know will get charges dropped just to hassle them is standard practice.

Sleepytimeon [dead]

Not a surprise. Moving out west from the deep south, 'limousine liberals' are some of the most racist people I've ever met, usually while talking nonstop about how they can fix the black experience from the comfort of their mostly-white existence.