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elpy1

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elpy1··on We’re making Bunny DNS free
Just switched over a domain to Bunny with ping-based latency routing successfully. Thanks!

One small bit of feedback: HTTPS records were neither discovered nor imported during the zone import. I was able to manually create them but just a FYI.

elpy1··on Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
> Being that this is Drew, I wouldn't be shocked to know that this provider choice has more to do with a anti-establishment manifesto than any practicality

Not wanting your traffic MITM'd is anti-establishment. That's where we're at LOL.

elpy1··on Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
The current number of service nodes is more than enough to power Session, without the need to rely on a central server for message delivery.

The size of the network will grow with time and using it obviously contributes to its growth.

elpy1··on Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
What makes you think it's a scam? Do you mean crypto in general or the oxen project itself?
elpy1··on Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
Time for people to look into Session (https://getsession.org). You get automatic native onion routing via decentralised infrastructure - currently 1800~ community-run servers (service nodes).
elpy1··on Our evolved intuitions about privacy aren’t made for this era
>If we really care about our privacy, though, why do we share so much?

In my experience, for many it has nothing to do with choice of sharing - it's about lack of education and understanding of the internet and/or technology in general. People aren't aware of just how much data is being collected by companies (especially tech companies), who it's shared with, for what purpose it's used or that they really have no control over removing or 'deleting' it.

So I don't believe it's entirely correct to blame consumers. It's more the tech industry exploiting the lack of knowledge of consumers while hiding behind opaque policies.

> the panoptic gaze of CCTV captures our movements; social media companies scan masses of our public and private messages; and smart speakers record clips of our speech

If privacy was important to recent generations of people the NSA revelations from Snowden leaks would have caused an uprising. Whether good or bad, there seems to be a certain level of apathy or acceptance around the loss of privacy of personal data.

> Sometimes we have little choice

The bottom line. Tech companies already know everything about everyone who uses their platforms. In fact, building AI and serving advertisements relies on them collecting it.

elpy1··on Moxie Marlinspike has a plan to reclaim our privacy
You might be interested in Session (https://getsession.org)
elpy1··on Show HN: swurl – aws, curl, socks5 and IAM authentication
It started with curl and ended with swurl.. A guide on accessing your non-public AWS services using SSH, SSM, SOCKS5 and AWS signature v4.
elpy1··on Show HN: ssm-tool – simplifying SSH access over AWS SSM
Connect to private AWS EC2 instances using SSH over SSM, with no requirement to have your SSH public key exist on the server in advance.