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tor_useron William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85

Washington post running the same headline, bravo whoever wrote the headline on hn.

tor_useron Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?

Very interesting info, but they own the OS and in some cases the compiler: https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/visual-cpp-telemetry

Given that, I don't care to engage in whack a mole with them. They have the upper hand.

Safe for visual studio and visual studio code users to assume that the IDEs are sending telemetry too.

In my case the best thing is to avoid the OS. And github and whatever else their malign influence could eventually own.

tor_useron Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?

> I know what I'm getting into by using Windows.

the problem is rather that you think you do - but you don't and can't.

tor_useron Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?

quiet except for a few microsoft addresses when you run a spotlight command searching your own apple brand hard disk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)#Privacy_c...

tor_useron Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?

Microsoft have a long history of overriding and ignoring hosts configurations to their own addresses so I am skeptical on the utility of this. I think you might be a little too trusting.

I do not have time to repeat the efforts outlined by government contractors in the above links with this add on applied, I doubt you do either.

Better for me to avoid the OS altogether.

tor_useron Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?

You may want to have a look at the number of possible events sent to America compared between 'basic' and 'full' (93|112), (410|422).

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/23/german-federal-office-bsi-...

Office then has approximately 50 times that number again:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/16/microsoft_gdpr/

People are upset because there is no way to set this to zero aside from unplugging the machine from the network.

tor_useron Some notes about HTTP/3

> If you wait a few years for HTTP/3 to settle, proxies will be available that could be glued into tor inside a weekend hackathon.

In 16 years they have not managed to support UDP and now you say of a project (you are not familiar with...), that they can get it up over a weekend hackathon.

And you are calling me ridiculous?

This speaks volumes for your predictive ability.

Good day, sir!

tor_useron Some notes about HTTP/3

The oppressed people of the world salute your endeavours.

tor_useron Some notes about HTTP/3

"Will" - are you from the future?

tor_useron Some notes about HTTP/3

How can I realise something that may or may not happen?

Everything that goes over UDP is not supported as of 2018 and some volunteer project is going to figure this out?

Hubris.

tor_useron Some notes about HTTP/3

Still not getting it. Every site is hosted. The hosting company needs to spend money on HTTP/2, and be allowed to use it. The networks need to allow TCP through. All the steps down to the transport layer now require legacy maintenance.

Lots of things need to happen for HTTP/2 to 'stay alive'.

Your use of the future tense does not convince me.

tor_useron Some notes about HTTP/3

???? != nothing.

Why run HTTP/3 if HTTP/1 costs nothing?

Where I work legacy gets dropped sooner rather than later.

I hope this bombs, er tanks.

tor_useron Some notes about HTTP/3

Working without javascript requires money. Running old versions of HTTP requires ????.

tor_useron Some notes about HTTP/3

like websites without javascript?

tor_useron Some notes about HTTP/3

have any of you geniuses figured out this will break websites for tor users yet?