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Have you seen user agent strings?

Every browser pretends to be all the browsers before it to get around restrictions on who can see/render content.


Your point is as nonsensical as the user agent strings themselves.

It's not copy protection. It may change the structure and content of the page that is sent but that is not copy protection.


> It's not copy protection. It may change the structure and content of the page that is sent but that is not copy protection.

It is though!

Often news websites use the user agent to detect e.g. the google crawler, and allow google to index the contents of news articles; but then throw up a paywall when anyone with a normal browser shows up.

I recall some news websites tried to threaten people making browser extensions with the DMCA/CFAA as they considered it working around their copy protection to illegally gain access to their content.


>recall some news websites tried to threaten people making browser extensions with the DMCA/CFAA as they considered it working around their copy protection to illegally gain access to their content.

Source? I spent two minutes looking and failed to find anything like that, hardly an exhaustive search though.

Hard to argue a user agent could be DRM though, considering it's a string I the user send to the website.


Email is also an archive of communications with vendors, shops and government departments.

Signal doesn't let you migrate chat history to your desktop.

Trying to migrate between phones while retaining your Signal history is too hard for most people.

Signal is not at all a suitable replacement, and I believe that forward secrecy is an anti-feature for an email-like usecase.


You know you're in trouble when people start talking about forward secrecy being problematic. What you're saying about the "email-like use case" for cryptography is that it's unserious protection, because a lack of forward secrecy practically guarantees full decryption of the entire history of messages, for any ordinary participant in the system.


A major goal of an email-like system is full decryption of the entire history of messages.

Same as it's a feature of my filing cabinet that items don't incinerate themselves whenever I move house.


Sure. Because people overwhelmingly aren't relying on the security of their email; it's overwhelmingly stuff no adversary would care to read. Then they retrofit the UX requirements they have for those boring mails onto all emails, and suggest that encrypted email should just accept those as constraints, and then we'll declare victory.


>a lack of forward secrecy practically guarantees full decryption of the entire history of messages, for any ordinary participant in the system.

Can you elaborate?


Eventually a private key will leak, and without forward secrecy, that private key will probably decrypt all past messages to that person, and all future messages to that person, until they give all their correspondents a new key.

With email, because people quote when replying, you'll get the other side's messages too.

Like, the simple PGP-like system where sender encrypts message using recipient's public RSA key.

And of course it's not improved by switching from RSA to ECIES.

You need to ratchet the key, or double ratchet like Signal protocol.


I expect it would be far cheaper to scale up tempo/loki than it would be to even run an idle kafka cluster. This feels like spending thousands of dollars to save tens of dollars.


Querying in Tempo/Loki does seem to not scale particularly well, and Loki has known issues with high cardinality data, so...


Tempo can still buckle under huge bursts of traffic, and you don’t need the retention to be in the hours


When handling surges of the order of 10x, it's much more difficult to scale the different components of loki than to write them to Kafka/Redpanda first and consume at a consistent rate.


Where are you finding such an expensive Kafka cluster? Kafka can run on 3 VPS's in a trenchcoat.


zig supports importing C headers via the special built-in `@cImport`. That feature requires a C language front end to operate. https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.10.1/#Import-from-C-Head...


I personally find the yq tool from https://github.com/kislyuk/yq much more useful: it has all the same options and formats as `jq` (as it's really a wrapper around jq). Rather than the `yq` in the OP here where only partial functionality exists.


e.g. some anti-virus software requires a kernel module; this adds additional attack surface

e.g. historically anti-virus engines have had bugs where e.g. when they search inside of a .zip file; their .zip parser was susceptible to a buffer overflow that would have allowed a malicious file when scanned to run arbitrary code.

e.g. some anti-virus software has a daemon that runs on localhost with an exposed port. This port receives RPCs. websites in your browser have been able to make requests to the anti-virus daemon.


Just stay until you get arrested for trespassing and "escorted" out.


That seems to be at least a $22000 car. (cheapest one for sale right now: https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2015-nissan-leaf-az... )

How on earth is that worth it when a similar era e.g. mazda 3 is $13000?


$9000 is a couple of years of fuel for a lot of people. Other incentives (cheaper rego, no FBT, etc) may apply to you depending on your position/state.

You're also likely to spend significantly less in maintenance due to simpler systems with less wearable parts.


They're stupid inflated right now. Pre pandemic, they were selling for ~7500 used in the US.


> They're stupid inflated right now. Pre pandemic, they were selling for ~7500 used in the US.

Some stats indicate that second hand car prices are plummeting at the moment now that supply chains are normalising. I suspect this won't extend to electric cars which kind of have their own supply-side problems though!


I kick myself every day for not pulling the trigger when they were that cheap. That's less than some higher-tier electric bikes!


Note that Postgres has built in range types which makes much of this cleaner. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/rangetypes.html#RANGETYPE...


I guess Datomic is the most mature system, which uses a persistent in-memory index structure, mapped to a common on-disk storage system.

That said, nowadays it should probably be possible to store the persistent data structure in a log-structured file for instance and to make use of fast random-reads of enterprise PCIe SSDs without the indirection of another data store / index to traverse for each index page.


You might be able to find a solution in migadu (https://www.migadu.com/)


I found Migadu through a HN post like this and can't recommend them enough. It feels like having my own mail server without the headaches. The pricing model works for me and I find the control panel really well laid out. I don't think I could return to an email provider that leases emails at my own domain back to me.


Wow, this is exactly what I'm looking for. How often do emails you send go to other people's spam? Do you know people with an outlook email?


I've not experienced that problem. I'm uncertain how many Outlook inboxes I've mailed, but I have done so and they did work.


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