I think the "inviolability" thing is useful just to understand what's actually happening here, but it's also important to understand that the US and Germany have very different criminal justice, search, and evidentiary systems. Germany doesn't have an exclusionary rule for evidence, for instance.
Your comments have been repeatedly and egregiously breaking the site guidelines. That's not ok, and if you keep doing it we will have to ban your account.
HN's rules don't change based on how right you are or feel you are, or how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.
I'm sorry and will stop but isn't spreading false Hezbollah propaganda against the rules? How are we meant to respond to people saying incredibly wrong things?
"Spreading false Hezbollah propaganda" is a case that it's hard to talk about without giving rise to lots of misunderstanding, so let me give you a general response.
It's true that posting in bad faith (e.g. saying wrong things despite knowing that they're wrong) isn't the same as simply being mistaken. But to decide who is really doing this would require reading their mind, and that's impossible—so we can't use that as a basis for moderation.
You also have been breaking the site guidelines badly by perpetuating this flamewar and by using HN primarily for political battle. That's not ok, and if you keep doing it we will have to ban your account.
HN's rules don't change based on how right you are or feel you are, or how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.
I agree with you about the previous comment, which was unhelpful, but regarding Hezbollah, I'm afraid you're making claims about things you want to be true more than you are relating any actual research.
It's my fault for picking this scab with you again in the first place, though.
Tptacek has been one of the more reasonable voices on this thread and it is odd you would single him out for criticism. Your use of the word "goybucks" is very concerning.
That is not a response to what I wrote. His citation of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory is wrong, deliberately provocative and intellectually dishonest. He knows it, which is why he's unwilling to redress the comment and apologized for the provocation (eg. "picking this scab" in his words).
I apologized for correcting a comment from someone who I believe isn't in a place to discuss the issue, and who would predictably contest the claim --- since we'd already had the same disagreement elsewhere, bringing it up again, however valid my concern was, was bad for the thread. The apology was in no way whatsoever a reflection of my beliefs about what actually happened.
Jews use "goy" as a slur against non-Jews. As a so called "goy", I don't find "goybucks" offensive and in fact appreciate the attempt to reclaim the word.
That's an interesting argument, given the whole impetus behind pushing for DoT vs. DoH was to allow network administrators the discretion to block encrypted DNS (by blocking DoT).
Just to add real quick: there is not in fact a meaningful growing deployment of DNSSEC --- in fact, in North America and the western commercial Internet, the opposite thing is true: the number of signed zones has decreased. This is especially stark if you look at the true figure of merit, DNSSEC deployment on popular zones (take the Tranco academic research ranking of popular zones as a model):
It still is! I don't know how much clearer we could be about this point. :)
Litestream does not require a VFS to work. It still does all the cool stuff it did before; in fact, it does those things much better now, even without the VFS.
Not so much leaving money on the table as you have a valuable resource you are underutilizing in this respect. You’d have to cross-cultivate your audience and expand to fill some niche.
That means that instead of dropping facts here you should post it on Substack and link to it here. You’ll be fine with it because you’re trusted here so people will be like “oh it’s fine”.
And then once you have the newsletter going and you have a following there you can do paid placements etc. that don't have to be done by you.
I think you have the highest potential on this front but that doesn't mean there's comparative advantage. It may not be worth it to you. For instance, I would never do it. To keep that wheel spinning you have to keep putting energy into it. And I have other ways of making money, so even with your account it would be a waste.
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