Re: Persecution of Julian Assange Must End

, no they couldn't. The host country grants/approves diplomatic credentials, so it's up to the UK Government whether he gets that status. You can already guess what the answer would be. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: minix - tannenbaum won!

tecture that Minix is now (effectively) the most dominant OS on. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: lists.cpunks.org giving TLS ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

On 26 Jun 2017 20:45, "Greg Newby" wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:26:08AM -0300, Ben Mezger wrote: > > This *only* happens on Google Chrome and Chromium. > > > > Any idea why this might happen? > > I'll get this fixed over the next day or so, probably with a letsencrypt

Re: lists.cpunks.org giving TLS ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

mium/issues/detail?id=685826#c15 https://threatpost.com/google-to-distrust-wosign-startcom-certs-in-2017/121709/ Apparently Firefox isn't going to be too far behind either > - seds > > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: Heaps of Windows 10 internal builds, private source code leak online

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 4:00 PM, CANNON wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 06/25/2017 02:14 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > > On 06/25/2017 09:03 AM, CANNON wrote: > >> Make open source: > >> Would would be very amusing is to see Microsoft cry

Re: how to best organise a large community "important" books library?

But it'd get complicated quite quickly (particularly if you don't know the author's name) so you'd want some sort of index available to do metadata based searching too. I think that's probably going to be hard to avoid with a substantial number of books though. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: Did m$ released patch for unsupported windozes after Wannacry hit?

> unsupported Windows versions with custom support contracts. The NHS, for > example, had dropped its XP support contract in ~2014. Cheap bastards ;) > > To be fair, it wasn't the NHS that dropped that contract, it was the Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. The NHS actually made a bit

Re: Happy Loyalty Day, May 1

y. > > It was May Day centuries before USians tried to call it Labour (or Loyalty) day, so May Day is still correct (unless you're in the US, then it's arguable) But in 1958 he proclaimed 1 May to be "Law Day", so it could also be Law Day too. > It was originally

Re: thepiratebay.org behind cloudflare

likely to be because AOL was upstream than it is simply a product of the fact that Warner are absolutely shit-hot on trying to keep on top of their content being shared (for all the good it does). They don't notice and catch everyone, but IME they've got a far better detection rate than other publishers

Re: Adding [Cypherpunks] at the beginning of a subject by default

er drawbacks, but does tick that particular box. Like others I just filter into another folder -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: UK wants backdoor access to WhatsApp in wake of London Attack

ce he didn't communicate anything useful to anyone else, so there might not be much they could have detected even with access. Again, fucking everyone over to try and target a few, potentially with no gain at the end of it. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: 10 judges are nuts.

was needed in times of War (civil or otherwise). If anything, you'd think that line of thought would lead to banning weapons with limited utility at war? Times change, and all that, but seems odd. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: The path of Islam is always the same.

W, the following claim is unsupported by the "evidence" provided > > Europe will be the next to fall > Then America--and Australia > > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: How to act in self defense - concealed carry saves the day

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Ray Cis <ray...@sigaint.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31 01:45:24 -0100 > > "Ben Tasker" > > > > An alternative view of that situation, of course, > > Comes from a cucked citezen of the UK who cannot lawfully own

Re: How to act in self defense - concealed carry saves the day

t;z...@freedbms.net> wrote: > Pure propaganda of course, and a true story to boot - doesn't get much > better than this :) > > > http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/29/armed- > citizen-dropped-wallet-distracted-suspect/ > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: Independent mirrors of the cpunks links?

of spam. > > This could be issue in case the main site kicks the bucket. > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: What is the importance of antimatter?

p://www.scienceforums.net/topic/51224-anti-space/ > Could it be currently we don't have measuring devices and enough > precision to detect anti-time and anti-space and the imaginary (in the > complex sense) stuff from the square root of negative real in the > Lorentz transformation

Re: FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as Senate effort to block fails

the bad possibilities in some legal and technical > studies groups in my country. Our laws don't permiss this kind of > violation. Fu¢k FBI. > -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: Censors: We want Real-News, Real-Names, Real-ID, Real-Censorship

ame clearer and clearer that there was quite a lot more to be told. Whether you're happy or sad about Trump, I think it's fair to say the media had quite a hand in putting him where he is today, even if that's the opposite effect to the one they intended. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: alt-left Twitter purges many alt-right accounts

er that works in the world we > > currently live in. Those that were banned (or at least those I've > > bothered to look up) were assholes. Not because of their speech, but > > of their actions. > > So now "speech == actions". > > At what point, in the online worl

Re: alt-left Twitter purges many alt-right accounts

ee with huge chunks of that, if not all of it, and it's probably a bit muddled where it's been rattled out. The TL:DR is, there isn't a good answer that works in the world we currently live in. Those that were banned (or at least those I've bothered to look up) were assholes. Not because of the

Re: alt-left Twitter purges many alt-right accounts

all players in that area decide to enforce overly strict rules, but that's somewhat different. As ever, XKCD is relevant - https://xkcd.com/1357/ -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: flexthismotherfucker

the Western World to trace a connection back to your real location - at least by legal methods. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk

Re: Free speech - front lines in Australia - [perso...@bernardgaynor.com.au: Update: battle for free speech]

it. I waited > THREE FUCKING MONTHS for the owner to call and claim, but they never > did. So I had it turned on in my name. > > An iPhone without giving any money to Apple? That's the dream! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPqk_eKwVLY -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk