I am still worried about privacy, and it seems like the design of PeerTube is no longer flexible enough to consider making the desired improvements. In particular, it sounds like peers can still know which videos somebody has requested.
Seems to me that you could run your own instance, peer with any instances that have videos you're interested in, then enable "redundancy", which pulls their videos into your instance.
It doesn't prevent them from knowing you requested the data, but it provides an alternative explanation.
Really if you want that kind of privacy, I think you'd be looking at Freenet or similar projects.
In Firefox, under about:config, disable `media.peerconnection.enabled`. You should consider doing that anyway if you're worried about IP leaks because in some cases peer connections can unmask your IP address behind a VPN.
I'm in the midst of switching my hosting off of Youtube and on to Peertube. I don't run Google analytics or any ads on my sites, I make sure that most of my stuff can work without Javascript. I'm even looking into dropping Cloudflare so I can get rid of their remaining cookie. I believe that people have a fundamental, unalienable right to hide their identities online[0]. Because of that, my perspective on Peertube is... complicated. I don't dismiss the concern about peer-to-peer privacy, I think it's a real issue. However, I think those (valid) concerns are outweighed by the following:
A) PeerTube is still probably better for user's privacy than Youtube, and Peertube is a more feasible alternative to Youtube than anything else I've seen.
B) Using a VPN and flipping a few simple config options gets around the issue, which, as I'll get to below, you should be doing anyway.
C) Forcing people to care about their IP addresses in general is probably a good thing. People are generally dismissive of the fact that they leak their IP addresses to every site they visit, and that some of those sites will then leak their IP addresses to the general public[1]. If Peertube gets people to care about that, then maybe it's a good thing?
D) Peer-to-peer networking has really big benefits for bandwidth and reliability, and is going to be a core asset in getting decentralized technology to compete with centralized alternatives. I'm not willing to give that technology up, even if it has privacy implications. My perspective is we just have to deal with it, and preferably we have to deal with it in a generic way that can be easily applied on top of services like Peertube. I lean towards the opinion that forcing the issue is, again, probably a good thing in the long term.
I want to cycle back around to point C. If you're really worried about these IP leaks, I'm not going to say you're wrong. I think that's a valid concern. However, I will say that if you're really worried about these IP leaks, and you're not worried about regular web browsing without a VPN/Tor, then you probably don't have a complete grasp on the total scope of the problem. If you're already taking reasonable steps to protect your IP (as far as I know) Peertube won't be exposing you to any additional risks.
It's kind of the point, in two ways. First, the constant usage of the Bible to justify political discourse is both a staple of the USA and also painfully stupid. It doesn't matter how nice of an imaginary picture is painted by the "city upon a hill"; it's still a religious and rose-tinted portrait. Exodus probably didn't happen, and so it is a nice story (like Harry Potter) but not worth bringing to the policy table.
Second, the Bible is just not very well-translated. Consider this instead:
> You are the salt of the earth.
> Your flavor brings merit and mirth.
> But use too much extra, anybody could tell ya
> Oversalted food has no worth.
> You are the light of the world.
> Like a town on a hill, you are pearled.
> But in light we bask, only while it's unmask'd
> So fly your town's flags high and unfurled.
Still terrible, but at least now it rhymes correctly.
With KJV at least, the a goal was to create a work that was dignified and resonated with the public. Doggerel rhymes don't really fit that scheme. Please don't take that as an insult - I actually like your version, but it lacks dignity.
Hypocritical, not ironic. You mean to highlight that the USA does not treat other sovereign states like the USA expects to be treated. There is no ironic contrast between the USA funding Crypto AG and China funding Huawei.
As another algebraist (category theory and computational complexity), this makes a lot of sense. Euler's identity is capricious and Euclidean to me, and far from the most beautiful equation, although it is still remarkably elegant. I don't have any tattoos, but I might consider some categorical diagram; I don't know how I'd pick just one! Perhaps there is some cool way to draw the Snake Lemma with a realistic-looking snake.
Oh look, it's the gateway-drug argument [0] all over again.
The short version is that, for those other drugs that the grandparent listed in their comment, they are already scheduled for medical usage. Only the psychedelics are scheduled away from any legal usage.
Indeed, one would hope that the author knows enough category theory to know that choices of syntax are arbitrary and that choices of semantics are forced; any Turing-complete language will do, and the rest is optimization and trying to convince cooked rocks to do arithmetic.
Swift may have borrowed it from E, where the half-open variant is `1..!5`, read "from 1 up to, but not including, 5". It is extremely useful for 1-to-n sorts of counting tasks.
By your own numbers, this could translate to a 30-second AES key exfiltration in the cloud. This isn't a non-issue, even if you personally aren't affected.
you have to find the address first, which is a lot of rummaging around. you aren't just handed it. that is going to quite a bit, especially the program build any security measures in (eg, allocate at a random address). good luck with that.
it's easy to say vulnerabilities don't matter... when responsible disclosure results in fixes for those specific relevant systems for which actual executable Proof of Concepts were designed. The authors have the skill and knowhow to do this for new systems, and the surrounding knowhow and skills are not gained by merely reading the whitepaper that focusses on the exact nature of the side-channel. Similarily a paper from the field of say physics, will not hold your hand by having a huge appendix filled with the physics courses, exercises, ... the authors enjoyed as a student...
Spread the key over a whole page with fec, implement the key recovery using non saved registers. Would be nice to avoid pre-emption and avoid leaking regs to ram. Perhaps last step could use avx to run a permutation.
Thanks for mentioning that not everybody responds well to Ritalin. I was medicated with it while in grade school, and it was not pleasant; the school nurse would check my mouth to make sure I took the pills each morning, because I would spit them out otherwise. To this day, I am not interested in taking medication for my mental health.
Ritalin in the 90's was pretty brutal for me too - when I was first put on it it was a big morning pill and I think two separate afternoon boosters - this meant that I was constantly cycling between overly sedate, level, and apathy - but I've found that switching over to a single XR pill has helped out, I think I've also benefited from being able to clump my active hours according to my own schedule so that I can be productive semi-reliably and sort of trail off in the evenings.
If you're able to get by without it then good on you - but I thought I'd mention that things have improved somewhat.
