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bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: Submarine Cable Map

I thought it was Frankfurt in Germany, but can't confirm, there is only public data on per country connectivity, where Germany is at the top. But Brazil is definitely in top 5, for top 5 connectivity from last year the countries were: Germany, Brazil, Ukraine, U.K., Switzerland. Submarine cables are only a small part of connectivity.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: Build your own professional-grade audio amp on the sort-of cheap (2018)

There is no way DIY diode bridge and filtering caps on a separate board could make a slightest difference here, in fact high frequency noise from the power supply could only be filtered right near the chip. But leveling up an amplifier, to a 4 times more powerful as you did, would make a significant difference in sound.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail

Actually, a hosting company challenging the police in jurisdiction where ECHR is ratified would go exactly there once it exhausts options in local courts. But not a customer of a hosting company challenging the decision of a hosting company.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail

European Court of Human Rights is also not exclusive to European Union, other countries signed the convention as well and ratified at least parts of it. There appeals can reach ECHR and its rulings have to be enforced locally.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail

> I will admit that after the RIAA/youtube-dl story I felt that it confirmed my belief that it was a mistake for anyone to host anything on US based servers. This takedown with complete lack of transparency from a French provider (OVH) really proves me wrong.

There is a huge difference between these two cases. Most hosting providers in the world are not going to challenge law enforcement in their jurisdiction and will just cooperate. That's what OVH did, as everyone should have expected.

But at the same time most hosting providers in the world will oppose overreach of copyright trolls. That's what Github didn't do.

Still, if you need some minimal resilience it's never enough to rely on a single hosting provider from a single jurisdiction. Multiple different providers in different countries for frontend servers with some primitive DNS failover can easily solve this and similar problems.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: Vimflowy

This comment is also legendary misunderstood. He pointed out how trivial the idea was, which of course became a problem for dropbox when every tech company implemented it once they saw the demand for it and took its marketshare. Nowadays it's hard to consider dropbox as anything but a dying product of a dying company.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub

People outside of the US can't be bound to be sued in a US court or anywhere outside of the jurisdiction they currently reside in and even then a country he is a citizen of could try to use high level channels to get him out of there. Extradition treaties complicate this a bit more, but extradition still has to go through local laws, local law enforcement, local government and far from everyone would get extradited left and right if there is an agreement.

The biggest thing a counter-notice could do (if it's even possible) is reveal one's identity and only if Microsoft/Github tries to verify it, which would be bad, because it could be used for harassment. But the author is obviously Russian, not sure if he lives in Russia, but if he does, they definitely won't be able to get him in Russia, only harass him.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: Scipio: A Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux

It's not that hard, it's just pointless. Async is more general, so the optimization would have to go into the opposite direction: everything starts as implicitly async and things that provably don't need to be can just be converted to regular synchronous stackful code as an optimization pass.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: Scipio: A Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux

No, the point of async "coloring" is to indicate which function call does context switching, so that you would know in which piece of code you could do synchronization without something like a semaphore, as you'd need a semaphore if you synchronize shared memory access across async calls, but you don't if you do it in between async calls. And also to know which piece of code blocks event loop (i.e. everything in between async calls), so that you could optimize for performance: throughput, latency. Assuming, of course, that you run one event loop per thread, not doing dumb things like some Rust executors scheduling tasks to different cores.

Goroutine (loom) style concurrency only makes things worse both ergonomically and performance-wise, pushing programmers towards slow buggy lock-riddled code as the only way to use such models.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned

The comment is wrong though. There is no need to settle the issue globally, it's a US-only issue. As being a WIPO member or signing a treaty doesn't create laws. Being a WIPO member doesn't do much of anything actually, it's all just talk, that's why there are so many members. Instead countries have sovereignty, pass and implement their own laws regarding copyright typically requiring elected politicians to propose them and vote on them, independently from WIPO and treaties. They also have their own judicial systems, most countries not even doing a common law style system where things can ever be "settled", it's more about court orders, rather than some clever demands written by lawyers.

So, when it comes to copyright, most of the world is really not like the US. A random WIPO country is likely not just lacks anti-circumvention copyright laws, but also lacks a lot of other things in them.

bxk1 | 5 years ago | on: New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1

> but I'm also a bit on the paranoid side

It sounds like your perspective is of someone paranoid and from the US. But it seems the author is not, he's like from Russia or something, and most contributions don't seem to come from the US either, and international community outside of the US doesn't care about DMCA, RIAA and US laws. There doesn't seem to be a way for RIAA to get their way and kill the project.

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