I genuinely agree with this statement a lot. Also another aspect of this is that the bigger companies can somehow "legally" do things which I don't think would work but they have so many resources to strech the court case for a long time.
And the fact is that even after that, even if they are fined for some dollars. They are more than likely to just pay than try to actually fix the core issues which effects everyone harmfully except the company.
All for profit smh. I sometimes wonder if there is a word for this phenomenon for how our system has gotten into such a rotten state from lobbying to this yet at the same time genuine non profits get existential threats for the same behaviour but they simply don't have the funds...
There is, it's the system's name: Capitalism
Noone ever in the universe claimed that this system serves primarily the needs of humans. It serves profit. Now there is a ven diagram that has a union area between profits and needs, but the system does not care about making this union bigger, it cares about making the profits bigger. When that overlaps with needs... it is just a happy side effect.
People who would describe themselves as supporters of "capitalism", as well as supporters of "communism" or "socialism", are not able to admit that their belief systems are actually religious in structure. Not spiritual perhaps, but effectively "secular religions".
Both capitalism and its nemesis arose in the mid 1900s, when humanity was obsessed with modernist thinking about "solving problems once and for all". And in that context, the people fell in love with these two "clean systems". A more perfect set of rules.
Sure, capitalism doesn't claim to be the most powerful god. But in surrogacy, it claims to be "the least imperfect system". Which is structurally the same claim: declaring the scripture to be some apex that is not surpassable.
The main difference between communism and capitalism was how it was implemented. The USSR went full-tilt ideologically rigid, and collapsed very quickly. The US didn't go full-tilt capitalism. It implemented a hybrid system with a high marginal tax, welfare programs, subsidies, labour unions, public works projects, along with a market system, and that hybrid non-ideologically rigid model served it well.
Around the time it was clear the USSR was collapsing, the USA went hard tilt in favour of ideological purity in capitalism. Systematic series of clawbacks in the tax regime, privatization, elimination of labour unions.
As they leaned into the religion, it was used against them, much like the communist religion was used against the people of the USSR. And now they have been robbed of their prosperity, of the value of their efforts, much like the people in the USSR were robbed.
Theoretically we should be able to think of the majorities or ourselves and we can have a good system
but we also feel like a lack of choice I suppose, the elections feel between just two parties with choosing the lesser evil (I think zohran is cool tho in the democratic party and maybe he could signify some good things I guess)
Personally I feel like we need to focus more on the incentives and competency of people more than anything and try to vote it on that and not what they speak I suppose.
It's never the fault of the trillion dollar industries that are millions of times more powerful than any individual.
Our system get gotten into a rotten state because a tiny number of modern barons have all the power, and none of the civic responsibility. Concentration of money - when money is power, is the same as concentration of power.
A big part of this impression is that people very often very much underestimate what they can get away with, whereas big companies have lawyers to tell them ”oh yeah you can totally do this”.
Of course there are some exceptions. Uber and AirBnB are probably decent ones, in some jurisdictions anyway.
My thoughts were that DNS-level censorship is essentially a dead end because the root servers are sacrosanct, and there will always be secondary DNS servers to query, who then use the root servers.
Sucks for DNS providers in authoritarian countries though.
In the meantime it might be worthwhile to develop alternatives, like some kind of DNS-over-Tor or DNS-over-DHT scheme, along with normalizing Tor onion services as an alternative access method for clearnet sites.
https://www.kraken.com/learn/what-is-ethereum-name-service-e...
All the things that crypto true believers believed would happen are slowly coming to pass. It wasn't all bored apes and gambling. There was some legitimate developing going on, and still is.
I’m not ideologically against cryptocurrency-based solutions, but it isn’t a magic bullet by any means. I still think that the EU in particular isn’t done making life difficult for crypto users.
Not to discourage projects like ENS, I think it’s good to have alternatives, but I do think we need noncommercial fallbacks to the current system as well. Anything involving money will always have choke points.
In my opinion it is unclear what you are referring to because many people have different views on what the term piracy actually means.
This has been the case for a very long time. Back when TBP was popular this was already the case.
Abstract
Some DNS recursive resolvers have longer-than-desired round-trip times to the closest DNS root server; those resolvers may have difficulty getting responses from the root servers, such as during a network attack. Some DNS recursive resolver operators want to prevent snooping by third parties of requests sent to DNS root servers. In both cases, resolvers can greatly decrease the round-trip time and prevent observation of requests by serving a copy of the full root zone on the same server, such as on a loopback address or in the resolver software. This document shows how to start and maintain such a copy of the root zone that does not cause problems for other users of the DNS, at the cost of adding some operational fragility for the operator.
This document obsoletes RFC 7706.
Effective June 28, 2024: Due to a court order in France issued under Article L.333-10 of the French Sport code and a court order in Portugal issued under Article 210-G(3) of the Portuguese Copyright Code, the OpenDNS service is not currently available to users in France and certain French territories and in Portugal. We apologize for the inconvenience.
July 23, 2024: Cisco's OpenDNS service has been reactivated in Portugal and is currently available following a decision by the Lisbon Court of Appeal.
While testing, I was using Google and Cloudflare as well, and started noticing something - Quad9 does not return all A records listed for a domain, the same way Google/Cloudflare do.
dig -t A google.com @8.8.8.8 +short (6x IPs)
dig -t A google.com @1.1.1.1 +short (6x IPs)
dig -t A google.com @9.9.9.9 +short (1x IP)
$ dig -t A google.com @8.8.8.8 +short
142.250.184.206
$ dig -t A google.com @1.1.1.1 +short
216.58.206.46
$ dig -t A google.com @9.9.9.9 +short
142.250.185.238
MangoToupe•2h ago
ACCount37•1h ago
It has zero leverage. Even if you could convince 1 person in 1000 to do that, you'd represent 0.1%. And that "1 in 1000" is hopelessly optimistic as it is.
If you want to change the world, "individual action" should be at the very last place in your list of actions to take.
anonym29•1h ago
The heliocentric model began with one person out of the entire population of earth having the courage to publicly, loudly, and assertively disagree with TPTB.
iso1631•1h ago