Claiming Stepan Bandera was killed for being an "Anti-Soviet activist" is on par with saying "In 1945, German animal rights activist committed suicide after a long campaign of personal harassment".

He lead an ideologically pro Nazism terrorist organization that slaughtered entire villages in Poland for being 'racial inferiors', especially targeting jews, and intended to continue ethnic terrorism indefinitely until a "racially pure" state was formed from seized Ukrainian, Russian and Polish land.

There genuinely were people targeted and killed for the crime of anti-Soviet activism. Don't lump them in with men who herded the "wrong" Slavs and Jews into trucks to be slaughtered in German camps, who ordered babies heads smashed against barn walls and women to be raped and decapitated.

"Sex traffickers are using the human powers of speech and locomotion to aid in the coercion of their victims"

Lobsters blocking UK users because it's a highly reactive hugbox*

I hope this is poorly phrased or I am misunderstanding it, because it feels like it's implying that Matrix's terrible scaling issues will have their fixes paywalled. Even non-federated homeservers chew up RAM and CPU like candy when you get too many users.

It's heavier than any other protocol or chat program I know.

Most of that performance is nothing to do with whether workers are written in python or rust - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752911. The hope is to fund maintenance for FOSS synapse, including core perf work, via Syn Pro stuff which makes the biggest impact for gigantic servers.

Thanks for your feedback. I posted this because I've seen many people stop their analysis when they find a site is on Cloudflare.

Were you able to solve the challenge at the end?

I thought the non-random nameserver assignment was interesting. Seems like a flaw, actually.

No, you can't. The article even says that Cloudflare provides WHOIS redaction.

But you would know that if you actually read the article.

It's not an attempt to try, it's reputation management. There is no 'anonymization' of data, because the advertising companies Mozilla is selling your data to now have almost 20 years of profiling that can effectively identify people through "anonymous" results. This has been known for years. Mozilla knows. They don't care.

Sadly, not All-American anymore. The US police force doesn't exist in a vacuum. There is a whole industry of pseudoscientific interrogation techniques that has set itself up in other nations and regressed their policing by decades. Several states in Australia, and I believe parts of the UK, removed the polygraph as a discredited technique and now accept it as evidence once more.

UK here, just looked it up and although it's not admissible as evidence in court, since 2021 it can be used as a requirement for release from prison for domestic abusers.

Bloody hell, that is scary.

That is scary! Well, we've recently got a new prisons minister, this might actually motivate me to write to them about this.

I looked them up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Timpson

Woah. It's actually the MD of Timpson, whom Starmer has parachuted into the role along with a peerage. So an unelected Minister, but apparently he's very into prison reform, so there's that.

Indeed, Timpson's are a leading employer of people who have served their sentence:

> The company is well known for its policy of employing ex-convicts, who make up over 10% of its workforce

Where in Australia?

I've been out of Aus for a few years, but in NSW I understand they're still largely banned (Lie Detectors Act) for employment, courts / evidence, insurance etc (and if they weren't by legislation, they would be for evidence by precedent, which is how the Act came about). As I understood it, this and the Canadian precedent that NSW relied upon, have basically made them a non-starter for courts in Australia ever since.

It's a bit horrifying if they're making a comeback, but then our politicians have always been a bit prone to right wing shock jock rhethoric around election time.

Copyright was invented by a cartel of noblemen, the British Stationer's Company, who, due to liberal reform, were going to lose their publishing monopoly. The implementation of copyright law as they helped pen allowed them to mostly continue their position while portraying it as "protecting the little guy".

Funny how both the rhetoric and intentions are the same after three hundred years.

Trademark isn't copyright, so no.

There's nothing heroic about supporting a government that institutionalized pedophilia (Bacha Bazi), ran entirely on corruption, and passively accepted the sale of opium out of kickbacks from warlords. Especially not one installed through a foreign invader.

The Taliban are awful, but they're the awful legitimate government of Afghanistan. And they've already ended two of these problems. If you inform against a paramilitary that has no concerns with rule of law, you're already inserting yourself into their war and accepting the risk of being outed.