I hope we get to a place where people like this simply generate an OpenPGP key/OpenSSL certificate for a pseudonym and just throw this stuff up on .onion and .i2p domains. A place where DMCA and copyright literally cannot be enforced because it's impossible to.
This reminds me of the near-ish-future "Rainbow's End" by Vernor Vinge, wherein instead of giving out phone numbers or email addresses or screen names (identifiers), people give out opaque GUIDs [0] that act as communication handles with capabilities baked in. So, you could give out one to friends that allows people to open a synchronous voice channel to you, but give out one on your business card that just allows people to send text messages to you.
The book doesn't talk about it too much, but presumably these handles could be limited-use (time-based or only granting a capability to send a certain number of messages) and could be revoked.
I know it would probably be off-putting to give each person I meet a different GUID for contacting me (kind of like telling them your email address is <their_name>@<my_vanity_domain>), but it might reduce the spam I receive.
[0] if you're searching the ebook, they're called "golden enums" in the text
Not sure how likely is that considering that Beeper is an actual/company startup which seems to have received funding from YC?
However, considering that I'd except they'd know better than to just outright take a binary from MacOS and use it in their app (assuming that's actually the case..).
It's not impossible, just currently not worth the tradeoffs of enforcing. There's nothing stopping governments from passing laws holding IP address owners responsible for the traffic they originate. At that point VPNs and Tor exit nodes will stop allowing illegal activity. VPNs are already moving this direction, no longer supporting port forwarding ie hosting content on bittorent.
It seems like a meme that GPL software developers are more ego driven than BSD/MIT software developers, and so bike shedding and new features take precedence over correctness/simplicity/beauty. I was a decade long Gentoo user who was frustrated by crashy software, switched back to pirated windows (I would never be caught dead paying for windows), only to find out the same trash developer habits carried over in my absence and now windows sucks just as much plus IT SPIES ON YOU!!! I'm now on Qubes OS hoping Xen is well enough built to assuage my anxieties.
The Linux developers involved use the CDDL. While some of them have patches in Linus’ tree, most of them are described as Linux developers because they develop and use the code on Linux. They have little to do with mainline Linux, partly because certain the mainline Linux developers will actively go out of their way to antagonize them if they even try to contribute to mainline. Certain others will simply ignore their emails. I will not say names, but I have had that happen to me in the past.
That said, I suspect you did not read the replies, since the code in question was written by a FreeBSD developer. Bugs in new code have been introduced by developers on both platforms. Unfortunately, the bugs in this feature were not caught before they reached a stable release. :/
>fun fact about Darik of DBAN fame - he landed himself in hot water a few years ago when it was revealed he was a founding member of a white nationalist Canadian political party [1].
Based! I appreciate his hard disk nuker even more now! :^)
Also, bringing that point up is as fallacious as an ad hominem in debate and is blatantly political. You are the establishment. Darik is not. I am not.
I switched to Qubes OS as my daily driver way earlier this year and I absolutely love it! It has a couple pain points (it's difficult to get a GPU passed through without tweaks, performance for certain kinds of loads may be suboptimal). It feels really good that the DominationGPT malware will have to break out of Xen to pwn me!
