That's really odd. If I remember correctly Jason Scott has talked in his podcast about how textfiles.com is a co-lo'd self hosted box. I wonder what "resource limit" got hit.

It really isn’t odd at all.

It would be interesting to test what the minimum detectable piece of US currency is. (I wouldn't want to do it on a network-connected system, though.)

There is a pattern of yellow dots on the currency. I do not know at what size they tile across the paper, but the piece of currency would have to be smaller than that, most likely.

Far easier to dump the firmware and NOOP out that algo.

US currency has machine-detectable identifying markings incorporated in the design. "Ghost gun" parts do not.

Here's the discussion from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687443

I was pleased to find some "They Might Be Giants" in the archive.

A friend of mine is an independent electrician in the Columbus, OH area. Last summer he told me he was getting plenty of datacenter construction work, albeit it was in the form of subcontracted jobs from the larger firms who were awarded the contracts.

Even if the datacenter does hire some local labor for construction, that's still all temporary jobs. It's not an ongoing source of employment for locals.

They'll pay tons in taxes to energy company.

I'm reading your comment as sarcasm, but I do have a non-sarcastic hot take on it.

If we have to live in a panopticon I think access to the data should be available to everyone. That eliminates the power imbalance and/or makes the idea of the thing distasteful to powerful people who might actually try to restore privacy and eliminate the panopticon.

If those wish to preserve privacy want to be effective, there needs to be a pragmatism in understanding differing opinions. Reducing opponents to caricatures and fighting those is a losers strategy. It will guarantee defeat.

Being able to accurately articulate a position one doesn't possess themselves is necessary to effectively countering it.

Power is then moved to whomever owns the most computer power and perhaps education

That's what it is now. Computing power is just a proxy for capital.

> If we have to live in a panopticon...

So that's where we are now? "If we have to live in the torture nexus, let's at least make it equitable"

I can see why people fall into the trap of calling for an equitable torment nexus: it is both cynical (it supposes everyone in power is corrupt and everyone at the top would oppose an equitable torment nexus) and also naive/optimistic (it supposes that we have any hope to actually impose an equitable torment nexus).

But I think the latter factor wins out, so we should just oppose obviously bad things in a non-clever fashion.

I don't see it as cynical. I'm just accepting the obvious reality.

I have no power to stop what's happening. I might as well make the best of it for myself and my family, and hope it becomes so bad that people who actually do have the power to stop it do something about it. Maybe it'll rise to the level that enough individual citizens will call out for change, but I continue to be amazed at what people will put up with in the name of convenience, continuation of their lifestyle, and, as it relates specifically to surveillance capitalism, shiny digital doodads and baubles that bring them temporary joy.

Capital being speech in the US, since I'm not a billionaire I have very little influence.

I have optimism and hope for people doing good things locally, but absolutely no hope large-scale problems will ever be fixed. I feel like the US political system experienced some phase change in the last 50 years, has "solidified", and is now completely unable to do anything meaningful at scale. The New Deal couldn't happen today. The interstate highway system couldn't happen today. The Affordable Care Act started off as a watered-down, weakened version of what it could have been (because anything more radical would never have passed), and the private interests have had 20 years to chip away at it, sculpting it into a driver of revenue. Heck, we can't even build mass public transit at the level of cities.

Private capital, meanwhile, soldiers on accomplishing its goals in spite of (or because of) our political gridlock.

I'd love to feel differently.

That's called cynicism

The fact that you couldn't identify it as sarcasm/satire is indictive of not having an accurate understanding of your opponents position. If you want to defeat your opponents, understand their calculus.

I surely have no idea what you're talking about. I wasn't even responding to you. Hmmmmm yes. Calculus. Defeating opponents. Indubitably.

I think Americans (and probably humans in general) have a distaste for local violence. Violence afar doesn't tickle the brain in the same way.

My ignorant take:

Media brought the horror of US casualties in Vietnam home in a mass and immediate way that didn't exist in prior conflicts. The novelty of that media combined with the casualty rates drove unpopularity. It made the violence feel more real.

Even if casualty rates in post-Vietnam conflicts were higher I'm not sure we'd see negative sentiment because media coverage of violence is so normalized now. Exposure to violence in media is no longer novel.

Humanity will be fine. Significant numbers of individual people won't be.

ReactOS was, at one time, targeting a Windows Server 2003-level of compatibility. With that in mind I can't imagine current Wireguard would have even a shred of hope of working on ReactOS.

I really appreciate what you wrote in that post re: dropping support for pre-Windows 10 operating systems.

I'd like to snag that latest previous version which still has compatibility with older OS's, anyone have a reliable link handy?

(I couldn't quickly find a "Previous Versions" list on their website)

It looks like all the old files are still hosted on the server. You can just replace the version number in the download links with one of the tags from https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-windows.