It was the Venezuelan government's attempt to quash a small edit war about who's the (legitimate) president, waged on the articles on Venezuela and President of Venezuela. AFAIK the blocking was implemented only by the state-owned ISP, which serves a large majority of domestic connections by virtue of being the only landline phone company.
Anyway seems they gave up on it, yesterday or early today:
openssl s_client -connect en.wikipedia.org:443 CONNECTED(00000005) depth=2 OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R3, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign verify return:1 depth=1 C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2 verify return:1 depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org verify return:1 --- Certificate chain
0 s:C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
i:C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
1 s:C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
i:OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R3, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign --- Server certificate -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----... -----END CERTIFICATE----- subject=C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
issuer=C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
--- No client certificate CA names sent Peer signing digest: SHA512 Peer signature type: ECDSA Server Temp Key: X25519, 253 bits --- SSL handshake has read 3515 bytes and written 403 bytes Verification: OK --- New, TLSv1.2, Cipher is ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 Server public key is 256 bit Secure Renegotiation IS supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE No ALPN negotiated SSL-Session:
Protocol : TLSv1.2
Cipher : ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
Session-ID:....
Session-ID-ctx:
Master-Key:....
PSK identity: None
PSK identity hint: None
SRP username: None
Start Time: 1547943159
Timeout : 7200 (sec)
Verify return code: 0 (ok)
Extended master secret: yes --- DONE
In case it happens to you, there's several mirror sites:
Besides the absurdity of including 5 year olds in a survey of computer hardware knowledge, how would you explain to them the basics, in a way that doesn't result in blank stares?
It's a good exercise both in communication skills (shifting your point of view) and creating a top-down view of a complex body of knowledge. Often those heavily involved with a field can't abstract.
I bring thee from the unexplored land called The Fine Article:
The company shares a list of the currently available add-ons:
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RingCentral: See the online/offline status of RingCentral contacts, review recent call history, make outbound calls (requires RingCentral for Mobile) and view and send SMS messages.
Smartsheet: Add email content and desired attachments directly to Smartsheet without leaving Gmail.
Streak: Add email threads to deals, view enriched contact info and quickly respond with snippets directly from Gmail with the Streak add-on.
Trello: Turn email into actionable tasks in Trello to give your team a shared perspective on the work that needs to be done.
Also, it's a fine time to put our money where our mouths are, as donations are being matched (presumably out of the same concern):
Dear Internet Archive Patrons: You’ve come to the Internet Archive in search of knowledge, to find Web pages you would have lost. Now we need your help in return. Will you help sustain this non-profit library built on trust? We have a huge mission: to give everyone access to all knowledge, forever. For free. The Internet Archive has only 150 staff but runs the #250 website in the world. Your privacy is very important to us, so we don’t collect your personal information. We don’t accept ads. But we still need to pay for servers, staff and rent. That’s where you can help us. Right now a generous supporter will match your donation 1-for-1. So you can double your impact! If you find our site useful, please give what you can today. Thank you.
Nope, because you can't "retask" an amplifier to sense the voltage at its output and feed it into its input. It only works with passive devices like nonamplified headphones (desktop speakers usually need an amp).
Thanks, that's what I thought. I meant a quick test without buying a mount (yes, the stock base uses 100 mm spacing); at 1600 lines I'm not in a hurry for more vertical space (yet).
I've done that and learned that some TN panels have their viewing angles biased towards the top, so when you rotate them they look terribad from the side that gets the bottom edge. Maybe IPS looks better but my 30" Dell doesn't rotate - one of these days I'll try laying it on one side.
What for? At 12.5" diagonal and 1920 columns, each pixel is 1/100" across and subtends at 16" a 0.02 deg angle, which is the angular resolution of a young eye. Going much beyond that is just paying to brag about specs.
Normally Kepler (in K2 mode) uses the pressure from sunlight combined with the two remaining reaction wheels to maintain orientation. It still does need periodic thruster usage but the heavy lifting is done by solar pressure and reaction wheels which makes the propellent usage very efficient. However it is a complicated and precarious balancing act. It needs full instrumentation, computer operation, and periodic updates from Earth to work.
When it goes into emergency mode it falls back on 100% station keeping thrusters because that is simpler although far more expensive in terms of fuel. They don't know exactly why it went into emergency mode but for whatever reason Kepler believed it could not maintain orientation without it.
In emergency mode it has to expand propellent because without some station keeping it would begin to tumble uncontrollably. If you have a spacecraft millions of kms away from Earth, tumbling out of control with its communication array no longer pointed at Earth you will probably never regain control. So it is a last ditch effort to maintain proper orientation on the hope that command & control update can fix the problem. It begins "looking" for an command & control signal from Earth (using propellent to orient the spacecraft). If/when it finds it, it then tries to keep that orientation using 100% station keeping thrusters regardless of fuel consumption. It will continue to do so until standard operation is restored or it runs out of fuel.
The Instant Blood Pressure app (IBP; AuraLife) estimates blood pressure (BP) using a technique in which the top edge of the smartphone is placed on the left side of the chest while the individual places his or her right index finger over the smartphone’s camera.
image I guess it's more accurate than rolling fair dice or plucking daisies.
Not every user of a "desktop" computer sits in front of a desk; some sit on a bed or couch (HTPC anyone?). Then there are those who just don't like wires for aesthetic reasons.
Big difference here: you entered the site of your own initiative, so requested the service. A closer analogy would be picking up a free newspaper like the Evening Standard in London and demanding that it come without ads.
Hobbyists spent their own money or mooched their university maintaining (home)pages that got a *lot* less traffic than now, and the content was rather crappy.
And this isn't about corporate greed - suppose you start a webcomic, or writing jokes. People like it, and you want more free time to dedicate to it rather than work 9 to 5 or designing commercial posters (a very typical case). Not everyone is willing to fork over for a t-shirt or a book (I don't buy books often). Some can't/won't fork over on Patreon. So you put up a few well-behaved ads and catch a constant drip.
Look at F2P games. They have a lot of free users and a small number that actually pay lots of money. Games compete for the user's time and disposable income with each other and bring new content all the time while still making a profit and actually growing. Websites for some reason can't? Maybe it's because they hardly offer any interesting/new content?
If they don't offer compelling content, they don't get enough hits and the fixed costs drive them out of business. But what about sites that do get traffic but a lot of them doesn't deliver revenue? Those play a numbers game, much like free-to-play games, and the numbers may or may not add up.
And lets not start on those crap "news" these days. I'm not interested in a novella length article about the damaging effects some stupid diet or some political game in some far forgotten town nobody finds on purpose without Google.
If they offer REAL content, people will: donate, click on ads/disable adblocker, or buy a subscription. Until then, they're the parasites bloating the search engines pointlessly.
Oh, but I was replying to someone arguing that there are no acceptable ads. As in “I want my Web free of ads - you figure out how to run it”.
And if they don't like it they can detect that, and they can fade into obscurity when people stop going there. It's a viable model for some sites though, if they have what people want and are willing to pay for.
What about sites that get a lot of occasional visitors? Blogs are typical here - thousands bump into the best of them once a month or so through a Google search, but they'd be hard pressed to log into PayPal to pay a fraction of a cent to see the content, let alone buy a subscription. Just imagine that every show on your TV / radio was pay-per-view and imagine how you'd like that.
Most sites don't actually have any content which is that compelling, so they can quit their whining. 95% of the sites on the web could go away tomorrow and it would be a better place.
What does this have to do with visitors who actually visit the site seeing ads? You may not like the content, someone else does and they cause an expense.
The sites with ads seldom have a company behind it. Consider non-corporate sites that you bump into once every month at best, but get lots of visits from a lot people because they're damn useful? Blogs with tech tips (e.g. Use the index, Luke) are typical of this pattern, and their visitors would be hard-pressed to buy a subscription.
Slashdot Mirror
It was the Venezuelan government's attempt to quash a small edit war about who's the (legitimate) president, waged on the articles on Venezuela and President of Venezuela. AFAIK the blocking was implemented only by the state-owned ISP, which serves a large majority of domestic connections by virtue of being the only landline phone company.
Anyway seems they gave up on it, yesterday or early today:
openssl s_client -connect en.wikipedia.org:443
CONNECTED(00000005)
depth=2 OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R3, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign
verify return:1
depth=1 C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
0 s:C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
i:C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
1 s:C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
i:OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R3, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign
---
Server certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
subject=C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
issuer=C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
--- .... ....
No client certificate CA names sent
Peer signing digest: SHA512
Peer signature type: ECDSA
Server Temp Key: X25519, 253 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 3515 bytes and written 403 bytes
Verification: OK
---
New, TLSv1.2, Cipher is ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
Server public key is 256 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
Protocol : TLSv1.2
Cipher : ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
Session-ID:
Session-ID-ctx:
Master-Key:
PSK identity: None
PSK identity hint: None
SRP username: None
Start Time: 1547943159
Timeout : 7200 (sec)
Verify return code: 0 (ok)
Extended master secret: yes
---
DONE
In case it happens to you, there's several mirror sites:
https://en.wikipedi0.org
https://wikipediaproxy.org
https://www.wikiwand.com
In Wikipedia's case, you can use any of several mirror sites:
https://en.wikipedi0.org
https://wikipediaproxy.org
https://www.wikiwand.com
Anyway it's back up:
openssl s_client -connect en.wikipedia.org:443
CONNECTED(00000005)
depth=2 OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R3, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign
verify return:1
depth=1 C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
0 s:C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
i:C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
1 s:C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
i:OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R3, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign
---
Server certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
subject=C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
issuer=C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
--- .... ....
No client certificate CA names sent
Peer signing digest: SHA512
Peer signature type: ECDSA
Server Temp Key: X25519, 253 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 3515 bytes and written 403 bytes
Verification: OK
---
New, TLSv1.2, Cipher is ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
Server public key is 256 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
Protocol : TLSv1.2
Cipher : ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
Session-ID:
Session-ID-ctx:
Master-Key:
PSK identity: None
PSK identity hint: None
SRP username: None
Start Time: 1547943159
Timeout : 7200 (sec)
Verify return code: 0 (ok)
Extended master secret: yes
---
DONE
...calories chase you!
Besides the absurdity of including 5 year olds in a survey of computer hardware knowledge, how would you explain to them the basics, in a way that doesn't result in blank stares?
It's a good exercise both in communication skills (shifting your point of view) and creating a top-down view of a complex body of knowledge. Often those heavily involved with a field can't abstract.
I bring thee from the unexplored land called The Fine Article:
The company shares a list of the currently available add-ons:
Last night my PC's fans maxed out, and it was easy to pin the CPU usage on a couple of TPB tabs.
I have an exception for TPB.org on UBlock, and I'd much rather load ads (just no pop-ups, please) than fill my room with heat and noise.
Because the mal-service providers don't use standard VPN protocols - their service, their app.
Also, it's a fine time to put our money where our mouths are, as donations are being matched (presumably out of the same concern):
Dear Internet Archive Patrons:
You’ve come to the Internet Archive in search of knowledge, to find Web pages you would have lost. Now we need your help in return. Will you help sustain this non-profit library built on trust? We have a huge mission: to give everyone access to all knowledge, forever. For free. The Internet Archive has only 150 staff but runs the #250 website in the world. Your privacy is very important to us, so we don’t collect your personal information. We don’t accept ads. But we still need to pay for servers, staff and rent. That’s where you can help us. Right now a generous supporter will match your donation 1-for-1. So you can double your impact! If you find our site useful, please give what you can today. Thank you.
Guess I'm chipping in again...
http://archive.org/
Nope, because you can't "retask" an amplifier to sense the voltage at its output and feed it into its input. It only works with passive devices like nonamplified headphones (desktop speakers usually need an amp).
Thanks, that's what I thought. I meant a quick test without buying a mount (yes, the stock base uses 100 mm spacing); at 1600 lines I'm not in a hurry for more vertical space (yet).
I've done that and learned that some TN panels have their viewing angles biased towards the top, so when you rotate them they look terribad from the side that gets the bottom edge. Maybe IPS looks better but my 30" Dell doesn't rotate - one of these days I'll try laying it on one side.
What for? At 12.5" diagonal and 1920 columns, each pixel is 1/100" across and subtends at 16" a 0.02 deg angle, which is the angular resolution of a young eye. Going much beyond that is just paying to brag about specs.
Kinky (;
User Statistical at Ars Technica explained it nicely:
Normally Kepler (in K2 mode) uses the pressure from sunlight combined with the two remaining reaction wheels to maintain orientation. It still does need periodic thruster usage but the heavy lifting is done by solar pressure and reaction wheels which makes the propellent usage very efficient. However it is a complicated and precarious balancing act. It needs full instrumentation, computer operation, and periodic updates from Earth to work.
When it goes into emergency mode it falls back on 100% station keeping thrusters because that is simpler although far more expensive in terms of fuel. They don't know exactly why it went into emergency mode but for whatever reason Kepler believed it could not maintain orientation without it.
In emergency mode it has to expand propellent because without some station keeping it would begin to tumble uncontrollably. If you have a spacecraft millions of kms away from Earth, tumbling out of control with its communication array no longer pointed at Earth you will probably never regain control. So it is a last ditch effort to maintain proper orientation on the hope that command & control update can fix the problem. It begins "looking" for an command & control signal from Earth (using propellent to orient the spacecraft). If/when it finds it, it then tries to keep that orientation using 100% station keeping thrusters regardless of fuel consumption. It will continue to do so until standard operation is restored or it runs out of fuel.
About Kepler's K2 mode:
Kepler's Second Light: How K2 Will Work | NASA
http://i.imgur.com/9Scl3Ftl.jp...
The Instant Blood Pressure app (IBP; AuraLife) estimates blood pressure (BP) using a technique in which the top edge of the smartphone is placed on the left side of the chest while the individual places his or her right index finger over the smartphone’s camera.
image
I guess it's more accurate than rolling fair dice or plucking daisies.
Not every user of a "desktop" computer sits in front of a desk; some sit on a bed or couch (HTPC anyone?). Then there are those who just don't like wires for aesthetic reasons.
Maybe people with weird, non-murican (sur)names like SchÃf or LeÃñez want their (user)name to be their name.
Actual source at Blue Origin's site.
Big difference here: you entered the site of your own initiative, so requested the service. A closer analogy would be picking up a free newspaper like the Evening Standard in London and demanding that it come without ads.
Hobbyists spent their own money or mooched their university maintaining (home)pages that got a *lot* less traffic than now, and the content was rather crappy.
And this isn't about corporate greed - suppose you start a webcomic, or writing jokes. People like it, and you want more free time to dedicate to it rather than work 9 to 5 or designing commercial posters (a very typical case). Not everyone is willing to fork over for a t-shirt or a book (I don't buy books often). Some can't/won't fork over on Patreon. So you put up a few well-behaved ads and catch a constant drip.
Look at F2P games. They have a lot of free users and a small number that actually pay lots of money. Games compete for the user's time and disposable income with each other and bring new content all the time while still making a profit and actually growing.
Websites for some reason can't? Maybe it's because they hardly offer any interesting/new content?
If they don't offer compelling content, they don't get enough hits and the fixed costs drive them out of business. But what about sites that do get traffic but a lot of them doesn't deliver revenue? Those play a numbers game, much like free-to-play games, and the numbers may or may not add up.
And lets not start on those crap "news" these days. I'm not interested in a novella length article about the damaging effects some stupid diet or some political game in some far forgotten town nobody finds on purpose without Google.
If they offer REAL content, people will: donate, click on ads/disable adblocker, or buy a subscription. Until then, they're the parasites bloating the search engines pointlessly.
Oh, but I was replying to someone arguing that there are no acceptable ads. As in “I want my Web free of ads - you figure out how to run it”.
If you rely on an ad blocker to protect you from web-driven attacks, I've got bad news from you: websites can be malicious without them.
And if they don't like it they can detect that, and they can fade into obscurity when people stop going there. It's a viable model for some sites though, if they have what people want and are willing to pay for.
What about sites that get a lot of occasional visitors? Blogs are typical here - thousands bump into the best of them once a month or so through a Google search, but they'd be hard pressed to log into PayPal to pay a fraction of a cent to see the content, let alone buy a subscription. Just imagine that every show on your TV / radio was pay-per-view and imagine how you'd like that.
Most sites don't actually have any content which is that compelling, so they can quit their whining. 95% of the sites on the web could go away tomorrow and it would be a better place.
What does this have to do with visitors who actually visit the site seeing ads? You may not like the content, someone else does and they cause an expense.
The sites with ads seldom have a company behind it. Consider non-corporate sites that you bump into once every month at best, but get lots of visits from a lot people because they're damn useful? Blogs with tech tips (e.g. Use the index, Luke) are typical of this pattern, and their visitors would be hard-pressed to buy a subscription.