Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
This isn't really relevant to MediaWiki, and the proposal is so ridiculous I can only assume it is some sort of joke project. For others seeing this thread, I found all the good quotes for you: DNSChain stops the NSA .dns is a meta-TLD because unlike traditional TLDs, it is not meant to

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-30 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Apr 30, 2014 8:21 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: This isn't really relevant to MediaWiki, and the proposal is so ridiculous I can only assume it is some sort of joke project. For others seeing this thread, I found all the good quotes for you: DNSChain stops the NSA .dns

[Wikitech-l] Mailman 3

2014-04-30 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
I just stumbled across http://terriko.dreamwidth.org/151005.html Since I frequently hear that mailman is a spawn of Satan if not Satan Incarnate himself, it might be of interest to take a preliminary look. --Martijn ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-30 Thread Daniel Friesen
I'll start with their vs. Convergence since I was pretty enthusiastic when I read up on how it works. The okTurtles/DNSChain authors don't seem to understand how Convergence works at all (we'll it's either that or they do understand it but are maliciously misrepresenting it). They make ridiculous

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-30 Thread Daniel Friesen
((In a separate email since my first on Convergence was long)) Now on DNSChain itself. The authors like to put down other methods that are attempting to secure the communications to major websites we use today using .com domains, ensuring that when we want to talk to Facebook, Google, Wikimedia,

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-30 Thread James Salsman
Daniel Friesen wrote: ... The okTurtles/DNSChain authors... make ridiculous statements like It depends on group consensus, but the group might not be very bright. What happens then? While I agree with much of Daniel's analysis, that part was actually the most compelling of all the

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-30 Thread James Salsman
it just proxies whatever normal public dns you tell it to Presumably they seed the namecoin table with DNS records and use those instead when they exist? I don't know whether those can be expired efficiently. As for on the current web making sure you're sending your password to the right

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-30 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2014-04-30, 4:55 AM, James Salsman wrote: it just proxies whatever normal public dns you tell it to Presumably they seed the namecoin table with DNS records and use those instead when they exist? I don't know whether those can be expired efficiently. Nope,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailman 3

2014-04-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/30/2014 04:20 AM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: I just stumbled across http://terriko.dreamwidth.org/151005.html Since I frequently hear that mailman is a spawn of Satan if not Satan Incarnate himself, it might be of interest to take a preliminary look. --Martijn Martijn, thanks for

[Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-04-30 Thread Brion Vibber
There've been some issues reported lately with image scaling, where resource usage on very large images has been huge (problematic for batch uploads from a high-resolution source). Even scaling time for typical several-megapixel JPEG photos can be slower than desired when loading up into something

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-04-30 Thread Gabriel Wicke
On 04/30/2014 12:51 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: * at upload time, perform a series of scales to produce the mipmap levels * _don't consider the upload complete_ until those are done! a web uploader or API-using bot should probably wait until it's done before uploading the next file, for