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My browser had this down as a phising site? The actual content seems fine though.

Author here. This is strange, as I only use the Ghost site itself for hosting. I don't do any self-hosting or anything. Until this week, I'd never heard of anyone having troubles, but over on Reddit I saw a long-time reader getting some kind of SSL error, then later it said the site "wasn't available". Now in that thread someone else is getting that "phishing" error.

Time to get ahold of Ghost tech support and see what's going on. Sorry for the troubles!


The site is fine. Doesn't show up as anything bad on Firefox on Mac. I've been reading the site for months, never had a problem.

Same here (Firefox on Windows). But when I opened it in Firefox on my Android phone, it seems fine.

Confirm via uBo. Didn't bother with content because of that.

Actually parts of the content aren't loading, probably also due to it being listed? Strange though! I wonder what happened?


Interesting, the source is (a subdomain on) the Ghost blogging platform.

Author here. Yes, I don't self-host exactly because I was hoping to avoid stuff like this by relying on a more robust back-end than I could provide.

Author here and... what the heck?!

There's a kid's game that illustrates this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_game

Maybe more relatable to the typical HN reader: You know when the top boss tells the lower bosses stuff, who then tells the lower bosses something and once it reaches you as an IC it's all different and corrupted compared to what it initially was? LLMs have the same effect, unsurprisingly.

People keep looking at the consumer privacy vpns , but there's a huge field of commercial vpn usage for a broad spectrum of tasks in the european union. Point to point tunnels connecting two sites into a single network. Allowing access to (corporate) resources via laptops and mobile devices. Fixing the one way nature of crappy internet that most people are forced to work with these days (or simply never realized), etc etc.

Basically if you want to do any sort of remote work, I'm not saying you're necessarily using one right now, but the odds are good. Possibly the politician's own IT back-end might have ... opinions... on the ability of the executive to overly check the legislative too.


Or is the small part the bit where the least useful stuff happens? ;-)

A bit more seriously, the brain actually uses a significant chunk of the body's energy budget (no matter how efficient it is relative to human made equipment). So evolutionarily, it doesn't make sense unless it's doing something exceptionally useful.


the mobile phone requirement would mean I end up avoiding sites that use that method. I'm not sure how many friends and family can be convinced, but I can try . (most people tend to give up any and all security measures if it means getting to see the fluffy kitten though, so my hopes aren't very high)


He even sells all the necessary tools to assemble a burglary kit.

I feel like his channel is some psyop honeypot to get all the criminals with Dunning-Kruger to buy his tools and then Google calls the cops before they can even jimmy a lock.

The catch with the LPL is that a lot of skill and experience also goes into picking locks. He does it reliably and quickly and efficiently because he knows how. If some goober tried to replicate his success wearing a balaclava at 3am, it may prove a bit more thorny a problem.


Or, you buy the kit because picking locks is a fun puzzle? Very hacker-adjacent. It's not necessarily illegal, after all.

Right, for Miami, you might want kwelschermen (or a variant thereof: deep impermeable cutoff walls, doesn't need to be concrete, can be made by clay injection too) , californian style water injection, locks that reject salt water. Different place, different geology, different tools. No place is exactly the same.

Thing is I figure you need some form of water board to manage it. A political entity that's all about "here we are and here we stay". Once they're set up they're pretty reliable (there's one that's still paying interest on a 370-year old bond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSIC8jwbQs )


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder

Type 1 is often an island situated below sea level.

For instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevopolder . Island. Surrounded by open water because that's actually a good idea. Below sea level. 400 000 inhabitants. 2 cities, major agriculture, minor airport.

Ever wanted to grab dinner on the sea floor? Visit Almere Center. Though lots of people find it to be a bit boring in person.

Want the same sort of thing in the US? Consider dropping the Jones act. Right now it's illegal to bring the equipment that builds these things into the US.


The Jones act doesn't prohibit anything about bringing ships into the US to construct things. The closest reason I can think of you thinking that is it allows injured sailors to sue for damages. Maybe that equipment leads to a huge number of injuries?

The cabotage provision of Jones act says a foreign (built) vessel is not allowed to move stuff between two points within US waters https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/46/55102 . There's also actually a separate dredge act too (now here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/46/55109) .

So a crane like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvicq-kvVbw ; it picks thing up and sets thing back down. In US waters? Verboten ("nee meneer, helaas verboden", in this case). Sure there's workarounds with barges sometimes; but it gets silly.

Or this rather large 'bulldozer' (a trailing suction hopper dredger) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhysyOJHY8A . Move mud from spot where it's unwanted to spot where it's needed. Operates in coastal/river areas. Fixes dunes, replenishes beaches, creates walls, places landfill; all at scale. Builds things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Islands, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasvlakte_2 .

Jones act and more specifically dredge act even: you're moving stuff inside US territorial waters.

Both cases it's not (or barely) made in the US, and you can't hire the big crews from elsewhere. There's no competition, and this has resulted in no incentive to learn, keep up or even try.

NB Heritage foundation on some of this: https://www.heritage.org/trade/commentary/113-year-old-law-h...


Real name policies don't work either. Some of the world's biggest trolls don't just troll under their real name, they actually own some of the networks.

Are we going all voight-kampf with this? Or something non-fictional?

Either way, you might be surprised to find in 2026 that it'd filter out more humans than agents; depending ;-)


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