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by 3xblah 7y ago
No. If it was, the tutorial would be focused on authoritative DNS providers, at least in part.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Mr Graham said he was an "optimist", but conceded that the archive had not yet saved as much as he would like. Take YouTube, for example: the team is only archiving a "small fraction" of all the videos published ea
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Contrast this with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20987628
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by 3xblah 7y ago
True or false: dnscrypt-wrapper can be put in front of an authoritative server (instead of a recursive resolver), thereby enabling end-to-end encrypted DNS packets for a user running dnscrypt-proxy (in front of the user's cache, e.g. u
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by 3xblah 7y ago
CurveDNS encrypts communications between a DNS resolver and an DNS authoritative server. https://curvedns.on2it.net
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Because the text-only ads look much like search results, it is arguable they never needed to cross the line. Having the ad urls appear at the top of the search results page and be relevant to the search query was enough to get people to fo
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users." "For this type of reason and
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Imagine if the "trusted domain" used for the whitelabel site on a subdomain was google.com. Constantly referring to "Google's algorithm" misses the real issue. Google can do whatever it wants. Google can "tru
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by 3xblah 7y ago
What happens if you turn off Javascript for this website in the browser, or use a client that does not interpret Javascript?
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"How does it work? xip.io runs a custom DNS server on the public Internet." Is there a way to provide wildcard DNS without sending internal LAN IP addresses to a closed source "custom DNS server" over the public Internet
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Appears I am mistaken. Cheers.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Perhaps this issue will be recognised in some of the antitrust investigations. If I am not mistaken, they no longer claim "organize the world's information" as their goal.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
All true.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"If this case is eventually decided in favor of hiQ, scrapers can no longer be blocked." If the case is decided in favour of hiQ, then, absent an injunction , what would prevent a website from blocking a scraper? Maybe the websi
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by 3xblah 7y ago
There is no legal basis for "forbidding to ban scrapers". The question is whether there is any legal basis for banning scrapers, i.e., for blocking hiQ. In other words, if hiQ keeps scraping, are they violating anyone's righ
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Does this mean it is not possible to have a "great" software product, one that does things "better", that does not also generate "real growth"? Is it possible to have a "not great" product which never
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by 3xblah 7y ago
To be fair, that old Google mission statement, "... organize the world's information...", said nothing about the internet. As it stands toay, we have to assume whatever "offline" information about people exists, whe
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Then the Go modules proxy issue..." https://sum.golang.org/privacy This links to the Google Privacy Policy which is an additional 27 pages. "I think there are some folks at Google who have just read too deep
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"... add more tiny annoyances on its properties to make Firefox seem buggy citing tangential things like "web standards" or "pushing the web forward" and other euphemisms that companies like Google use to crush co
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDrRvrh16ws One of the things the Linux kernel developer says in the interview is that researchers are going through Intel patents to find "security bugs". He says t
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by 3xblah 7y ago
djb also comes to mind.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Why do websites want to shove autoplaying videos on people's throats so much, what's wrong with playing at any time you want?" Perhaps the websites (website owners) are not the only ones who are motivated to push for in
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Does anyone know the reason(s) why Apple makes it impractical to sideload?
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by 3xblah 7y ago
What is the country?
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The parent comment seems to rely on the all-too-common assumption that the only means by which a software author can be paid is through internet advertising. With that assumption, the argument against advertising then can be shifted to argu
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by 3xblah 7y ago
s/curiousity/curiosity
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by 3xblah 7y ago
A few days ago someone submitted the latest entry on Bill Gates' blog, gatesnotes.com. He has been commenting on climate change for years now, including plugging his related investments. It feels very much like he is trying to contro
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Everyone thought tech was above that kind of thing." That is news to me. Based on experience with the software industry in the 1990's, there was no reason for me to think that companies like Google would be any different.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
A dysfunctional legal department at Google. Who would have guessed? The founder/CEO Gates marrying someone in Marketing. The CEO of a software company I worked for having an affair with his secretary. This is what one had to tolera
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Instead of just reacting to the instantly agreeable title, out of curiousity I read the blog post and checked the blogroll the author cites as the cause for him to comment on adding RSS support. It lists 33 blogs. However, out of 33, only

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