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by 3xblah 7y ago
"HTTP headers can no longer be freely edited, unless they are part of a limited whitelist blessed by the Chrome team." Are you suggesting that Chrome/Chromium users will not be able to control the headers that the client send
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by 3xblah 7y ago
https://www.nakka.com/soft/npop/index_eng.html
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"I've been taking companies to Washington where they've complained about Google for a long time and there were politicians blocking it once, but the blockers aren't there anymore ," Reback said. "I don'
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Assuming all users do not want what the commenters giving feedback on HN want, then it would not be better for "all users".
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Mozilla has a conflict of interest. It pays its developers indirectly from internet ad revenue through deals with companies that sell ads. More importantly it seeks to compete with a browser controlled by ad sales company. Giving the us
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by 3xblah 7y ago
There was a time when browsers did not have built-in media players. Seems like ffmpeg libraries, developed outside of the web browser, support nearly all video formats a user could encounter on the internet. Also, the part of the statement
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The filters that get applied are private.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"The deprecation of the blocking ability of the WebRequest API is to gain back this control, and to further now instrument and report how web pages are filtered since now the exact filters which are applied to web page is informatio
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Turow, Joseph (2008), Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication, Routledge (New York), at 627, 631 "If you are refuting the article..." The article made no mention of public relations nor Bernays. I was responding to a
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"I don't think there's something stopping you from redirecting 123/udp to your own NTP server." Neither do I. I use local DNS and a router to block traffic to Apple servers. Of course it would be easier to simply e
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Your IP address is nearly as good as your GPS coordinates." Are you only concerned about transmitting your IP address to other third parties besides Apple? iOS is configured to automatically transmit the user's IP address t
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"PR" was invented by the military. I learned this from someone in PR who was trained in the service during WWII and then went on to work in the "public relations profession" as a civilian. I suspect the military traine
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"2. OpenVPN never borks my resolv.conf but Wireguard often leaves my DNS resolution in a state of confusion." Checking the source... excerpt from src/tools/wg-quick/openbsd.bash: set_dns() { [[ ${#DNS[@]} -g
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by 3xblah 7y ago
f=/tmp/youtube-urls;sed 's/^/url=/'|exec curl -K-|exec grep -o "https%3A%2F%2Fr[0-9][a-zA-Z0-9.%_-]*"|exec sed -n 's/%26/\&/g;s/%3D/=/g;s/%3A&#x2
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by 3xblah 7y ago
When he took down the c2 wiki I believe it was discussed on HN. I could have sworn this "remodel" site was supposed to be a temporary solution while he moved to a new server. http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/p
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by 3xblah 7y ago
I would not consider it simple either. However, the word "simple" was not used. The word was used was "simpler". The source for youtube-dl is not what I'd consider "simple". While neither solution is &
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Tested on Linux. ftp package is called tnftp. You can substitute curl -4o, wget -4O, fetch -4o or whatever client you prefer for downloading files.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
1) What did you try? 2) It is a shell script 3) Sorry about that 4) (a) It is smaller, simpler and faster. (b) When YouTube occasionally makes a change I can fix it immediately rather than waiting for someone else to fix youtube-dl
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Show HN: Simple YouTube Downloader
9 points by 3xblah 7y ago|6 comments
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Is this the same "Tcpcrypt" that was called a "marketing stunt" in this presentation? https://cr.yp.to/talks/2012.03.08-1/slides.pdf
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"In the traditional advertising world, they can see the ad on TV or printed somewhere and know they aren't getting ripped off. There is absolutely no assurance on the internet that anyone is seeing your ad." If this is true,
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Only the very poor, the very young, and the very old don't carry some kind of mobile device these days." Good on them.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Unfortunately, that tool only gives me all of the data I put on there myself. So nothing I didn't already have. After all, why would I leave my only copy of a photo on Facebook? So no, this tool does not allow me to exercise my G
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Facebook and Google will beg and plead for content. They must have it to survive. Yet they do not want to hire journalists and create news content. They take all the ad revenue that news media would take, they spread the "news"
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Here's how one police commander recalled a wiretapped conversation between two mob members: "We're polluting our own house and our own land," the mobster said. "What are we going to drink?" "You idiot,&quo
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Polysomnography seems like an area in desperate need of innovation to improve efficiency and lower cost. It is far too expensive for the entire undiagnosed sleep-deprived population to have a single sleep study let alone for those already
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"We're also curious, as children of the 90s ourselves, does a child who grew up without a continual bombardment of ads end up more susceptible to advertising later in life? Did those early days of being shown ad after ad for LIFE
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by 3xblah 7y ago
True, there are ad-ons to address such browser deficiencies. The question is why browsers do not have these capabilities natively. Clearly, a large number of users want them. Note that the 20% in your estimate are quite significant. As fo
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Web pages are made up of dozens (sometimes hundreds) of separate resources that are loaded and assembled by the browser into the final displayed content." Could that be the reason that that the web needs to be "faster&quot
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"But Illinois Brick is not a get-out-of-court free card for monopolistic retailers to play anytime that a damages calculation might be complicated." A reference to the American board game "Monopoly" and its "Get out

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