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by 3xblah 8y ago
The browser fingerprint nonsense assumes Javascript is turned on and the user has allowed someone else to choose the user agent string and other headers. Thought experiment: What would these "fingerprints" look like if on given da
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by 3xblah 8y ago
What is a "neutral platform"? Are there any examples of such "neutral platforms" outside of web company marketing? Was this term coined by web companies? Seems to me like a more concrete term to describe a web company su
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I saw it mentioned on HN at least 12 mos ago. What is the story behind it? Does not appear to use Google or Bing. In a way, it has the effect of being something like "AMP" before that project was started: a way to encourage or f
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by 3xblah 8y ago
More generally, there is zero Javascript and zero CSS. There are no advertisters paying for anything, and yet the content exists and is available. If there was such a thing as "free" content on the web then this page seems to repr
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Based on 1st 4 comments on this thread, readers might like: https://wiby.me https://wiby.me/submit/
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Maybe UserLAnd was/is relying on ConnectBot?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
https://theconversation.com/are-sharks-being-attacked-by-kil... Reminds me of pods that only eat the livers of rays. Whole, dead rays wash up on the beach with only their livers missing.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"An unkind summary, then, of the past half decade of the consumer internet: Venture capitalists have subsidized the creation of platforms for low-paying work that deliver on-demand servant services to rich people, while subjecting all
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by 3xblah 8y ago
user: appsonify created: January 1, 2015 karma: 19 about: fuck society submissions comments favorites
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I was not aware it runs well on FreeBSD. Have been using it on OpenWRT. Thanks for the tip!
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"... and you're now impying that I should use [Y]..." You perceive someone is "implying that [you] should use" [Y]. It is as if you believe the mere publication of software is somehow didactic. As if the author by t
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by 3xblah 8y ago
When you see that "argument" made in HN comments, I do not think it is for the reasons others in this thread are suggesting. These commenters are potential or existing users of X, not the authors of X. The people writing X would
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by 3xblah 8y ago
The objective of the comment was not to compare outcomes. I am not sure we even know the eventual purpose or outcome of surveillance because we are still in the nascent stages - it is very much a work in progress. The objective of the comm
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by 3xblah 8y ago
You are correct. I apologise for the inadvertence. What I meant to say is that access would only be affected for post-2018 publications. The only comment at that time was one suggesting UC staff would be turning to alternative sources fo
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Like you, I do not have these to test, but I have read that at least Roku have been hardcoding GoogleDNS servers.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"When Capitol Hill screws up, tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis get killed. When Wall Street screws up, the country is plunged into recession and poor families lose their homes. When Silicon Valley screws up, people who want a point
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by 3xblah 8y ago
https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/uc-elsevier/
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by 3xblah 8y ago
The question I have for Dr. Cook is, "What is this wizardry worth in today's world of computing?" It seems for every concise one-liner that requires no internet access there is a complimentary website someone has set up to pe
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by 3xblah 8y ago
This only applies to publications post-2018. The UC system, i.e., its students (tuition) and state taxpayers, is still paying Elsevier for all pre-2019 publications, including papers published by UC authors.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Perhaps it is the so-called "corporate greed" that creates the bloat. The added funtionality that the browser "needs", once added, is in practice overwhelmingly directed at commercial purposes, primarily advertising-supp
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"We Need Chrome No more" appeared on HN five months ago, and there was a comment that confirmed there is interest in an alternative search engine written by djb. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18053163 It wa
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by 3xblah 8y ago
When I hear the term "ksql" I think of Arthur Whitney's ksql and the early days of kdb, which dates back to the 90's.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
How about Roku, AppleTV, Amazon Fire whatever? (I do not know all the correct brand names but I am presuming other companies are trying to hardcode DNS servers too.)
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Does the dest unreach solution work on the original Chromecast?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Oh, I missed the title. Maybe I am wrong then. But then what good are titles anyway? HN routinely changes them from their originals. Reminds me of patents. One cannot derive anything useful from the title alone.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Like Vixie said, route and answer 8.8.8.8. He is complaining that he has to do it. He is not saying that there is no solution. Putting a DNS client in Chrome (I think they removed it but who knows), or Chromecast, or whatever is "evo
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by 3xblah 8y ago
The author's words were that the sale of fake data was "like a Ponzi scheme" in the sense that it is a crime. The author makes no mention of any factual similarities. The author is suggesting there are legal similarities: bot
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"... are you surprised that companies have no choice to use an advertising revenue model." I am surprised that they continue to believe that they should have any revenue "[W]hen people aren't willing to pay for 1-2 cof
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by 3xblah 8y ago
What was the ultimate outcome of that infamous strategy? To quote from Bob Dylan, "Everything is broken."
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Looking at some grocery stores online shopping sites, I had this idea about a service that delivers a CSV file listing all the price information from various grocery stores in a given area. Users of the CSV might be people who shop at a var

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