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by 3xblah 7y ago
In other words, virtual hosting does provide some incidental "privacy". However, looking at the web as whole, not simply focusing on certain large CDNs, most HTTPS websites actually do not require the SNI extension. "Mode
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by 3xblah 7y ago
What if you set FS with -F but then later in the script want to change FS to something else.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"He is currently Director of Engineering at Netflix, working on Open Connect, Netflix's home CDN also known as the CDN moving about 30% of the total US Internet traffic" There is something about CDNs and DNS, usually not good
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by 3xblah 7y ago
For those who prefer json to ads, trackers and bloat, below is a script to fetch NYT by section in human-readable jsonp. #! /bin/sh case $1 in world |w*) x=world # shortcut: w ;;us |u*) x=us
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"... I don't see how Google is obligated to give employees a platform to spout their political views in front of the entire company." When they settled with the NRLB, Google said in their press releases that the agreement mad
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Tech companies, despite their public stances to the contrary, are far from apolitical actors. Google, for example, sought to forbid political discussion^14 at work until the National Labor Relations Board forced them to allow such dis
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by 3xblah 7y ago
True. But there are differences when -v is used, as opposed to FS. Try this, where "nawk" is Lucent awk used by BSD cat > 1.awk << eof { print $ARGC } eof echo|nawk -f 1.awk FS=":"
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by 3xblah 7y ago
If I am not mistaken, -v is GAWK only.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Yikes. The syntax I had was wrong anyway. Should have been awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"};{print $1}' One benefit of the FS variable over -F, at least in original awk, is that by using FS the delimiter can be more than on
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by 3xblah 7y ago
If omit the user-agent string or, even better, the user-agent header itself, everything will be fine, too. Tested with Cloudflare and many, many other servers over many years. On the whole, taking the entire web into account, it is rare for
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by 3xblah 7y ago
No one has mentioned changing the default field separator, e.g., awk FS=: '{print $1}' instead of cut -d: -f1 awk FS="<" '{print $2}' instead of cut -d'<' -f2 awk FS=">"
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"The problem with this kind of aggressive A/B testing is that it's a game of "how far can we push the user?"" Google also does this with Chrome. Users are subjected to "field trials". No explicit co
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"I want to like the Microsoft that appears to be turning over a new leaf from their "evil" days." What appears to be "turning over a new leaf" may actually be nothing more than adapting to changing conditions
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The author forgot one: C-like syntax I believe this was intentional by the authors. In the early days of UNIX, I think more of its users knew C. Today, it is probably a much smaller number. However, learning AWK today, IMO, can help someo
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Aside from the cost of CompuServe, OAGEE was free?
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Redirects from https to http.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Do the paper timetables even exist anymore? I never tried to "analyse large numbers of routes for business purposes" using those free printed guides, but I did use them sometimes when planning trips, real or imaginary. Rather th
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by 3xblah 7y ago
I have been trying Ubuntu for about a year now, taking a break from BSD. This is the longest I have ever used Linux continuously for personal use. I always work entirely in RAM. Everything is mounted tmpfs. Occasionally I accidentally ex
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"I traversed down the state tree until I found the allAirportsList property, which contained all the airport keys and the locations to which they flew. I extracted this state (over 1MB of route information) and could now build a graph
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by 3xblah 7y ago
F-Droid makes its metadata human-readable: https://f-droid.org/en/2019/09/11/yaml-metadata.html To help find apps here is a 3-line script to produce a tab-separated list of apks with one line description
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by 3xblah 7y ago
That quadrillion results bit is like a relic from a bygone era, when people actually cared. I have not hit captchas very often. Even IP bans only last hours. It is annoying, but low risk. I do searching from shell prompt, never browser.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
What was the query the author used? Did he try something like this " https://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=reddit.com&q=best+p...
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by 3xblah 7y ago
For those who were online in 1993, did you ever think we would see websites with over a billion pages. That billions of people would login to one website, run by someone they do not know or do business with, every day as a means to communi
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by 3xblah 7y ago
rarun2 from radare2 rarun2 listen=80 program=/usr/bin/printf arg1="HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-type=text/html\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Don't forget socat. Or tcpserver from djb .
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by 3xblah 7y ago
I do not recall anyone talking about "memes" on the internet in 1994. Then I remembered that in 1994, Wired was still consumed more as a print magazine than a website. I think most people would have read this article in the maga
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The article mentions loops with an incrementing variable, e.g., i=$((i+1)). It is also possible to do this without loops. Is it faster. Left to the reader to decide. I used this technique sometimes so I could check on the progress of a scr
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by 3xblah 7y ago
This joke must be too highbrow because no one seems to get it. https://github.com/luruke/browser-2020
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Most of them rely on Javascript or some other "modern" browser feature. Not very reliable when user disables it or uses client that does not support it. HTTP headers are malleable yet I still see the big tech companies appearing t
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"... this will bypass Same Origin Policy..." Same Origin Policy does not seem to provide any protection against DNS-based tracking. For example, putting a series of links to resources in a page and making conclusions from the seri

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