Sephr

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by Sephr 3y ago
Not yet. Best practices can change.
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by Sephr 3y ago
I said cash-grab, not cash cow. A cash grab is something that has an unreasonably high profit margin. A cash cow is something that provides a significant portion of an entity's income. I have no idea if HIBP is a cash cow for Troy. It
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by Sephr 3y ago
Do they have a domain-level opt-out?
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by Sephr 3y ago
I have memories of this site providing me with an excellent experience. Now it's just a cash-grab, asking for $169.50/year just to see 100 breached accounts! I use unique email addresses (breach canaries) on every website to detec
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by Sephr 3y ago
That is a good point. It's also a potential source of input desynchronization vulnerabilities as 'valid' (does not throw an error when passed to the URL constructor) URLs can contain invalid hosts.
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by Sephr 3y ago
That's quite useful! I'm going to integrate that into my code and fallback to the previous implementation if canParse() is not available.
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by Sephr 3y ago
The utility mentioned isn't the approach I would recommend for 'validating absolute URLs' -- for that I would simply use try..catch with the URL() constructor and no base URL. My linked utility is specifically for validating
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by Sephr 3y ago
What would you propose as a better name? I recognize that this doesn't align fully with the spec. This has been helpful for my specific use cases.
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by Sephr 3y ago
It appears that the OP misread the tweet. This has nothing to do with DeepMind. For reference (in case the title gets changed), this post is currently titled "Chemist suggests retraction of DeepMind robotic synthesis paper".
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by Sephr 3y ago
Validating absolute URLs is easy (edit: with a try..catch statement). I was hoping that this standard would introduce a utility for validating both relative and absolute URLs. Here's how I do it: https://gist.github.com&#x2F
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by Sephr 3y ago
It's an app that matches drivers with riders or deliveries. There's not much to 'mature', so I doubt that they will grow much in profitability. I can absolutely see this happening for transit companies like Waymo that ar
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by Sephr 3y ago
Indeed! I also maintain a list of entities that have leaked the unique email addresses that I have shared with them.[1] 1. https://gist.github.com/eligrey/5084991
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by Sephr 3y ago
I've discovered that the most effective trick is to use an email address that is considered invalid by most email scrapers but valid by most mail servers. I have an unobfuscated mailto: link on my blog and I receive barely any spam to
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by Sephr 3y ago
> Afaik the media matters employees were not genuinely interested in consuming Nazi content. I'm quite certain they were genuinely interested in seeing what happens when they consumed Nazi content.
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by Sephr 3y ago
I'm confused how simply using Twitter and following Nazi-leaning accounts is an inauthentic usage pattern. Nazism is bad but being a Nazi supporter or sympathizer doesn't make someone's usage inauthentic. At worst it makes th
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by Sephr 3y ago
Media Matters staff aren't authentic users? Is Linda trying to imply that they violated the terms of service? If a user can "force a scenario resulting in 13 times the number of ads," and those ads end up alongside pro-Nazi c
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by Sephr 3y ago
Technically and legally this should be possible. Unfortunately there are both ethical and technical reasons to avoid Sunbird. The Sunbird developers are spreading a FUD hit piece against open source software[1], which rubs me very wrong. Th
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by Sephr 3y ago
> * Cruise gets in an accident and stays in the road, passenger gets out and gets hit. Waymo handles this by notifying riders when vehicles or cyclists are incoming near passenger exits.
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by Sephr 3y ago
It is e-waste if there is no eventual end user. These devices are transient e-waste while they are stored in countries that they cannot be activated within.
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by Sephr 3y ago
> If I buy a good, I should not be able to sell it when/where I see fit? No, not if you are exporting e-waste for-profit.
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by Sephr 3y ago
The issue isn't that it was imported, it's that it was region activation locked.
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by Sephr 3y ago
> And guess what, the phone I'm typing this on was purchased from a perfectly legitimate seller, but was intended for use in Mexico If the seller did not inform you of the region activation lock, then they are illegitimate. That is
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by Sephr 3y ago
Ah, that makes sense and I stand corrected. There should be anti-e-waste legislation that bans or penalizes for this practice. I'm not sure if region-activation-locking as a concept is unethical. I definitely think that for-profit arbi
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by Sephr 3y ago
Any genuine customer purchasing phones could simply ask the seller (the phone OEM) for unlocked phones instead of region-activation-locked phones. A potential scenario where bulk orders of region-activation-locked phones could end up in the
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by Sephr 3y ago
Epilepsy warning! The video linked by OP contains bright high frequency flashing images that are continuously displayed for multiple seconds. Mods, can we get a warning added before the YouTube URL?
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by Sephr 3y ago
Selling malware/software weapons to US entities is generally legal for other US entities*, with the main caveat that if it ends up ITAR regulated then you can only sell it to the US government and other ITAR-cleared suppliers unless it
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by Sephr 3y ago
Testing on Firefox makes these figures not entirely useful due to a lack of support for some hardware decoders. I'd like to see an ideal comparison using hardware-based decoders all from the same vendor and the same manufacturing proce
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by Sephr 3y ago
https://dangerous.link/virus.exe
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by Sephr 3y ago
Not all consent managers are just forms. Some of them contain enforcement technology and some block lists do not differentiate between the forms and the enforcement technology, even when the consent managers make it easy to differentiate an
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by Sephr 3y ago
Note that using this blocker list can actually increase first party tracking if it blocks a properly configured user respecting consent management platform.

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