ahrs

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by ahrs 3y ago
It annoys me to no end that the idea of metro-ISPs never took off. If somebody in the same city as me wants to connect to any services I host at home they first have to round-trip to my ISPs core-routers and then back to me. Now this all ha
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by ahrs 5y ago
They do this with good intentions because not everyone can change this header (e.g if you're using some locked down browser at a kiosk you may not be able to change this) but it's infuriating for everyone who can.
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by ahrs 5y ago
It's bad enough being a Brit and told to identify the pictures of Crosswalks. Most of the captcha use American English terms and in the UK nobody uses the term "Crosswalk", the first time I saw that specific captcha it took m
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by ahrs 6y ago
They should invest in a mechanism to allow you to train the heuristics in advance. If the heuristic knows that location A is a location you normally login from and location B is not but you could tell it in advance "I'm going to t
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by ahrs 6y ago
If anyone from the IA reads this, are there any plans for IPv6 support? Archiving IPv4 for future generations is an important goal so it's perhaps fitting that in 2021 the IA is still running a historical Internet Protocol but it would
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by ahrs 10y ago
> The other tools meant hunting around for installers `brew cask install $APP` > ...to find licence file attachments and serials numbers Store these in 1Password (other password managers are available) Your point about versioning is a
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by ahrs 11y ago
Safari on iOS doesn't leak anything out of the ordinary for me. The geolocation was way off, identifying my iPhone as being in London (likely due to me accessing the page over a mobile data connection).
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by ahrs 11y ago
>!h searches Hoogle; I would prefer it to search Hacker News. To search Hacker News I have to use !hnsearch or !hn >!hn isn't much larger than !h but is still something I would prefer to set myself. >!m goes to Google Maps but