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by amatecha 2y ago
After many years the domain of the default tracker built into the client, hltracker.com, expired... Someone in the community snapped that up and is hosting a new tracker at the same address, so when you fire up the original Hotline clients
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by amatecha 2y ago
The unofficial *nix ports allowed some basic encryption but this was never supported by the original Mac (and later Win) clients. Since the protocol was plaintext, it was easily reverse engineered, thus "hx" was born :)
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by amatecha 2y ago
Hotline was life-changing software for me. It was pretty niche, being Mac-only, and its BBS-like nature meant each server had its own culture and "cliques" and community. Getting an account on certain servers (rather than being
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yup, I'm not at all understanding the framing of those posts as "brigading". He's venting, justifiably angry. He wasn't like "go post at these guys and help me fight!", at least I didn't see anything
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by amatecha 2y ago
Nah, people noticed, and then they thought "Linux always has these kind of issues, I'm going back to [whatever other OS]" because 99.9% of users will never even TRY to report a bug.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah the problem (for me anyway) with doing a normal VPN is having to open ports on your router. Though, not the end of the world, but with Tailscale your firewall can continue to block all incoming from the outside world.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Sure, and I'm no expert on the subject, but when someone writes "a typical Li-ion battery" they mean the common rechargeable lithium battery with lithium cobalt oxide, not lithium iron phosphate. LiFePo4 is not a "typic
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, my point is that toggling some settings in Facebook won't do much of anything if you don't want to be tracked by these scumbags. I mean, regardless, your mom doesn't have to do anything if you swap her crappy ISP-provi
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by amatecha 2y ago
IMO, skip all the "FB settings" shenanigans and instead just block all Meta (and Google while you're at it) properties using a Pi-Hole on your whole network. VPN into your own LAN with Tailscale and use the Pi-Hole for DNS r
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by amatecha 2y ago
Being in support of free speech doesn't mean being explicitly tolerant of every possible opinion or political/philosophical/ethical viewpoint. I can assure you without any doubt that EFF is not sitting there fighting for som
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by amatecha 2y ago
LFP !== Li-ion. If you "full de-charge" your car battery that battery is toast, so that's not a useful comparison.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Rate limiting could help when an automated process is scanning arbitrary, generated URLs, inevitably generating a shitton of 404 errors -- something your rate limiting logic can easily check for (depending on server/proxy software of c
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by amatecha 2y ago
This happens to me with Firefox as I run it on OpenBSD and enable Strict Privacy and the "resist fingerprinting" feature -- or at least in that config I've had inexplicable 403 Forbidden errors from CloudFlare and fired up Ch
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by amatecha 2y ago
Separate computers. Windows gaming PC on a VLAN that can only access the internet, and nothing else on your network. This should really be the standard for home networks today.
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by amatecha 2y ago
The more APIs available for JS to interact with, the more granular and detailed browser fingerprinting can be. For example, how your browser renders WebGL can differ depending on what graphics card (and drivers) you have. The resulting va
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by amatecha 2y ago
(and if you haven't... check out the APIs available to the developers/owners of all the websites you browse: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API )
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by amatecha 2y ago
This sounds like what happens with Hotels.com where the hotel you just booked with said there was an issue with the payment that was submitted, and you must pay with this alternate payment method instead -- it turns out the hotel's acc
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by amatecha 2y ago
I've used Sublime since 2012 or 2013 or so. It's really legit. Lightweight, "it just works", and has generally stayed the same while adding some nice features along the way. Thank you!! <3
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by amatecha 2y ago
Dunno, that API has only been available since Firefox 126 and I've been watching videos without having my screen go to sleep (or screensaver coming on) for like.. years and years (far before Firefox 126)
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by amatecha 2y ago
idunno, as a professional web dev since 1998, I don't understand why Google, Apple and Mozilla are trying so hard to make the web browser like a complete OS (I technically understand why, I just think it's ridiculous). The amount
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by amatecha 2y ago
Maybe! We're all just speculating about the degree of accuracy here. I messaged them on Mastodon to see if they will clarify the text. Will post back if I hear from them.
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by amatecha 2y ago
haha, I was thinking something along those lines as I was typing the prior msg! "oh, machine algo, not our fault. we'll try to fix it in the future" >_>
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by amatecha 2y ago
I'd argue that automated ""AI""-driven moderation is actually more sinister than a human being deciding it. Censorship and control over communication by automated processes should be held to a very high standard (a
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by amatecha 2y ago
Probably this: "I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter." (from the OP) .. Of course, it would have helped if the post author quoted FB's
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by amatecha 2y ago
I'd be curious if it's blocked if someone links just debian.org . I can definitely see a [totally overzealous] "security filter" blocking Qubes, but Debian is one of the most popular Linux distros in the world, so that
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by amatecha 2y ago
Who knows? The article says "I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter." -- presumably we could ask Distrowatch to share the exact wording of th
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by amatecha 2y ago
It's not just distrowatch that is blocked, so it's not "obviously bullshit": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42840143
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by amatecha 2y ago
Well, that doesn't explain why someone else in this discussion had their post removed, as there was no mention of distrowatch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42840143
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by amatecha 2y ago
Whenever people talk about tariffs on Canadian goods I just remind them of the last time that happened. We slapped 'em back with similar tariffs and suddenly the US tariffs were lifted. https://www.canada.ca/en/de
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by amatecha 2y ago
There was a hack "solution" to fix the display by putting a piece of cardboard or paper behind it to keep the connection good. I was able to get my OG pebble working again until it was finally replaced by an Apple Watch I was gif

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