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by elashri 9mo ago
I have a userscript that takes a list of keywords, domains and user names on HN. I host the json file containing the list on git instance and I use userscript plugin on iOS safari which would support this userscript. This is the lowest fric
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by elashri 9mo ago
There is also network-tooling of the same idea and works locally [1] [1] https://github.com/Lissy93/networking-toolbox
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by elashri 9mo ago
They are free to block me if they detect I am using adblocker. It is on by default. And for most services paying does not guarantee that I do not get ads. I am not under any obligation to let my client serve their ads which is usually the n
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by elashri 9mo ago
I hate ads with all my heart. And I go out of my way to religiously block them. I employ DNS blocking (through my own adguard home server) on my whole network (I use this DNS server connected to unbound to act as recursive DNS on all device
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by elashri 9mo ago
> ACM will become one of the very few organizations to offer a large, integrated, and highly curated library of articles and related artifacts openly accessible to all Is there anything specific about them doing that? Most of the publish
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by elashri 10mo ago
> 25 years ago it seemed like physics was mostly complete, and the only remaining work was exploring the corner cases and polishing out all the imperfections Around 125 years ago, many thought the same about physics, that physics is most
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DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like a Book(hackaday.com)
4 points by elashri 10mo ago|0 comments
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Why Does Nuclear Power Plant Construction Cost So Much? (2023)(ifp.org)
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by elashri 10mo ago
You made my day with this prediction :) > The Ultimate Fork > Frustrated with Waterfox and Orion, you will finally launch 'CERN-fox', a browser that only renders LaTeX and requires a muon-detected captcha for every search qu
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by elashri 10mo ago
I don't disagree that the ultimate goal is have open and free access is a noble goal. I just point our that what is happening in practice is that it is being taken as a new business model that pays on average more for the publishers. I
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by elashri 10mo ago
I think they probably have aggressive firewall with a lot of false positives. I live in Switzerland and got blocked but tried a VPN to US and it worked. Although it is usually that I get blocked for using VPN. But I'm not sure if it is
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by elashri 10mo ago
Just friendly remember that Open access publishing is the new business model that is more lucrative for publishing industry and it is basically a tax on research activities but paid to private entities and mostly paid by taxpayer money (par
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by elashri 10mo ago
And after the acquisition it seems they abandoned the browser and it is independent again since 2023 [1] [1] https://www.waterfox.com/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/
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Open Source AI Editor: Second Milestone(code.visualstudio.com)
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by elashri 10mo ago
Yes you can actually self-host both Firefox sync server [1] and use Firefox accounts (which also can be self-hosted [2] and someone put something simpler in docker image [3]). And those can be used even with Firefox itself not only the fork
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Let's (Not) Just Put Things in Context: Test-Time Training for Long-Context LLMs(arxiv.org)
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by elashri 10mo ago
> Hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper Unfortunately not anymore and not in the foreseen future if we don't see some AI investment corrections.
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by elashri 10mo ago
I would think that majority of users does not use GitHub actions at all or have very light infrequent usage so that would be true. I think with my personal project I have never exceeded the resources they give me as part of personal pro sub
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by elashri 10mo ago
What is the relation between blocking VPN and data breach? why would this be a reasonable response? Is it to prevent mass login attempts using VPNs to mark origin or what?
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by elashri 10mo ago
The irony is that I tried to access the link here but reddit blocks VPN access aggressively.
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TrustTunnel VPN Protocol(trusttunnel.org)
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The European Strategy for Particle Physics reaches an important milestone(home.cern)
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by elashri 10mo ago
The reason is that the law in Switzerland requires identification of the user of free internet services [1]. So it is not just common practice [1] https://www.gva.ch/Site/Passagers/Shopping/Services/Busin
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Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the Alice detector(symmetrymagazine.org)
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by elashri 10mo ago
To be honest, in the official papers they did not use it for either CMS or ATLAS.
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The Anatomy of a macOS App(eclecticlight.co)
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by elashri 10mo ago
I use this bookmarklet on phone when I encounter a page like that and it usually make things better. javascript:(function(){document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','<meta name="viewport" content="width=
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The Quiet Progress of Particle Physics(blog.melashri.net)
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Photons Light the Way(symmetrymagazine.org)
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by elashri 11mo ago
The funnier thing is that they opted for Germany which as I understand have similar laws.

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