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by firefoxd 8mo ago
It should start by looking at robot.txt.
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
I must be using web browsers completely wrong. Like browsing a page isn't a problem for me. I can do it at the speed of my needs. I'm having a hard time understanding why I will tell gemini to create an account on some website for
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
I wrote my story and titled it, "My experience at work with an automated HR system". I sent it to a few friends, only a couple of them read it. A week later, I renamed it to "The Machine Fired Me". That seemed to capture
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
Just tested my xhtml website on validator.w3.org , the errors I see triggered me: > Trailing slash on void elements has no effect and interacts badly with unquoted attribute values. Unquoted attribute values? So help me I don't see
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
We estimated a single sprint to move from our plain text passwords. Easy! Add a new field in the db for secure pass, and one to force password update. Update the api to take the new fields into account... It took 6 months. Why? Well it was
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
@grok is this true?
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
Not to dismiss other people's experience, but thinking improves thinking. People tend to forget that you can ask yourself questions and try to answer them. There is such thing as recursive thinking where you end up with a new thought y
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
I suggest you start converting your writing into short digestible Tiktok dance moves... Joking aside, paper is resilient. Share your digital writings everywhere, then make paper copies that you can donate to libraries. If this fails, that&#
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Just Get a Better Job(idiallo.com)
60 points by firefoxd 9mo ago|10 comments
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
My website: https://idiallo.com It made it to #9 of the top 100 personal websites on HN for 2025. https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?start=20...
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
My main concern is that there isn't a reliable way to know your information is securely stored[0]. > A few years ago, I received a letter in the mail addressed to my then-toddler. It was from a company I had never heard of. Apparent
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
Slight tangent but I've had my own Pavlovian moment when I taught a loud neighbor how to keep the volume down [0]. It all started when our RF tv remote interfered. He probably thought there was a ghost that turned off the tv whenever h
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
I have a tab on sublimetext that has been opened since the pandemic and I think it's safe to share my idea since I'm not gonna do it. *4KB webpage files* So a website where each page does not exceed 4KB. This includes whatever sty
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
Thanks, just DMed you
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
Haha thank you. That went over my head. I dismissed that box without reading the error. But... I can neither confirm nor deny I understand what you are referring to ;)
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
That's a very good question.
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
Life got in the way (marriage, kids, covid, publisher backed out, etc.) But 2026 is my year, stay tuned.
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
2015 me didn't know that. But chances are, I wouldn't have been able to install it with their company software policy tools.
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
I don't often post Gangsta Rap videos on HN, but I think Patrick Boyle's take and first hand experience is something we could all learn from.
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YouTube Censorship: The video they didn't want you to see(youtube.com)
6 points by firefoxd 9mo ago|2 comments
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
They are pretty insightful. Particularly this one: > 3. Bias towards action. Ship. You can edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank one. I have my own version of this where I tell people that no amount of good advice can help you make
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
That's pretty cool. My blog is number 9. And I don't think I've been as prolific as those in the top 10. 9 idiallo.com 5,539 17 326 Ibrahim Diallo Software developer and blogger
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Guy Goma BBC Interview(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by firefoxd 9mo ago|0 comments
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
The problem isn't just that new installs will require this, but if you are on Windows 11, there are a hundred accidental ways to create a Microsoft account. Sometimes it's disguised as an update, or a sneaky notification. Sometime
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by firefoxd 9mo ago
Hey I wrote that :) I still remember how I felt when I sent that first invoice. I was beating myself for not sending the invoice every week in the process, yet there I was with what I thought was a giant bill. For context, the company that
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We have all we need to make mass surveillance a reality(idiallo.com)
5 points by firefoxd 10mo ago|2 comments
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by firefoxd 10mo ago
In the olden days, internet explorer couldn't support html5 tags. I found a snippet of code from my 2010 library [0] that I used to use to remedy the problem. You see if you created the tags via JavaScript, IE would somehow recognize t
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I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone(idiallo.com)
551 points by firefoxd 10mo ago|563 comments
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by firefoxd 10mo ago
Good write up. Gonna go on a tangent here. Why the single purpose domain? Especially since the author has a blog. My blog is full of links to single post domains that are no longer.
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by firefoxd 10mo ago
I've had my 15 minutes of fame, twice. 30 minutes I guess. Each time I met people that freaked me out. In 2018, after the news picked up my story, I met the "true" inventor uber. This guy emailed 100s of documents as proof, n

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