hydragit

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by hydragit 1y ago
What about the human cost? https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-gig-slave-labor
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by hydragit 6y ago
Web pages use a data source behind the scenes, but web pages are NOT a data source. A rendered Qt app is not a data source either. weboob builds plain-old objects (or JSON), it is a data source. The Qt applications are just an example front
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by hydragit 6y ago
You probably don't use a lot of things, right? Did you do a background-check on the thousands of developers that contributed to all the software you use? Did you check the smartphone you use wasn't built in modern slavery faciliti
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by hydragit 6y ago
Given the long list of contributors, maybe not all of them adhere to the same standards.
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by hydragit 6y ago
> Do you think women would be comfortable contributing to a project called "boobsize", which is part of a larger project called "weboob"? Not to mention "QHandJoob". Looking at the authors, several women d
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by hydragit 6y ago
You seem to be pointing at a specific revision and the file doesn't seem to exist anymore in the current version of the repository. I confess I didn't check more than this though.
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by hydragit 9y ago
> Python 3, AFAIK, doesn't have anything as handy as Ruby/Perl's Mechanize. But using the web developer tools you can usually figure out the requests made by the browser and then use the Session object in the Requests libr
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by hydragit 9y ago
WebOOB [0] is a good Python framework for scraping websites. It's mostly used to aggregate data from multiple websites by organizing each site backend implement an abstract interface (for example the CapBank abstract interface for pars
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by hydragit 10y ago
Actually, even if you're paying, the service operator may be mining your data. This is the case for example with cell phone operators: you pay a monthly fee, and yet they use your geolocation to send you custom advertising, sell market
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by hydragit 10y ago
Degooglisons-internet [1] is an initiative (broader than just email) to promote free services without selling your data. It aims at giving easily deployable apps so more hosters can appear. [1] https://degooglisons-internet.org&#
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by hydragit 10y ago
Yes, moxie "knows it all" wants to control his apps so much he doesn't want them to be on f-droid https://f-droid.org/posts/security-notice-textsecure/
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Joyce K. Reynolds, co-editor of RFCs, has died(mailarchive.ietf.org)
186 points by hydragit 11y ago|9 comments
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by hydragit 11y ago
Regarding binaries, I know these could be useful and I'd like to provide them, but I'm afraid some "not (yet?) very popular mirroring project" can't show how we can trust it regarding binaries. After all, a known si
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by hydragit 11y ago
For now, Github is not ad-ridden as SourceForge is. Github is monetizing some repositories: https://github.com/pricing I don't know if they're sustainable, but from my naive point of view, closed-source projects o
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by hydragit 11y ago
Thanks, I'll have a look
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by hydragit 11y ago
I confess my ignorance regarding archive.org's various collections. There seem to be a lot of them, which one are you referring to?
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Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub(a-sf-mirror.github.io)
146 points by hydragit 11y ago|82 comments