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by immibis2 28d ago
also, public broadcasts should be scraped as much as possible
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by immibis2 28d ago
https://status.d402.de/ and many other index pages Consider running your own to spread out the HN/Slashdot effect.
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by immibis2 28d ago
Then they should be glad Nitter instances are offloading some of their traffic, right? Some requests are cache hits, so I handled that whole request myself and spared an Elon server from handling it.
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by immibis2 28d ago
Optics and logic are two different things. The optics seem to be working out well for him, for some reason.
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by immibis2 28d ago
The reason is likely not guidelines-based.
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by immibis2 28d ago
"Nothing can shut down open source" - Elon Musk, LITERALLY TODAY: https://nitter.click/elonmusk/status/2099026767357120523 He speaks out both sides of his mouth.
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by immibis2 28d ago
And remember, Elon only granted that so he wouldn't be (rightfully) banned from Google. At first you couldn't view anything, then Google delisted X because it only indexes public pages, then Elon conceded you can view the direct t
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by immibis2 28d ago
The reasons it's unusable are precisely the reasons they don't want you using anything else. Direct control over your eyeballs. They decide where the ads go on the page, they decide what comes next in your feed, they track everywh
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by immibis2 28d ago
And demanding ID!
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by immibis2 28d ago
No, this is where programmers rules-lawyer in ways that actual lawyers don't and then get law stuff hilariously wrong. No judge thinks that viewing an HTML page is downloading it, because downloading means saving a copy to your compute
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by immibis2 28d ago
Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Entertainment_Inc... .
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by immibis2 28d ago
Everything is both legal and illegal until a lawsuit happens. Then it collapses depending a little bit on the facts and mostly on who has the better lawyers. I suspect Nitter's first round with lawyers pointed out that scraping is lega
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by immibis2 1mo ago
Is https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts economists?
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by immibis2 1mo ago
How do you even measure inflation accurately, given the current government, and has there been 61% inflation over the last 5 years?
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by immibis2 1mo ago
Physical media isn't guaranteed to retain future access. There are protocols for players to update various bits of data from the newest disk you have ever inserted into them. The Nintendo Wii certainly does this, I'm not sure if B
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Why and how you should run your own DNS resolver(immibis.com)
5 points by immibis2 1mo ago|0 comments
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by immibis2 5mo ago
Despite that fact, it's against HN guidelines to talk about it. You can read between the lines of this.
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by immibis2 5mo ago
You must be on an IPv4-only network.
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by immibis2 5mo ago
Talking continually about politics is against the HN guidelines.
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by immibis2 5mo ago
To open a website you don't need anyone's consent apart from yours and the web server's. It still deserves to be fixed.
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by immibis2 5mo ago
A GUI that lists all the available options is much more user-friendly than a YAML configuration file where you have to guess them or pore over documentation before starting, but even Jenkinsfile syntax looks better than YAML, and Groovy is
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by immibis2 5mo ago
You don't have to follow the rules. If openSUSE says you have to be over 16 to use their website, but you're not over 16, you can still use their website. They aren't actually stopping you.
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Show HN: I made an IPv6 proxy for GitHub(githubv6.com)
4 points by immibis2 5mo ago|3 comments
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by immibis2 7mo ago
Like this one: https://www.immibis.com/outlinks/ IDK about Linkhut. Why should I use a whole SaaS to manage a single page list of links?