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"I shouldn't need to pay every network or affiliate to block ads." And you don't. You can do it for free. DNS is quite effective at blocking ads. It is amusing to see Google trying to push this "contribution"
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I am not sure I understand the comparison. Search engines and adtech are not selling a product, other than the process of serving ads. If sales of ad space and adtech decline, these companies are in trouble. And their "assets"
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"When it bursts companies are going to be more desperate and will unload all the personal data they have... to any willing buyer." I have long predicted this outcome and always thought I was being a bit too realistic. It's n
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Am I the only one who thought for a moment this might be about Bruce Evans' C compiler (bcc)? I believe Linux used bcc in the early days. I know they used the assembler (as86) and I think they still do. Could be wrong.
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by ised 11y ago
Looks like a parked domain at park.above.com. With Javascript disabled nothing happens. No redirect, no compressed payload of who knows what. Their scheme appears to be 100% reliant on Javascript.
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by ised 11y ago
It was actually a rhetorical question. :) col -bx strips nonprintable characters. I have been using this for many years. Especially since the spread of Unicode. As for _viewing_ nonprintable characters, I am a heavy sed user and honestly
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by ised 11y ago
Can escape sequences survive being piped through "col -bx"?
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by ised 11y ago
GNU sed only.
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by ised 11y ago
I really enjoyed reading the paper. The author's focus is in the right place (IMO). Technical ability is perhaps common but having the right focus is, sadly, rare. It's the difference between someone who says they could do or did
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by ised 11y ago
I prefer progress(1) written for BSD UNIX. Dates back to 2002.
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by ised 11y ago
"You're free to want sites to work..." How do you define "work"? My definition of not working would be failure to receive a 200 response and some useful content. The text of every recipe on this site is viewable wit
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by ised 11y ago
It was once possible access Google's archive of Usenet without Javascript. And there were "heavy" and "light" versions of the messages. The heavy versions have an enormous amount of Javascript, CSS and HTML cruft.
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"I feel its about time this data monetization cloud bonanza be disrupted." Ironically, having users controlling their own routers could be the best chance to do that. That is, toss out the crappy consumer routers and instead embr
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But, as with RPi, you get to boot your own choice of OS. In my opinion the advantage of this (=more control) easily outweighs tradeoff of not "opting in" to hardware features enabled via binary blobs. A MIPS board that pretty much
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by ised 11y ago
The interesting thing with Google Groups is that Google cannot even crawl its own pages. This is because it fails to follow its own specification for "escaped_fragment" URLs. http://developers.google.com/webmasters
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by ised 11y ago
Change the gateway on the Windows 10 install computer (or "default route" as another commenter calls it) to a computer _you_ control, i.e., a UNIX install, that can do IP forwarding. Turn on IP forwarding. Connect the UNIX inst
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by ised 11y ago
But how open is it to other open source OS kernel besides Linux? For example, would they send a pre-release boards to FreeBSD or OpenBSD "kernel hackers" if there was interest? Though it may not be intentional the article seems t
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The image, without the Javascript: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/dsc... Interesting note (from NASA?) to visitors embedded in the page: <script> (function($)
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"... (so just one DNS request)." Are you sure? request #1 1 news.ycombinator.com: 207 bytes, 1+0+4+2 records, response, noerror query: 1 news.ycombinator.com authority: ycombinator.com 172800 NS ns-225.awsdns-28.com request #2
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by ised 11y ago
There is a lot of history and useful knowledge archived in Usenet. A lot of that content (e.g., the early UNIX newsgroups) puts today's forums and blogs to shame. Google acquired Deja News (if Usenet is wortheless, why?) and now all t
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"The solution suggested by Stevens... The problem with this is..." I see no problem with it. But perhaps I am missing something. "... an application is expected to tune the backlog..." Two simple applications I use ever
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by ised 11y ago
That means the full lookup for your personal domainname is for an Amazon S3 domainname. PairNIC just handles the first lookup to give the CNAME for blog.lmorchard.com, pointing to Amazon. Then there are multiple other CNAME's that Ama
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"263 HTTP requests" Seems reasonable. bwahahaha! Shall we discuss the number of DNS requests? And how many of those offsite servers are using something convoluted like Amazon for DNS? (which I find is more and more prevalent than
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Are there any hosting providers that will truly accomodate raw disk (filesystem: ffs, etc.) images as opposed to proprietary image or container formats (Amazon's, VMWare's, etc.), without having jump through numerous hoops? For th
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Try again. tnftp, tcpclient and nc are my friends. And, increasingly, q's builtin TCP client (alas, closed source). There was a short time long ago when I used wget. That period did not last very long. curl is overloaded with "
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But "modern", Javascript-enabled web browsers are generally not my friends. I am rather circumspect in when and how I use them. If I need to use a modern web browser on the open web it is generally because I _need_ Javascript. B
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I routinely use HTTP/1.1 pipelining from the command line to retrieve 100 assets at a time. But these are assets that I actually want: i.e., the content. Somehow I doubt that the 200+ "assets" coming from 1 or 2 hosts automa
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by ised 11y ago
I enjoyed this article. But I have one nitpick. The author suggest HTTP/2 as a solution to web cruft. I could be wrong, but I see the HTTP/2 ploy as a proposed way to deliver more cruft, faster. What do you think is going to be i
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by ised 11y ago
www world really needs more www "browsers", particularly some more that do not implement javascript. Would it hurt to give users more choice and see what they choose? Only my opinion but there is much one can do without all the
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by ised 11y ago
Would you believe I want to run something else other than Linux?

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