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by jraph 11mo ago
Add "assumptions that became wrong" to "intended" and the perspective radically changes, to the point that omitting this part from my comment changes everything. I would even add: > the client wanted the server to del
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by jraph 1y ago
XSLT is to my knowledge the only client side technology that lets you include chunks of HTML without using JavaScript and without server-side technology. XSLT lets you build completely static websites without having to use copy paste or a s
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by jraph 1y ago
Lies in user agent strings where for bypassing bugs, poor workarounds and assumptions that became wrong, they are nothing like what we are talking about.
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by jraph 1y ago
Okay, thanks. I was confused bexause anonymity against the state is hardly the only, or even a main point of android forks. Privacy usually is, but against big tech typically.
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by jraph 1y ago
Would you take the defense of attackers using SQL injections? Because it feels like people here, including you, are defending the llm scrapers against sysadmins and authors who dare share their work publicly. Ensuring basic security and rob
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by jraph 1y ago
I'm confused, how are those two things related?
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by jraph 1y ago
> Either require a fee (processing power, captcha etc) or make a private password (auth) Well, I shouldn't have to work or make things worse for everybody because the LLM bros decided to screw us. > It is inherently a cat and mou
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by jraph 1y ago
> There's no such distinct thing as a scraper--and if your mental model tries to distinguish between a scraper and a human user, you're going to be disappointed. I disagree. If your mental model doesn't allow conceptualizi
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by jraph 1y ago
Any analogy is flawed and you can kill most analogies very fast. They are meant to illustrate a point hopefully efficiently, not to be mathematically true. They are not to everyone's taste, me included in most cases. They are mostly fi
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by jraph 1y ago
> When you return a response with a 200-series status code, you've granted consent. If you don't want to grant consent, change the logic of the server. "If you don't consent to me entering your house, change its logic
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by jraph 1y ago
When I open an HTTP server to the public web, I expect and welcome GET requests in general. However, (1) there's a difference between (a) a regular user browsing my websites and (b) robots DDoSing them. It was never okay to hammer a we
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by jraph 1y ago
Dependency management is work. And almost nobody does this work seriously because it has become unrealistic to do, which is the big concern here. You now have to audit the hundreds of dependencies. Each time you upgrade them. Rust is compil
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by jraph 1y ago
The last thing we want for a user-friendly interface is nondeterminism. Some procedure that works today must work tomorrow if it looks like you can repeat it. LLMs can't be the answer to this. And if you go to the lengths of making the
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by jraph 1y ago
> Personally I think the "best" workaround for this is to decouple the text representation and the representation the editing happens in. Allow people to type e^abs(x) and then the editor translates that into e^{abs(x)} while l
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by jraph 1y ago
Ah indeed, thanks for the correction, I edited message.
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by jraph 1y ago
tl;dr: - NaN is a floating point number, and NaN != NaN by definition in the IEEE 754-2019 floating point number standard, regardless of the programming language, there's nothing JavaScript-specific here. - In JS Number.isNaN(v) return
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by jraph 1y ago
Nothing there supports there were a significant number / more than a minority of people against systemd in Debian outside Ubuntu, which was the extraordinary claim I was (implicitly) complaining against. I see the convincing arguments
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by jraph 1y ago
Even without counting Ubuntu, was there a significant number of people against systemd in Debian, with convincing arguments?
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by jraph 1y ago
Interesting link, thanks for sharing!
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by jraph 1y ago
> you can fight for anything I suppose your mean't you "can't". I know, m'y life is full of compromises because of my various political opinions. > https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focu
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by jraph 1y ago
The Librem 5 is awfully outdated now (and so I won't buy it today because I'd worry about it becoming e-waste fast), doesn't have a good battery life, is very pricey, and I'd worry about call reliability (I have no doubt
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by jraph 1y ago
> Why do we have to beg Google to keep Android open? Because Google and Apple have put themselves between us and everything else. Until we manage to replace them (by lobbying to everything including governments against them, and by worki
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by jraph 1y ago
> <!doctype html> is what you want for consistent rendering. Or <!DOCTYPE HTML> if you prefer writing markup like it’s 1998. Or even <!doCTypE HTml> if you eschew all societal norms. It’s case-insensitive so they’ll all
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by jraph 1y ago
I'm curious: what else would you like to have, and what could uBlock Origin would do better than actually using the cookie modal in this case?
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by jraph 1y ago
I hope you do realize that most of your knowledge on how (y)our world works is, for a big part, based on implicit expectations that you or others infer from past observations. > ...It's you who has built the expectation, not MiniIO,
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by jraph 1y ago
There are some usual suspects like the utm_* parameters, but a website could be using whatever it wants. Actually, you don't event need parameters to track, you could just use the IP of the requester and for instance do some IP geoloca
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by jraph 1y ago
It was: MinIO (apparently) becomes source-only Thanks tomhow!
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by jraph 1y ago
Good thing that it's not an option with the GDPR. Pay or consent doesn't allow informed, free consent.
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by jraph 1y ago
There are occasional breakages, but yes. edit: documentation: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#... https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Li
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by jraph 1y ago
As much I like the semantic web, you can embed tracking parameters in images and links put in a perfectly semantic HTML structure :-) I think we need strong privacy laws, removing the incentive to track, or both, I don't see a technica

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