mitxela

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541.
by mitxela 1mo ago
You're assuming that the part of Anubis that stops bots is the PoW. It's not.
542.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Make a user download and hash 100GB of junk data before being allowed in. Residential proxies cost a lot per GB.
543.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Do you have a library card?
544.
by mitxela 1mo ago
You can try a higher level of identity verification on the new internet. It shouldn't be fully ID verified, but more like how it used to be - users on a network were anonymous to other networks, but you could email the admin of a netwo
545.
by mitxela 1mo ago
by the enclosure "movement"? i.e. greedy powerful people walling off everything they could and declaring it was theirs and you'd have to pay a tithe to use it? (I should really start calling rent "tithes" more often
546.
by mitxela 1mo ago
I wonder if your browser is prefetching every link you move the mouse over.
547.
by mitxela 1mo ago
No, they are all grey-market. Some have more professional-looking websites, but they're all using the same proxies. This should not prevent you from using them.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
This became obvious to me when from 2023-2025 they refused to call it anything other than "Israel-Hamas war" It's since been renamed to "Gaza genocide", as it should have been all along - but it took forever to get
549.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Strangers can't really edit Wikipedia any more, especially if their edit is suspicious. It's a closed system despite the appearance. An anti-vandal bot or human will quickly revert your edit.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
The torrent generator races with the uploader and runs on a half-finished upload.
551.
by mitxela 1mo ago
robots.txt is a shitshow just like user agents. It's been twisted so many ways it doesn't reliably signal actual intent any more.
552.
by mitxela 1mo ago
You wouldn't need archive.org for that - you could negotiate with the actual website. I think they'd demand quite a lot of money.
553.
by mitxela 1mo ago
No they don't. Archive.org is co-operative, it respects robots.txt and allows deletion. It's also very slow. Archive.* is adversarial and archives sites that don't like it. That's why the FBI is trying to take it down.
554.
by mitxela 1mo ago
In some parts of the internet you can't mention a pirate site (or left wing stuff, anything sexual, or Palestine) without being banned. HN isn't one of them, but people have learned to be overly cautious.
555.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Sometimes "quality" really doesn't matter. Flying any higher than premium economy is one of those times. Will it get you to your destination any faster? Will you feel better when you get off the plane? It's like I could
556.
by mitxela 1mo ago
We do that too, it just isn't a proverb.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
They are subject to exactly the same enshittification factors. How much would you pay DeepSeek to train their model to always say you make the best clothes?
558.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Amazon should somehow be known as the company that sells crap then, they need a reputation like AliExpress and other stores can take the quality reputation sector.
559.
by mitxela 1mo ago
IE6's quality problems were: not conforming to standards (that didn't exist in the time of IE1!) and having too many toolbars installed, which is not IE's problem.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
no they just pay a marketing company for 5 star fake reviews lol. Same on app stores.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Great example! YouTube is currently being sued because people with Premium still get ads. Granted they're the ones creators put in their own videos, which is kind of a technicality. Premium does block the overt ads that YouTube itself
562.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Is there any way we can take back control of the economy from paperclip maximisers?
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by mitxela 1mo ago
For what it's worth, Apple chargers are, or used to be, pretty high quality. There's this infamous teardown video of a cheap clone showing 0.5mm of air is all that's between you and a potentially fatal electric shock.
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by mitxela 1mo ago
Entirely US parts is a very high bar. Isn't it the final product design and assembly that counts in the end? If China has a comparative advantage making resistors, who cares, let them.
565.
by mitxela 1mo ago
This is how CPI is measured - with the substitutes. The desk CPI is the difference between the old hardwood desk and the new MDF desk, not the old hardwood desk and the new hardwood desk. It's not a terrible philosophy as many people d
566.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Explanation: in discworld, seamstress is a euphemism for prostitute, so much that people can't find actual seamstresses.
567.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Same factory isn't the issue as a factory can make both good and bad products. But it's the same bad product both times.
568.
by mitxela 1mo ago
I've noticed this at Aldi too. Boxes of muesli that look 30% cheaper than at other supermarkets... but when you look closer, the box is 3/4 the size and it's only 3/4 full. I don't regularly shop at Aldi.
569.
by mitxela 1mo ago
my local-Walmart-equivalent <$50 shoes never lasted longer than a few months. The theory might've used to be true when prices were related to costs. In current year they'll sell you the $10 slop for $50, and sell you the exact
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by mitxela 1mo ago
I heard the advice was to not mention the payment method until the very end when you're about to pay, because they won't cancel a sale they've invested into just because you're paying them with actual money. I don't

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