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by modzu 6y ago
tldr: usenet???
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by modzu 6y ago
not just that, the whole concept of tos is broken
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Osiris-REx’s “Touch-and-Go” on Asteroid Bennu(youtube.com)
2 points by modzu 6y ago|0 comments
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by modzu 6y ago
i made a virtual golf caddy so i could play with some friends despite having no idea what i was doing. it worked! https://stanthecaddy.app
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by modzu 6y ago
captchas are incresibly pervasive. if you havent seen them google probably has your dna.
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by modzu 6y ago
google captcha can also be bypassed trivially. thats the irony. see, ex: busta
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by modzu 6y ago
yes, at the very least there are open source alternatives with vastly better ux, for example securimage
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by modzu 6y ago
as someone who's made videogame cheats, ive always got a bit of a chuckle from the enthusiasm of users who defend players accused of cheating. sentiments such as, "it's not a hack, they are just good and you're a sore lo
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PSA: End Captcha Now
15 points by modzu 6y ago|10 comments
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by modzu 6y ago
the cost is anonymity - inside their bubble you're uniqueness is guaranteed and the value of the ads just went up! hooray!
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by modzu 6y ago
it's more like 99%; for the whole internet
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by modzu 6y ago
thats not quite correct, you just need the right to copy it, not to be the copy owner, and as mentioned elsewhere there are all sorts of scenarios where you indeed have such rights
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by modzu 6y ago
update: someone from DO reached out and helped to fix the problem. it was still an experience getting to this point... so big up to whoever was lurking on hn. :) all is well that ends well
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by modzu 6y ago
for those into these things, i just started using cool-retro-term which i just love working in now :) seems i must still try kitty though (heard good things from the nnn file mamager devs, itself also a sweet project)
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by modzu 6y ago
is the crankiness and frustration that obvious? perhaps if i were sapping thousands from your bank account you might be cranky too. i digress never meant to full on rant at hn, just wanted to post a PSA. good day to you good sir.
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by modzu 6y ago
that's exactly the problem is i cant login, and account recovery efforts have gone in circles
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by modzu 6y ago
didn't JP have one of these in Grandma's Boy?
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by modzu 6y ago
i booted into my windows machine the other day, and when it finally came up, it was full of crap: my start bar had a bing ad for a halloween quiz, 3 different versions of candy crush, half my settings reset, etc... compared to my daily (lin
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by modzu 6y ago
so he eats 10 carrots a day? i remain perplexed
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Ask HN: Why Is Trump Orange?
8 points by modzu 6y ago|8 comments
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by modzu 6y ago
these conclusions seem to depend almost entirely on the freedom house scale -- who can explain more about what that is? it seems to be a ranking, so is it objective and robust enough to fit this analysis, espscially over time? a cursory loo
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by modzu 6y ago
Let it die. Brave browser.
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by modzu 6y ago
i find pixlr a little better but i wish both came as desktop apps (it couldnt be that hard to wrap up with electron?) since there are still lots of limitations working in the browser (poor file history, large file support, etc)
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by modzu 6y ago
see also Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, Edward Lee Howard
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by modzu 6y ago
from their conclusion, "the fundamental problem facing the 980 PRO and other high-end NVMe drives is... very few real-world consumer workloads... make good use of its full performance potential... 1M IOPS... sounds impressive, but that
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by modzu 6y ago
approved!!
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by modzu 6y ago
interesting that it's a review for a "consumer" drive and contains purely synthetic results and no real world discussion whatsoever. just shut up and buy it kids! does it make any perceptible difference in your life at all? w
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by modzu 6y ago
not necessarily for the better! synthetic benchmarks and specialized workflows not withstanding, the hardware is really not that different, but windows is absolute trash. stay on mac friend :)
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by modzu 6y ago
thanks. the infinite office demos are pretty funny. all the users doing "office productivity work" are just browsing facebook
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by modzu 6y ago
question for VR people: is the tech at a place yet where a headset could be a monitor replacement for productivity work? i mean my laptop screen is 13" -- could i instead be coding on a virtual 100" screen, still using my regular

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