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by nora-puchreiner 1mo ago
The open secret: the CAPTCHA wasn’t actually being checked against Google’s servers; any answer was accepted as correct – until yesterday, when someone armed with this knowledge launched an AI crawler. Now it’s being checked, so you’ll have
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by nora-puchreiner 1y ago
There are much more tech photos in local news media: https://rus.delfi.lv/57863/criminal/120091647/foto-video-v-h...
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by nora-puchreiner 2y ago
It's likely that the cloud server changed ownership, and the old IP address remains somewhere in the DNS records. Similar cases with different websites are probably numerous.
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
That's one of the main reasons why I use NixOS (for Windows non-FOSS apps too): the apps have no permissions to self-upgrade, only root can do that. Mobile is more difficult, the easiest way: buy a Huawei without Google services
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
> > Github ... account called “volth” ... contributed ... to NixOS > Volth maintained NixOS Perl subsystem: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/master?after=1c72dc... > > The obvious deni
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
Both names are unisex
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
> Why NSA? why not CIA? Apparently because it runs NSA software (Apache Accumulo) that is hardly used by anyone else
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
It took time to realize what "big C" could refer besides the obvious "Comsomol". Structurally the same, though :)
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
I don't think the "the proper solution" is possible in 2023, and it's not a matter of the size of the money pile. Google and Facebook were examples of "the proper solutions". The former is currently inaccessibl
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
EDNS absence does affect cheap DNS-based CDNs and has to effect on expensive AnyCast CDNs (one of them is CloudFlare CDN).
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
They have own Autonomous Systems with own anycast IP addresses. It is quite expensive for an indie project. Not to mention legal support for compliance in every country of presence. To block 0.x% of visitors coming from CloudFlare is much c
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
"You ask me for an IP address, but you don't ask me with respect". Respect is optional too. But it is important.
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
> The CEO of an org like CF has way better things to do with his company-time than shill on HN. Plus, if you took 2 minutes to look at eastdakota's comment history If we took 2 minute to look at eastdakota's comment history (pu
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
There is a legend about an online store on the eve of the 2000s, which behaved very badly towards customers, and on forums everyone discussed how bad they are. But their mentions performed very good for SEO and sales. It's a [m-word] t
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
Well, calling marketing their name is abuse nowadays. A forbidden m-word
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
Brands do creative marketing and do invest in it (especially after they stock fell on Q2 report). That is why they are brands. There is no "conspiracy" nor "chaos".
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?url= does work
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
There are known ways to bypass paywall which are just impossible to implement within a browser extension while trivial on 12ft or archive. For example, to use Ukrainian residential proxy as some news websites granted free access from.
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?url= operates from legit Googlebot IPs so it allows anyone to get the paywalled content even archive.is fails to fetch (from theinformation.com, for example)
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
Try this: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/freeze-or-cut-spending-figh...
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
Doesn't "possession" refer to "holding the copyright"? If someone illegally downloads (pirates) the copyrighted content, how do they become the possessor?
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by nora-puchreiner 3y ago
NYT has one of those simple paywalls indeed: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean...
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by nora-puchreiner 4y ago
I was wondering if there is a possibility of obtaining an offline version of the service, in order to mitigate the inherent risks associated with transmitting proprietary code to external servers, thus ensuring optimal security and confiden
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by nora-puchreiner 4y ago
Expect $1000-1500k. $100k is about 5 months revenue: https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/
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by nora-puchreiner 4y ago
Those who have stock or options should not be disappointed by a 3-5x increase in the value of the company and, indeed, they have their own government to thank for the opportunity to convert the company in a way that would not have been poss
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by nora-puchreiner 4y ago
If we set aside moralizing, and take only the facts, then: 1. the company moved to countries with higher multipliers (i.e. with the same profit, the Dutch or German company is worth several times more than the Russian one). The current outb
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by nora-puchreiner 4y ago
Njal.la P.S. Also. I would avoid hosters (and other Internet services) that have political slogans on their site ("support Ukraine", "BLM", whatever). They will easily turn off paying customers for the sake of agenda and
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by nora-puchreiner 4y ago
Advertising agencies offer to install these banners to get higher bids from advertisers. Webmasters have a choice. Most choose money.
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by nora-puchreiner 4y ago
Even Rapidshare had that
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by nora-puchreiner 4y ago
Blocking cookie popup would break Youtube/Twitter/Instagram embeds on some websites which hide embeds unless you accept cookies (Spiegel.de as an example, many in .nl)

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