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by skarz 1y ago
Try one of these. They have the popup but you can dismiss it. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/JlE5T https://web.archive.org/web/20250812172455/https://every.to/...
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by skarz 1y ago
Personally I think having the option to make grok's response public can be helpful, much like a community note. Let's face it, on reddit or Facebook or YouTube the first thing people do now is go straight to the comments for conte
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by skarz 1y ago
>Amazon has very sophisticated anti-Astroturfing measures. And yet they won't do anything about sellers who change their listing to a completely different product once it gets to the 4-5 star range. Can't tell you how many time
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by skarz 1y ago
The United States has that, it's called Consumer Reports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports
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by skarz 1y ago
And not just DDoS protection, but privacy. Cloudflare offers a huge amount of privacy protection which causes huge headaches for IP holders. You can read online about the feedback loop of Cloudflare/OVH for example sending automated no
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by skarz 1y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44045314
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by skarz 1y ago
I wonder how viable the referral link/referrer code method is? Based on my own YouTube viewing habits it seems like a lot of prominent channels have gone that route. Seems like it could work for the web overall. Ads would no longer hav
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by skarz 1y ago
Yes, "now". According to Google Trends[0] there was little to no search interest in the term until December 2023. Usage of 'grokked' on HN: 1,147[1] Usage of 'hacked' on HN: 37,272[2] [0] https://tre
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by skarz 1y ago
What does it even mean?
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by skarz 1y ago
Is 'grokked' a common verb now? I had never even heard the word until Musk's AI.
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by skarz 1y ago
What's the best service or app for tracking data breaches where your username and password are leaked? I'm trying to mitigate some leaks through ProtonPass but it's very frustrating as they simply say "password ****123 w
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by skarz 1y ago
VPN?
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by skarz 1y ago
Directly adjacent to the post it says "Hi, I'm Troy Hunt, I write this blog, run "Have I Been Pwned" and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professio
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by skarz 2y ago
MANY piracy websites and even 4chan use Cloudflare. That’s nothing compared to X/Twitter.
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by skarz 3y ago
Isn't it significantly easier to just compare the IP of the visitor against a database of known VPN IPs?
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Show HN: I used ChatGPT to write a UserScript that removes all mentions of *GPT
1 points by skarz 4y ago|0 comments
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by skarz 4y ago
I think something that should have been in the title is that the breach was facilitated by a vulnerability in an application that many users here might have, Plex. They don’t speak on the nature of the vulnerability in that application. Has
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YouBit – Host any file on YouTube for free(github.com)
5 points by skarz 4y ago|1 comments
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Instead of mining the Earth, just mine our e-waste, researchers call(zmescience.com)
4 points by skarz 4y ago|0 comments
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by skarz 5y ago
Brave Search, Searx, Metager, DDG, Presearch, Swisscows, Starpage... So many to choose from!
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by skarz 5y ago
Interesting contrast to this article[1] which was posted to HN several days ago [1] https://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2022/03/i-dont-need-a-vps-a...
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Yahoo Acquires Del.icio.us (2005)(techcrunch.com)
5 points by skarz 5y ago|2 comments
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by skarz 5y ago
Honestly, I append Reddit, Stackoverflow, or Stackexchange to probably 75% of my searches. From my point of view, there's wayyyy too many blog sites out there full of crap content, meanwhile forum posts on these sites often yield resul
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by skarz 5y ago
Now if only the people behind diapers.com made a comeback. This whole thing was sparked by that case where Amazon priced out diapers.com to make them go bankrupt - only to turn around and buy diapers.com
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by skarz 5y ago
Pfizer would be smart to not push for mandates -- as would anyone else wanting to see more vaccinations, period. More people would probably get their vaccine by choice if it were not forced on them. WE have known this for a long time. Glad
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Adblocking Does Not Constitute Copyright Infringement, Court Rules(torrentfreak.com)
64 points by skarz 5y ago|14 comments
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by skarz 5y ago
“Netflix pushes all reeled in users back to competition and/or piracy” “Piracy levels surge after Netflix implements another price hike.” Seriously how many times do they think they can get away with this in a time where new streaming
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by skarz 5y ago
This has happened to me in the past. They thought something was suspicious about my account and froze it entirely. Remember: Paypal is not a bank. That's not your money, that's theirs and they're letting you use it. Don'
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Tesla owners are again losing heat in extreme cold as heat pumps are failing(electrek.co)
4 points by skarz 5y ago|0 comments
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by skarz 5y ago
I mentioned this last time when the FTC refiled its complaint but the FTC still has a pretty tough case to prove here. Among other points the core of the FTCs complaint states Facebooks market power dominance by stating its largest competit

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