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by smitop 7y ago
If the details of a ranking algorithm are open source, it would be easy to manipulate them.
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by smitop 7y ago
I think they mean "the data of Google users", not "Google's data about users".
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by smitop 7y ago
Both the app and the website have ads, I just checked. They look like normal email messages, but they start with an advertisement indicator. I only see them in the "Promotions" and "Social" tab though.
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by smitop 7y ago
> all US COMmercial entities .com isn't US-specific.
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by smitop 7y ago
Most articles are free, but some articles are designated by their authors as member articles. Authors get paid when members read member articles.
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by smitop 7y ago
GCC has the GCC Runtime Library Exception: the resulting binary of code compiled with GCC doesn't need to licensed under GPL.
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by smitop 7y ago
Stack Overflow Enterprise is either self hosted or hosted by SO, but on a individual Azure server instance, so each instance would probably need to be compromised individually. SO will probably release an update for Enterprise customers tha
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Improving Privacy and Security on the Web(blog.chromium.org)
1 points by smitop 7y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 7y ago
It seems weird that they would ask survey respondents to check their browser settings to determine if they had Do Not Track enabled. DNT status is transmitted over HTTP headers, and is available to JavaScript. Couldn't they have just c
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by smitop 8y ago
That incentivize upvoting everything, since there is no punishment for upvoting posts that don't make it to the frontpage. That could be solved by making votes a limited resource, but that approach has many downsides.
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Kodi users blocked by CloudFlare, showing no sources(koditips.com)
3 points by smitop 8y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 8y ago
The location-based filtering is easily evaded. It doesn't check your IP address, just uses the HTML5 geolocation API, which is client-side. In Chrome, it's very easy to spoof your location. Open DevTools, click the three dots, cli
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by smitop 8y ago
HSTS errors can be bypassed on Chrome by entering "thisisunsafe", if anyone wants to bypass these HSTS errors. Of course you probably shouldn't have to this: it is unsafe.
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by smitop 8y ago
It seems like they moved the article to tkrunning.com, which is a Medium custom domain created before Medium custom domains were disallowed. From there, tkrunning.com is behind CloudFlare, so I would guess they used CloudFlare's Page R