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by surround 5y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027
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by surround 5y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027
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by surround 5y ago
http://isthisyourpaperonsingleservingsites.com/
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by surround 5y ago
So in which context does "shebang" refer to a ! without a # ? I can't find any definition like that online.
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by surround 5y ago
I think Cliqz's search engine was called Tailcat
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by surround 5y ago
> In computing, a shebang is the character sequence consisting of the characters number sign and exclamation mark (#!) at the beginning of a script. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix) The word "sheb
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by surround 5y ago
Every single internet apology I've seen has been met with "this is such a bad apology / isn't a real apology." I'd love to see an example of an internet apology where people don't criticize the apology its
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by surround 5y ago
Windows by default prevents programs from editing the hosts file, but... > Many people who routinely download stuff like add-ons or mods to games this get advice to turn off their antivirus or endpoint protection, gamers are susceptible
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by surround 5y ago
What percentage of orgs that didn't pay the ransom were hit again?
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make me a sandwich(duckduckgo.com)
5 points by surround 5y ago|2 comments
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by surround 5y ago
Don't use url shorteners https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Screen-Sh...
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by surround 5y ago
Firefox uses http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt
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by surround 5y ago
Many are wondering why this was marked as dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028
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by surround 5y ago
DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tank+man&iar=images&kp=-2 Yahoo: https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?q=tank+man Qwant: https://www.qwant.com/?t=images&q=tank
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by surround 5y ago
A thread from last year describing this tactic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22798118 Stack overflow’s TOS has a binding arbitration clause, [1] despite overwhelming user feedback to the contrary. [2] Y Combinator’s
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by surround 5y ago
It looks a lot more like "reddit for science." There's voting, comments, subreddits (hubs), and /all.
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by surround 5y ago
This webpage is great not because it's adjustable but because of how simple it is. Unfortunately, this is only the print preview page - the actual clearweb website has the usual cheesy blogging fluff, and doesn't show the recipe
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by surround 5y ago
I trust that cloudflare will act responsibly in allowing small search engines through, but I really, really would rather not have to trust cloudflare. I don't believe that any organization can or will always act responsibly, which
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by surround 5y ago
If companies want to have inline images in their emails, they should have to send the image data along with the rest of the message. Email clients should not allow emails to load third party resources.
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by surround 5y ago
> Digital Shadows thinks the Colonial Pipeline cyber-attack has come about due to the coronavirus pandemic - the rise of engineers remotely accessing control systems for the pipeline from home.
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by surround 5y ago
The AMO page also links to gitlab https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
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by surround 5y ago
uBlock Origin had this at some point but Mozilla didn't approve it for some reason. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/7c22a312945a2bff41a...
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by surround 5y ago
Try blocking Disqus with uBlock Origin, turns out you probably won't miss it ||disqus.com^ You could also try a dynamic filter and disable it on a per-site basis * disqus.com * block Or try "medium mode" to take
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by surround 5y ago
An observation. This is the second time today we've had a submission link to github, even though the main repo is on git lab (the first was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27047243 )
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by surround 5y ago
Mozilla themselves is guilty of link tracking. Any external link on addons.mozilla.org looks like this: outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/25c02fd4e609951729e0ec0b41fe5391d912511b45d2a02aeaa839872c8d9def/https%3A//gitl
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by surround 5y ago
> There are no hard and fast rules that will readily determine whether a website is credible. I think that teaching people that they can simply look for .org in the URL and immediately accept a website as credible can do more harm than g
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by surround 5y ago
> As early as 1996 browsers were already inserting the http:// and www. for users automatically (rendering any advertisement which still contains them truly ridiculous). https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-history
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by surround 5y ago
See also: Amish hackers https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
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by surround 5y ago
It took me a while to actually understand how proof-of-work mining works because seemingly every article one the subject gives too abstract of an explanation. Turns out it's not that complex if you understand what a cryptographic hash
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by surround 5y ago
The thing I hate the most about email is that they allow loading images as a third party resource, instead of requiring them to be sent with the rest of the message data. This allows companies and spammers to track when you open an email. (

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