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by textmode 8y ago
"But it breaks the financial model of running targeted ads so it won't work." By "it", do you mean the software won't work? What if someone wrote the software to do this, it worked and he distributed it for fre
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by textmode 8y ago
Not only do I agree with you here, but I agree with you strongly on this as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16686723 This is why I prefer clients and browsers small enough that I can edit and recompile quickly ev
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by textmode 8y ago
"I was hoping that this article would talk about how they did the survey through Facebook :)" There is one type of "revolution" that arguably cannot be started on Facebook. The revolution to reclaim privacy from Facebook
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by textmode 8y ago
Related question: I was wondering about the origin of the usage of the term "build" when programmers describe what they do. To be clear, I am not referring to "build" as in compiling, assembling and linking to "bui
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by textmode 8y ago
As requested, see https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=textmode Example usage: argv0 22 file Where argv0 is the name of the script. Where 22 is itag no. for HD mp4. 18 is itag no. for a lower quality mp4. Will save video a
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by textmode 8y ago
I have a 2-line shell script using only sed and curl (or equivalent) that obviates any need for youtube-dl, python, third party websites, etc. Unlike youtube-dl it will not download videos where the uploader is some commercial media outlet
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by textmode 8y ago
"Badly written laws in reaction to Cambridge Analytica could end up solidifying Facebook's dominance, as only a company with their resources could comply." Without examples, it is difficult to understand what the author is tr
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by textmode 8y ago
Do the user agreements in the two examples cited have any provisions that prohibit collecting data that will be exploited for advertising or marketing purposes? What if the social network user agreement contained "privacy" provisi
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by textmode 8y ago
"What's the point of advertising to people who can't afford to pay a few bucks for a social networking site?" It depends on what is being "advertised". To give one example, it might be an "issue ad",
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by textmode 8y ago
One argument he raised in the House hearing was that collecting data on users allowed more targeted ads which in turn made ads more efficient and therefore more economical, which levels the playing field more for small businesses versus lar
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by textmode 9y ago
I have not used Javascript in years. I boot to textmode and use a text-only browser. There are exceptions when I use JS. When I have to use someone else's computers or manage certain accounts using the www. The later not being by ch
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by textmode 10y ago
There is no "transfer" of anything. Anyone can edit the root.zone file. I use my own curated version. Great for blocking ads, etc. But for many years no one did this, except very rarely. And the honors were left to some folks
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by textmode 10y ago
In a world where the most important computer networks and a substantial number of devices connecting to them run on free, open source software, the user's hardware needs are simple: 1. it must work with an open source bootloader and 2
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by textmode 10y ago
I rarely find embedded developers in forums praising gcc-like interfaces and complaining about IDE's. This should happen more often. Can you recommend any boards that allow embedded development without need for Windows (Microsoft or X
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by textmode 10y ago
The beauty of Gmane v1 from a user persepctive was its simplicity. http://gmane.org/lists.php <-- a simple gzipped list of all the groups and their corresponding gmane category prefixes ftp -4o lists.gz http:/&#x2
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by textmode 10y ago
"It can even \"spoof\" the TLS SNI string to avoid HTTPS firewalls..." Are you confirming SNI is being used for censorship?
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by textmode 10y ago
"How is that not easy to do?" 1. The author does not provide access to his/her source code repository, only compressed tarballs. 2. The author's code is not clean. You appear to have some issue with my "definition&q
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by textmode 10y ago
"... in the sense that mo more code can be removed" Or else what happens? "... should it not be considered clean?" It should be considered finished. "... since the newly added code can always be removed easily.&qu
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by textmode 10y ago
With the exception of shell scripting which I'm writing every day, I remove "code" more than I write it. C is the language I deal with. The easier it is to remove code from someone else's program, the "cleaner&quot
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by textmode 10y ago
dnscurve is a way to encrypt DNS packets between an authoritative DNS server and a client (or if you prefer, a cache). CurveDNS is an implementation of dnscurve. dnscurve protects the integrity of packets from tampering. That's all it
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by textmode 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken OpenDNS built their business on blocking websites at the DNS level for certain organizations. This is a "service" their customers paid for. Redirecting "free" users to ads when they mistype doma
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by textmode 10y ago
It could be done. I have thought about this many times. Do you want this as a service?
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by textmode 10y ago
To whomever runs www.forth.org: The nameserver bywater.songbird.com is non-responsive. You have two nameservers on roundrobin. At least put the dead one second and turn off the roundrobin.
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by textmode 10y ago
If you want to read the web as nicely formatted text, using the same large, easy to read font for every site, it can be done. If you want to browse sites as lists and make selections from lists like you did on gopher, it can be done. I ha
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by textmode 10y ago
On some websites, longtime text-only browser users are seeing new greetings like "I see you are using an adblocker." Usually they are greeted with warnings about lack of functionality because of absence of Javascript, and imperati
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by textmode 10y ago
If there is strong demand I could put together a solution sor home networks that does not use a third party resolver, i.e., no tracking whatsoever. It could be run from an SD card or USB stick entirely in memory, i.e. no install needed. A
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by textmode 10y ago
Anything from djb. Juxtaposed against the usual autoconf/Makefile insanity, his more recent make-free build system is a work of art. Part of the reliability equation to me is highly portable, quick, easy compiling. I've not com
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by textmode 10y ago
"AKAIK, bind does not support handling such queries." AKAIK, there is not a server in existence that handles such queries. Cache snooping is not very reliable. I tested the 999 open resolvers listed in resolvers.txt for example.c
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by textmode 10y ago
"--norecurse Useful for DNS cache snooping" Not if the resolver rejects non-recursive queries, as do dnscache and dqcache. There is a way to resolve DNS domainnames to IP addresses using only non-recursive queries. I do it every
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by textmode 10y ago
"A high-performance non-recursive DNS resolver" I believe a better description for this program would be a "stub resolver".

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