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Ask HN: Why do you consider the web a thing?
3 points by unixbane 4y ago|8 comments
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by unixbane 4y ago
When I hear something like this it's like when I visit a website and get a popup about cookies in my face and several banners taking up the page warning about pedantic bullshit.
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by unixbane 4y ago
how is it not?
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by unixbane 4y ago
Every single concern you just listed is valid and are indeed being used in real exploits, the output into input is just one way to exploit terminals, there are several more. I'm sitting here laughing because usually when we bring up th
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by unixbane 4y ago
It was a blog post, which I will link to pretty much every time someone downvotes me from now on, as it's a pattern I've noticed here.
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by unixbane 4y ago
>> People should be able to monetize lies. >What? No. He was obviously arguing from a standpoint that there shouldn't be a law against that specifically (there isn't), due to the implications such a law would have.
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by unixbane 4y ago
>spam captchas were designed to solve this (and only this, as opposed to requiring them to merely view content like modern ignorant web devs like to do [yes i know some web devs now require it to be able to make sure the people they&#x27
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by unixbane 4y ago
None because any such form of making money means developing a web app or UN*X junk, for some questionably useful application that people are buying for some reason when they could just write it themselves or pirate stuff.
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by unixbane 4y ago
> If you want to compare MGR to the X Window System, you might consider the MGR server as something like a combination of an X server + window manager + xterm Sounds like a nightmare of in band signalling vulnerabilities. Edit: your down
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by unixbane 4y ago
Why do all these companies with pretentious attitudes exist when the average* software still takes 30 seconds to show a paragraph of text? Ironically whenever these companies take the security test, they not only fall flat on their face, bu
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by unixbane 4y ago
> The government caused this problem. The HN community caused this problem. I precisely remember about 10 years ago on HN I'd see obnoxious articles with thousands of upvotes hyping crap like "we disrupted the goverment" a
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by unixbane 4y ago
This automates 50% of a modern tech company, now you just need to automate the code generation, which seems already good enough to be on par with modern tech companies. Seems like a manage type can run his entire tech company himself now.
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by unixbane 4y ago
Lots of sites have whitelists of email domains.
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by unixbane 4y ago
Google is still a huge part of the problem for requiring all kinds of acrobatics to log into their service which you are forced to use due to the fact that it's one of the only free email providers, the fact that email is pointlessly r
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by unixbane 4y ago
What you are feeling is called cognitive dissonance. You have the idea of text so hammered into your mind, that when you realize it's merely a convention that makes it readable in practice without needing to know the encoding, you cann
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by unixbane 4y ago
The UN*X mantra is that text is the common medium and data should be transferred as plain text, as opposed to any other way of encoding data structures like binary. Escaping problems as in, you embed data structures into text via JSON or XM
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by unixbane 4y ago
/s
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by unixbane 4y ago
I quit gmail 10 years ago because of this fucking bullshit (which mainly was brought to status quo by people like HN users and programming blog posters for the last 2 decades). This is a direct consequence of garbage cultures that have been
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by unixbane 4y ago
The only reason it's easy to decode (as in, by a casual, not requiring information theoretic techniques or something like file(1)), is because almost all popular character encodings have went far out of their way to map the first 128 b
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by unixbane 4y ago
> you cannot turn on your lights because they are IOT shit and use encryption (albeit with vulnerabilities that bypass it) which is a weapon or something because they said in james bond Yep, this is what happens when you let people in te
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by unixbane 4y ago
>Zelda Classic but did they have a license to make an unauthorized zelda story?
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by unixbane 4y ago
Well I can make an article and submit it if you want saying the same thing. This is an issue that badly needs to be addressed. The software industry is crap and HN are not angels or not complicit.
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by unixbane 4y ago
I rented a house 2 years ago and it had some cloud trash with camera and mic in it. I said I will move out unless they remove it. They simply removed it as it was there only to appease prospective tenants.
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by unixbane 4y ago
It's funny how things like this surprise people, as if the legal system is a trustworthy blob on their architecture graph. One fundamental thing about it is that it's made up of different people and a huge amount of people, all wi
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by unixbane 4y ago
> A few days ago, composer Bruce Faulconer found that his Wikipedia entry had suddenly disappeared. This was surprising because his music is known and beloved all over the world—in fact, it has been heard in more than 80 countries. Hmmm
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by unixbane 4y ago
What the fuck, if I RMA something and they replace a component in it with a better one, and I happen to be informed of which one they replaced, I need to resell it as if it doesn't have the better component, because I just assume the w
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by unixbane 4y ago
What the absolute hell is wrong with consumers that they put up with this kind of shit? 1. I would never want any kind of software in my car, because this is precisely the kind of bullshit I would expect to happen, given being a person who
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by unixbane 4y ago
Is this in Unicode and part of my core OS yet?
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... or programs could just display images instead of continuously approximating them (which is why unicode is so bloated and unreasonable about)
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by unixbane 4y ago
Twitter is an abysmal shithole of bad software engineering and bad webshit policy, which seems to be a requirement to be a website that serves public utility. I also so happened to rant about idiot moderation policies just 2 days ago: http

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