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by wraptile 4y ago
sorry, I reordered the links and forgot to update the footnotes - you can probably guess which one is which one by the link text itself though :)
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by wraptile 4y ago
There's actually a difference between crawling and web scraping. Crawling discovers pages in a very loose manner by following all links, digesting them and producing more crawl tasks. Web Scraping, on the other hand, is a more contro
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by wraptile 4y ago
My personal point of view (my opinion, not my company's) is that I think it's unethical to take advantage of all the benefits public data provides which lets be honest are absolutely massive - like search engine indexing, brand bu
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by wraptile 4y ago
Could you expand on why you think it's ethically required to follow robots.txt instructions? Primary argument _in favor_ of automation (e.g. web scraping) is that it would be unethical to hire hudnreds people to do meanial, unfufilling
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by wraptile 4y ago
I recently joined a brilliant web scraping API company called ScrapFly, who provided me with the resources to create lots of open knowledge on web scraping that I always wanted to create! So, to add to this list here are my top 3 favorite a
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by wraptile 4y ago
This is sad reality that web scraping is quickly becoming only accessible to people who can afford the captcha/computing/dev resources. Identifying scrapers is actually really easy but it's not a binary decision. Anti scrapin
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by wraptile 4y ago
Weird that a hacker forum would be complaining about language fit for _hacking_ and instead yearn for corporate ideology. huh.
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by wraptile 4y ago
It is most definitely faked, as in purposefully engineered. There's a whole industry for this and every vehicle manufacturer has a team of sound designers working on designing sound for every vehicle model. In my particular area teenag
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by wraptile 4y ago
Fortunately, loud vehicles are getting out of fashion (from what I've noticed at least). Especially when people realize that the noise is completely faked and there's nothing "natural mechanical sound" about it.
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by wraptile 4y ago
I think HTML benefits well from an additional abstraction level. For example, for our blog we use wordpress style shortcodes[1] (or other html templating really) which essentially turns: [%url https://example.com "see my e
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by wraptile 5y ago
That's what it is tho. You create a time-line filter that shows only posts containing those hashtags - is that not a subscription? There are also more literal implementations for this like SocialHome [1] where you can click + on hashta
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by wraptile 5y ago
My favorite Mastodon feature is the ability to subscribe to hashtags [1] which makes discovering people to connect with super easy and you don't feel like a victim to some magic algorithm. Another thing I love about it is the small nic
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by wraptile 5y ago
I've tried to like Twitter a million times over but "the algorithm" keeps spewing outrage spam at me through recommendations, notifications and basically every free piece of white space on the website. The whole social networ
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by wraptile 5y ago
I'd disagree with you here. Steamdeck is a linux handheld with steam controller on steroids. It has full joystick layout, two touchpads, touchscreen, 4 backbuttons, gyro, usbc inputs, bluetooth - that's already more innovation tha
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by wraptile 5y ago
I really like Playdate as an art piece but I think that's the wrong way to approach open video games. Hackers are better off hijacking existing systems because they are just much more accessible and objectively _better_. For example, S
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by wraptile 5y ago
AFAIK anything that binds you a ToS (e.g. registration) is offlimit for legal scraping in USA as USA can literally put you in prison for violating _terms of service_, which is pretty crazy. Other countries are much better about this, though
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by wraptile 5y ago
What's is the spirit of OpenAI? Wasn't this company acquired and is fully closed right now? Petition to renamed it to ClosedAI.
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by wraptile 5y ago
I use Mullvad and I constantly run into things like ASN bans etc. For example, cloudflare often bans whole ASN making many websites not accessible through Mullvad. Seems like mullvad is being used by a lot of bad actors and they're not
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by wraptile 5y ago
> What's unacceptable about it (or any other software for that matter) closed-source? Lots of things. Lock-in for once. Warp's VC decide they want an exit and Warp becomes 50usd/month sass or some sanctions block you from
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by wraptile 5y ago
Initially it started out as a brilliant idea - a Twitter thread that serves as a bullet point hook for an article with more details and upsells. Reader gets quick value and the writer gets exposure, clicks and leads - everybody wins! On the
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by wraptile 5y ago
I really don't understand how many tests still allow trick questions like that when we have so much data that indicates that it's an awful metric. To me it indicates incompetence of the test creators.
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by wraptile 5y ago
The best advice I got when I was a young nerd is to talk about things I'm interested in that also appear to be interesting to the other person. Being able to always reset the social exchange to a common ground of interests gives you so
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by wraptile 5y ago
That has been basic rule of thumb when it comes to motorcycles for ages - the bigger the wheels the safer it is. The only downside is extra weight and turning radius (smaller wheels can turn more) - which is irrelevant for motorcycles the a
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by wraptile 5y ago
of course there is! It's ad free and fully customizable. Isn't that objectively better?
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by wraptile 5y ago
You're comparing apples to oranges. Decentralized systems by nature suffer for slow adoption (just look at decentralized networks like Mastodon which are objectively better than alternatives yet lag behind in adoption). Finally, bitcoi
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by wraptile 5y ago
When it comes to political stuff it was a good way to identify "contraversy" which is very useful in this world of information: should I research this further or can I trust this? Is there more going on with this subject? I think
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by wraptile 5y ago
You're comparing apples to oranges - those are social networks where multiple people have to come to some sort of consensus, having rules over that consensus sure, can be a feature. I don't need anyone to agree with me to turn off
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by wraptile 5y ago
You can turn these all off. Lack of features is not a feature imho - no mather how hard people try to sell this.
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by wraptile 5y ago
> The story of getting it fixed is really why people love Apple and even Amazon. It's really one of those anecdotal experiences. I used Samsung devices exclusively because they have RMA offices all around SEA region. On the other
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by wraptile 5y ago
I feel like airbnb is not as affordable these days. They started allowing extra fees (like electricity bills etc) for short stays and always pile up absurd cleaning/other fees so by the time you leave the apartment you end up spending

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