wybiral

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Show HN: Personal IoT scanner and search engine(github.com)
4 points by wybiral 10y ago|4 comments
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by wybiral 10y ago
I agree with many of your points and feel that this topic does seem a bit sensationalized here. But my conclusions had nothing to do with the grammatical peeves you're also pointing out, which feel a bit unnecessary amidst the actual f
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by wybiral 10y ago
Weird. Just yesterday this made it to the HN front page (related): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13650818
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by wybiral 10y ago
When I was a teenager I liked to use search engines to find PHP upload tests. People almost always served uploaded files from a directory and made no distinction between .jpg or .php files. (No, I didn't exploit this, I just enjoyed fi
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by wybiral 10y ago
Yeah, I just started getting those too. But adding "&p=2" to the URL shows results for the next page... shrug
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by wybiral 10y ago
A while ago I discovered similarly that there are several searches which lead you to active database logins. https://github.com/search?&q=mysqli_connect+http&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=&qu
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by wybiral 10y ago
US citizen here. I can confirm this claim (and was thinking the exact same thing when I read that). Edit: Also, "unfold" is a more polite verb than I would have used there.
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by wybiral 10y ago
And I love that idea. But I worked at a coop that didn't work that way at all. Maybe it was that the board and management had largely remain unchanged for years or that there was investment larger than normal ownership which may have i
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by wybiral 10y ago
> It's also completely democratic so all practices are decided upon by the members and not just by some megalomanic CEO or greedy shareholders. Speaking from experience, there's definitely slacktivism in cooperatives too. I&#x2
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by wybiral 10y ago
I remember when Google search stopped using underlines on their search result links... I couldn't stand it. Now I'd probably have the same reaction if they switched back.
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by wybiral 10y ago
Yeah, I thought maybe someone important died but couldn't find any references.
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by wybiral 10y ago
Try browsing 4chan for a bit. It's crazy to see how much conformity and mob behavior happens even in an anonymous format like that. Almost as though people exhibit adherence to a culture just to perpetuate that culture itself rather th
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by wybiral 10y ago
YouTube says: >This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations.
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by wybiral 10y ago
They don't say anything about being a non-profit. And it's not clear what they actually do aside from selling domains, memberships, and making a YouTube playlist. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for awareness of climate chan
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by wybiral 10y ago
Is anyone else wondering why they're selling domains like SpaceAlpha.com [1] or their own domain ClimateState.com [2]? And that they're using clickbait titles like "YouTube/Google shuts down largest climate science chann
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by wybiral 10y ago
Not all fake news is political. This looks a bit like a marketing stunt. Their Twitter update is "YouTube/Google shuts down largest climate science channel". Notice that they don't say "our largest channel" or
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by wybiral 10y ago
It does look a bit odd. They're selling their own domain on that site, but it's out of stock? Weird... http://climatestate.com/product/domain-climatestate-com/
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by wybiral 10y ago
I'm a fan of sqlite for similar reasons. I also use it frequently to do some data massaging before loading into a larger database since it has a standard Python module and queries are quick and easy.
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by wybiral 10y ago
I totally agree with you there. Most online news articles use those annoying click-bait titles and try to make the story seem bigger than it is (in a misleading way). Even weather.com does that crap with weather stories.
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by wybiral 10y ago
Thanks. Yeah, those are some disturbing results... Do you think it's mostly from misleading mainstream news stories? Or from smaller outlets (social media, celebrities, memes, etc)?
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by wybiral 10y ago
I found the Pew poll regarding Russian involvement in the email hack but not one involving direct hacking of tallies. Do you have a link? I followed the election from a variety of sources (WaPo and NYT included) and never got that impressio
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by wybiral 10y ago
> How is that any different than people in the Bible Belt who believe the earth was made in 7 days ? I see no difference there but I'm not sure that I get the point. > I really didn't appreciate how they pushed the "Rus
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by wybiral 10y ago
A long history of internal conflicts turned into messy proxy wars.
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by wybiral 10y ago
Still, I'd expect media companies to be more likely to comply with orders to remove military secrets than to remove scientific data. But you're right, censorship happens. How do we prevent it?
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by wybiral 10y ago
> Go look at any list of recently-cancelled television shows. You will be shocked at the number of them that you liked, but have now slipped from your mind. Public memory is fickle and it is very possible to remove even widespread facts.
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by wybiral 10y ago
The US government can't make all of the real scientists out there just disappear. Climate models have an impact on many different fields of research and unless there's a total shutdown of science (which seems absurd) those people
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by wybiral 10y ago
For little gags like this I'd say that's part of the charm. But for actual functionality, I agree that discoverability is limited.
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by wybiral 10y ago
I live in Austin (central, Hyde Park area) and walk, bike, or bus everywhere.
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by wybiral 10y ago
That's fair. But regarding this statement: > Until you are your own king, you will always have to live under the permission of government. My complaint is that a government should exist to facilitate the well being of its people. Th
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by wybiral 10y ago
The scope of that surveillance should be kept in check though. Search warrants seem reasonable to me (assuming the process of obtaining a warrant is somewhat restrictive) but broad unchecked surveillance isn't reasonable to me. Giving

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