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by x3blah 6y ago
In the short history of the Internet so far, domain names originally were free. Many of the early .com(mmercial) names, e.g., bbn.com, dec.com, etc., were registered for free. Some TLDs were non-commercial for a long time, e.g., Educase I
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by x3blah 6y ago
Archive.org works surprisingly well as a general purpose web proxy. Just prefix the URL, e.g., http://example.com , with https://web.archive.org/save/ , e.g., https://web.archive.org/save&#x2
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by x3blah 6y ago
Looks like they fixed the issue. The above is no longer needed to avoid the Sucuri interstitial page.
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by x3blah 6y ago
"This state of affairs is a consequence of the usual culprit: advertising. Society/the media needs to develop a new business model, and fast." Isn't this also the "business model" of Google, Facebook and hundr
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by x3blah 6y ago
"Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analysts have been tracking varied measures such as gas demand, Starbucks mobile application downloads and traffic in restaurants as measured on the reservation website OpenTable for signs of a recovery."
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by x3blah 6y ago
"Javascript is required. Please enable javascript before you are allowed to see this page." Required to read the text of the announcement. No. Required to make donations via Stripe. Yes. RSS does not require Javascript. Looks
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by x3blah 6y ago
"For me, Windows 10 is where I felt like I was no longer in control of my computer." If Microsoft cannot not stop Windows computers from becoming controlled by a botnet, the logical solution is to create their own. Well, that is
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by x3blah 6y ago
220 pan.alephnull.com dictd 1.12.1/rf on Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 <auth.mime> <114924196.15062.1589085014@pan.alephnull.com> 150 15 definitions retrieved 151 "Extortion" gcide "The Collaborative Intern
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by x3blah 6y ago
Under the document-like school of thought, less "engineers" would need to be employed. Also, less computing resources would be required on both the client side. Money, not to mention time, could be saved. Perhaps application-lik
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by x3blah 6y ago
Does the compensation of those "engineers" reflect that they have "failed"? Perhaps there is another way to evaluate the work, not from the perspective of the user waiting in front of a screen. Do not forget that the m
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by x3blah 6y ago
"This also applies to other things, like browser-fingerprinting, or how Google will now try to identify people using machine learning without actually using cookies." Even if only a User-Agent string is sent from a "browser&q
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by x3blah 6y ago
Only one appears to allow for E2E without the help of a third party. If person A and person B are technically capable and want to run their own servers and use their own clients, without involving a third party, then Matrix appears to allo
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by x3blah 6y ago
"If more browsers were still User Agents in the literal sense, maybe we wouldn't have needed this legislation." s/browsers/popular &/ There are browsers and other clients that are still User-Agents in the l
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by x3blah 6y ago
I do not do recursive lookups at home. I store the DNS data I need in custom zone files. Once I have the data stored, this is faster than recursive lookups, especially with tinydns listening on localhost. djbdns works great for me year a
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by x3blah 6y ago
I am a djbdns user. I also use nsd and unbound. I do not use "upstream" third party DNS, such as 9.9.9.9. Surprised to hear that anyone still uses MaraDNS. What I am curious about are these massive blocklists. Does anyone actu
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by x3blah 6y ago
Correction: firefox ./0.html should be firefox ./0.htm
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by x3blah 6y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20190402223528/https://github.com... Looks like this was a fork from https://github.com/butterproject/butter-desktop which is still up
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by x3blah 6y ago
Watching videos with Javascript turned off, there are no ads. Google tries to force users to turn on JavaScript by needlessly making the YouTube website "require" JS to be turned on to play videos. However it is easy to play the v
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by x3blah 6y ago
Will you test the efficiency of the block list. For example, given a block list of 60,000 how many hosts on the list did your computer actually try to access. Have you ever read through one of those massive blocklists. I use a whitelist ra
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YouTube Without JavaScript
3 points by x3blah 6y ago|1 comments
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by x3blah 6y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20200409045004/https://www.oann.c... CNBC interview with Smalls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HUGc7R8hw
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by x3blah 6y ago
Sounds more like the problem is with the packages and a general lack of quality control with respect to the userland than with GNU init. Perhaps that is why BSD projects, which do have some quality control over userland, can still use BSD
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Utah Tech CEO Used Covid-19 IT Deal to Profit from Drug Sales to State(sltrib.com)
2 points by x3blah 6y ago|0 comments
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by x3blah 6y ago
The ideal post then might be a link to the ruling itself: https://epic.org/privacy/facebook/epic2019-challenge/US-v-Fa... Through an FOIA request, EPIC found there were over 29,000 outstanding complaints to t
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by x3blah 6y ago
"Old newspapers could only dream of the kind of advertising revenue that sites like this probably have." Actually they are struggling for ad revenue hence all the third party crud in their web pages. Many of them allege that compa
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by x3blah 6y ago
Compare HN title with actual titles given by the author/publisher: "og:title" content="Federal Judge Stunned by Facebook's `Unscrupulous' Violation of the Law, Warns of Much Deeper Problems" <title>J
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by x3blah 6y ago
Incidentally, "Netscum" is a reference to Netscape Communications Corporation. They introduced SSL. This company was founded to commercialise a web browser, called NCSA Mosaic, that was originally co-written by venture capitalis
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by x3blah 6y ago
A better title might be "Pricing Your Service" since the overwhleming majority of examples cited are services, not products.
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by x3blah 6y ago
"Given another 10 years of experimentation, I could 100% imagine WWW being seen as corporate, commercial and professional space." Excerpt below is from the file /scripts/web included with the original netcat in 1995.
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by x3blah 6y ago
a16z is "all about" spending other people's money. The "time to build" nonsense was about spending taxpayer's money. That is, telling the American government how to spend it. Consider that a16z and its clients

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