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by 3xblah 6y ago
Yes, given the decades worth of damages it has caused by being an inferior quality software product (no quality control) and the anti-competitive tactics used to ensure that consumers could not choose a higher quality alternative. Unfortun
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Having trouble with the LA Times site? Try without Javascript curl https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-27/irs-website-hack-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-all-caps?_amp=true|sed -n 's/.*&
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Is Microsoft Windows a crime against humanity?(fastnews.ch)
2 points by 3xblah 6y ago|1 comments
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by 3xblah 6y ago
I only meant TV ads. As for trying to guess about me, I watch almost no TV in recent times, though I did watch it back in the 80's and 90's. I am basing this opinion on only small periodic encounters with recent TV, random sampl
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Direct to consumer TV ads for pharmaceuticals were illegal in 1981. This did not change until 1997. As I remember it, in the few years after 1997 there were still relatively few drug ads on TV. It was nothing like today. It seems like
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by 3xblah 6y ago
There is also a browser-free method. Localhost proxy, e.g., haproxy, that rewrites User-Agent header according to URL and/or Host header.
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by 3xblah 6y ago
What if more users install the browser extension/add-on that automatically changes the user-agent string based on domain name, e.g., for Instagram it changes to a random mobile user-agent. Sorry I forgot the name of the extension.
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Message from the real 3xblah
1 points by 3xblah 6y ago|0 comments
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by 3xblah 6y ago
"This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold/rented/etc. to advertisers." "Stripe.js collects this data only for fraud prevention -- it helps us detect bots who try to defraud businesses that us
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by 3xblah 6y ago
"I'm in the process of reading the book _Why Nation Fails_. The central thesis is that rich and poor countries are separated by inclusive vs extractive institutions. It seems to resonate a bit here , when Marc speaks of things l
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by 3xblah 6y ago
As I read the parent comment, the point is not that Andreesen could singlehandedly make a difference with his investments. The point is that his words do not match his actions. His work is fostering an industry whose competitive advantage
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by 3xblah 6y ago
The author is a VC who almost exclusively funds software-based businesses where "build" generally refers to intangibles and businesses based on intangibles. He refers to Western/American effectiveness ("we") in bui
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by 3xblah 6y ago
I have thought about this for decades. Using web-based HTML forms for transmitting information, whether e-commerce or otherwise, is often overkill. There should be a standardised format for consumers to send basic plain text information s
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Disable Javascript.
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Why not just serve plain HTML pages like C2 wiki used to do. Why use Javascript and Google Analytics. Why ask why. Fact: It took more work for someone to convert the HTML to JSON, write the Javascript and set up the proxy than it did for
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by 3xblah 6y ago
To get an index of all C2 wiki pages curl https://proxy.c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/ > 1.html To get a wiki page in JSON and convert it to textfile without using gratuitous Javascript Optional: feed
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Would it be fair to explain this move as a "user retention" tactic. Perhaps it becomes a more difficult decision for teams to close out their paid accounts, even amidst an economic downturn, when the fees are removed. One could a
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Correction: In the example, there should be an additonal \r\n after "Connection: close".
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Doesn't Google have millions of dollars in cash on hand. Perhaps it could pay YouTube content creators. Google sells ad sales services utilising, in part, data collected on YouTube visitors. An old saw amongst internet marketers was t
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by 3xblah 6y ago
"I will concede am lucky enough to have static IPv4/IPv6 addresses on my home connection." A while back, some HN commenters in a Wireguard thread tried to argue that all home connections have static IP addresses, or at least
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by 3xblah 6y ago
There are countries, this may or may not include the USA, please forgive my ignorance, where only sellers of "essential" goods/services and their suppliers have been allowed to operate during lockdown. During this time what
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by 3xblah 6y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20200413161736/https://www.latime... One can also get LA Times stories via Reuters, thanks to shared TLS hosting: printf "<base href=https://www.latimes.
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by 3xblah 6y ago
"Stacked and whacked"
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by 3xblah 6y ago
curl https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-doesnt-flu-tank-economy-like-covid-19-11586511000 | sed -n '/<p>/p' > 1.html firefox ./1.html
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by 3xblah 6y ago
curl https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-doesnt-flu-tank-economy-like-covid-19-11586511000 | sed -n '/<p>/p' > 1.html firefox ./1.html
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Here is a sed solution. cat > wp.sed 1i\ <pre> s|\"post_content\":\"|&</pre>|g;/\"comments\":/s||<pre>&| s|}]}|&</pre>|;s|{|\
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Whatever the truth may be it is certainly interesting how 20 million people can lose their jobs simply as a result of their employer reducing or stopping its operations for a few weeks. Regardless of the previous unemployement figures it r
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by 3xblah 6y ago
"... the idea that propaganda could be wielded in peacetime..." That is to say, what is now known as "PR" came from the military, who had trained people how to do this kind of work, e.g., in the role of "press agent
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by 3xblah 6y ago
Perhaps they have been "parking" the domain previously, very common amongst some large registrars
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by 3xblah 6y ago
For some reasons I always had the idea of using HTTP headers and server logs to pass data. It can, e.g., be an alternative way of passing request/query input to a server, instead of using URLs or HTML forms. The server can read filte

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