Hackbraten

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by Hackbraten 5d ago
Not necessarily, as evidenced by TFA, whose scraper still seems to work even after it visits each individual SERP entry to harvest the URLs. But Kagi’s SERP API provider is going to have to adapt, I guess.
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by Hackbraten 5d ago
The only “other engine” that matters is really a thin paid SERP façade in front of a scraped Google result. In other words, Kagi pays for access to an API whose implementation is basically live scraping Google and throwing away the ads. The
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by Hackbraten 5d ago
IKEA bullied the developer of the indie game The Store is Closed into gutting the whole game. [0] It’s a shame how people can even acknowledge, let alone applaud IKEA’s “funny” gaming-related ad after their successful meddling with SCP folk
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by Hackbraten 11d ago
Misleading title. The correct title is: Germany’s far-right AfD projected to win eastern state but unclear if it will be able to govern Please fix.
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by Hackbraten 17d ago
Good luck enforcing the law against a company whose entire business model is to piggyback residential-proxy-as-a-service over the shitty FNQQOIIWKNURQB brand $60 projectors they flip on Amazon. You call them out, they’ll just say they stopp
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by Hackbraten 17d ago
What I find remarkable is that for at least a decade, i.e., long before LLM scrapers were a thing, GitHub engineers have been reaching out to popular package manager projects, asking them to do away with shallow clones [0] [1]. They basical
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by Hackbraten 17d ago
All anti-bot measures are inherently flawed, and if you overdo it, your false positives cause real harm by excluding actual people from using your services. Not as in “1 out of 1000 legit requests get blocked” but “you’re going to block 100
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by Hackbraten 19d ago
A pirate ship amusement ride called Scream Deck.
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by Hackbraten 20d ago
He did. I live in a legislation where pledges aren’t a thing, so TIL that a pledge is equivalent to a conviction.
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by Hackbraten 21d ago
Isn’t it good practice to call them an alleged victim as long as the suspect, Luigi Nicholas Mangione, hasn’t been convicted?
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by Hackbraten 25d ago
Google/Apple only.
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by Hackbraten 25d ago
No literature list on MLM scams can be complete without Bridget Read's meticulously researched 2025 book "Little Bosses Everywhere".
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
There are several. I’ve been daily driving one for three years.
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
This narrative is dangerous. If everyone points to their own limited influence and points fingers at the rest of the world, no one is going to act.
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
We don't need AI to figure it out. It's been researched to death already. Go vegetarian, abolish fossil fuels, buy less. The problem is that way too few are willing to change their habits, and legislators have near-zero incentive
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
I’ve used Wego [0] for roughly a decade. It’s been good enough for me. Six years in, I had to edit the configuration file once (to switch weather backends because the default backend shut down). In January, it’ll be 10 years. [0]: https:&#
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
> There’s very minimal state for a weather app. Except when it uses some kind of browser engine to render its UI?
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
Hasn’t this been the case for human-made proofs too? For example, Andrew Wiles’s famous proof touched a number of different, barely-related mathematical fields that no single person could allegedly peer-review it on their own. That was in t
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
> What diminished the day-to-day difficulty for you? Is it because the ecosystem became more mature, or did you "crack the code" for how to interface with everything you needed from your phone? Neither! I just got accustomed to
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
Taking photos is one of the things I got accustomed to not having. The picture quality on my Librem 5 is just too disappointing [0]. In the past I used Bluetooth for keyboard and mouse when I connected the phone to a monitor. (I no longer d
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
I've been daily driving a Linux phone for three years. The suffering was real. It's mostly gone now, I love it and will definitely never go back.
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
Aside from the fact that this would be a despicable crime, how would you even go about identifying where a given scammer operation has its office buildings?
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by Hackbraten 1mo ago
The problem is that many scammers now groom your brain into trusting them before they even mention money. This is a psychological thing where you can’t necessarily just tell yourself “I’m not going to fall for that.” There are reports from
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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
No.
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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
> When Mary had a little lamb, she was twice as old as Ann was when Ann was as old as Mary now claims to be. How old is the sheep? —James Barton Adams. I love this response so much.
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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
> a package may be published as […] held for manual review Manual review by whom?
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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
Sounds like confirmation bias to me.
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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
Good point for parsing. However, the example is about serialization. What mapping ambiguity do you see there?
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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
> Seize the means of computation Feels like they blatantly ripped that off the title of a Cory Doctorow book [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_Con
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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
I think that ship has sailed [0]. If Microsoft hasn’t managed to build a meaningful search index after 17 years of sinking billions in it, there’s a good chance that no one ever will. [0]: https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-

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