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by afn 6mo ago
I was curious about this, so for anyone else who’s interested, here’s a KrebsOnSecurity article from 2019 about how easy it was to fraudulently register a .gov domain: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-to
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by afn 8mo ago
Tangent: this link looks like a right-wing propaganda site; I wouldn’t trust any information there without verifying it with trusted sources. > Thanks to the President’s decisive leadership in the face of radical left-wing obstructionism
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by afn 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/2025.10.20-102309/https://www.wired.com/s...
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by afn 2y ago
Good gravy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4wh-Pbxgok
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by afn 3y ago
> (Just be careful, if your regular expression matcher uses backtracking, you might get pathological behaviour. Though memoisation makes that less likely to hit by accident in practice.) Doesn’t that exactly demonstrate why using the too
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Ask HN: Automatic binding-arbitration opt out?
2 points by afn 3y ago|1 comments
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by afn 3y ago
Can’t recommend highly enough: https://www.howacarworks.com/
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by afn 3y ago
Nerdwallet[1] is an excellent resource for comparing credit card options. My recommendation would be to get only no-annual-fee cards, and to get one with purchase protection benefits and one with high cash-back. The former would be for purc
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by afn 3y ago
I feel like I’m missing something, so perhaps there’s an aspect of corporate taxes here that I don’t understand. I would expect a write-off like this to reduce the assets of the firm on paper, perhaps having an impact on the market valuatio
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by afn 3y ago
FYI, you can rent the press tools reasonably cheaply if you’re not a plumber by trade. I rented one for $80 for a plumbing project a few years back and it was worth every penny. A million times easier & faster than sweating joints.
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by afn 3y ago
Whoa, take it easy, Cookie Monster! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9PenLqJyHU
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by afn 3y ago
https://archive.is/YDHkv
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Pickleball is bad news for health insurance stocks, UBS says(cnbc.com)
2 points by afn 3y ago|1 comments
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by afn 3y ago
By default, curl interprets braces and square brackets to expand into multiple URLs (similarly to bash and other shells). You can disable this, and use literal braces & brackets in URLs, by passing ‘-g’ (‘--globoff’).
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by afn 3y ago
https://archive.is/Bhs8E
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by afn 4y ago
Ours was almost completely unreachable for about 20 minutes, and is now mostly back online, except that ~10% of requests hang for ~5-15 seconds before being fulfilled. (This time is not accounted for in the 'connect' or 'serv
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by afn 4y ago
It's down again, for at least the past half hour. I submitted a support ticket at 15:56 UTC, haven't gotten a response, and as usual, they only updated the status page to indicate that there's an issue ~20 minutes into the ou
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The Death and Life of the ’90s Computer Show (2017)(magenta.as)
2 points by afn 4y ago|0 comments
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by afn 4y ago
> Had he not become the most famous turncoat in U.S. history, his remains might have been interred in a grand or historically meaningful tomb, visited by thousands every year. Arnold's betrayal, however, overshadows any contribution
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by afn 4y ago
OK but did anyone saw a boat in half to prove the power of these adhesive tapes?
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by afn 5y ago
Reminds me of this classic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QyNgrZX9Nzc
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by afn 5y ago
It’s the T-1000 of corporations. http://www.phonenews.com/images/2007/1/colbert-report-roasts...
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by afn 5y ago
Incident here, but no details: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2218 API is back up now although dashboard login is still not working.
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Detecting changes to associations in Rails(thesource.amitree.com)
2 points by afn 13y ago|0 comments
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Permitted_params: a DRY approach to Strong Parameters in Rails 4(thesource.amitree.com)
1 points by afn 13y ago|0 comments