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by chgs 1y ago
HN loves cloudflare. The majority here aren’t of the ethos of the distributed internet of days of old, it’s the “how can I monetise this hustle” ethos. Sad really.
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by chgs 1y ago
I have 6 upstream, but that’s for each of two dns serves in home (one on my pi, one on the jellyfin), so I guess that’s 12 upstream together.
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by chgs 1y ago
People voluntarily used loyalty cards well before then.
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by chgs 1y ago
How many years did it take to take out bin laden?
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by chgs 1y ago
China killing millions of Americans as they cook in their batteries is different to a nuclear bomb or a biological weapon? Hell it’s more attributable.
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by chgs 1y ago
You think that wouldn’t escalate to nuclear exchange in days?
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by chgs 1y ago
They key would be hashed with the user’s details (ip address, value in a session cookie etc) so someone else can’t reuse it. Hell there are things like elliptic curves and DH which still seem magic to me. Now sure if the identity provider a
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by chgs 1y ago
bbc news is full of tracking despite not showing adverts.
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by chgs 1y ago
Almost all content I consume is not funded by adverts, it’s funded by passion or subscription or donation. Adverts have no positive effects for anyone other than the advertising firm. They cost the viewer more than the provide the advertise
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by chgs 1y ago
I have no doubt China would offer a far better location somewhere like Shanghai. The intelligence benefits of so many foreign diplomats and spies walking your street, drinking in your bars, paying your hookers, is incalculable.
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by chgs 1y ago
Doesn’t really matter surely, you only need to trust the identity provider not to leak your identity and your porn provider not to have a key that your identity provider can link to.
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by chgs 1y ago
When it comes to nudity and sex America has always been puritanical. Blood and guns, sure. Freedumb
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by chgs 1y ago
If the Supreme Court agrees they are constitutional then they clearly are constitutional, unless you think the constitution doesn’t apply
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by chgs 1y ago
Site generates random key Key and verification passed to verifier Verified list is published Site pulls list and checks its number has been verified Site doesn’t know who it is, and verifier doesn’t know which site was verified against
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by chgs 1y ago
We can’t do it because our priority as an industry is to get data to monetise. Anonymity is a bug, not a feature.
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by chgs 1y ago
> but that’s way beyond the technical capability of probably 95% of people. It really isn’t, and even if it were an ISP could offer it. Indeed I believe most ISPs do (I chose one which is unfiltered, I do my own filtering at a router and
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by chgs 1y ago
Us techbros like it when Bezos and Zuck and Musk have all the information, because you can “vote with your dollar” and avoid them.
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by chgs 1y ago
If the time was :11 and :12 there’s between 0.01 and 2 seconds between. If they were both at :11 then it’s between 0.01 and 1 second.
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by chgs 1y ago
How is that related to the method of selecting the government of Israel?
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by chgs 1y ago
It’s Facebook that causes genocide, not Twitter. Funny how the left gives sick a far easier pass.
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by chgs 1y ago
“Long tweets” could be anything from changing a config variable to rewriting massive tomes of code. Unless you have knowledge of x’s internal code?
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by chgs 1y ago
It’s the 21st century, I pay for everything by card, currency barriers are way below Schengen and language barriers
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by chgs 1y ago
There were two.
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by chgs 1y ago
People think a trillion dollar brainwashing industry is absolutely fine because of “democracy”, completely ignoring that all you have to do is use a century of experience convincing people to act against their own interests can deliver what
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by chgs 1y ago
eMacs certainly is broken on my phone. Vim is fine though.
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by chgs 1y ago
Presumably there’s a distro maintained python3-cgi package to install then which handles the need
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by chgs 1y ago
I have cgi scripts which take dozens of seconds to run. Load time isn’t a problem for many uses.
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by chgs 1y ago
I used bash cgi scripts all the time. Haven’t used a python cgi module but the main benefit of perl’s cgi module (also removed) is the query parameter parsing.
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by chgs 1y ago
I host 1200 vhosts off apache as an authenticating proxy, and run Al sorts of random scripts. This is all internal use though, I don’t need to scale to hundreds of concurrent users let alone thousands. Apache and cgi bin is fine.
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by chgs 1y ago
Compare the amount of coverage the fire got, and the nonsense certain politicians were spreading about how it was the fault of solar power, with the actual causes (cost cutting)

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