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by flotzam 19d ago
Or just a .onion for the frontend and code forge + another server at some clearnet domain proxying it (until taken down and replaced with the new one) would probably work fine. The hidden service can even terminate TLS with a valid cert for
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by flotzam 19d ago
Hoping we'll see more resilient development/hosting emerge
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by flotzam 19d ago
Seemed worth a new post, now that they actually killed it today :( Is there any frontend still standing?
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TwitterWebViewer also no longer in operation, following a request from X Corp(twitterwebviewer.com)
41 points by flotzam 19d ago|27 comments
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by flotzam 20d ago
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/IAmA/comments/5whpqs/im_bill_g...
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by flotzam 28d ago
I've been wondering about the Red Hat model! Seems like so much of modern development involves git blame or whatever to make sense of how the code came to be, and sometimes rule out an "obvious" modification that actually tur
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by flotzam 28d ago
> If you had included the previous word, it would be blindly obvious that “on a medium“ is only talking about the transport layer, not the format of the data. I can see your point. But OTOH if providing the "preferred form of the
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by flotzam 28d ago
> We didn't have git tags when GPL was written in 1989 The GPLv2 requires "a medium customarily used for software interchange", not "a medium customarily used in 1989 for software interchange". Customs are the
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by flotzam 28d ago
GrapheneOS is arguing that throwing away the metadata of however many commits and squashing them into a messy tarball is not the "preferred form of the work for making modifications", and that a manual process where you have to fi
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by flotzam 1mo ago
And indeed that's Python's calendar: 'A date object represents a date (year, month and day) in an idealized calendar, the current Gregorian calendar indefinitely extended in both directions.' 'This matches the defin
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by flotzam 2mo ago
The malicious compliance aspect is that they're not offering a choice between "tracking" and "no tracking", but bundling "no tracking" + "painfully degraded functionality" (like repeating the que
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by flotzam 3mo ago
They acknowledge that it's odd, and give this justification: "Using runtime panics has the nice property that inline assembly in dead code doesn't get in the way of porting software to Fil-C. Also, it's consistent with h
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by flotzam 3mo ago
Ah. That makes sense. Maybe the polite fiction would clash too obviously with accounting standards once the (de facto) lowered rent payments roll in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567769 Could the situation be impr
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by flotzam 3mo ago
How come this obvious workaround isn't used much more often: >> If the system allows you to pretend that the vacancy is temporary, why doesn’t it allow you to lower rents on the pretense that lower rents are also temporary? >
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by flotzam 4mo ago
Ok that one looks legit :) I was thinking more about his experience with e.g. the last one on the page, Roof Garden at The Post Building: > I still don't understand why it's here nor why it's open daily, nor why they insis
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by flotzam 4mo ago
> more likely to get planning permission if their new skyscraper included a free public roof terrace If that's the deal, it's crazy that some of those places are getting away with then discouraging the public from actually goin
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by flotzam 5mo ago
https://kycnot.me/?categories=aggregator https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange
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by flotzam 5mo ago
Tor Browser is always quick to rebase on the latest Firefox ESR. They released an update the next day: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15010/
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by flotzam 5mo ago
They are not affected (except through second order effects, e.g. some FOSS app developers might give up on development)
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by flotzam 5mo ago
He posted it at 8:03 AM though... (12:03 PM UTC, and he was in D.C.) https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163519987825...
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by flotzam 6mo ago
Isn't type 1 a circumcision (removal of the clitoral hood, but not other parts) very rare? At least that's what the Wikipedia article claims, referencing a 2008 WHO report.
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by flotzam 8mo ago
At the bottom of the page there's a link to the pdfresurrect package, whose description says "The PDF format allows for previous changes to be retained in a revised version of the document, thereby keeping a running history of rev
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by flotzam 8mo ago
Right, I should have written "IPv4 bridges" (which can be obfuscated and distributed out of band), not "IPv4 entry nodes": https://bridges.torproject.org/ But you can reach the IPv6 internet through thos
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by flotzam 8mo ago
Tor can reach IPv6 destinations through IPv4 entry nodes, if that's what your asking.
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by flotzam 9mo ago
> Does anybody know if Bluesky block people without account by default, or if this user intentionally set it this way? It's the latter. You can use an app view that ignores this: https://anartia.kelinci.net/robpike.i
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by flotzam 9mo ago
Probably by the phone number used for account verification, in many cases The anime avi posters will have to level up their OPSEC
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by flotzam 9mo ago
What happens if you declare that you don't have any social media accounts? There are already forms that ask for social media info, e.g. student visa applications. Surely some of the applicants just don't have any social media prof
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by flotzam 9mo ago
Bandcamp is huge
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by flotzam 11mo ago
No part of hosting or visiting onion services involves exit nodes. Onion service traffic stays within the Tor network instead of exiting to the clearnet.
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by flotzam 11mo ago
A dirty intended use case... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi...

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