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by mzajc 4d ago
Unrelated to Zoom, but > I noticed it because I make heavy use of a "one-shot paste" tool which fulfills a single paste request and then terminates. Handy for filling in lots of fields of a web form – queue up pastes of several
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by mzajc 7d ago
> "`#16b8c4`. Yes. Apply it." > WebFetch en.wikipedia.org/…/Cyan > WebFetch en.wikipedia.org/…/Prussian_blue > WebFetch www.colorhexa.com/16b8c4 Brilliant.
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by mzajc 8d ago
Is there a reason this needs 8.7k lines across 59 files (according to scc)? The prompt itself seems to be in skills/i-have-adhd/SKILL.md, which is 140 lines long at just over 1.6% of the repository.
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by mzajc 13d ago
In this case the registry itself (Verisign) was the owner of the second-level domain, and they most certainly shouldn't be allowed to just drop your registration whenever they please.
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by mzajc 17d ago
As the article describes, it doesn't help, because the traffic originates from millions of unique residential IPs across hundreds of ASNs and countries.
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by mzajc 17d ago
> Why is git.kernel.org “interesting” to crawlers I think the post underestimates just how little thought and effort is put into these bots. I also run a cgit instance with far less interesting projects, and am not spared from the deluge
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by mzajc 17d ago
Dupe: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454606 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451313 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450672 - https://news.ycombinator.c
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by mzajc 20d ago
"Second, he spent some time questioning the Priests of Beauty, who eventually admitted that when the corpses of the [Whispering Earring] wearers were being prepared for burial, it was noted that their brains were curiously deformed: t
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by mzajc 23d ago
Scotland is not a member of the EU since brexit.
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by mzajc 24d ago
They remind me of the "Brought to You by Carl’s Jr" scenes from Idiocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM1rSObk4c
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by mzajc 25d ago
Software like 7-Zip supports many formats, even ones that are not usually treated as archives, and recognises them by magic bytes rather than extension. You can for example add a zip extension an EXE file, and 7-Zip will open it. A much mor
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by mzajc 27d ago
My cgit instance is incredibly friendly to bots; I go out of my way to support git's fast "smart" HTTP protocol, and the clone URL is linked on every project's root page. I even included the full clone command on 429 err
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by mzajc 27d ago
> Wayland is not a "display server", it's a display protocol. This is a huge part of what "user/dev hostile" means in my book; with Wayland, getting a working desktop always someone else's responsibilit
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by mzajc 28d ago
As long as you're willing to re-sign and reinstall it every 7 days, that is. The free certificates Apple hands out have expiry set to a week, and AFAIK you can't configure your own iPhone to trust your own certificate.
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by mzajc 29d ago
The gematria[0] of Norway is 96, while it's 60 for OpenAI. The deal is never gonna work. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
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by mzajc 29d ago
> $99/year developer membership Yeah... > then why not use a Raspberry Pi or something? Because a Raspberry Pi would be very inconvenient to use as a smartphone, obviously. Doesn't explain why it makes sense to treat one ARM
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by mzajc 1mo ago
Certified eleven nines SLA: 9.9999999999%
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by mzajc 1mo ago
Most of your comments on this site, including both of your comments on this thread, are differently-worded promotions of this one product. Please don't use the forum exclusively to advertise.
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by mzajc 1mo ago
Because security is the pretext, not the goal here. I'm sure browsers could have better security controls for extensions, but giving users extra control over software doesn't seem to be very popular among corpos nowadays.
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by mzajc 1mo ago
If you have systemd>=253 you can make use of LogFilterPatterns[0] (in .service files), but it's really unpredictable, cumbersome to work with, and does not work with user services or non-service log sources. [0]: https://
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by mzajc 1mo ago
> The easiest way to deal with the usual suspects is to just block the entire countries network range(s). Keep in mind that this should be paired with an ASN blacklist - MaxMind also has an ASN mmdb for convenience - because IP address t
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by mzajc 1mo ago
This is essentially just LLM output listing common smartphone components and various vaguely related trivia. Most of the "navigation" section isn't even about machine navigation for crying out loud, and the 10 second/wee
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by mzajc 1mo ago
"Bang-up" is a good description of what Seedvault does, because your backup will have holes in it. Anything made with Android's backup system has the same problem. Applications can specify that they can't be backed up, a
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by mzajc 1mo ago
This is nonsense; GOG has a very simple API to list and download games you own, and all you have to do is run a downloader script (many are available online, including mine) in a cron job to keep the latest versions of games on your disk.
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by mzajc 2mo ago
I think it's closer to a bartender mixing you a drink with 30 (hundred) different poisons and hoping you get tired of saying "no" every time.
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by mzajc 2mo ago
Unless disabling cookies means treating all cookies as session cookies (meaning you can still be followed within a session), this has the fun side effect of breaking pretty much every CAPTCHA firewall like Anubis, Cloudflare Turnstile, and
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by mzajc 2mo ago
Curiously enough, .me's whois record does not list Identity Digital as a contact (as seems to be standard practice with externally-managed ccTLDs, such as .gi), and .me is not listed on Identity Digital's "TLD Portfolio"
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by mzajc 2mo ago
This is just an advertisement.
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by mzajc 3mo ago
This is great, thanks for the correction! I tried resolving dnssec-failed.org and it does indeed fail with EDE 6 (DNSSEC Bogus). I'm not sure why this hasn't been updated on the info page[0] yet, given that the change is about thr
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by mzajc 3mo ago
Be cautious with Quad9; their main address (9.9.9.9) has a "malware" blacklist that has misfired several times already: twice for a private torrent tracker, once for gist.github.com, issue was resolved within minutes to hours. The

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