ranger_danger

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by ranger_danger 3d ago
I have tried many, many, many browsers across multiple OSes and different hardware, and they all give me endless captchas. Firefox, Waterfox, Iceweasel, Icecat, Seamonkey, LibreWolf, Pale Moon, Mullvad, Tor Browser Chromium, ungoogled-chrom
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by ranger_danger 4d ago
Can you provide sources for these claims?
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by ranger_danger 4d ago
I figured they're just admitting AI models have plateaued and are coming up with some fake story about self restraint so they don't lose VC money
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by ranger_danger 4d ago
I'm not convinced it would be completely negated... maybe slowed down a bit, but sure.
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by ranger_danger 4d ago
Sorry, I don't consider that a bypass, or easy.
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by ranger_danger 4d ago
I certainly would not call that adequate, especially for someone like Cloudflare with their scale, and with what their customers expect. What you describe may be technically possible in a very narrow sense, for only specific types of DDoS
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
> because you live in the global south I don't, but thanks for confidently assuming.
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
> there is no way to turn off Google AI search &udm=web works fine for me, you can use a browser shortcut or extension to enforce it
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
You might have better luck using google maps (even the web version) to find menus.
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
Do you have a source for this claim? Cloudflare gives me endless captchas on almost any website.
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
I have to anyway because google always gives me endless captchas, as my ISP frequently rotates IPs with people who can't behave.
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
I don't think it's fair to blame AI just because people aren't prompting unique design elements into their vibe-coding.
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
What did you mean by this?
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
Why does this repo always seem to have trouble staying online? All the other mirrors are down, and it's not because of this post, because I have been watching other mirrors of this repo disappear over time that aren't even listed
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
> The random bold formatting is as good a tell as it gets. Don't forget the emdash and overuse of emoji.
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
I didn't mean it so much as a physical constraint, but an operational one. Not everyone wants to (or their policy allows them to) manage TLS certs directly on their origin servers, and some services only allow plaintext HTTP origins, l
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
I should have clarified... when I said "proxy TLS" I meant while retaining the typical features that reverse proxy providers offer like those I mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662319 If for
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
> Actually, you could proxy based on SNI alone If you assume the origin speaks TLS and holds the cert/private key, and isn't using ESNI/ECH, then I suppose in a limited way it's possible. But... > because they want
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
Previous discussion less than a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341411 The comments on that post were not nearly as favorable as this one for some reason.
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by ranger_danger 5d ago
Depends on what you want "without AI" to mean... is it just stories about AI, or anything that an AI has touched at all? Or purely vibe-coded projects?
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
Even if it is, the software on the device could theoretically do whatever it wants with the data before it's encrypted/uploaded, and if it's sent to Apple, they could do whatever they want with it too.
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
I mean, anything with a microphone or camera (and some things without) can theoretically be used to listen to/record you at any given time for a myriad of reasons. If you are worried about such a device being on your person, I think th
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
Lately for me it's "anything employing calm and rational critical thinking against a hivemind already dead set on misinformation gets downvoted."
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
I would assume you could make big enough differences in color/contrast/brightness and especially 3D rotation (similar to taking a photo of a screen) would make such a signature unreadable... but I would love to be proven wrong.
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
Yes in multiple ways, and there's probably more than this: It's relevant that a screenshot doesn't have a signature, in the case that you want to remove any "proof" or tracking info from a real photo when uploadin
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
Most traffic on the Internet flows unencrypted through a portion of some reverse proxy MITM-as-a-service provider's gear like Cloudflare, Cloudfront, Akamai etc. You can't proxy TLS for people without having the ability to see the
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
There will always be a way around it. There are even open-source alternative/hacked firmwares for professional DSLR cameras where tampering with the signing may be possible. And this still doesn't help any other kind of image e.g.
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
There's also MPTCP (multipath TCP) which is even supported on mobile devices these days. So for example if your device has both a wifi and a cellular connection, and both ends of the stream support MPTCP, you can increase throughput&#x
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
> I would've expected a single TCP connection to be able to saturate a line There's several factors at play that make this (usually) not the case. Besides physical latency (which includes those added by any VPNs/tunnels&#x
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by ranger_danger 6d ago
That is exactly what I am claiming is false. Later LG even came out with their own statement saying basically the same thing I did. What is this separate feature you claim that is not the same as the one I refer to?

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