seanhly

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by seanhly 4d ago
When does he ever mention the environment? He never mentions the unmarketable issues (environmental cost, copyright and content theft), only the "we're so good it's scary" spiel... which is getting tiring.
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by seanhly 6d ago
Bragging about "using agents to code pre-GPT" is quite the corporate flex... weren't they notoriously bad back then? Might as well say, "We've been doing spreadsheets with quantum computing since 2016"
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by seanhly 4mo ago
> It's clear that politicians don't get this from the way they talk about a "mere 1%" wealth tax. None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even though that's mathematicall
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Ask HN: If entry-level jobs are gone, does career change become impossible?
4 points by seanhly 4mo ago|1 comments
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Show HN: recover-pdfs is a tool for revovering all the deleted PDFs from a disk(codeberg.org)
3 points by seanhly 5mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: web-pinentry: a pinentry program that leverages matrix and http(codeberg.org)
4 points by seanhly 5mo ago|0 comments
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by seanhly 6mo ago
No, because the Revolut card used on the offending service has already been frozen or cancelled by me at that stage.
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by seanhly 6mo ago
I set up a new throwaway virtual card on Revolut every time I sign up for a free trial or rolling subscription. After that card is used to verify payment method or to pay an initial subscription fee, I just freeze or delete the card. Free
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by seanhly 7mo ago
Most of them don’t check the IP, it would seem. Google acquires new IPs all the time, plus there are a lot of other search systems that news publishers don’t want to accidentally miss out on. It’s mostly just client side JS hiding the con
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by seanhly 7mo ago
There are some pretty robust browser addons for bypassing article paywalls, notably https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-fire... This particular addon is blocked on most western git servers, but
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by seanhly 7mo ago
Curiously, this isn't the first time archive.today was implicated in a DDoS. A HN post from three years back shows some pasted snippets of similar XmlHttpRequest code running on archive.ph (an archive.today synonym site). Post link:
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by seanhly 7mo ago
Great work! This is seriously addictive. I did some QA for you (after playing the game for more hours than I'd like to admit): - Bristol Airport (bus station) is somehow located in Milan. This makes it possible to get a £6 ticket to