suramya_tomar

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by suramya_tomar 2y ago
After taking a break and stepping away for a bit, I realized that I was recreating an archiving system for websites and that there are existing solutions that do the same thing. I found https://github.com/ArchiveBox/Arc
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by suramya_tomar 2y ago
I don't have to use curl, but in the past when I have setup something that opens browser instances it has usually been a bit unstable in the sense that it would crash intermittently. I wanted something that I could kick-off as a daily
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Ask HN: How to remove Ads from a downloaded HTML file to output an ad free file?
1 points by suramya_tomar 2y ago|5 comments
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by suramya_tomar 2y ago
That's a good point. I use Linux where file names are Case Sensitive and the sync to Windows has problems when the files are copied over to an NTFS partition or to my Android phone. However, the rest of the files are updated even thoug
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by suramya_tomar 2y ago
yeah, just because there is a potential loophole we should make absolutely no effort to solve the problem. Reminded me of: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/mister-gotcha-... In this case it
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by suramya_tomar 2y ago
yeah, it really sucks that we improved security, reduced the risk of Man in the Middle Attacks, reduced impersonation risks by moving to a more secure protocol. Actually, you don't need to manage certificates when we access sites over
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by suramya_tomar 2y ago
Works fine for me without a login.
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by suramya_tomar 3y ago
The article specifically says that they "drilled down into the hill and collected core samples that allowed them to use radiocarbon dating techniques to learn the ages of the layers that make up the hill." They didn't randoml
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by suramya_tomar 3y ago
Syncthing works over mobile data as well. You need to enable the option to Run on mobile data in settings. In addition you will need to Enable Relaying and Global discovery on both ends (phone and server) I have been using it to sync photos
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by suramya_tomar 3y ago
The issue with CD/DVDs is that they degrade quickly over time. The CDs I burnt in early 2000s had tons of read errors when I tried restoring in 2022. Personally, I think storing data on an external Harddrive is the most stable option.
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
Like you I also dislike the Blocks editor, however the fix is easy. You can install the Classic Editor ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/ ) plugin and get the old interface back. You can switch between
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
Well, wget still works and allows you to mirror a website with a single command The following command mirrors a given website: wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent https://site-to-downloa
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
Ah... fair enough. For me the annoyance is minor enough that I wouldn't be installing an extension that gets access to all the sites that I browse, but I get that for others it might worth it. From the outside, it seems like an easy
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
Not sure if I am missing something, but this is something I can do without any extra extensions installed? Out of the 27 accounts I am currently following, 20 are accounts from other Mastodon instances... I do have to search for the account
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
At the moment I check them manually. I have all the blogs bookmarked under 1 folder and use the "Open All in Tabs" option in Firefox to open all of them together first thing in the morning.
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
Quality is a must. It doesn't matter how frequently/consistently you post if the posts are not of good quality. There are a few blogs I follow where the author don't post very frequently but when they do the posts are extreme
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
You can use Tweepy (Python Package) to query their API for the data. You will need a Twitter Developer Account but the setup is quite simple. You can use the instructions at: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-access-data
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
Baen Books ( https://www.baen.com/ ) is a publisher that only releases DRM free ebooks. They primarily publish scifi / fantasy books that you can buy from their site directly.
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
You realize that it is fairly easy to create false ID's right? There are services that do that for you with minimal fuss. > When everyone has 2FA, 2FA backup keys become kind of impractical in the same way it becomes impractical to
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
They are displayed by default when you enable 2FA. If I remember correctly there is a note stating that we should print them out or save in a secure location. They are meant to be used in this exact scenario where you don't have access
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
I use it on my laptop because it is stable and because I want my desktop and laptop to have the same environment as much as possible. Lots of others do the same as well. More and more people are moving from desktops to laptops so supporting
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
If your account gets compromised attackers can use the details from the history to move laterally in the network, because if you have passwords etc in the history then the attackers have access to it as well. This is especially true for bri
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ from EFF does something similar using analysis of all the data shared by your browser. It also gives you a score of how unique your browser signature is as compared to other users
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
It's telling the truth without sugarcoating it in crypto make believe. That's why people read it. If any of the stories / updates on the site are false please do share since from my reading I found all of them are accurate an
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
In one of my previous roles we had an ongoing argument about using Confluence vs Mediawiki as both were already deployed and we wanted to promote MW more due to the cost (plus it's opensource). The main reasons cited were as follows: *
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
It can be used as a launch pad into the rest of your network as IoT devices are notoriously insecure. There was a case a few years ago where a bank was hacked via the internet connected thermometer in the fish tank. One option (which is wha
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
One option is to use IMAP and connect to your gmail account using a email client (I use Thunderbird) once you connect, sort the mailbox by size and then delete as required. Another thing to remember is that file on your Google Drive and Pho
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by suramya_tomar 4y ago
There are a few options: I will give the same advice I got when I told my manager that I wanted to keep coding while moving up the ladder. She told me that I should pick a project/problem where I wouldn't be a bottle-neck if I got
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by suramya_tomar 5y ago
Yeah, its hard to get users to download/run code, which is what I had planned to do initially. I have code that I wrote that runs on my local machine to test both ISP's that I use (I have a dual connection) and stores the result.
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by suramya_tomar 5y ago
Yup, I was hitting issues due to CORS and was wondering if there is a way to avoid them. I can ask folks to download and install something but if I am doing that then I can might as well ask them to download and run the Python code I have r

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