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by wesamco 2y ago
I can't find it in the settings for Google Search, has it been removed?
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Sock puppet comment spam is (still) a problem on YouTube: screenshot [PNG](i.imgur.com)
1 points by wesamco 2y ago|1 comments
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by wesamco 2y ago
I've been seeing this specific type of sock puppet spam on YouTube for years, the same exact modus operandi, my earliest distinct memory of seeing this specific kind of sock puppet spam comments promoting a financial scam is from early
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by wesamco 2y ago
> Soon, developers will be able to withdraw the stars earned by their bots in Toncoins via Fragment. So it's backed by Telegram's own cryptocurrency, or at least soon gonna be. reading this killed the little excitement I had.
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by wesamco 2y ago
I guess the accuracy really depends on your location or ISP. I believe my ISP rarely or never rotates IP addresses, and on top of that I think my ISP provided router is assigned an IPv6 address and it prioritizes using it, because when I vi
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by wesamco 2y ago
How the heck did it automatically pan the map to my current location, my small town, in an Incognito window, on page load? Is IP geolocation this accurate and accessible to every website nowadays? If this website can do this I assume every
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by wesamco 2y ago
While you can't save to localStorage as my sibling commenters have shown, greyface- down below in the thread posted a version that saves to the hash fragment of the URI. Saving to the (Data) URI has a benefit over localStorage of allo
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by wesamco 2y ago
Nice! I bookmarked it and I'm gonna start using it, thank you. For a quick and dirty save, you can press Ctrl+P to open the print window/dialog and select "Save as PDF", or you can press Ctrl+S and save as a single HTML
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Shows fast writing on clay using earliest known writing system, Sumerian [video](twitter.com)
1 points by wesamco 2y ago|0 comments
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by wesamco 2y ago
Google, (the Google Chrome team), have stated before that "[JPEG XL] doesn't provide significant benefits over existing image formats" [1] and have been vocal in there disinterest in shipping support for it (they deprecated e
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by wesamco 2y ago
and using one image format (or fewer number of them) increases the CDN's cache hit rate, so it decreases latencies and makes your site load faster.
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by wesamco 2y ago
I just realized that the PNG file for the logo hosted on wikimedia, is 232KB! That is a lot, that's unnecessarily large for such a simple logo, so I used vtracer, a raster image to SVG vectorizer, written in Rust, and SVGO, a SVG optim
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by wesamco 2y ago
Oh wow, this book cover art-piece has the same concept, but even more impressive; the Sun logo has 3 "sun" words in the logo not 4 (I know I also thought they were 4 initially), but this art piece has the word "Al-Khwarizmi&q
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by wesamco 2y ago
The logo SUN Microsystems had is a 4-way ambigram with rotational symmetries. Designed by Professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford, the logo features 4 interleaved copies of the word "sun", forming a rotationally symmetric ambigram, wi
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by wesamco 2y ago
> For the threat model of most users, where hardware-based targeted attacks aren't a big concern, this is a bad tradeoff. > hardware-based targeted attacks You mean physical-access attacks, correct? Is it really just these kinds
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by wesamco 2y ago
I think they're migrating to this domain; I don't think it's a temporary change from an outage or something like a fallback on a second domain.
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Chat.openai.com now redirects (me) to chatgpt.com(chat.openai.com)
2 points by wesamco 2y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: A tiny Userscript that sets the browser-tab/window's title on ChatGPT(openuserjs.org)
1 points by wesamco 2y ago|0 comments
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by wesamco 2y ago
It's fun to think about a technical solution that if implemented by the state and porn websites it would be privacy preserving, I have a hunch some form of cryptography can be part of this solution. some form of cryptography that would
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by wesamco 2y ago
This is the future! :)
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Ask HN: Are there wrapper/runner programs that encrypt writes and decrypt reads?
6 points by wesamco 2y ago|10 comments
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by wesamco 3y ago
Hoaxers hoping to drum up enough news stories to impact Apple's share price to make money on shorting it?
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Crypto/Finance scammers are getting creative in their spam comments on YouTube(i.imgur.com)
3 points by wesamco 3y ago|1 comments
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by wesamco 3y ago
probably with the help of AI, as I think they are otherwise very unimaginative people this is the most amount of likes that I've ever seen on a spam comment that is this recent, it was the second most top comment. I see these types of
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by wesamco 5y ago
Sublime HQ Pty Ltd, developers of Sublime Text and Sublime Merge sell licenses and use the package managers of each distro and host their own package mirror. > Sublime Text 3 includes an auto-upgrade mechanism on Windows and OS X to make
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by wesamco 6y ago
checkout how conformant QuickJS is with the modern ES standards https://test262.report/ (especially compared with other engines developed by big teams and companies behind them) Fabrice Bellard is a genius, and I really don
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DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019)(dascript.org)
56 points by wesamco 6y ago|16 comments
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by wesamco 8y ago
thanks a lot, now I see how 2FA saved me two weeks ago, the moment I got the SMS, I immediately went on my first security ritual, changed all passwords with my pass manager, and removed the original/primary email address that haveibeen
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by wesamco 9y ago
damn you too for making me waste more than half an hour! ;) I actually don't play video games.
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by wesamco 9y ago
dammit this is addictive, even to me! please add a "auto lock" feature, that you can find in military aircrafts since the 80s, like a "god mode".

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