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Bender
68,553karma·24,248submissions·June 16, 2015
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Σ I am not for everyone. To ignore me in uBlock Origin, add to "My filters":
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser):has-text(/\bBender\b/)
- For HN usage questions see [1] for HN tips not my repo
- Suggested Firefox add-on to replace or restore inflammatory words and phrases: Foxreplace [2]
[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
[2] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/
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I would be curious to see if they ever publish detailed statistics on this. I'm sure as others have said the average family will not be paying much if anything for AI. Just within the HN bubb…
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If I were concerned about this threat vector I would put my SIM in a cheap throw away phone that has nothing installed on it and nothing of interest. I would back up my real phone to several devices …
6 pts
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Working for me, no errors.
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thats the hard part, right - my 76 year old dad is on his banking app while his samsung TV is allowing a bot to try and take over other accounts at the same bank on the same IP. So appeal to emotion…
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No idiocy, sometimes defaults change or don't get updated by a deployment script. Different distributions may have a slightly different default configuration file depending on how involved the a…
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Not the person you are asking but site operators can not tell intent. It could be something nasty on the network or a botter feigning ignorance. I'd say its probably an acceptable casualty in th…
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The ISP's do not have a financial incentive to shut them down. To them that's a paying customer. The feds will go after the big botnets if they are touching financial networks or siphoning…
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Cool site. I was curious and dropped your 100k list into a reverse DNS lookup site [1]. They may still have some of the records cached. I recognized quite a few of the scanner nodes and some other …
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I've noticed they strip away a header [1] in private browsing mode but I don't know why they do it since it does not disclose anything about the person. I think that may be the same thing t…
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By default they use 2.0 [1] unless someone or an addon disables it or unless the person is on a really old version. OperaMini however will use 1.1. No idea if anyone here uses OperaMini. There are s…
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The complaints in the thread. I am aware the lurkers would not have said anything.
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I second this. When I have tested blocking VPS/data-centers to my silly blog there were about a dozen people on HN [1] that could not view my site out of the roughly ~17,000 (not counting bots)…
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There are several methods. [1] The most aggressive method-02 and method-03 on my document will block VPS and some data-centers but that also means it will block some legit users that are on a VPN. …
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There are many possibilities but one of them could be some new vuln was released and they are looking for it. That would require looking at the URL's they are requesting. Botters run their own …
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Many of those user-agents listed are often faked. Look up which ASN owns their IP. If I block most VPS providers most of the faked bots vanish. There are still some running from residential and pho…
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It comes up from time to time. It is unlikely the site would change. One could add it locally however if they have uBlock Origin in their browser then one way to add a dark mode would be going into …
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I can't pass up Doomberg. It makes sense he is on Canadian Prepper as Doomberg is also a prepper and listens to Nate's channel. Nate has gotten a bit dramatic and click-baity in recent yea…
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The cert I am seeing: Testing via IPv4:
IPv4 (2 address(es)):
104.18.25.94
104.18.24.94
subject : C=US, ST=District of Columbia, O=Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CN=ww…
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A boat like that with a VIP on board is also likely to have heavy security as well. May as well get letters of marque [1][2] and "assist" some pirates and cartel for fun and profit. One …
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I have sent emails back and forth between Fastmail and my self hosted servers to increase their trust. Sometimes I talk to myself...