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68,553karma·24,250submissions·June 16, 2015
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The only reason I take my cell phone with me is in the event my truck breaks down. I have lost count of how many times I forgot it at home. I've had business tell me to install some app but I j…
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I view email in Thunderbird and have uBlock installed. Sadly the CSS Exfil addon for Firefox does not exist for Thunderbird but I view emails in plain text either way. I suppose I "miss out&quo…
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Should AI's tell you they're AI? Yes. I would add they should have a mandatory "report" function. "Report this scammer" should trigger a review of all recent intera…
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Interesting, however that goes back to my original question about platforms allowing users to create a sub-domain, as they almost always use a wildcard certificate for this purpose. [1] I suppose the …
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Testing [1] Works in Firefox, Helium and Curl but I do not have Chrome or Safari to test with. [1] - https://_test.nochan.net/ …
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Is that universally true on all sites that allow a user to create a sub-domain?
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From the RFC The "_for-sale" leaf node name can be placed at any level of the DNS, except in the .arpa infrastructure TLD. There used to be a number of sites that would let users create {u…
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Is Ask HN Shrinking? I only have anecdotal information so take what you want from it. If one of my silly blog articles ends up on the front page I get a total of about 18K unique IP's that are…
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One of the botters Lily is showing off their mobile/residential bots to me. It is refreshing to see at least one person can follow instructions.
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More realistic numbers now that HN and others have been visiting all day. Line count: 104 access.log
366 botpoop.log
Unique IP's: 54 access.log
181 botpoop.log …
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Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals? No, AI companies should be treated like any other company. If their product is causing damages or loss of life it should be handled j…
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Three Laws of Robotics And as the movie iRobot made clear [1] the understanding of the 3 laws can be interpreted differently by AI. The movie was based off Asimov's work albeit fiction . [1] …
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Virtual != Safe. Plenty of video conferences have been invaded by ... um ... interesting videos of people doing ... interesting things.
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Possibly. I've noticed however that if people default to reader view they don't always pull the CSS. Seems to vary by client software. I'm weird enough to just stick with visual insp…
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for some reason It's outside the great firewall. No requirements to hand over SSL keys to China. I worked for companies that ran into these challenges and solutions.
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I thought about that but to your point CSS is cachable. In fact I made mine immutable. No I just visually spot patterns and use that to study other facets of the agent, other client headers or lack …