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Bender

68,555karma·24,253submissions·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/)
I can not see votes or karma and do not require social validation.

- 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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recent activity (24,253 total)
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The closest thing to social media I use is this site and as long as team dang keep doing a great job of moderation I will stay here. Aside from this site my little private and semi-private sites are …
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I can't recall the scientists name and his product was not yet approved so dont get your hopes up, but a scientist recently met with Donald Trump to attempt to get a process approved that incre…
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I would rather not incite violence on this platform. That just gets a bunch of people put in a cage limiting their career options and potentially "justifies" even greater dystopian action…
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by a single military base is way different than Absolutely. I have no idea how that process has evolved over time. For all I know maybe they use Axiom/Flock to do this now but back in my day …
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For what it's worth most gay bars, massage parlors and brothels near military installations have been recorded since the at least the 1970's. The purpose was to identify military personnel …
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As far as I know the only thing that influences change is money. What methods could be implemented to take money away from governments that implement with such things? All of my ideas would be very …
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Is auditd capitalized like SunnyD for any particular reason? Habbit. I changed it for you. What can this rule tell me though? The purpose of something like auditd is to capture evidence of action…
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The site is being flooded or more like hammered with AI submissions. If you have ideas for how to fix this please do suggest them.
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I agree whitelisting is great. I have used that in B2B communications by setting up network to network VPN's. Anyone not on the VPN can not reach the servers. Employees can use their corporate…
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I do not define user-agents, they announce themselves and present a particular behavior. I let them define their behavior and I respond accordingly. I have no need for search bots personally. If I h…
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For what it's worth I block all of Google's ASN's entirely. Just me personally for my silly hobby and tinkering sites, I have not received any good traffic from them as of late. Even …
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As of now 6622 real humans made it through and a small number of what look to be bots. Curious if any of these people will try their own experiments on this topic.
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Thankyou. It's a fun topic for me. Hopefully others will find it interesting to tinker and experiment with as well.
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As of now roughly 4661 real humans can reach it. 9 people can not reach it. A few of those 9 I expect to be blocked being on VPN's that egress data-centers. I could improve this by moving most of…
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I am an active user of Claude but I do not live my life through that thing. I try to get it to answer questions that it does not want to answer. The only questions it seems to answer without hesitat…
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As of now roughly 4385 real humans can reach it. 9 people can not reach it. A few of those 9 I expect to be blocked being on VPN's that egress data-centers.
21d ago·view thread
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Thrill of the game is a great way to put it.
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Try to force a refresh it may work now.
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