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mmarian
1,457karma·1,053submissions·July 28, 2019
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Latest projects:
* AI Copilot for LibreOffice Writer: https://librethinker.com/
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recent activity (1,053 total)
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If someone invests time/money in using a captcha solver, they're already dedicated enough and will easily get around a JA4 signature block. Maybe there's some one-off exercise where thi…
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Boredom. Don't enjoy video games / movies anyway.
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Luckily you don't have to look far! Check what happened in 2010s when European news publishers were trying to control how Google processed their articles: https://arstechnica.com/…
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Fair enough. Great work with the projects!
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https://archive.is/I62KM
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Doubt badges work. You have to ask yourself why you're struggling to read it, and work from that. And remember, not all problems can be solved by technology.
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Just straight talking to Claude without referencing a book. However, if I wanted to learn from a book, I'd probably follow the same approach and just send the book across.
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I agree JA4 is situational; but the # of use cases is smaller than most people think. Like you said, Captcha works better; would've stopped the credential stuffing. Managed DDoS services (Cloudfl…
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I'm curious, which site struggles are you envisaging? In my exp, JA4 is used as a hammer for which the nail must be found; simpler solutions oftentimes work better.
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I have a similar problem in having limited attention span when it comes to learn. I went into it from the opposite angle - just plan out what I want to learn, then start asking Claude to design the co…
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I always wonder how Workday is such a dominant force in the HR world.
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As a learning exercise - great. As an actual mitigation technique - even JA4s can be rotated pretty easily these days by motivated actors. Rotation patterns might still work (for now :D)
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I think you're tackling an interesting area. I was thinking of something similar for system design prep. I experimented with a couple of series of blog posts - one for designing Twitter, another …
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Not mine. I self host in my CapRover-managed Docker Swarm cluster. It's great!
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I remember seeing somewhere that LLMs performed on a niche subset of data perform worse than general ones. RAG is probably best here.
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I heard design team is building sites to help better visualize what they want to do. Don't think it's worth the effort vs just Figma, but that's just me.
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Empathy. A lot harder than most complex topics.
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Post on HN and various dev forums, and go to dev meetups and talk about it. Having said that, if you really want to learn about business you need to do market research before building, which meant kno…
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https://archive.is/0TGbE
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Admit I'm not familiar with that domain. But don't people use managed services even there? In my job we host parquet files on S3.
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Why not let Clouflare/GitHub/etc do it for you? Free, and you don't have to worry about security and availability.
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Cool idea, but I don't think you should focus on static files. People rarely spin up a server for that these days.
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GH yes, HN and LinkedIn to a much lesser extent IMO. Reddit is really bad, I can barely read anything anymore.