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Bender

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About Bender

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 public activity

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    Comment #49223925

    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…

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    Comment #49223534

    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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    Comment #49223265

    Yes but I have no idea why

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    Comment #49223264

    Yes I selected that

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    Poll: Does the browser think you speak Chinese, but you do not?

    If you go to https://ifconfig.me/lang do you see ONLY zh-CN but you never selected Chinese in your browser? I've noticed some that visit from here have that as their "only" languag…

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    Comment #49222782

    Is that universally true on all sites that allow a user to create a sub-domain?

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    Comment #49222572

    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 c…

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    Comment #49221957

    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 I…

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    Comment #49221780

    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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    Comment #49218085

    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 sh…

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    Comment #49214474

    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 fic…

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    Comment #49213746

    Virtual != Safe. Plenty of video conferences have been invaded by ... um ... interesting videos of people doing ... interesting things.

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    Comment #49213386

    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 in…

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    Comment #49213306

    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.