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It's much more likely to be a methodology issue than that Firefox's install base suddenly grew 240% in such a short period of time. Maybe some AI scraper juicing the numbers? Mozil…

DDG is just repackaged Bing. Always has been. I remember looking into them when I was ready to job-hop many years ago, and they asked for dedication to their search engine as their…

I'm constantly DM'd at work about how I'm able to create the "cool drawings" in my blog/wiki posts, and I enthusiastically point to excalidraw.com. I have a background in vector il…

That post was fascinating. You are a model example of what progressive prison reform can accomplish and your story should be getting major press coverage if it hasn't already.

I don't think it's responsible to replace http/1.1 with either of these protocols. They both seem like complex beasts with poorly understood corner cases and little consideration f…

> In fact, there are so many patent farms disguised as businesses I challenge you to sit, think of something, and search for a patent for it. Nice try, Opposing Counsel.

> It’s a MikroTik running RouterOS https://google.com/search?q=mikrotik+botnet These things are the absolute scourge of the internet.

This is easily searchable, so... I doubt you're seriously looking, but... > The evaluation fee is US$185,000. Applicants will be required to pay a US$5,000 deposit fee per requeste…

Give several hundred thousand dollars to ICANN.

CBS Austin is a Sinclair affiliate.

Many of them are unintentional: a device sitting on the open internet has some vulnerability and gets exploited. Bad guy sets up a proxy on the device and uses it to click a bunch …

Unfortunately, this type of abuse is essentially only acted on if you either (a) cause some kind of problem for ops at the VPS company, or (b) the victim tells on you. Even then, t…

This is only if you have _no_ idea how to use very basic open-source tools to wreak havoc via some open proxies. The real cost of launching small-scale attacks like this is $5/mont…

Author here – you are correct, I tried to golf a relatively long script down to one line, and I failed :) The post has been updated.

I don't understand the negative reactions here. Gnome got Rothschild to agree to never sue another open-source project again. That's a huge concession and an outcome that's arguabl…

Care to share that adapter model?

My last two Amazon purchases ended up being counterfit, even after spending a ton of time trying to avoid counterfits. I'm still going to use my fake electric toothbrush heads and …