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goatsi

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About goatsi

I used to own a novelty domain.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47091989

    >But on the other hand, I hadn't logged in in nearly a decade! This is the cause. With a long dormant account, facebook has no real content to show you. Your friends will almost al…

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    Comment #47029894

    >user: claude password: claude2026! >user: claude password: claude123 I wonder if these have come from leaks or if someone has a script that generates the top ~xx most likely passw…

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    Comment #46941360

    It's everything mentioned that's then filterable via tags, there's a joe-recommended tag for books that are directly recommended by one of the cohosts.

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    Comment #46866856

    Finland starved thousands to death in it's own camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_concentration_ca...

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    Comment #46447382

    All ads are searchable. They found the exact words and phrases that regulators used and then made sure those were clean. >As a result, Meta decided to take the tactic global, perfo…

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    Comment #45956062

    I remember a comment on here years ago from someone in GCP who mentioned that they did not control the "Cloud" namespace. So any VP could launch a new project and call it cloud som…

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    Comment #45882523

    If you ask the Adobe stock image generation for "Adventurer with a whip and hat portrait view , Brown leather hat, jacket, close-up" It gives you an image of Harrison Ford dressed …

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    Comment #45852704

    Step one: no engineering education, just get a job that a company calls engineering. >In 2023, I graduated from MIT with a double major in math and computer science.

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    Comment #45840495

    Speaking of sustained scraping for AI services, I found a strange file on your site: https://book.sv/robots.txt . Would you be able to explain the intent behind it?

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    Comment #45814653

    The article makes it clear that Common Crawl is ignoring copyright take down requests, and only modified it's search engine to fake having taken down content.

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    Comment #45595813

    They also need to know where in the app the code for each service is displayed, so they are grabbing the code for your bank and not for your World of Warcraft account.

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    Comment #45593885

    China permitted/sponsored rebels to seize a decent chunk of the Myanmar side of the Chinese/Myanmar border after a number of Chinese citizens (allegedly including some undercover C…

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    Comment #45504106

    They actively move to avoid collisions rather than tumbling uncontrollably.

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    Comment #45454400

    I'm glad to see you use "most of this war", acknowledging that Israel has at times totally blockaded all food and medicine from Gaza (and not for logistic or military reasons, but …

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    Comment #45454094

    The Israeli government in March of this year. And it wasn't a suggestion, it was an implemented policy. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/middleeast/israel-halts-gaza-...

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    Comment #45401028

    It's pretty disappointing that the author (writing in 2025) says "perhaps to maintain its status as the world’s largest botnet operator," and links to a Spamhaus report from Q1 of …

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    Comment #44820974

    The Confederacy initiated the civil war by attacking a US government military facility, not Lincoln.

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    Comment #43986040

    TOTP and SMS 2FA prevent credential stuffing attacks, which is very valuable considering how bad people are with password reuse and how many breaches with plaintext or weakly hashe…

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    Comment #43686187

    He's being blamed for stealing the 2020 election from Trump, so no donations or ring kissing seem to be enough. https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2025/trump-officials-s...

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    Comment #43585854

    Having to call/visit and social engineer an employee is an order of magnitude more work than just logging in with stolen credentials, which can be entirely automated. SMS 2FA is va…

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    Comment #43385515

    That's what single file is for. Hoarder fetches the webpage using it's own browser, single file makes a copy using your browser including any sessions, then sends that to hoarder.

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    Comment #43311929

    The surviving Russian pilots fly towards the front line at a high altitude until they get close to the suspected range of Ukrainian air defences, drop glide bombs and then turn aro…

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    Comment #43168081

    It's an anti abuse method. A valid phone number will always have a cost for spammers/multi accounters to obtain in mass, but will have no cost for the desired user base (the assump…

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    Comment #43022151

    I read that flyer as the price of the car plus COE. The "Excite Package" Dolphin lists "Guaranteed COE" for $165,888 Singapore dollars ($122,505 USD) all in. >In Singapore, most pe…

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    Comment #42881993

    Does user B need any sort of exchange/money transmitter license? Do you check the laws for this in each country you are available in? Do you notify user B of this fact and the pote…