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sslalready
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Comment #42660206
And then there’s Banksy’s “in the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes“. For pretty much the same reasons you stated above, I assume.
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Comment #40142807
ESPHome is awesome. Any chance you can get MQTT running on RP2040W?
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Comment #36158858
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
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Comment #35973571
1992 A.D. even.
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Comment #35371876
I was surprised there was no mention of him in the text. There's more of him on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=walter+lewin+do...
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Comment #31901863
A lot of E-commerce software have data feeds that are ingested by parties like pricespy. These feeds are typically either public or made available after mutual agreements. Scraping…
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Comment #31421013
Kudos to Spotify for supporting libspotify and its use-cases for so many years. I'm sure it hasn't been easy and that copyright owners haven't been very fond of it.
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Comment #30784734
Anecdata: I’ve found USB powered external drives to be unreliable on the Pi, even when powering the Pi with an official power adapter. I’d recommend using an external drive that co…
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Comment #29371393
IIRC, the uTorrent guy (Ludde Strigeus) was employeed by Spotify and worked on, among other things, the P2P feature in Spotify.
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Comment #29114337
Reasons for self-hosting: GitLab.com's not-so-great availability [1], slow code searches (compared to self-hosted with GitLab Advanced Search) and the fact that you can keep your c…
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Comment #27565763
I think GOBBLES pioneered this technique in like 1992 A.D. with their “Hydra”. Iirc it was claimed to exploit (jinglebellz.c) .mp3 players on behalf of the RIAA and to spread throu…
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Comment #27562495
I too found this after reading about it here. I contacted them and received the following reply. > Exposure notifications cannot be enabled without user consent, so if you have not…
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Comment #27554970
Sounds like he hasn’t been introduced to banana with tomato ketchup yet.
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Comment #27064857
You could already download most of the comment data from them by querying their API. Similar to profile pictures on Gravatar, emails were only hashed with MD5. They’re easy to reve…
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Comment #27041073
Use the download button in the top right of the pdf viewer thingy. That’ll render the actual pdf without html and annoying modals.
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Comment #25815019
Reminds me of the Solaris TTYPROMPT in.telnetd bypass: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/114491/Solaris-TTYPROM...
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Comment #24971354
I think it’s just a strategy to take advantage of unique content to drive traffic to the site. I’ve seen this before.
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Comment #24827410
This one has been relevant for the last 10 years: https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
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Comment #24534118
I’ve reflected on the fact that some makers on YouTube wear gloves and wondered if this is for privacy reasons. I see globes being worn even when they’re not obviously doing anythi…
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Comment #24113934
Not that I'm aware of, but I wish. Memory is getting hazy these days. AFAIK the kernel.org breaches were made by the kind of hackers doing it for fun and games (if you get that thi…
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Comment #24108565
If memory serves me right the CVS bug was originally discovered and exploited by a member of an infamous file sharing site. After descriptions(?) of that bug were leaked in undergr…
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Comment #23120875
I believe he has claimed that vitamin D deficiency is associated with worse upper respiratory tract infections in one of the earlier videos.