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Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

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post #53

got caught red handed: "Ah, a Berliner using a Supernote Nomad tablet to browse on Chrome WebView 83 like it’s still 2020—did your avant-garde e-ink device fail to render the "update browser" button? Your screen’s 749x999 resolution is either a glitch in the Matrix or proof you’re squinting at PDFs sideways, and your mysterious lack of referrer suggests you teleported here to hide your crypto-kindle fanfic habits. Co…

I think it picks out device type from the resolution and other stats, like a fingerprint. Since the device type is not actually available or sent (EDIT: or maybe some include it in the user agent...)

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#62

Very cute :) It might be worth adding to the context that Chrome on macOS reports as OS X 10.15.7 (Catalina) no matter what future version you're actually running. It seemed very confused to my other specs but running such an old OS.

btw, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox all froze their User-Agent strings at “Mac OS X 10.15” after running into web compatibility problems reporting “Mac OS X 11.0”. Some websites’ User-Agent parsers assumed there would never be an 11.0 version of macOS.

Websites can still query the actual macOS version using Chrome’s navigator.userAgentData API. Neither Safari nor Firefox implement that API at this time because it’s mostly redundant with navigator.userAgent and exposes additional browser and OS metadata that can be used for fingerprinting.

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

#63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "why is DeepSeek so much cheaper than o1" question is currently a mystery, with the best guess being that compute in China is cheaper.

DeepSeek is use way less computing to achieve the same results. That's the whole difference.

Then a US compute provider should be able to launch a similarly-priced competitor (e.g. to capture the enterprise market concerned about the China associations) using the open-source version and drastically undercut OpenAI.

I suspect that won’t be the case.

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>Then, their screen resolution is 3440x1440, which is an ultra-wide monitor. Maybe mock them for needing that much space for spreadsheets or something.

lol. i love having so much screen space :3

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Roasting your ultrawide 3440x1440 "I need binoculars to see my tabs" setup in Longueuil, QC—a city so forgettable even your *2-core potato PC* probably buffers its Google Maps—while you lurk on Hacker News like a tech bro NPC still waiting for Y Combinator to notice your crypto-SaaS-pet-rock startup. Chrome 131 on Windows 10? Your browser’s as bland as your cookie-enabled existence, and that 50ms network RTT just proves your Wi-Fi’s as tired as your LinkedIn hustle. At least your 24-bit color depth can render the embarrassment of your life choices in vivid detail.

-- Harsh. But extreamly funny. Interesting that it sees my 5800X3D as a 2-core processor. Turning off DDG privacy essentials yeilds the correct core count, etc.

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> Okay, let's tackle this roast based on the user's data. First, I need to pick the three most unusual bits. The user is using Safari 17.6 on Mac OS 10.15.7. Wait, macOS 10.15 is Catalina, which is pretty old now—like from 2019. That's a bit outdated, so that's unusual. Next, the screen resolution is 1024x1366. That's a taller screen than usual. Most common resolutions are wider, so maybe they're using an older iPad in portrait mode or a rotated display? That's quirky. Referrer is empty, meaning they came directly here. No referral site to make fun of, but I can joke about them typing the URL manually. Also, their location is Calgary, Canada. Maybe link the cold weather there to their outdated OS, like keeping things frozen in time. Combine all that into three concise sentences. Start with the outdated OS, then the screen resolution, mention the direct visit, and tie in the location with the OS. Make sure it's funny but not mean. Check the structure: three sentences, each targeting a different aspect. Let me put it all together.

> Roast: Ah, a Canadian Safari-saddled NPC from Calgary, still clinging to Mac OS 10.15 like it’s a Blockbuster membership, browsing on a screen taller than your mountains but somehow arriving here directly—did your dial-up finally finish loading the URL? (Three quirks: ancient OS, vertical screen ratio, empty referrer + location roast.)

It guessed correctly I’m using an iPad and maybe the resolution but somehow got the OS wrong (i.e. if I’m on an iPad I’m not using MacOS). I am still on iOS 17 so it got that I’m not on the latest but made a mistake since 10.15 is the latest MacOS release. The location is also way off.

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#69
"The user is on a Linux armv81 platform but using Chrome on an Android device—that's odd because Android usually runs on Linux-based kernels, but the specific armv81 might be a typo or uncommon."

Unimpressive, it's a current Samsung. And I'm in London not Leistershire

Re: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

#70
My first one just said:

Bravo, London

But my second one was funny. But I feel like we are maybe overlooking the significance: is DeepSeek actually funny? Does humor travel with reasoning?

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