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Post by oneplane »

anthk wrote: post #142
oneplane wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't that make it double-bad? Again, people might come up with the argument that it's their own problem if they get abused, but also that is just not the reality we live in; any compromised system can (and will most of the time) be used to infect/compromise/attack other systems.

Good luck trying to a attack an HTML only browser under a Z80 machine, for example.

Well, getting an RCE on that wouldn't be that hard I imagine. Not a whole lot of protections in there, and if there is an OS between the browser and the metal you can exploit that too.

And if you don't want to exploit the browser or the hardware, you can still simply inject a self-refreshing iframe in to the plain text html stream and have that z80 act like a (slow) proxy so you can do things that will point to that Z80 being the 'origin'.

Everybody assumes that 'simpler' or 'reduced' systems are always safer, but as soon as you deal with external interfaces and the outside world, that goes out the window. Lynx was thought to have less of an attack surface because it just did basic text-based browsing with HTML and not much else. Turns out that wasn't the case either.

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by petercooper »

wafn wrote: post #127
petercooper wrote: post #80

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So I started and maintained a text BASIC programming fanzine back in 1994-1996 and.. I'm still in the business producing weekly newsletters for programmers 25 years later, except now it's my job! :-)

Are you Pete of Pete's QB Site?

Afraid not, though some of my work is/was hosted there! :) It's been a while though..

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by teddyh »

mhb wrote: post #5

Shouldn't have stolen the color scheme from jwz. Now we have two problems.

JWZ took the colors on his web site from the Ann Arbor Ambassador 60 terminal:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200214203348/https://www.jwz.o...

“Sometimes people ask me why my web sites use those colors. This is a thing that people sometimes ask.”

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by jstarfish »

earthboundkid wrote: post #149
catalogia wrote: post #109

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Sommeliers claim to have incredible wine tasting powers, yet in a blind taste test I cannot reliably distinguish red wine from white wine. Maybe with more training I could, but shouldn't the difference be obvious without training? I've yet to be convinced that subtly in wine and coffee flavor is an objective matter.

There are definitely things that I consider voodoo, like wetting the filter before you make your coffee, but there are tons of things that are just undeniable like: if you drink coffee from stale beans, your urine smells bad then next time you pee; if not, not. I'm always surprised when I drink some gas station coffee and then a couple of hours later "oh yeah, I normally drink better coffee, don't I?"

It's not voodoo; the concept of "supertasters" and other supersensory traits in humans is well-documented. Most legitimate sommeliers are likely supertasters.

I'm a supertaster myself-- certain pungent/sour tastes will literally make me gag; I don't like foods with a million different components since I can taste all of them quite clearly. My wife on the other hand will smell things on the wind (like smoke) that I'll only notice 5-10 minutes later. I hear there are others who can see gradients of colors that others cannot.

> wetting the filter before you make your coffee

This isn't really voodoo, but it is debatable whether it matters for such a low volume. Since no filter fully expresses the fluid it absorbs, if you put exactly 4 cups of water through a dry filter, you're not getting exactly 4 cups of water out of it. The result might be a stronger cup of coffee (since there is less water to dilute it). Wetting the filter gives you a more "accurate" result, but you'll get a consistent cup of coffee either way if you commit to either always wetting it or not doing so.

This matters more for things like oil changes, which is why after changing your oil filter and refilling the oil, you're supposed to run the car for a few minutes to operating temperature and check the oil levels again-- the dry filter will have added to the total capacity of the engine block and soaked up some of what you thought you put in.

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by anthk »

oneplane wrote: post #151
anthk wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good luck trying to a attack an HTML only browser under a Z80 machine, for example.

Well, getting an RCE on that wouldn't be that hard I imagine. Not a whole lot of protections in there, and if there is an OS between the browser and the metal you can exploit that too. And if you don't want to exploit the browser or the hardware, you can still simply inject a self-refreshing iframe in to the plain text html stream and have that z80 act like a (slow) proxy so you can do things that will point to that…

links in Unix for example has automatic refreshing as a checkbox.

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by kalleboo »

earthboundkid wrote: post #147
kalleboo wrote: post #87

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I have very low standards for coffee, use Starbucks bulk beans off of Amazon, and brew it in an automatic mill+drip machine. But a Brita filter for the water makes a world of difference.

Whereabouts do you live? I've visited places where I found tap water undrinkable (Pennsylvania, Florida), but never lived in such a place.

Japan

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by 2008guy »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #126
zozbot234 wrote: post #46

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There was also a lot of motivation to phreak and trade warez due to a lack of things we'd simply take for granted nowadays, such as always-on connectivity and a widespread free-software and free-culture scene. It's a lot harder to explain the whole "anarchy" obsession that shows up in the files, though. Maybe that kind of loser attitude would make you "cool" and "a tough guy" back in the 1980s and the 1990s. Or at le…

Minority ideologies always get painted as their villains by the majority who wants them to go away. Communism is bad because Stalin is bad. Anarchy is bad because the unibomber is bad. There is a version of communism that says that people should live in a local community that helps people who need it. As long as someone who doesn't want to live that way has the reasonable option to leave, this is actually pretty hard…

The unibomber has nothing to do with anarchy...

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by internalthief »

jstarfish wrote: post #154
earthboundkid wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are definitely things that I consider voodoo, like wetting the filter before you make your coffee, but there are tons of things that are just undeniable like: if you drink coffee from stale beans, your urine smells bad then next time you pee; if not, not. I'm always surprised when I drink some gas station coffee and then a couple of hours later "oh yeah, I normally drink better coffee, don't I?"

It's not voodoo; the concept of "supertasters" and other supersensory traits in humans is well-documented. Most legitimate sommeliers are likely supertasters. I'm a supertaster myself-- certain pungent/sour tastes will literally make me gag; I don't like foods with a million different components since I can taste all of them quite clearly. My wife on the other hand will smell things on the wind (like smoke) that I'll…

> Wetting the filter gives you a more "accurate" result, but you'll get a consistent cup of coffee either way if you commit to either always wetting it or not doing so.

The big difference that wetting a filter has is that certain filters have a slight taste associated with them. If you wet the filter first and throw that water away you get a cleaner/brighter cup without the paper filter adulterants.

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by jstarfish »

internalthief wrote: post #158
jstarfish wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not voodoo; the concept of "supertasters" and other supersensory traits in humans is well-documented. Most legitimate sommeliers are likely supertasters. I'm a supertaster myself-- certain pungent/sour tastes will literally make me gag; I don't like foods with a million different components since I can taste all of them quite clearly. My wife on the other hand will smell things on the wind (like smoke) that I'll…

> Wetting the filter gives you a more "accurate" result, but you'll get a consistent cup of coffee either way if you commit to either always wetting it or not doing so. The big difference that wetting a filter has is that certain filters have a slight taste associated with them. If you wet the filter first and throw that water away you get a cleaner/brighter cup without the paper filter adulterants.

I could see that. You're supposed to do that with aquarium filter media as well to flush out any manufacturing debris.

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by ringshall »

msla wrote: post #124
reitzensteinm wrote: post #6

The owner of the site gave a talk at DEFCON 17, "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY&ab_channel=Chris...

He's also the guy who goatse'd MySpace: Initial post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/989 Post about goatse: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 More: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1012 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1127 Moral: HOTLINKING BAD

He says in the second article you link that he doesn’t think hotlinking is bad per se, especially when it’s done in support of knowledge and education.

I think the moral is rather that hotlinking is dangerous.

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