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Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

dnpls wrote: post #140
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #137

Misread the title to mean that They Live inspired the concept of adblocking in general. Which would have been an interesting coincidence, since it did inspire one of the early Mozilla logos. [0] [0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...

Did something nefarious happen to your link?

I guess JWZ has some sort of referral check that instantly black-holes any traffic coming from HN?

And interestingly, the WayBackMachine snapshots are similarly boobytrapped: https://web.archive.org/web/20260115112314/https://www.jwz.o...

So I guess google "They Live Mozilla Logo" if you want to see the article. Sorry about that!

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by HeatrayEnjoyer »

anthk wrote: post #48
GCUMstlyHarmls wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say yes, conversing between two humans, maybe even collaborating, is more human than a solitary human using inanimate objects.

Even if the table collapses down badly instead of doing a proper one with a good set of tools?

But the extension works, not "collapses down badly."

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by matheusmoreira »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #141
dnpls wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did something nefarious happen to your link?

I guess JWZ has some sort of referral check that instantly black-holes any traffic coming from HN? And interestingly, the WayBackMachine snapshots are similarly boobytrapped: https://web.archive.org/web/20260115112314/https://www.jwz.o... So I guess google "They Live Mozilla Logo" if you want to see the article. Sorry about that!

Just open a new tab and paste the link in.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by vadansky »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #141
dnpls wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did something nefarious happen to your link?

I guess JWZ has some sort of referral check that instantly black-holes any traffic coming from HN? And interestingly, the WayBackMachine snapshots are similarly boobytrapped: https://web.archive.org/web/20260115112314/https://www.jwz.o... So I guess google "They Live Mozilla Logo" if you want to see the article. Sorry about that!

http://archive.is/UMMCx

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by godshatter »

bloke_zero wrote: post #87

I wish I could upvote this 10 times! I love the film - blew my mind when I saw it on cable just after it came out.

Track down the short story it's inspired by, Eight O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson. I had read the short story somewhere, maybe in a compilation, and was delighted when the movie turned out to be obviously inspired by it. Helped me get even more enjoyment out of an already wonderful movie.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by vel0city »

nephihaha wrote: post #106
bloke_zero wrote: post #87

I wish I could upvote this 10 times! I love the film - blew my mind when I saw it on cable just after it came out.

One of the messages has changed of course. Nowadays it tends to be "stay fearful and do not reproduce".

Given the government trying incredibly hard to ban abortion and the Supreme Court musing they should overturn Griswold I don't their ideas are "do not reproduce".

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by latexr »

throw0101c wrote: post #108
latexr wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See “The Final Experiment”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Experiment_(expediti... In particular the “Reactions” section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Experiment_(expediti... You’ll find this bit: > Alabama pastor Dean Odle suggested that Satan created a fireball to act as a false Sun. That is cuckoo cuckoo bananas to a point only “conspiracy nut” applies.

See perhaps René Descartes: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon

That thought experiment assumes the whole world around you is a fabricated illusion. In which case it would be unnecessary for Satan to fake the Sun at that point, especially considering the pastor wasn’t even there. If everything around you is an illusion, there’s no need for 5D subterfuge chess, the devil could just fake whatever.

So no, Descartes doesn’t apply. Unless I were the one being tested (seeing as I’m thinking, and therefore am). In which case that particular lie would be especially hilariously stupid.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by matula »

desdenova wrote: post #100

It's slop though, which is even worse than the ads.

Looking at the code (https://github.com/davmlaw/uBlock/commit/fa2de61ae69927591db...), there's not much I would do differently writing by hand. It breaks some formatting/style conventions from the rest of the file, which I would probably flag in an organizational code review... but otherwise the logic is solid.

So is this "slop" simply because it's written by an LLM, even if the output is solid? Would it NOT be slop if it was worse code, but written fully manually? Honestly, I'm not sure I know the answer.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Post by ge96 »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #143
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess JWZ has some sort of referral check that instantly black-holes any traffic coming from HN? And interestingly, the WayBackMachine snapshots are similarly boobytrapped: https://web.archive.org/web/20260115112314/https://www.jwz.o... So I guess google "They Live Mozilla Logo" if you want to see the article. Sorry about that!

Just open a new tab and paste the link in.

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