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Comment · 2 months ago
Hamilton's Pharmacopia covers this topic, including an interview with the supposed author, then later corrected, then the true author revealed. Definitely worth checking out.
Comment · 3 months ago
Ahhh very interesting! Thanks for pointing this out, I saw an attack against one of our sites this weekend using this exploit.

> data: {'requests': [{'method': 'POST', 'path': 'http://:'}, {'body': {'requests': [{'method': 'GET', 'path': 'http://:'}, {'method': 'GET', 'path': '/wp/v2/widgets?author_exclude=1%29+AND+1%3D0+UNION+ALL+SELECT+0%2C1%2C0x323...

Comment · 3 months ago
I would love to find a circular LCD (even down to 1 or 2 inches across) that has a hole in the center, to be able to use it with a needle/stepper motor.
Comment · 4 months ago
VxKex/VxKex-NEXT really is an amazing bit of work. It helps me run the latest Apache, PHP, Go-based tools (ngrok/stripe cli), node. It’s been a game changer for keeping W7 going.
Comment · 9 months ago
Thank you!
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
That certainly doesn't come off well for SparkFun.
Comment · 9 months ago
+1 for a Windows 7 clone. I have not seen a theme that comes close to copying Win7.
Comment · 10 months ago
Thanks for that! So it's most likely user agent then. Wonder why they don't like it.
Comment · 10 months ago
If you wouldn't mind, I would be curious - if you run the above curl command, do you get the same error?

It could be a combination of IP + user agent (+ something else) that's causing me trouble.

Comment · 10 months ago
I can't access virtualbox.org any more, they now show an error page saying "Payment Required", with status code 402.

Interestingly, if I change my user agent to "curl/7.70.0", I can browse virtualbox.org again.

They seem to be unhappy with my user agent specifically:

  curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://www.virtualbox.org 
  
  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
  <html><head>
  <title>402 Payment Required</title>
  </head><body>
  <h1>Payment Required</h1>
Comment · 11 months ago
Not sure why, but the text doesn't appear in Chrome 109: https://imgur.com/a/QyIdfax

If I disable "font-family: Atkinson" it comes back, so guessing it's font related. I do see the two .woff files load in the Network tab. Interestingly, when I preview either font file, I see the sample of the font (AaBbCc etc.) in a flash for just milliseconds, and then it disappears and I see nothing.

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