tomudding
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Comment · 6 months ago
The Dutch government has a similar list[0] though less extensive and does not (yet) include repos from the new platform
Comment · 11 months ago
which is at least detected by https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector....
Comment · 2 years ago
(2020)
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, fixed in all (at the time) supported versions in October last year [0].
Comment · 3 years ago
I have been using the Timeless skin [0] for quite some time now and the main reason I switched was that the content would be a bit more condensed towards the middle of the page. This helps a lot on larger monitors and I can see why this new theme also does something similar. However, the large amount of whitespace on the sides is just wasted and in combination with the fact that more interaction is required to do basic things (like changing the language of a page) is something that makes this new theme not "barely noticeable".
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin...
Comment · 3 years ago
There is a list of partners [0], I thought I had seen regexes at some point but I can no longer find them.
[0]: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/code-secu...
Comment · 4 years ago
He leaves behind a great legacy. I can highly recommend Blood Music, Eon, or Forge of God if you have never read one of his books. However, my personal favourite was actually the (Halo) Forerunner Saga series.
Comment · 4 years ago
Cloudflare caches robots.txt by default when proxied (the only .txt-file that they automatically cache), for all other content the following from their ToS probably applies:
> Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service.
We will never know the reasoning of the support agent who replied to the EasyList maintainers, but I can imagine that it is indeed disproportionate for EasyList.
I really hope that Cloudflare actually sees that they are making a wrong decision here and actually help the EasyList maintainers.
Comment · 4 years ago
GitHub has a soft limit of like 100 GB/month on transfers for Pages. According to the Adguard blog post traffic was already several TBs a day before the issue arose.
Comment · 4 years ago
> but want to make sure we do it right.
Make sure you do it differently than how Muse Group did it with Audacity (specifically the announcement and explanation of why and what parts) [0]. Which I'd argue is not particularly difficult to do.
[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audac...
Comment · 4 years ago
Previous discussion here:
Comment · 4 years ago
It has been an issue since September/October last year, but occasionally it seems to get worse (and then suddenly no spam mails).
Comment · 4 years ago
Scanning the LAN through your browser is nothing new. JS-Recon from AnD Labs [0] is a tool from 2010 that could do it. I have seen eBay [1], Facebook [2], and Halifax [3] do it too, albeit for other reasons than scanning for outdated devices (fraud/loss prevention). LexisNexis' ThreatMetrix [4] is commonly used to do this.
Please note that this is a copy of a comment I made 2 years ago and I have not tested the links to see if they are still correct.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20101128053633/http://www.andlab...
[1]: https://forum.ultravnc.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=33509
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNetsec/comments/4j0nas/why_is_fa...
[3]: https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/07/halifax_bank_ports_sc...
Comment · 4 years ago
> Can anyone tell me which other "large" projects have this capability?
I'd say that all popular apps (Android/iOS) have such functionality. Most will probably use it for A/B testing, but technically you could change anything you'd like with it.
Apart from the companies creating their own implementations [0], popular services I have seen include Optimizely [1] and Firebase Remote Config [2].
[0]: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/09/android/airlock-facebo...
[1]: https://www.optimizely.com/products/intelligence/full-stack-...
Comment · 4 years ago
> Or you simply didn't know that Firefox made it the default a while ago.
Oh, interesting! I did not know it is a default now. I can imagine why they would enable it by default, but when Cloudflare (which I assume is the default DoH provider) has a problem at some point everyone is doomed.
Really wish they also could make it so the data collection part is opt-in instead of opt-out (which at this point in time appears to be the actual cause of this problem).