unixbane

Has anyone hacked furnaces yet? They have giant PCBs in them.

The end game for the web to be scraped into entries in a database to be displayed by real software instead of a web browser.

It should content block itself.

What rules there are rules? Ban my account I will make a new one until you ban Tor and make an article about how Tor is toxic. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM, DICKFUCK.

In your world, everything is okay, we can pretend the latest script kiddie software that flings local URLs around is fine. In your world, since everyone is pretending all the broken stuff doesn't exist (in order to be "civilized"), more broken stuff is made, as the developers have the illusion that garbage status quo is good. This is how HN works. It's hilariously true. Everything people here make is clones of the same terrible concepts like convention over configuration (which make auditing harder and shitcoding easier).

Internet moderation is the single most useless concept ever invented.

You just confused me with someone else. Cloudflare gives me a hard time as a user only. When you view a page with a proxy or shared IP address, you have to solve a captcha or enable JS to see any text with @ in it, and such insanities. Scraping is a user use case. Web crap is meant to be automateable and automatically navigible (though as a cattle user who sees it as an interactive one time experience, like someone walking into a shop, I can see how you see otherwise). Anyway it's easy to scrape even with Cloudflare, it just causes more bumps and adds to your fingerprint and makes the internet as a whole more insecure.

First of all, we have this blog post at least once a year, like top commenter has said. Second, uh, no, you're a moron. Open source now is just completely commercialized. Firefox looks exactly like a 90s garbage web browser that shows you some stupid page full of ads, and links to news with ads, on startup. I am an open source developer. I don't expect any gratitude for what I do, I just want to get shit done. People who pretend issues don't exist are annoying. If I am using a typical open source library these days, I expect it to be made by some guy developing it as if it's his job (and accordingly, with lots of corner cutting). Basically all these new sprawl of languages are a stack of half working bullshit from the build system to the GUI all made for clout or on a whim based on some idea thought of last night, or by some extremely inexperienced person. And the only reason none of this stuff works well is because open source devs are literally clout chasing and constantly move all their dependencies (also fixing invalid problems that shouldn't exist like RCE bugs). You're right, I shouldn't expect them to work at all.

I didn't even read your article, I have better things to do. The idea that people are "entitled" in tech is retarded and no spin on your title can make sense. Tech is a sea of festering rot piled up 100 times.

I don't see how being a "gaming" [1] video streaming service implies that you need to take action against gambling that is implemented via it. They will just move somewhere else. Seems like an ultra tunnel visioned political "issue".

1. One which barely has anything to do with gaming other than having 3 lines of code to store a game identifier with a stream to say which game the stream was mainly streaming. They even have entire streams that do non gaming shit and that's what all the top streamers do most of the time.

In other words, this is outrage porn against streaming services (I think, as like with counter strike go loot boxes[2]. i don't understand your culture though [not that i cant, i just dont care] so I could be entirely wrong). This is no different than when cameras or VHS came out and people complained about piracy and whatever. Whatever political takeaway we're supposed to be getting here is invalid. Twitch is just a streaming site. If I make my own streaming site (which I'll never do, because the web is horse shit), I shouldn't have to hire people to purge gambling on it.

> but you are profiting from them looking at your ads while they gamble

And VHS profited from mass piracy. Get a grip.

2. yeah, loot boxes are fucking cancer, i don't care for making them illegal though as that requires paying more tax and they will just come up with different cancer. you cant fix bad developers

> * It's a kind of web-based environment. Each view has a `loopback://` url.

Great sounds like another idiotic thing I can skip.

> * The UI is, indeed, very consistent. All menu operations can be accessed with Alt+( ) combination. This feels very solid and convenient.

This is a feature of all products created by a single entity.

Exactly this. They used a simple formula to grow their company of posting some novice technical articles to HN ~15 years ago. Then the 2010's standard business practice of "contributing" to open source (I don't consider anything they've done as progress, no different than any other web company). Then ~2011 they broke Tor and kept it broken until 2018 when they made it so if you have a big 4 browser (a fork thereof: Tor Browser), you can visit pages once again. But HN already was brainwashed so they couldn't upvote articles pointing this out so it was never fixed.

The most insane backward nonsense is that Cloudflare proposed a browser extension to bypass the captcha. Like wtf will HN react if Microsoft suddenly made 50% of the web block russian IPs by default until you install a plugin they provide?

Now the only thing I worry about is how they will gimp IPFS since they are sort of leaning towards it once it or something similar replaces the web? They have to make money somehow. Any solution requires breaking things in such a protocol.

I'm saying anti-scraping is a misconception and if you buy it (or get one for free) you just paid for a placebo and it's also worse than nothing. Is there anything confusing about this?

It's UN*X. The one thing it actually does good is having documentation on the system, instead of some weirdo's web page covered in ads. Type man <cmd> or info <cmd> in the shell. Also, for most of the world population, this will be a few seconds faster since it avoids loading a web page.

> last paragraph

You can't safely paste anything into the shell ever lol. For multiple reasons. It doesn't matter how much visual inspection you do.