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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/freitasm; my proof: https://keybase.io/freitasm/sigs/glwWk_tBhKI1bcBnvaX_CMC9gbWiYOwNjJROxqGkv58 ]
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freitasm··on Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs
From their About Yep page: "We built Yep from the ground up so that we can give 90% of ad revenue to content creators."

And yet there is nowhere around the site explaining how creators can claim that "revenue".

freitasm··on Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?
And recently sometimes ctrl-shift-v seems to not work in any application.
freitasm··on Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
Already done a few months back. Also logged out from Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and removed those apps from my phone too.
freitasm··on Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM, 38400 baud internet
Cloudflare free plan exists for a good reason.
freitasm··on Ask HN: Does anyone else think this 2FA everywhere is getting out of hand?
That's how passwordless works with Yubikeys on Office 365 and Microsoft Accounts.
freitasm··on Masks on planes requirement dropped by some UK airlines
Until people go on a summer holiday this season and fall ill. When people start dying they might ask themselves "why?" and realise that the virus is not actually gone. Just wishful thinking.
freitasm··on The Last i486 Online
Any CDN. They just need to set the cache header right - or set to cache everything.
freitasm··on The Last i486 Online
Cloudflare will only block inbound traffic in two situations:

- if the request contains an exploit (the Cloudflare WAF) - if the website owner created a rule to block a request

Most of the "this website uses Cloudflare to protect..." is a consequence of the second one.

To make things easier Cloudflare has a switch to automate the second one - basically it just looks at IP threat levels based on honeypot services all around. Visitors receive a "level" based on IP, region, browser version, etc and if the level is above the switch (Low, High, Medium) then it's blocked.

People go for this option - set the switch to High and block almosty everything. Other people will set it to Low or Off and then create their own firewall rules - for example a website owner can create a complex set of rules (in addition to the Cloudflare WAF exploit, or replacing it). See https://community.cloudflare.com/t/the-firewall-rules-we-fol... for an example.

People will see the page sayng "Cloudflare blocked you" when in fact was most likely the website owner.

freitasm··on [dead]
Nope, not starting a trial.
freitasm··on Why do I feel like you need to be a sociopath to succeed?
So true. I mentioned this to some colleagues many years ago. Interested in the other people's comments.
freitasm··on NFT marketplace shuts, citing 'rampant' fakes, plagiarism problem
I read comments thus far and seriouslly, so many ways to rationalise institutional scam.
freitasm··on Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30120762
freitasm··on Wonderland Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken
Cryptocurrencies are a scammer's dream?

Nah...

freitasm··on Bitcoin pyramid schemes wreak havoc on Brazil's 'New Egypt'
It is always a scam. Funny how this story has similar rags to riches vibes as this one https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/service-station-worker-t...

It's all a scam.

freitasm··on Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User
And yet, one of the main features to benefit publishers is dead on arrival - for example I get paid by Google AdSense about 300 times more than Brave's Basic Attention Token on a monthly basis. They do a great job at blocking ads. They do a good job at pushing their own crypto ads but their Brave Rewards idea of rewarding publishers based on a monthly contribution from the community never quite worked because, really people want to block ads and are not interested in paying for the content via a wallet that requires you to exchange hard cash for tokens that you can't withdraw and can't control where it goes.

Actually moved from being a long time Google Chrome user to Edge Chromium.

freitasm··on $2,295 5-port Ethernet Switch for Audiophiles
This has to be a joke.
freitasm··on Explainer: .DS_Store Files
Came here to say this. Leaving satisfied.
freitasm··on Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19
Meanwhile https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/imm...

"Further studies are needed to establish whether the anti-inflammatory effects of fluvoxamine observed in nonclinical studies also occur in humans beings and are clinically relevant in the setting of COVID-19."

freitasm··on When the policeman becomes the criminal – how Cloudflare attacks my machines
OP is seeing the proxied requests but looking at the wrong data. Should check X-FORWADED-FOR and create rules to stop it using the WAF provided. There is no "Cloudflare attack" going on.
freitasm··on Password Managers
Sorry, to clarify Norton raised an alert on this domain. So proceed with caution.
freitasm··on Password Managers
Malicious site
freitasm··on NortonLifeLock Unveils Norton Crypto
Hmmm. Nope - I think this one was even dumber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin
freitasm··on NortonLifeLock Unveils Norton Crypto
Yes, those were some antics there... LifeLock was acquired by Symantec back in 2016 and integrated into their Norton 360 product.

The Norton division was spun off as NortonLifeLock when Symantec sold the enterprise part of the business to Broadcom.

NortonLifeLock is a completely different company now.

freitasm··on An Era of Wolves
This article is pure political propaganda with a "hear me out" start. Should not even be linked from here.
freitasm··on Outlook not showing email content – temporary workaround
OP here. Further information from Microsoft 365 Status on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1392208966231355392

Impacts current release of CTR Outlook Windows. Not impacted: mobile, OWA and Mac.

freitasm··on Jigsaw: A Google disinformation, toxicity, censorship and extremism control unit
I have implemented the Perspective API for a small forum moderation and it complements human moderation well, when reading everything going across the board is not possible.
freitasm··on [dead]
Server and client?

Stop right there.

freitasm··on Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook
That's... terrible. Just ill-thought out.
freitasm··on Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics
I see what you've done there...
freitasm··on Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics
Do we have to worry that their Twitter account is currently suspended - "Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules"?

https://twitter.com/DevCounter

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