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lfodofod··on Holmes Belongs in Prison, Not $13,000-a-Month Manor, US Says
As if the poor couldn’t vote to change things if they wanted to.
lfodofod··on Holmes Belongs in Prison, Not $13,000-a-Month Manor, US Says
Why should we push down wealthy people just because the poor have it worse? Would it not be better to focus on improving the conditions of the poor?
lfodofod··on An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space
>I've read some incredibly heated email exchanges that all started because some network admin is mad that someone is port scanning his IP space

There seems to be significant overlap between sysadmins who send handwritten abuse reports and “targeted individuals”/“gangstalking victims”.

lfodofod··on An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space
>Whichever way you cut that, if this happens to be a single host server, you're rapidly approaching a core-day with this load once you add some logging and such on top.

No way a scraper running at less than 1rps is anywhere near a core-day without some horrible misconfiguration, it should be way easier to address that than to fight a war against scrapers.

I have significantly more complicated flask sites handling 100+ rps on a single core, it doesn’t require any black magic.

lfodofod··on An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space
You see it’s a scraper, shrug, move on with your day.

This is just standard background noise.

lfodofod··on An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space
What are you doing that 50k daily hits is even worth investigating?
lfodofod··on Irish Data Protection Authority gives € 3.97B present to Meta
https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/big-tech/2023/01/13/eu...

Pretty harsh words here too, but not focused on the amount.

lfodofod··on Permanent campers: Rising rents are pushing people to live on public lands
> They are building a lot of housing in Arizona, it is mostly luxury apartments which contributes to the problem of affordable rents because it tends to increase the rents of neighboring apartments.

This does not make any economic sense whatsoever.

From your sibling comment:

> Unless population grows faster than prices can decrease keeping demand high.

Isn’t it the population growth that’s causing rent increases? Not luxury apartments, unless you think luxury apartments are the cause of this population growth. I suppose that wouldn’t be impossible, but it’s more something you’d expect to see in places like Jackson Hole.

lfodofod··on Permanent campers: Rising rents are pushing people to live on public lands
This is the very visible hand of the government deciding to not create and enforce rules which would appropriately address this issue.

You could, for example, aggressively imprison people for littering in national parks and perhaps restrict them from entering such lands in the future.

lfodofod··on Gail.com FAQ
>Can anyone sue you for owning a domain and say that it's their trademark

Well duh? Anyone can sue you for anything and say anything.

lfodofod··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
I’ve changed mine once after 4 years of moderate use in a quite well insulated 1700 sqft apartment with wood floors, no carpets but a decent amount of visitors and occasional tiny dog.

Those filters were used though, no idea for how long (they only had like 70 hours on them according to the onboard tracking, but that would be easy to manipulate even by accident)

This essentially tracks with the numbers presented here https://www.iqair.com/newsroom/why-you-need-to-replace-your-...

IQair recommends a yearly replacement for my HEPA filter, but my environment had a fairly low amount of particulates to begin with (new building with filtered air intakes) and workload split between multiple units.

lfodofod··on ‘Remember your training’: teen pilot makes emergency landing on Route 66
It’s worth considering that the statistics are heavily influences by demographics. GA pilots are mostly rather old dentists and the likes.
lfodofod··on ‘Remember your training’: teen pilot makes emergency landing on Route 66
Do note that GA pilots skew way older than motorcyclists.
lfodofod··on Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies
Apparently not related to kitfox, the aircraft.
lfodofod··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
They do last much longer than the cheaper filters.
lfodofod··on ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices and networks
I agree about handwriting being pointless, but simply doing writing exercises in the classroom should be sufficient to get students past the ChatGPT level. Right?

Assuming the teacher is doing their job, it should be really easy to make sure nobody is cheating using machine learning.

lfodofod··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
> Unless you're spending ~$1k+

Speaking of expensive air purifiers, you can often find excellent deals on used IQair units. I got 4 GC Multigas units from a local museum for 100 euros each.

I have an alert set up on the local craigslist equivalent and constantly get emails.

lfodofod··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
How does that work? Does the electric motor of the fan put out meaningful amounts of ozone?
lfodofod··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
There are aesthetic concerns, it’s harder to have a bunch of air purifiers spread around your home if they’re ugly as sin.

Having one very powerful air purifier hidden away in another room is not as good as having a bunch of smaller ones spread around.

lfodofod··on Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies
So uh, what does the kit plane company have to do with all of this?
lfodofod··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Honestly, that still sounds like a minor inconvenience compared to DIY. Those things seem pretty set-and-forget beyond filter replacements.
lfodofod··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
I use airgradient sensors.

On the other hand, instead of DIY you could just buy air purifier units with integrated air quality sensors. A friend of mine uses these, they appear to work very well https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/AC2936_33/2000i-series-air-pur...

lfodofod··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
> it seems like Kindle has better sideloading support now.

For books? Hasn’t Kindle always had amazing sideloading support? I think even over a decade ago you could just email your pirated books to a kindle.com email address to have them automagically show up on the kindle.

lfodofod··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
I took this even further, put air purifiers in most rooms and hooked them up to air quality sensors.

Mostly they run on the very quiet setting (or not at all), but they’ll automatically spin up if someone cooks, farts, opens a window or hits a vape pen.

lfodofod··on Twilio’s toll fraud problem
Fraud is what the government decides it is, the governments have deemed this to be fraud.

Telecom companies don’t necessarily care about this, it’s often the governments who want to tax incoming international calls as an easy revenue source.

lfodofod··on ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices and networks
Make students write in the classroom using a pen and paper? Isn’t that more or less the standard at low-intermediate level?
lfodofod··on FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
It’s worth noting that Luke would be a prime target for nation state hackers from DPRK and the likes.

What happened here was likely a failed attempt to slip a backdoor into bitcoin core, attackers pulled out and took his bitcoins as a consolation prize after he realised his server had been compromised.

The FBI should absolutely be jumping on this, not because of bitcoin, but because of the likely perpetrators.

lfodofod··on Major torrent sites are currently exposing details of their operations?
presumably pornolab
lfodofod··on Bitcoin Is the Detector of Imbeciles
> Wouldn’t they need to transfer it to a local bank before withdrawing as cash or whatnot?

There are a bunch of exchange desks that will immediately exchange to paper USD. Want half a million dollars in cash within the hour? No problem.

lfodofod··on Major torrent sites are currently exposing details of their operations?
Software pirate groups you are talking about have very little overlap with people who were doing TV releases.

> They have, but it’s just not interesting. Similar to how the p2p scene doesn’t give a damn about software DRM.

But doing HDTV caps was interesting?

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