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I don't know how true that is, to be honest. I see far more people using Cloudflare turnstile and other much more restrictive tools to try and prevent users of Brave browser, VPNs, and other anti-fingerprinting/adblocking tech from accessing their website and that no doubt includes headless browsers used for scrapping.

I understand Brave wanting to have the best results for their search, but that doesn't seem to be their primary motivation if the lawsuit is to be believed. It seems to be they're doing the whole "chad third party scraper meme"[1] and then making big bucks selling those results to the other AI companies like Perplexity that have already gotten in trouble doing that same thing in the past.

I wonder in the future if they're be a whole underground/darkweb or p2p/distributed scraping economy to get scraping data from people/countries that have no restriction on where they get their data and have no qualms about getting sued about it, like Anna's Archive. Or some kind of local client people can run on their home computer that works as a peer to peer service, slowly scraping websites from their residential IPs and getting paid a few pennies to submit the results to a huge service that collects it then resells it to the big AI companies.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2615826-twitters-view-rate-l...

They do mention that Chinese models will produce potentially vulnerable code if they think it's making software for American entities. This isn't something I've ever heard, but they link to two sources I didn't read over to support this claim. If that is true, that is concerning.

Several studies found that geopolitical information in the models' context can affect code quality, with Chinese models producing more vulnerable code when they believe they are acting on behalf of an American entity.1 This behavior was not necessarily designed, but the resulting viewpoint has tangible implications. [1]

[1] From site linked in this post.

The two sources are: Chinese AI Writes Weaker Code for Beijing’s Adversaries. We Fixed It. A Qwen3-Coder Case Study By Ben Luria (October 21, 2026) https://www.hirundo.io/blog/qwen3-coder-vulnerabilities

Booz Allen Hamilton's report on Chinese-designed frontier models [PDF] - https://www.boozallen.com/content/dam/home/docs/cyber/booz-a...

Booz Allen Hamilton is a big US security contractor, the last time I heard their name was from Edward Snowden as that was where he worked when he leaked his famous NSA surveillance stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton

Grok is definitely the last model I would choose to be a 'judge' as to whether or not your model is now impartial for "western values".

I use Brave browser & Brave Search and I find them both excellent. But, it clearly sounds like their profits have been coming from scraping the web and selling that to other AI companies, rather than advertising on their search engine (I almost never see ads on there despite have adblock off on that domain) or their browser products (VPN, their stupid Brave Rewards crypto which everyone should disable immediately, etc).

But, bare minimum they should have a useragent that people can opt out of through robots.txt. That's just basic etiquette. Beyond that, I'll wait for their response.

I tried about every paywall bypass trick I know of and couldn't find a way to read this.

The paywall bypass part is what concerns me. All they do for paywall bypass is have an optional checkbox that allows users to use the BPC filterlist, not the main extension that will pretty much bypass all paywalls. The filterlist is pretty hit or miss a lot of times.

But, if some kind of precedent gets set by this, it could jeopardize the legal standing of ad blockers & blocking certain type of content in your own browser. Too early to know if it would actually ever play out like that, however.

"suppress slop"

What does that mean?

We have models right now such as Qwopus, which are Qwen with open weights and using distilled Claude responses in it's training data. Since AI can't be copywritten, distillation is the way forward to getting rid of these proprietary models.

Qwopus is a family of open-weight, reasoning-enhanced large language models developed by community fine-tuner Jackrong, designed to run efficiently on consumer hardware. The models are built on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 or Qwen3.6 base architectures and are fine-tuned using Trace Inversion to distill the step-by-step reasoning chains of Anthropic’s Claude Opus (versions 4.6 and 4.7).[1]

[1] Just a brief Brave Search summary of what Qwopus is https://search.brave.com/search?q=what+is+qwopus%3F&source=w...

An excellent analogy for doing away with free markets and going back to, at the very least, mixed economys with some sort of oversight to prevent these kinds of things from happening again.

01 06 88 80 80 80 00 BE → sent as a data SMS to port 2948

I'm not familiar with WAP Push and how it works, but is it possible to disable it or block that port on a non-rooted phone?

Well, they said it again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The company assessed that supply, on the other hand, is not keeping pace with the growth of the market. Given technical difficulty of leading-edge processes and the long lead time required to build new production facilities, it expects the structure in which demand exceeds supply to persist through 2030.[1]

[1] https://news.skhynix.com/en/q3-2026-business-results/

Businesses who validate phone numbers often use an API (like Twilio Lookup or one of the many, many other services) to check for VoIP numbers and automatically reject them most of the time. Unfortunately, lots of VoIP is used in fraud, so the will often just reject them out of hand. If this is happening, none of the other "virtual" number services will work and you'll want to get a cheap eSIM.

I think this is a great idea, but I'm not qualified to comment on how good the design or concept is or anything like that. But a printer not made by the big printer companies where you can buy/refill your own ink, repair it & etc would definitely be a welcome product.

What is this?

Very cool. I hope they get some NA server locations as ControlD has them beat there. Hagezi's DNS only use their Pro list + TIF, but if you wanted to use Normal or Light ControlD would still be a good option. I keep their TIF list in adblock.

https://controld.com/network

I used NextDNS for a long time, but they offer absolutely zero support for their customers.

I ended up just switching to Control D's free tier using the Hagezi blocklist. You can try Normal, Pro & Pro+ for typical usage (I stick to pro normally). That + Brave and I'm pretty much ad free.

https://docs.controld.com/docs/free-dns

It's really a shame Opera didn't open source the Presto engine.

I think this got posted here the other day and is a study with an interesting premise, which is to look at historical bluebook reports and see if there are correlation to known nuclear tests going on at or around the same time and I believe other astrological events (bright stars or etc - I forget exactly).

But, that could be other possibly freely available data sets you could add to your project, such as if there's known planets in high visibility, geothermal storms, SpaceX launches, satellite falls, maybe flight radar data if that freely exists, and so on.

Anyway very interesting! You might see what the ufo/uap community on reddit thinks about it.

Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3

Can someone explain this to me?? You can connect any Bluetooth device to a satellite for what purpose?

What specifically is broken?

Any details about what's going on? Is Nitter/their Github still up?

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How long is a typical task and what would be the payment come out to in USD for that amount?

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magically-disappearing-st...

Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark via Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3mv4z7az4...

This has been posted & discussed extensively in the past

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867371

It's Vice City, not GTA3.

That would be great, of course. I have found a ready made Flying Toaster screensaver floating around and used that. But, I figured if someone had done it for Mac, surely there'd be a Windows version out there.

I appreciate the link, but as far as using it aa a screen saver, that's not what I'm looking for.

I would think if this mac After Dark project is open source, the assets would be available to use in other software.

I need this for Windows.

The After Dark screensavers are on the internet archive, but obviously they look and run like crap since they're made for Windows 3.x to maybe 95/98.

Can we just download the uncensored model ourselves?