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Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027

So in which context does "shebang" refer to a ! without a # ? I can't find any definition like that online.

I think Cliqz's search engine was called Tailcat

> In computing, a shebang is the character sequence consisting of the characters number sign and exclamation mark (#!) at the beginning of a script.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)

The word "shebang" has different uses outside of computing, but I can't find any use of the word that refers to a ! without a #

Every single internet apology I've seen has been met with "this is such a bad apology / isn't a real apology." I'd love to see an example of an internet apology where people don't criticize the apology itself (if one exists).

Windows by default prevents programs from editing the hosts file, but...

> Many people who routinely download stuff like add-ons or mods to games this get advice to turn off their antivirus or endpoint protection, gamers are susceptible to this kind of deception. When the malware ran, it looks like it just crashed with an error dialog.

https://twitter.com/threatresearch/status/140557255709341286...

What percentage of orgs that didn't pay the ransom were hit again?

Don't use url shorteners

https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Screen-Sh...

Firefox uses http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt

Many are wondering why this was marked as dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028

DuckDuckGo:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tank+man&iar=images&kp=-2

Yahoo:

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?q=tank+man

Qwant:

https://www.qwant.com/?t=images&q=tank+man

A thread from last year describing this tactic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22798118

Stack overflow’s TOS has a binding arbitration clause, [1] despite overwhelming user feedback to the contrary. [2] Y Combinator’s TOS has an arbitration clause. [3] This also applies to Hacker News.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public

[2] https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/309756

[3] https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

It looks a lot more like "reddit for science." There's voting, comments, subreddits (hubs), and /all.

This webpage is great not because it's adjustable but because of how simple it is. Unfortunately, this is only the print preview page - the actual clearweb website has the usual cheesy blogging fluff, and doesn't show the recipe until the very end.

https://jeanieandluluskitchen.com/lemon-lavender-donuts/

I trust that cloudflare will act responsibly in allowing small search engines through, but I really, really would rather not have to trust cloudflare. I don't believe that any organization can or will always act responsibly, which is why it's concerning that cloudflare controls so much of the internet.

If companies want to have inline images in their emails, they should have to send the image data along with the rest of the message. Email clients should not allow emails to load third party resources.

> Digital Shadows thinks the Colonial Pipeline cyber-attack has come about due to the coronavirus pandemic - the rise of engineers remotely accessing control systems for the pipeline from home.

The AMO page also links to gitlab

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

uBlock Origin had this at some point but Mozilla didn't approve it for some reason.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/7c22a312945a2bff41a...

Try blocking Disqus with uBlock Origin, turns out you probably won't miss it

  ||disqus.com^

You could also try a dynamic filter and disable it on a per-site basis

  * disqus.com * block

Or try "medium mode" to take care of Disqus and a whole host of other third party resources that track you

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

An observation. This is the second time today we've had a submission link to github, even though the main repo is on gitlab (the first was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27047243)

Mozilla themselves is guilty of link tracking. Any external link on addons.mozilla.org looks like this:

  outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/25c02fd4e609951729e0ec0b41fe5391d912511b45d2a02aeaa839872c8d9def/https%3A//gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls

> There are no hard and fast rules that will readily determine whether a website is credible. I think that teaching people that they can simply look for .org in the URL and immediately accept a website as credible can do more harm than good.

> Instead, we should be providing everyone with the critical thinking tools they need to evaluate and assess sources themselves.

This kind of thinking is incredibly important. Many believe in only following one or two "credible" news sources instead of trying to get the point of view from a variety of outlets. Others like to block a list of websites which someone decided was fake news.

There is no easy way to determine what is true and what is false. In fact, most of the time there is no definite "right" and "wrong" - instead, both sides of an issue will have important pieces to consider. In fact, there's hardly ever just two sides to an issue, rather, a wide range of opinions.

I was not taught this in school. I was taught to trust .org websites.

> As early as 1996 browsers were already inserting the http:// and www. for users automatically (rendering any advertisement which still contains them truly ridiculous).

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-history-of-the-url/

See also: Amish hackers

https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/

It took me a while to actually understand how proof-of-work mining works because seemingly every article one the subject gives too abstract of an explanation. Turns out it's not that complex if you understand what a cryptographic hash is. Just take a block (a list of recent transactions) and take a SHA-256 hash if it over and over with slight variations until you get a hash that starts with enough consecutive zeroes.

I'm having the same issue with understanding proof-of-space. Could someone give a technical explanation for those of us that understand basic cryptography (but aren't professional cryptographists)?

The thing I hate the most about email is that they allow loading images as a third party resource, instead of requiring them to be sent with the rest of the message data. This allows companies and spammers to track when you open an email.

(They also track every link you click on, but that's a separate issue.)

Brave is chromium-based.

How come entire operating systems are able to be developed on community-supported efforts (like Debian) but browsers can only be developed by monoliths like Google and Apple (and Mozilla, which has ~750 employees and makes most of its money from Google)?