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unknown_user_84on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile want to access your bank account

Good theory. I wonder if that is some of it. Though I've got a dedicated IP from my local co-op ISP and I'm pretty sure I haven't done anything offensive. The issues from other users makes me really wonder if this is the death throws of archive.* and how in the world am I going to read all these newspapers I don't want to pay for now.

unknown_user_84on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile want to access your bank account

I haven't, but https://archive.ph/ still works for me.

Getting infinite CAPTCHA on .is and .today.

*EDIT Noticed this yesterday, probably going on for more than that. Makes me wonder if this is the twilight of the project. From what I heard in internet rumor that was always kind of the expectation from the person running the thing.

I did a look around to see if there are any services that duplicate the functionality but I didn't find anything terribly compelling.

unknown_user_84on Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

Best guide I found

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/euud7u/how_to_prev...

I updated their blocks to cover all the IPs in the range, windows firewall rules accept CIDR notation ala 72.25.64.0/18.

All the ranges for their backend stuff I've found so far:

  72.25.64.0/18
  216.228.112.0/20
  8.36.80.0/24
  8.36.113.0/24

I leave mapping out the rest of their IP space as an exercise to the reader.

Found using `whois` against the IPs and domain from that reddit post. Their primary website appears to be on EC2, so nothing terribly useful there. I'm personally expecting companies that do this nonsense to move all their collection infra to EC2 or similar to make it harder to do simple blocks. Those that haven't already.

unknown_user_84on Ask HN: How do you exercise?

May I recommend Dance Dance Revolution / Stepmania.

I have yet to find a good setup in Stepmania that is fundamentally easier to approach than endless mode on DDR X on the PS2. They have the songs divided up in levels of difficulty. I can roll in level 2 at this point after getting the hang of 1/8th beat steps, this took months (*edit: off and on for years). Before that level 1 kept me in heart rate workout level whatever they call it zone 2 and I'd pop into endless level 2 if I wanted to push it into high intensity (zone 3 I think). Now it's more like level 2 hits me zone 2 and if I want to push it I go to level 3. A decent foam pad with exercise mat like things in it for support seems to run about $100, maybe a little less now that the pandemic-mania is starting to fade.

I've had a Python script started for months to parse and only allow songs in the Stepmania library that have a difficulty level relating to the DDR X endless level arrangement (*edit: grammar is difficult). Their interface leaves a bit to be desired and I find hacking around on my own Python script less daunting than hacking around in someone else's Java.

unknown_user_84on 90s VR Sainsbury's [video]

On first impression this struck me as, totally insane. The department transitions felt like I was living in the Wal-Mart matrix. After the omnipresent cyber-greeter mentioned the oil change, it felt like it made even less sense.

I started thinking, how could this ever make sense. I could see a setup where there are booths or something with VR headsets at the front of the store, and the rest of the building is a warehouse. This would eliminate the whole public store, except for the area with the headsets. Still not sure how much sense this makes. Or how much I'd want to put on a public use VR headset in a Wal-Mart. But it makes a little more sense then doing this at home.

*edit: I was really hoping they'd throw the milk across the store.