tuco86 | 1 month ago | on: Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage
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tuco86 | 8 months ago | on: Why are there no good dinosaur films?
The original Matrix was an exceptional Movie looking into the brain in a jar concept and even becoming an even more popular analogy to explain the concept. All the supernatural stuff happens within the matrix and still stays in the natural world.
I'm happy they never made a sequel where supernatural stuff happens in the real world. They still would have been worthwhile Hollywood action movies, but nothing like the original which was one of my favorite movies growing up.
tuco86 | 1 year ago | on: Go European: Discover European products and services
hetzner has been working great the last 10 years for me. they opened datacenters in the us too.
tuco86 | 3 years ago | on: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
big HDDs are getting cheap. just checked, 16 tb is only 260E by now
tuco86 | 3 years ago | on: Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater
I think maybe some entangled cable. even very little rotation would keep them at a fixed distance.
tuco86 | 4 years ago | on: How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'
wait till you notice the i has a slightly different color :)
mun: #cd3545 i: #d02143
tuco86 | 4 years ago | on: Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
10x more productivity. oh boy, can i work just an hour a day with this thing?
tuco86 | 4 years ago | on: Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)
Sleazy marketing promises makes me dismiss them outright.
tuco86 | 4 years ago | on: A problem repeatedly occurred with Safari 14.1
same here. I completely forgot how to use the internet without uBO or another decent adblocker. same reason i can't switch to iphone, they don't have a firefox with addon support.
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
I noticed the package name com.qrcodescanner.barcodescanner. and went to https://qrcodescanner.com/ which advertises another very popular barcode scanner wescan.
they also offer an sdk of their own for including a barcode scanner into your app. https://github.com/WeTransfer/WeScan
I'm not really sure they are connected (package names don't verify domain names AFAIK). Just curious.
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport
Peak german humor right there. Very efficient, I'm impressed. Thank you
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: What were these Roman objects used for?
your's is a better fit. but i felt instantly reminded of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jC6sKnq_sE
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: Abusing Teams client protocol to bypass Teams security policies
There is a difference between unintended yet inevitable bugs and negligence.
Deliberately cheapening out on security because security researchers generally hold to a responsible disclosure procedure is not in the users interest.
This is not one of those inevitable bugs. This is an indicator that there maybe security issues littered throughout the system because no one cares.
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: Abusing Teams client protocol to bypass Teams security policies
I'm not sure i would have either. this is not not a security bug. this is pure negligence and doesn't deserve the courtesy IMHO.
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
I don't get why you where downvoted. the analogy is pretty accurate. knifes are utilities which can be used to kill. guns are made for killing only.
There are plenty of legitimate uses for youtube-dl. There is even fair use in the US. How can i make fair use, eg. remix or a commentary if i can't access the videos outside of youtube.
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: Bison and wolf populations are reviving in parts of Europe
During my apprenticeship my final exam project was to write OxPro. A breeding database for the local aurochs breeding association.
edit: I had to check if it's still around. https://www.aueroxen.de/oxpro-2/
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: PHP 8.0.0 beta 2
I don't agree with the faster and extremely simple to deploy points, at all. Both objections have to do with php-fpm.
it spawns a new php interpreter for every request, which means for example that symfony framework setup (routes, controllers, service dependencies...) have to run before every request. Sure it does that faster than python, but python only needs to do this once.
deployment is my personal nightmare. try to set the max children or whatever so concurrency is ok but memory does not run out. I mean facebook did it so it has to be possible but damn, that was hard to get `right`. Setting up logging is a mess. There is the application, the admin and the fpm error log, I gave up trying to have every log event logged exactly once. Segfaults are a common occurrence, still. I heard it mentioned just before leaving for vacation.
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: Worms Armageddon 3.8
hedgewars is awesome. lived with 3 friends and installed this on our beamer in the living room. Competition is fierce still, in 5+ years nobody would even change team once. we lost track of score 3 years into the competition tho.
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
It takes one external party checking the wiring to make sure and it can't be patched by an update.
tuco86 | 5 years ago | on: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
1. opt out is not gdpr conform.
2. saving a cookie no_consent=true does not require consent by the user. that's the type of cookie easily classified as functional/necessary
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i used adnauseam a while ago. it clicked on about 1.5 million ads in half a year of usage.
Not sure i can give good reasoning for this, but it felt like doing the right thing. :)