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What I think is crazy are the links at the top to summarize the article with your preferred AI provider. The prompt asks it to summarize the article along with an advertisement for their product. This is the prompt I got when clicking the Claude link:

summarize+this+article+and+explain+how+scrapfly+helps+me+scrape+any+website+at+scale+and+bypass+anti-bot+systems+for+my+use+case:+https://scrapfly.dev/posts/browser-math-os-fingerprint/

You can still play with those outside your age groups, you just can’t communicate.

Please please try to read a post before commenting on it

It’s not really obfuscation. It goes back to when Android OS’s used to be named after desserts. While in development they would be referred to just by the letter as the dessert name wasn’t usually finalized

RIP to the USDS, an inspiring government department to someone like me.

I believe that was the joke.

When I worked at a podcast host I was tasked to implement WebPubSub support to our podcast feeds. This introduced a “push” updates rather than requiring an indexer to constantly recheck the xml file. The idea seeems to not have caught on. At the time I think Google was the only indexer supporting the feature and I’m not sure if that has continued with the switch to YouTube for podcasts

Was at a rest stop and heard talking coming from a box on a pole. It was reading out the weather in TTS voice, guessing it was the transmitter for one of these stations.

For the record, since I’m seeing it a lot in this thread:

Green names = new account

I have an actual question about the implementation of this. It currently seems like there is no way to maintain your location history if you switch device platforms. Your on device history seems to be synced to iCloud, but if you switch from iOS -> Android, it seems like your SOL?

Love that their logo is an homage to Yahooligans, Yahoo’s old kids web portal.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010708042828/http://www.yahool...

Reminds me of this Onion headline: "Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don't Exist’"

https://www.theonion.com/smart-qualified-people-behind-the-s...

But I could change my clients User Agent to match the Google Crawler?

I wonder how that was done, assuming the original stats were stored in local storage?

The website doesn't deliver 1080p video in any browser but Edge (and this may have changed with Edge being switched to Chromium)

How long was the Playststion Network down for in like 2011? Around a week?

Here's more information about the program: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

I believe YouTube has the same type of program.

Microsoft already did it, it was called Word Art

You can but they heavily limit the amount of access tokens your app can generate, artificially limiting the amount of users your app can have.

Facebooks edit history is also hidden in grey text next to the timestamp. I bet putting a "This tweet has been edited" notice actually inline with the content would be effective.

It sounds like HonorLock

Why is Roblox terrible?

You can still purchase software on Steam, although the selection isn't great.

Wouldn't you say the Mac App Store and Windows Store are the "steam for computer programs"?

Just tested with my S9+ and could change my DNS settings

If you didn't know, Discussions is already live for some repositories[1]

[1] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions

I know how you feel bout that. I think you would like http://radio.garden/, it lets you spin a globe to pick a radio station from that area!

Instant Apps have been around 4 years now (just a guess) and I've only encountered them twice. When going to a Vimeo link or a CBC link.

Pretty sure Edge doesn't support HLS anymore after their switch to Blink

Just spitballing here but could you use the Referrer header to track sequences of pages

Well, in the same slide deck it talks about how it recorded the users last access location and "the site has a built-in database of school dormitories and halls". Is it possible that the site was able to automatically determine what hall/dorm you were in depending on your network connection?