stinky613

A year or two ago I personally encountered scraping bots that were scraping every possible resultant page from a given starting point. So if it scraped a search results page it would also scrape every single distinct combination of facets on that search (including nonsensical combinations e.g. products that match the filter "products where weight<2lbs AND weight>2lbs")

We ended up having to block entire ASNs and several subnets (lots from Facebook IPs, interestingly)

Seems like they didn't even read the headline...

That's not at all what the article says is happening.

"Immigration Judge John P. Burns has been using artificial intelligence *to generate audio recordings of his courtroom decisions* at the New York Broadway Immigration Court, according to internal Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) records obtained by Migrant Insider." [Emphasis added]

requiring internet access to access local media

Good news! You can whitelist exceptions by IP/subnet

Go into Plex Settings, then Settings > Network (show advanced). Scroll down to "List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth"

"Comma separated list of IP addresses or IP/netmask entries for networks that are allowed to access Plex Media Server without logging in. When the server is signed out and this value is set, only localhost and addresses on this list will be allowed."

Put your local subnet and netmask into that (e.g. "192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0") and you should be all good

FYI, I also have "Secure Connections" set to "Preferred", but I don't know if that makes a difference for this or not

Would be nice if Integer(nil) worked like Array(nil) though.

How would that work, though?

A value of 0 is conceptually different from not having a value

Do people really believe that Meta isn't correlating/linking Meta accounts to Facebook accounts regardless of user consent?

I don't understand why we should trust this company to not do shady shit with user data

I didn't say Musk was being a hypocrite, and I don't appreciate the smug sarcasm of your response

Clearly she needs to charge enough for the sweatshirt to at least cover costs, and she provided reasons why the costs here would justify that price.

She could charge less if she used sweatshop labor, but that would make her a hypocrite. The price she lists is in-line with her oft-stated political/moral beliefs.

Musk's point here--as best as I can understand it--was to claim that AOC was being a hypocrite.

Also it still costs less than a Tesla sweatshirt ($75)

Musk waived his right to exercise internal due diligence

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/twitter-board-te...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-17/elon-m...

The part that confuses me the most is that the two 'vaccine side effects' in question are the swelling of muscles in or around the heart... But side effects of (even mild[1]) COVID infections include _damage_ to muscles in or around the heart.

It seems like halting the use of a flu vaccine because of the flu vaccine causing flu-like symptoms.

[1]https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

...well, yeah; that's what executives are hired to do

The Taliban in Afghanistan isn't/wasn't listed officially as terrorist group by the US government. The Taliban in Pakistan, however, is a terrorist organization, according to the US government.

The Taliban in Afghanistan may be morally repugnant, violent fundamentalists, but they are technically not a terrorist organization (in the context of the US)

https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/

On yeah? So how do people run iOS apps on instruction-executing machines that weren't made by Apple?

The iPhone is an instruction-executing machine. That's what people buy.

That's not what people buy; that's the hardware they receive as part of their purchase.

I had that issue when upgrading from 3.x->4 -- I was so cocky from years of ST's insane consistency that it honestly didn't even occur to me that my unsaved documents might be lost.

I wasn't even mad; just a little surprised

Completely agree; Robinhood seems to give us a new reason to distrust them each week.

The guy who allowed his service to store passwords as plaintext[1] says “There is no reason why the greatest financial system the world has ever seen cannot settle trades in real time.” -- pardon my fucking skepticism of the deep technical knowledge he must possess to make such a bold assertion

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/robinhood-stored-passwords...

I have an iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard. The magnetic attachment is fantastic. I can hold the palmrest on the keyboard, turn the whole thing upside down, and shake it without the iPad falling off.

From my first day of using them together all I could think was "I want this connection method on every tablet and phone"

Also, btw, the iPhone 12 MagSafe doesn't prevent you from using a case.

I tried doing that just moments ago and it wouldn't let me proceed without providing a phone number.

Fwiw, COVID-19 is the disease caused by the "2019 novel coronavirus". Afaik the most accurate and succinct way to refer to the virus itself is SARS-CoV-2.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

That's a great link! Thank you, very much

I wasn't aware. Do you have some specific examples, for my own edification?

Is the article wrong in saying that the metadata isn't encrypted?

Instead of instructions for how to use PGP to you could give instructions on how to use Signal.

A new SIM card isn't free, but it seems like it would be easier to reliably cover your tracks by buying a burner phone with cash than concealing your PII through the process of setting up a new email account.

That's at least the case in the USA; I don't know if you live in a country where it's more difficult to anonymously obtain a new SIM card.

It shows up if Firefox is your default browser

Reminds me of Sony-BMG installing rootkits to enforce DRM; and Dell and Lenovo pinning their own root certs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/superfish-20-now-dell-...

I think that would depend on how precisely they need to be calibrated, right? IIRC even military GPS is still only accurate to within a few feet.

Is switching to python 3 really that hard?

I think it's more that given their specific codebase it's similarly difficult to switch to python 3 as it is to switch to a number of other, entirely different programming languages. Once you recognize that rough equivalency, then it's worth considering the stability, compile times, necessary production resources, etc of those other programming languages.

If your project's specific dependencies are so intrinsically stuck on a python 2.x implementation you might be caught between having to redesign that dependency in-house or switching to a language where you wouldn't need to do that in-house work.

8. If you watch using (most) web browsers you'll be limited to 720p

E.g. Netflix: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931

It really is crazy. For example, CDW.com has so many tracking websites whitelisted in its header that our firewall blocks it:

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As a side note, I’m horrified by the idea that there are people whose Netflix watching habit runs afoul of their ISP’s data cap

If he's sticking with UHD content on Netflix then 4-5 hours average per day per account per month would reach Comcast's 1TB monthly data cap.[1]

If there are multiple users on his account (e.g. him and his kids) then you're talking just 1-2 hours of Netflix streaming per person per day per month. The UHD subscription package for Netflix allows streaming on up to four devices simultaneously.

[1] https://www.netflix.com/HdToggle 7GB/hr for UHD content