Firefox becoming an evil AI agent is not a threat.

Because nobody actually uses Firefox anymore.

And even nobodier nobody still considers Mozilla to be the scrappy upstart fighting for the common man's sovereignty on the web.  That train left the station a long time ago.   Mozilla is just another "foundation" that launders money for activism while pretending to be supporting open software.   Fuck mozilla.  I hope Google stops funding them and they wither and die.

There is only one hero right now and his name is Brendan Eich.

So i guess Firefox is getting on the AI bandwagon and wants to integrate it with a lot of features.. Ok, everyone else is too.  But they also realize not everyone wants it, so are adding a 'kill switch' that will instantly disable it all.  Yet "people" are bashing them heavily and saying they should be put out of the market due to "pushing AI"   i smell a rat.. FUD in full force.

So let's go ahead and take that apart.

Among the technobabble pundits, the phrase "Web 2.0" was being bandied about. Among web developers, the phrase "AJAX" was being used to describe web sites that could update portions of the screen instead of reloading the entire screen. Multi-megabit Internet access for consumers was just beginning to emerge. These were the things that really made the difference in turning the web into a true application platform instead of just an information retrieval system. This was the dream of Marc Andreessen writ large: that the Web would replace Windows as the common delivery platform for applications.

Designs were functional, innovative, and user-driven. There was still a bit of "wild west" in the air, before everyone got herded onto the cattle car to the same four websites, happily accepting the algorithm. Frameworks, surveillance, design-by-committee — same shit, different masters. So if you want to call 2000–2015 the "peak" ... there's a case to be made. It was the last time the mainstream web truly belonged to its builders.

But as you've heard from me countless times before, I refuse to be black-pilled. Here, under the radar of the Nazis of Silicon Valley, the dream is still alive. Through distributed networks, darknets, and other non-mainstream means, we real people are still getting it done — outside the roar of the mainstream, just like we did in the BBS days.

And isn't that the point?

Yes, we did.

No, but in the old days of the web everyone did.

You have a guestbook?

The mid or late 2000s to the early 2010s were the peak of website design.

Change my mind.

If only. 

Tue Jul 01 2025 22:43:40 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: search.citadel.org news

The more the empire tightens its grip, the more star systems slip through its fingers.

The lock-in is quite powerful. And their shady tactics to keep people inside.. 

TThu Jun 26 2025 12:47:57 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: search.citadel.org news

It's hard to imagine the big garden population at anything other than its peak right now.  If anything, it's getting ready to shrink as distrust in Big Tech is finally starting to wane.

It's hard to imagine the big garden population at anything other than its peak right now.  If anything, it's getting ready to shrink as distrust in Big Tech is finally starting to wane.

Perhaps not here, but in general as the population shrinks that are not living in the big garden, it does trickle down to the rest of us. 

Fri Jun 13 2025 17:56:06 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: search.citadel.org news

Eventually the Streisand Effect kicks in.  And at that point the more you try to make something disappear, the more publicity it gets.

And anyway, why should we care about the people who use Google and Facebook?  They're boring NPCs who drink Bud Light and get molested by Disney characters.  We want the people who can think.

 

Eventually the Streisand Effect kicks in.  And at that point the more you try to make something disappear, the more publicity it gets.

And anyway, why should we care about the people who use Google and Facebook?  They're boring NPCs who drink Bud Light and get molested by Disney characters.  We want the people who can think.

Related to someting i posted in google..   

Even now it wont be possible in the 'bigger picture'. Google can, and does, filter anything they want, and FB, same. All one needs to do is piss them off and you effectively vanish.  And as i said in the other thread, sure, there are ways around this ( for now ), but when 90% of the people don't know about them its the same result and remain nearly non-existent.

Tue Apr 29 2025 17:02:39 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: search.citadel.org news

Right. And we are on I2P [uncensored.i2p] for the benefit of those who need to remain anonymous. I'm thinking more in terms of non-anonymous on the clearnet but outside of the reach of goolag and fecesbook. Think of it more like a world of ham radio operators -- completely traceable, but Clear Channel can't mess with them.

It's a half baked idea, to be sure.

They call that TOR, or i2p, or similar. 

Mon Apr 28 2025 04:26:50 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: search.citadel.org news

 below the radar of big tech.

Hey, I'm happy y'all are using "my" search engine.  Someday I might add some citadel.org branding to it, and maybe use it to draw attention to Uncensored as well, but it will always be searxng based.  Share and Enjoy.

Who is to say you are not one in the same? Have we ever seen you both in the same place at the same time? Hmm, makes you wonder..

*insert scary music here*

Sun Jan 26 2025 00:39:32 UTC from darknetuser Subject: Re: Advanced Syntax

I am not the one hosting the instance, that would be IGnatius T Foobar :P

Good points. And extremely interesting. I hadn't thought about it like that. Some of the engines were indeed honoring my request to remove the unwanted results. Neat. Thanks! And thank you again for hosting the search. I use it by default now.

 IGnatius T Foobar, are there any parameters for the search engine that would allow excluding certain words from the results? Such as trying to search for "cyberpunk news" minus anything with 2077 in the results? (The video game has made it difficult to search for that without over saturating the results.) I tried "cyberpunk news -2077" and "cyberpunk news NOT 2077" with little effect, although the former seems to try to remove it a little from the first couple of results. I looked briefly at the documentation, and weeding out the results was not there.

In their case, it doesn't not work well. Lots of empty sections in the export. And code, is mangled, and cut off.

Its why i went with the save route instead of export. But when that failed too, i did end up having to do both pdf, for the details, AND copy/paste of the code.

Sat Nov 16 2024 21:53:56 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Print to PDF is your friend.

So Medium, which has a few nice articles once in a while.. if you save the webpage locally and try to read it later, they have inserted javascript so it will fail on you on launch with a 404.

How nice of them.

A trade off. 

Mon Sep 30 2024 10:47:07 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Wiki, wiki, whack the wikipedia editors in the head with a shovel because they deserve it

Then you have to click through a certificate warning.

You do that sort of redirect with local DNS too. Not much different than black holing ads..  No plugins required then.

lol

Mon Sep 16 2024 15:28:53 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Gopher or Gemini

Oh, I get it ... there are two things called Gemini, because twins.

The one hes thinking of:

Gemini is an application-layer internet communication protocol for accessing remote documents, similar to HTTP and Gopher. It comes with a special document format, commonly referred to as "gemtext", which allows linking to other documents. Started by a pseudonymous person known as Solderpunk, the protocol is being finalized collaboratively and as of October 2022, has not been submitted to the IETF organization for standardization.

The one you are thinking of:

Google did release some interim models some time ago that you CAN run locally, but i doubt that is the same model ( even if larger ) they are running for Gemini    ( Gemma is the name of models they released )

Mon Sep 16 2024 14:28:22 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Gopher or Gemini

I don't suppose anyone has a gopher server or gemini server I

Wait, I thought Gemini was google's AI, not something you can self host?

Am I wrong?

This may have always been the case but never noticed until today. 

I have a server here at home that has more than one web service running.  I hit it via IP ( i guess i COULD use DNS.. but ...). Each service is a different port.  ( ya ya , so far. normal stuff, i know ) In chrome i zoomed out on one of the apps to take a screenshot. It also changed the zoom rate of any other tab on the same IP, even if it was a different port. I thought it was smarter than that.

I don't suppose anyone has a gopher server or gemini server I could leech off of for a bit? To play around mostly. Thinking of setting one up myself, but not sure what I actually want to accomplish in the end.

Actually, this is pretty much all I use now. Thanks so much! Absolutely awesome.

Thu Jun 06 2024 18:58:54 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

For those who care:

https://search.citadel.org is back online.

lol

gas company 'we have updated and upgraded our systems bla bla bla bla" "you now have a new account number and have to update any payment processing" "bla bla bla"  had to reset password, update to new links bla bla. Now its dreadfully slow and more confusing to use.

"Upgrade" Ya. sure. 

Thu Jun 06 2024 18:58:54 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

For those who care:

https://search.citadel.org is back online.

Oh, that's very nice. 

cool

I still say you should try local models.   You will be surprised. 

Yes, it will be slower than someone who can pay for a wall of A100s. but it will work. And its not hard.

I think in general web people exist to destroy good sites.  Just to say " we are working and doing something "

And "they got used to this, let change it and move stuff around.. * evil laugh * "

Sat Jan 13 2024 18:13:34 EST from msgrhys

RealClearPolitics.com's new "Real Clear Polling" site sucks and I wish they would bring back the old (but superior) interface. I sent them an email stating my disapproval, as if they will listen.

RealClearPolitics.com's new "Real Clear Polling" site sucks and I wish they would bring back the old (but superior) interface. I sent them an email stating my disapproval, as if they will listen.

The entire reason we have censorship. If the serfs dont know what freedom and daily food is, they wont demand it.  And the few that realize what it is, has a steeper hill to climb to get support of the serfs to overthrow....

Sun Jan 07 2024 17:47:10 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

"But itbs hard for people to imagine what they donbt have.

I do remember them pushing the browser stuff at first, which is why i thought it was cool, a far different concept than Palm or BlackBerry was pushing.  Then the store happened.. then it all fell apart.

Naah, it was a decade and a half ago and web browsers couldn't handle a lot of the things they can today.  Plus the idea of an app ecosystem was already the prevailing model because the previously dominant mobile computer was the Palm Pilot.

Apple came up with the idea of turning the app ecosystem into a gigantic toll booth, though.

isnt that really where they started? until the realized they could build a wall?

I have seen a few block you if cookies are blocked.  ( local news paper does that )

And sure not 100% will die. but if 99.9% do, it will not be a good thing. 

Mon Jul 17 2023 09:16:14 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Looks at may news papers now, 'you get one free look this month, now
pay up'.  Several tech sites are doing it now too. Its a trend.

That scheme is easily defeated by blocking cookies so they can't taint you as a previous viewer.

In any case, I say let them die. The democratic internet flourished before the ad-supported and subscription-supported services took over everything.
There are still people out there (ahem) running worthwhile sites at their own expense simply for the love of the craft.

at this point, my isp is just a wire.  so is my cell company. I cant even tell you what my 'real' number is unless i go look it up.  i just use VoIP and have for a LONG time.  Now, moving my hosting services would be a bitch. but ISP, zero issue other than updating some A records that point to my house.. ( that said i wont self host email anymore. to much hassle and too easy to get black listed so still need some level of hosting )

I have a friend that still has an AOL account...  

I really never had that problem when i was younger, most fo the stuff i listened to, was coming out at the same time.  so i was able to buy it as it did. And did. ( books, movies too ). Still do. Someone has to pay to feed the artist.  But i agree its far easier now than it was in the old days, were some groups would pool their money, buy records they all liked, then shared tapes of them...

tho i fully admit to downloading things to preview. i like odd things, and there is a good chance its crap. In the old days, unless you got lucky and someone had it in your circle, you risked your $ each time.  There was no 'extended groups' like you have now, and it was all local.    ( and all we had was goldmine magazine to see what we were missing out on.. and order from )

Personally, If i have to pay to get to content ( other than my time.. ) i wont be getting "content" for the most part. its all crap and biased. Not going to subscribe.

My fear tho is even tech related forums will vanish off the free market too. Even just going to debian.org to get a new iso will = cash.

The only fear i have if all internet ad revenue effectively dies, is it then becomes walled gardens and you have to pay to do anything.   And some of the big ones vanish that has contributed good things ( and bad, i dont pretend they are perfect but were their good influences cant be ignored. and never been possible without the huge revenues gained from marketing ). Gotta pay bills and make a profit or things stagnate. Why bother ?

Looks at may news papers now, 'you get one free look this month, now pay up'.  Several tech sites are doing it now too. Its a trend.

Roll back the flood so its not overwhelming, but perhaps not kill the goose totally.  ( just a silver egg, not golden )

wait, i got that backwards. Would be alt.images.porn i think instead. its been too long.

Not been following details to closely, but looks like Reddit committed suicide.  ( and of course twitter is in the process, from another thread )

Usenet too. alt.porn.images ( kidding on porn, but you get the idea )

I think before the WWW, the best you could do was find an image file (by file name) on a BBS, gopher server, or anonymous FTP, download it, run your local viewer program for whatever graphics format it happened to be, then see if the image was worth all the preceding effort.

So yes, I think embedded images were greatly desired when the WWW was being designed.

Right, i do think images were part of the original plan. 

is it just me, or does latest chrome on Linux suck for downloading. suck bad..   It pretty much freezes the entire thing during the download, and if there is more than 2 the entire PC slows down to mud (system resources are fine, its gotta be chrome internal resources )

I can wget the same file just fine, so its not the system. just chrome.

and i know i know.. dont use chrome it sucks..  but it has a couple of things i use between platforms. 

Not so sure about that. ( the picture part at least..   doubt people had thought past images due to bandwidth back then )

Thu Jun 29 2023 01:41:46 AM EDT from LadySerenaKitty

It wasn't made for cat pics/vids either, yet here we are.

 

It wasn't made for cat pics/vids either, yet here we are.

Wed Jun 28 2023 16:23:13 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

To be fair, the WWW was not originally intended to be an application delivery platform.

Well, it did grow into something that it was never intended to be.  ( starting with client side processing....)

Wed Jun 28 2023 10:11:47 AM EDT from nonservator

Fucking Mozilla. Firefox now refuses to delete individual items from my history, either with Shift-DEL or by clicking the three dots and selecting "Remove from history". Literally nothing happens.

The entire World Wide Web must be burned to the ground, and the earth salted.

Fucking Mozilla. Firefox now refuses to delete individual items from my history, either with Shift-DEL or by clicking the three dots and selecting "Remove from history". Literally nothing happens.

The entire World Wide Web must be burned to the ground, and the earth salted.

Ok so its not ALL methods, err verbs. The CMR said 'disabling verbs on all IIS servers' and that was all it said, other than listing which servers were in each "batch".  it implied all, and i had zero idea how anything was going to function. But in reality, its only some of the more "dangerous" ones ( in their eyes ) such as delete, patch, and nuke.  But stuff like post and get are still allowed.

Still killing a few of our apps. But at least not a complete implosion. 

And sites are going down as they make the changes.

Not all. but there is fallout.

ya,  get. post, head. etc.

i had to go look it up too..  I heard about it a few months ago  ( i was asked to automate something about it ) then just saw the CMR yesterday that its really going to happen.

So at the office they are in the process of "denying iis verbs" on all web servers.

Wont that make many of the apps useless?

A few others did too, the 'local' one i used for a while ( i forget the name now, its been too long ) also did it.

I do realize its long ago not everyone did it, etc. bla bla.  Just pointing out that they could do it, again. 

I take it back there is one way:

Mandate a compromised IP stack + backdoored CPU ( vpro, for example ) on every machine that connects to the network. 

I remember in the old days of dial-up how some companies had their own custom IP stack + software to be able to connect to their service.  Sure, it was not nefarious at the time as it was still the early days, but i was thinking "this could be really bad if used the wrong way"

Right, there are ways around it, but if they stop the unwashed masses, then they consider it a success. 

I vote clueless, and with luck overturned.

Enforceable, may not be that hard to enforce for the average user. Just hit the main backbone companies and major DNS providers " and we want proof you did it or we find you contempt of court and fine you".

In this context i didnt think it matters what they were sharing as i wasn't going down the rabbit hole of 'guilt and punishment'. It was just "is this 'unilateral block' a prescient here in the US". i have not heard of one before in the US so i was wondering.

But to answer the question: They were an IPTV site, and yes i do think there are some 1st amendment issues. 

So i'm lazy.. is this a precedent in the US?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/judge-rules-every-isp-in-us-must-block-pirate-sites-run-by-mysterious-defendants/

"It is further ordered that all ISPs (including without limitation those set forth in Exhibit B hereto) and any other ISPs providing services in the United States shall block access to the Website at any domain address known today (including but not limited to those set forth in Exhibit A hereto) or to be used in the future by the Defendants ("Newly Detected Websites") by any technological means available on the ISPs' systems. The domain addresses and any Newly Detected Websites shall be channeled in such a way that users will be unable to connect and/or use the Website, and will be diverted by the ISPs' DNS servers to a landing page operated and controlled by Plaintiffs (the "Landing Page")."

Web today is not how it was envisioned.   Client side processing broke it.

Mon May 02 2022 12:14:08 PM EDT from darknetuser

And if what you get out of it is that all browsers suck, then I think

the takeaway should be that the web sucks.

I was about to mention to IGnatius that, indeed, all browsers suck. The ones that don't suck due to their evilness suck because they lack necessary features by today's standards.

The extreme and blatant Ukraine and flu-vid censorship has brought a lot of things to light i think, for the people that were clueless before.    Nothing else its causing alternatives to spring up, and older ones to be more viable.

Of course it means places like google are doubling down.

I need to setup a yacy node and see how well it works.

Well, duckduckgo has joined the ranks of suckage and have truly bent over to the IP mob..

They are now blocking pirate site results and even sites for "YT-down-loaders", which their existence is unquestionably legal. 

To get their shared browser search history - you would have to have access to their logged in browser - but if they've cleared that, you'll be powerless to recover it. 

On a local machine - the best bet would be to either use complete deleted file recovery and recover the cache directory files that were deleted back to their proper place - but the easiest solution would be to have a backup from before the local history was deleted and restore that to a completely different machine. 

I mean - my guess is with a subpoena - Google or Microsoft both can provide "deleted" remote web browsing history to authorities  - and that deleting your web browsing history just means YOU, or anyone local on YOUR machine, can't see your web browsing history. Google and Microsoft still can. They don't ACTUALLY delete it. They archive it and make a new history list for you. 


But if you're logging in and sharing passwords, bookmarks, history and other web browser data remotely - other

If the browser was attached to a Microsoft or Google account, they might be holding the search history, which depending on what you're looking to find, might reveal something.

I have never had any luck..  Be curious if you find a way.

So, for reasons, I want to be able to recover a deleted browser history. 

I want to be able to do this in both Microsoft Edge, and Chrome.

Is it possible? And how do I do it?

As I get older and my belly gets bigger than my hips and ass - belts do not work very well unless I crank them down uncomfortably. I've strongly considered suspenders - my wife has vetoed the idea. 

As a trophy husband, I don't have much say in the matter. 

Do they use their own web index? 

Most of the smaller search engines have an index of their own, with results supplemented by other search engines.

Honestly, I'd rather have search results that are an aggregate of multiple sources, instead of one party claiming to be the arbiter of truth.

like YaCy? 

Tue Dec 14 2021 10:46:24 PM EST from ParanoidDelusions

Could you game someone else's search index to restore sanity to the results by reweighting the results your engine returns to remove the bias introduced into theirs? 

 

 

Could you game someone else's search index to restore sanity to the results by reweighting the results your engine returns to remove the bias introduced into theirs? 

Sun Dec 12 2021 17:08:38 EST from darknetuser

2021-12-08 10:38 from IGnatius T Foobar
Hmm. Brave has a search engine now. Seems decent. I'm going to live

with it for a while.

Do they use their own web index? (I guess no)

If the answer for the question above is "no", which index are they using?

Wasn't really the web side, the biggest problem i had was when i stood up a proxy, so i could run all services on the same external port and redirect via referring url. After 10 or 20 thousand open connections per minute, it collapsed. 

My overall bandwidth was dismal too, so much traffic, easily 2/3 was gone.  After i shut it all down, things were back to normal.

Mon Oct 25 2021 06:05:32 AM EDT from darknetuser

I have PHP services running on OpenBSD's httpd, using the most pityful hardware you can imagine, and they get tons of bot attacks but don't crack. I think for personal use you'd have no trouble.

I got frustrated, and then i cheated. i killed the vm, re-installed it via turnkey and stuck my cert there.

in process upgrading the base OS now.

As you tell the guy who sometimes drives a car that is 35 years old on purpose: 'the kids'. :)   ( and the other.. 21 years.. as i DONT want modern tech and 2006 was the last year before they modernized the wranglers, and ruined it.. )

Right, the 5MB is attractive. And may become an option if i need it. 

Of course first i have to get Apache to cooperate :) 

That may be a benefit of these guys Ig turned me onto. Your VPN pipe is limited to 5mb of your total - so... kill that 5mb... I suppose. Evidently, they get bored with it. 

But I do use SSL... I just... struggle with it. 

Mon Oct 18 2021 07:17:50 EDT from Nurb432

Yes it is.

However, im putting together a 'real' netxcloud server for some friends of mine to use and some stuff refuses to work now without SSL.   And if i put it on the outside, and not just via VPN, its a good idea anyway of course.

 

Donno if the DoS kids will kill me tho. Last time i tried something like this, they did. At least with only VPN exposed, they dont seem to try, beyond the normal random attempts but not a huge volume that kills my bandwidth.

Yes it is.

However, im putting together a 'real' netxcloud server for some friends of mine to use and some stuff refuses to work now without SSL.   And if i put it on the outside, and not just via VPN, its a good idea anyway of course.

Donno if the DoS kids will kill me tho. Last time i tried something like this, they did. At least with only VPN exposed, they dont seem to try, beyond the normal random attempts but not a huge volume that kills my bandwidth.

SSL is a headache. It is overly complicated.

Sun Oct 17 2021 18:07:21 EDT from Nurb432

Apache + SSL = headache. 

 

At least for me today.. i dont normally care about SSL, but wanted to do it on something im building.  I *think* i have SSL right ( used certbot ), but getting issues with redirects now. Time to turn it off for the day before i get too frustrated.

Apache + SSL = headache. 

At least for me today.. i dont normally care about SSL, but wanted to do it on something im building.  I *think* i have SSL right ( used certbot ), but getting issues with redirects now. Time to turn it off for the day before i get too frustrated.

his "IT lackeys" most likely wrote the thing, so cant trust them.

lol. "hacker" 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8ynp/governor-wants-to-prosecute-journalist-who-clicked-view-source-on-government-site

Now... 

GO!!!!!

Tue Jul 06 2021 17:00:08 EDT from Nurb432

"we have emailed your code to reset your password, you have 35 seconds to enter it before it expires"

wtf.. 

"we have emailed your code to reset your password, you have 35 seconds to enter it before it expires"

wtf.. 

I dont think mine even can be absorbed.  Its a credit union.  However, they did expand their charter, so not real sure how that effects the rules.   ( too lazy to go look )

So my town has online bill pay for local utils ( like trash and sewer ).  Via a 3rd party.

This month cant login.  "Account not found, please register" ok, it happens, i might have missed a notice of an upgrade bla bla.  Try to register "invalid service account"  really? Its on my invoices that i get paper copies of, since i dont trust online billing ( go figure ).. oh well lets email support, which goes to the town instead, odd but not totally unexpected.

"we are sorry, you are not our customer" wtf..  i have been here 20 years.. we didnt just get annexed by another town or something. ( that is a thing around here tho.. gotta get them taxes  they love to annex farm land then rezone . screwing the people living there for generations )

Turns out it gave me the wrong town's email address. and i didnt notice as its almost the same ( ours is 'new' 'xxx', the other is just 'xxx' )

Seems both tows use the same payment service, and they suck. lol. 

More Poland rail crossings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAWItD7y0I

I was driving a company vehicle, as soon as it hit the bumps of the tracks the truck came to a dead stop.  I wasn't going very fast but the truck was on the tracks and was not moving.

I had a prick of a boss at the time and he really didn't want to do much to help me, he didn't want to call the fleet supervisor.  Two tow trucks arrived but they couldn't handle a vehicle with that much weight.  Eventually the truck was towed and no train.  The person in the truck and I had a long, long day, and I shouldn't have been driving the truck as it was.  Part of us wanted to see it get hit.

Before. They stop, the engineer gets out, he walks over and has a chat with the driver... 

"You know, you are blocking the track, and I would have killed you if I didn't stop in time, you shouldn't do that, no?" 

"I know, I'm terribly sorry. The barrier didn't come down until I was half way across the tracks and broke, and my Yugo doesn't have enough horsepower to back off the track over the broken barrier, nor enough to go forward through the remaining one..." 

"This is a problem. Here - this nice fellow driver is offering to help push your car back off the tracks. No hurry, my passengers all say to take your time..." 

I swear, this is how the conversations are going. 

Tue May 18 2021 08:54:49 EDT from Nurb432

Before or after they run them down? 

Mon May 17 2021 10:24:45 PM EDT from ParanoidDelusions

The trains stop and have conversations with the drivers, too. 

 

 

Before or after they run them down? 

Mon May 17 2021 10:24:45 PM EDT from ParanoidDelusions

The trains stop and have conversations with the drivers, too. 

 

The trains stop and have conversations with the drivers, too. 

They dont around here either.  Until they get run over. 

It is odd how the lines in the road do not line up with the gates, and the gates stop working or break with the slightest touch.  Drivers can't seem to figure out what to do at a crossing.

This would be of interest to IGnat's son.

Apparently the residents of Poland have no idea how train crossings work.  This channel is filled with people not stopping at an active train crossing, hitting or getting hit with the crossing guard, or backing up and going forward when the gates are down, and general confusing at the crossing. 

One thing I noticed is the gates seem to be made out of balsa wood because they break at the slightest touch.  They do seem to have cameras at every crossing.

One of the videos with several examples. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLm5U41lTUE

The feature was not advertised well or we would have heard of it.  Problem is the people that are in the business of spamming you, the ones you want to avoid, i guarantee they know about it..

Sun May 02 2021 05:15:21 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

If you add a "+" at the end of your user name, and then some
identifying text you can find out who sold you out.  

That's interesting. And it'll work great until the bottom feeders catch on and start stripping/changing it.

I prefer [ https://www.spamgourmet.com ] which allows you to use disposable email addresses that don't require manual creation, and don't disclose the true email address.

The feature has been around for a long time, and several of you are only finding out about it now. I am not too worried about it.  I mostly use the feature for legitimate website.  If you want a double layer of protect but still want to filter spam use a throwaway gmail with the plus character. 

I found that some places block 'anonymous' email domains.

Of course its easily defeated.  but its a neat idea.

too bad they cant do just a random GUID or something. 

Well isn't that interesting . 

You don't need to create anything on the gmail side, when the new website asks you for your email you enter the email with the "+name" on the new website.

I have a few "+xxxx" accounts where I added the name in the settings of gmail so I can reply using the "+xxxx" username.

👍
This is good to know. 

I suppose you can go into your profile and add the +<text> to your e-mail address and rat them out after the fact, if you have access to the profile, after the fact, too. 

Gmail has a feature you can use if you need to give an email address out but I worried about spam or junk mail from the company that needs the email.

If you add a "+" at the end of your user name, and then some identifying text you can find out who sold you out.  

Example:  original_user_name+amazon@gmail.com

Any email sent to that email address shows up in your regular inbox.  You can create filters for it if need be.

Mine was used for that, but i needed it for back when they still had 'groups'. 

Tue Apr 27 2021 11:48:21 PM EDT from test2

yahoo was setup to be a destination for spam.  they automatically sell all newly created accounts to the spam lords.

yahoo was setup to be a destination for spam.  they automatically sell all newly created accounts to the spam lords.

Come to think of it, i bet my yahoo is still out there too.  Unless they remove them after x years of non-login?

Sun Apr 25 2021 02:58:41 AM EDT from arabella

My Yahoo mail address is still active.

It gets about 5 non-spam mails a year

My Yahoo mail address is still active.

It gets about 5 non-spam mails a year

I know one that still has an AOL address. 

I guess they are about like yahoo at this point. Mostly email and 'filtered news'

I don't know how or why but my mother's browser start page is yahoo.  She likes it, and isn't going to change.  She likes the news stories on the main page.

I know a few people that use yahoo as their email.

Yahoo is a great ping test to check that name resolution is working and to tracert hops. 

I hope they never go away. They're the first domain I always go for when I'm testing things of this nature. 

Tue Apr 20 2021 13:22:01 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

It's so cute that Yahoo still thinks it exists.

In my world APIs are incoming only.  Needs some sort of broker between them. Sure they exist, but they cost $ and they are expecting magic.

Mon Apr 05 2021 12:20:28 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

That depends ... does it speak XML? It has been said that XML is like violence: if it doesn't work, you're not using enough of it.

"can your API talk to my API" 

Ah so we copied you.. same concept tho.. once one government takes some rights, others say 'hey, that is a great idea "

and sure the *concept* of protecting rights is good, just the draconian implementation that only benefits the giants, and punishes the small guy, and consumer, not so much.

AWed Mar 10 2021 14:52:03 EST from darknetuser

2021-03-10 14:39 from Nurb432
True, but didnt the UK adopt something similar to the DMCA after we

jumped in that hole?

I think we had a DCMA equivalent in my country earlier than you.

In fact I sent a lot of DCMA notices to US companies myself in the day. Somebody I had authorized to distribute material in my name over third parties forgot to take it down from the third party websites once the licenses expired.


In that sense the DCMA mechanism is not bad because it allows neutral third parties to host content without being sued into oblivion for this sort of missunderstandings, while allowing copyright holders to police for illegal copies without much drama.

True, but didnt the UK adopt something similar to the DMCA after we jumped in that hole?

Any more, what effects one, trickles down to everyone in some way.

Wed Mar 10 2021 14:07:27 EST from darknetuser

For one I am not suffering. It looks like a mainly US problem. Selfish-me.


For what I understand, the proposal is not viable.

Sure, there will still be those of us who work around it, but i do think that easy and open communication among the masses has improved a lot of peoples lives.  And i agree here late its been doing harm due to the infiltration of agendas, but the concept of free-information is a liberating concept for all.

And... 

You know *we'll* still figure out how to do it. It'll just go back to like 1985-1989 - when only really smart people could get online and it was HARD to find the first few sites so that you could get good enough to find the rest of them. 

Online communication was better when we flew WAY under the radar of mainstream society. 

Tue Mar 09 2021 23:40:03 EST from ParanoidDelusions

Might destroying the viability of the Internet actually be the *best* thing that could happen, at this point? 

Who says you can't put Pandora's box back once you open it. 

 

Tue Mar 09 2021 19:53:35 EST from Nurb432

Doubt it will pass, but if so, could be the end of the internet for all practical purposes.  Ends the ability for any small shop to exist, skyrocketing internet fees, and banishing people by the millions with no recourse, for posting something as simple as a meme, and destroy any last hope of free speech on the open net.

 

https://torrentfreak.com/the-digital-copyright-act-will-chill-innovation-and-harm-the-internet-210309/

 

Might destroying the viability of the Internet actually be the *best* thing that could happen, at this point? 

Who says you can't put Pandora's box back once you open it. 

Tue Mar 09 2021 19:53:35 EST from Nurb432

Doubt it will pass, but if so, could be the end of the internet for all practical purposes.  Ends the ability for any small shop to exist, skyrocketing internet fees, and banishing people by the millions with no recourse, for posting something as simple as a meme, and destroy any last hope of free speech on the open net.

 

https://torrentfreak.com/the-digital-copyright-act-will-chill-innovation-and-harm-the-internet-210309/

Tue Mar 09 2021 07:53:35 PM EST from Nurb432

Doubt it will pass, 

 

So it has a good chance at passing?    I don't know anymore.

Doubt it will pass, but if so, could be the end of the internet for all practical purposes.  Ends the ability for any small shop to exist, skyrocketing internet fees, and banishing people by the millions with no recourse, for posting something as simple as a meme, and destroy any last hope of free speech on the open net.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-digital-copyright-act-will-chill-innovation-and-harm-the-internet-210309/

Ignat, your son might like this information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkzYMi-PY5U

*thumbs up*

Sun Feb 14 2021 18:16:30 EST from darknetuser

If you can use "old.reddit.com" for navigating with tno Javascript, that is great news.

They have been blocking Tor as of late, which renders it a bit useless to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcSsYuPiWmA

Just browsed Reddit using lynx, but did use the old.reddit.com hostname.  Seems to work without JavaScript (for reading at least) not sure about posting.

I read r/syadmin and mainly to watch for people stubbing their toes on the monthly updates as it gets stickied every month and is a good first check on botched MS updates.  Not so much on reading other stuff on Reddit, but the counts of posts seem to match on threads on that subreddit.

It is a trick. They're another "Front Page of the Internet" site that uses "user weighting" to create top articles and bury bottom ones. 

But it is all rigged, and all biased. 

It is a cesspool. 

Mon Feb 08 2021 08:55:55 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Reddit ... never been active there, but it looks closer to "a real BBS" than any of the big sites. Gotta give them credit for that.

This. The things that get buried and promoted in the "Libertarian" threads makes it obvious the numbers aren't right. 

People attacking cops and burning down Seattle? Libertarians! 

People attacking cops and threatening the Senate? "Dangerous insurgents attempting a rebellion and threatening the sacred institutions of the US Democracy!" 

Sat Feb 06 2021 10:43:19 EST from nonservator

To gaslight you into no longer caring about pesky things like facts and numbers, and to get you to quit believing your lying eyes.

To gaslight you into no longer caring about pesky things like facts and numbers, and to get you to quit believing your lying eyes.

What is the point of having a script that falsely increases the number of up votes or comment counts?

Reddit, like El Goog, follows the new math. Sometimes two plus two is four. But sometimes it's three, or five.

Inaccurate numbers? I'd rather have no numbers at all.

I don't have a Reddit account and I rarely visit.  The other day in  a YouTube channel that I revisited someone said there is a Reddit thread on the channel's videos.  I visited Reddit to look around.  I did this several times.  Something I noticed while the page was idle was that the number of up votes and the comment count numbers seem to rise.  This is odd because no matter what topic you scroll down to the numbers rise.  If you click on the topic the number of likes do not match the numbers on the landing page.  You scroll through the messages and they are old messages.  You just watched the message count increase, yet the messages are all several days old.  If you leave reddit, return at a later time, the numbers are back down and start increasing again.

What the fuck is the point of doing this?

Yes, that was it.  I thought it began with a Z, and Mombo kept entering my mind, but I didn't put the two together.  That is good that it still exists, it is important for the new generation. 

Now that flash is dead....

What was the name of that website that was a repeating animation of where the subject was all powerful, all knowing

I don't remember if it was "I am xxxxxx" or "This is xxxxxx" zeeboo or something.

Every time I remember I am not near a computer to look at the site again.

lol

Oh... that is gold. 

Sat Jan 16 2021 16:52:14 EST from zooer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZVjlnZomdw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZVjlnZomdw

When I worked at the Folsom campus, out at the smoking area I took a stone and carved an "Anarchy Inside" logo onto the backpad concrete. Someone sent me a picture years later, and it was still there. 

As far as I know, I'm the only person who has successfully done graffiti on an Intel campus. 

Sat Jan 16 2021 09:34:20 EST from Nurb432

I'm picturing a take of 'intel inside'   'brain inside' 

Sat Jan 16 2021 01:43:54 EST from arabella

"No real brains on board" describes more than 70% of the people I am forced, by convention, to interact with

 

Sat Jan 16 2021 09:34:20 AM EST from Nurb432

I'm picturing a take of 'intel inside'   'brain inside' 

https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Intel-Inside-Idiot-outside-by-shizazzi/28142918.LVTDI

I'm picturing a take of 'intel inside'   'brain inside' 

Sat Jan 16 2021 01:43:54 EST from arabella

"No real brains on board" describes more than 70% of the people I am forced, by convention, to interact with

 

"No real brains on board" describes more than 70% of the people I am forced, by convention, to interact with

Mon Jan 11 2021 06:21:09 PM EST from Nurb432

That would be my assumption. Basically a cloud terminal. No real brains on board. 

Sun Jan 10 2021 23:33:55 EST from ParanoidDelusions

So, what is in the box? Is that some sort of recognizable IoT thing?

I know that at one DefCon, they discussed how easy it is to hack Crossing Light systems of a particular sort - that are widely deployed in Phoenix.

 

That would be my assumption. Basically a cloud terminal. No real brains on board. 

Sun Jan 10 2021 23:33:55 EST from ParanoidDelusions

So, what is in the box? Is that some sort of recognizable IoT thing?

I know that at one DefCon, they discussed how easy it is to hack Crossing Light systems of a particular sort - that are widely deployed in Phoenix.

So, what is in the box? Is that some sort of recognizable IoT thing?

I know that at one DefCon, they discussed how easy it is to hack Crossing Light systems of a particular sort - that are widely deployed in Phoenix.

"The Cloud" made all this possible.  Someone discovered that the way to make home automation work for uneducated consumers was to make the device a terminal rather than a true home server.  Ubiquitous high speed Internet made that possible.

The abuse of the resulting power was inevitable.

A fully autonomous home assistant is possible, but it would have to be sold at its actual cost.  Alexa and her sisters are sold at minimal to no profit because they are subsidized by the products and services tied in at the back end.

Uncoicidentally, this is why "smart" TVs are everywhere, and they don't cost much.  They are massively subsidized by deals between the manufacturer and people who want access to the end user.

This video shows a train hitting a truck.  What you might like about it is that at 1:18 it shows the inside of the motor box for the gate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUwwRLxt4BE

So you like train videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V39JFjexSUk

Either you get it or you don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M19ym7c8Td4

Apparently a video I posted six years ago has been appearing in people's recommended list on youtube. 

A video of a deer being hit by a car.  I used my cell phone's camera as a dash cam and happened to catch it.  Why this is popular now I am not sure.

The best damn drumming today.....  (and only 11 seconds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnlptVP2B8

Leave it to Germans to come up with a game that basically amounts to, "we'll probably see your panties..." 

Looks like fun, here in the states it would look like lawsuits.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Teufelsrad

Covid 19 truth in advertising.  Warning: more than a little explicit language used

Wiener’s Circle | We’re Here For You

https://youtu.be/qRLB0eFmmw4

Give AWAY of the day....
http://links.giveawayoftheday.com/uncensored.citadel.org

Uncensored mentioned in a book about MST3K
Rich Kulawiec, MST3K.FAQ Uncensored!  Nov 12, 1993  Accessed 4/26/10 
http://uncensored.citadel.org/omoeba-readfile.php?filename=MST3K.FAQ   (not found)

from:  https://bit.ly/2BrrsTS

I like freshfoss.  Not as many projects but still has that freshmeat feel:

https://freshfoss.com/

this is a test

It is entirely possible that I will be on the Isle of Man at some time in 2021, I'll confirm when I know the dates. You can then time your visit appropriately. 

.... 

The reason you went there was to appear on youtube. 

Did you or any family member take the time to pee in the parking lot of sadness?

Yes, you are correct he does live on the Isle of Man.

To visit Big Clive?  I think he lives on the Isle of Man actually

I don't subscribe to the channel so if he has a fan video let us know.

Why don't you take a trip to Scotland? 

We finally made it to The Parking Lot Of Sadness!

My son and my cousins came with me, along with Big Butt Bear of course.  You can see that we did make some signs, but the signs only faced their cameras, not ours. 

We're really hoping to appear in a fan video soon!

Now that I've been to the 11'8" bridge, and to the Parking Lot of Sadness ... what's next?  Do I have to go to Finland to visit Lauri and Anni of the Hydraulic Press Channel?

Just saw the 11 foot 8 bridge, lol, some great nuggets of gold in this BBS. We have many bridges like that in England, and generally they have lots of yellow stripy paint and banners over them,

rather than a small sign and a digital display. :) I like it better your way though guys :D

Bring a sign that says "Uncensored BBS loves GTOger"

In spite of never having been there I too will miss the 11' 8" bridge.

My truck is 13" high, and I live in the UK. I shall miss it none the less.

If you liked the parking lot channel, and the 11'8" bridge channel you might like this channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd6qylQWz49LNjE4xrKf3RA

He is a television guy.

I have passed by to the west and to the east of Durham. Durham is just out of the way to make it add too much time to the trip.  I am jealous you were able to see the bridge before it was raised.  Witnessing a can being opened would have made the trip worth it.  

The sensor is down the street, the device in the second picture is probably the sensor, although I always thought there was a transmitter side and the other side of the street had a receiver, if the beam was disrupted the sign lit up and the traffic light would change.

In one of the recent videos he said that the crossing down the street was eight inches higher so raising this crossing eight inches wasn't difficult or expensive.  Raising it to standard height would be,

http://11foot8.com/faq/

I will agree, the height of the bridge should not have have been changed.  

The 11'8" bridge should have been declared a national monument so they couldn't raise it.  Seems weird that they're only raising it to 12'4" when the standard height is 14 to 16 feet.  I suppose this will save some of the rental trucks and campers, but a full size rig will still get peeled open.

I visited the 11'8" bridge a few months ago.  Now I'm glad I did.  Here are some photos:

And I have to assume this is the camera that shoots the YouTube videos:

That thing that looks like a camera in the second photo is facing straight across the street.  I suspect it's not a camera, but a sensor that turns on the "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" sign when a vehicle passes through it.

They are raising the 11'8" bridge.
http://twitter.com/movesafedurham/status/1185299121030217729

n-gate is always good for a chuckle, even when he's criticizing El Goog, HN, et al, for the wrong reasons.

"Mozilla convinces a tech rag that it blocks ad trackers, while still shipping Google Analytics directly with Firefox. A gullible person points out some ways to help Mozilla pretend to defend our privacy, and Hackernews immediately requests a method to send money to Mozilla while ensuring none of that money helps women or brown people. Almost half the comments on the article are debating the merits and methods to do exactly that. None of them will work, because they all depend on the idea that Mozilla accepts source code from strangers who do not work for Google. The rest of the comments are Hackernews arguing about whether it's possible (or even desirable) to network two computers without advertising appearing on at least both of them."

Generation Iron Russia has an edited version of the event, including the silly male version of this sport. This point in the video is the main focus of this terrific sporting event which needs to expended to a world event.

http://youtu.be/IIKElkQxJ8U?t=127

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCjkdUJNeM

It is good to know that some where in the world, this is a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4K71lKpDuQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4K71lKpDuQ

I'm the kind of hoopy frood who always knows where her dowel is

Don't forget your towel!

Has anybody seen my towel? 

It is how we pass the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul

Reading the rooms on Uncensored sometimes feels like reading a particular style of Science Fiction. Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other titles of that sort... 

No it was "I love you Sergio!"

Was the whispered phrase "Jordash Jeans"?

Sun May 12 2019 08:20:37 AM EDT from arabella

Fleece, I was actually referencing something I saw on television in the 70s, I can't remember the name of it, but there was a constant whispering voice, which would repeat the phrase over and again. It struck terror into my heart.

Fleeb** 

Fleece, I was actually referencing something I saw on television in the 70s, I can't remember the name of it, but there was a constant whispering voice, which would repeat the phrase over and again. It struck terror into my heart.

They're getting closer

Are we here yet?

They're coming

/vaguepost

Now if they'll make it possible to trivially download and install it without relying on Javascript faggotry shitting up their website, I might actually use it.

Not as good as the 11'-8" channel but very entertaining.  Two things that amaze me.

1) The drivers of the tow trucks are very good at what they do.
2) There must be a lot of drunk drivers on the road, many of those people come back to that parking lot unable to walk straight.  I am glad their car was towed.

Mon Aug 27 2018 09:39:03 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

I didn't know the 11'8" bridge was in Durham NC. I travel to that area from time to time. Next time I'm there with a rental car (not a 12' high rental truck) I'm going to have to go see it. 

I pass close to Durham now and again but I don't want to go out of my way to see the bridge.

I found another channel you might like, it is the edited video taken from the many exterior security cameras of a web/cloud hosting company's very small parking lot.  Apparently there are several bars located nearby and people park their vehicles in the private parking lot. The parking lot has several "No Parking" signs.  In his spare time one of the employees makes videos of the vehicles as they pull into the parking area, the video shows the occupants of the vehicles and what they are doing before they leave the parking lot. He edits the tow truck towing the vehicles and the reaction of the car's occupants when they return to find their car has been towed.   I am amazed at how quickly a tow truck can grab a vehicle.   

https://www.youtube.com/user/gtoger/videos

"Despite the image of the Scrubbing Bubbles mascots, the product does not actually feature bubbles with bristles, which could potentially cause a number of problems with disposal."

Thanks, Wikipedia.  We needed to be told that.

  2) "I must be the first person to suggest lowering the road!"

  3) "You need a camera on the other side of the bridge"

  4) "Can opener!"

  5) "Hope they got the extra insurance!"

  6) "Hey did you notice (insert something that everyone noticed)"

  7) "I am from some country in Europe and bla bla bla bla bla."

  8) Something about traffic citations.

  9) "Box truck to flatbed!!"

 10) "That will buff out!"

 11) CDL/Know your height referance.

 12) Must be a member of some political party.

 13) Must be an illegal

Thu Apr 19 2018 09:49:19 EDT from fleeb

"Your flash player is outdated."

Gads.

How did you know? Yikes!!

I'm amused that this is still around:

http://igopolis.myminicity.com/

(If y'all click on the link, IGopolis will get larger.)

https://9gag.com/gag/aMAn8BP

Ahhhh.... the chosen one.

My link worked for me in both the text client and the web client.

I think your link is supposed to be 

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com

(without the /(space) ) at the end.

Funny thing was I just visited this page today, and then checked here, and it was linked... 

Hint.. View the source for a surprise...

Sun Jul 23 2017 11:41:32 AM EDT from zooer

Some of you have have a void in your life now that Abe Vigoda has passed, I present a website to fill that void.

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ 

When it destroys the world it will let you know.

Does it display an error page because the large hadron collider has already destroyed the world?

Some of you have have a void in your life now that Abe Vigoda has passed, I present a website to fill that void.

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ 

I can not take your request seriously there are less than 15 exclamation points after "**EVAR**", in fact there are none.  You misspelled 'evar' as well.

It doesn't appear that jQuery is going to disappear anytime soon.  It's everywhere. 

On the other hand ... http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

Yikes.  It's poseur city, isn't it.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna stick with jQuery.  It's 2016 and I'm just getting myself out of the Prototype+Scriptaculous prehistoric era.

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f

hmmmmmm....

If I knew about that before, I learned why I don't use it.

I have no idea what room is the room where we were discussing browser tabs.  I tried the trick of dragging it to the desktop, it opens another version of the browser. This is NOT what I am looking for.  That made things much worse.  

The "Awesome bar" is not awesome.  I do not like searching from the location bar.  If only you could turn it off, I shouldn't have to see my search results in the location bar when I start to type.

You can pin tabs, which makes them permanent and gives them a smaller area to click.  Not really helpful.  They should allow you to color or rename your tabs, that would help.

I always end up switching workspaces instead of tabs.

Mon Aug 22 2016 20:43:16 EDT from wizard of aahz

I'm still a fan of some things being apps instead of in a browser. When you have 27 browser windows open it can be a pain to find the app you want.

There is this fancy new thing called "tabbed browsing" coming up. I do not think it will stay with us, though...

But seriously, I think the same. Especially interaction between tabs is annoying.

Jebus chrips are the only videos currently on youtube Galaxy Note 7 unboxing videos?

Does that mean that we have to jump the bandwagon?

Hm, somebody ranted about phone conferences in some room, but I couldn't find it again, so I post this here:

Build your own phone company with WebRTC and a weekend: https://webrtchacks.com/own-phoneco-with-webrtc/

There is a good piece of hipster webtechnolofy involved, but it reads like a fascinating and impressive technology. Dunno how reliable, though. 

Oh..... okay, I have seen that before and yes it is pretty bad.  Oddly enough when I looked this morning before I entered my other post it was a picture of a giraffe with cats on top of it.

Okay... what am I missing? I don't understand the question or how the question relates to the image.

This is the user-agent string sent by "Edge" (the replacement for IE in Windoze 10, still not useful for much other than downloading other browsers)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240

So it's Edge pretending to be Safari pretending to be Chrome pretending to be Konqueror pretending to be Netscape.

Can we please just agree that parsing the user-agent header is now completely useless, and just put the name of the browser in there?

Heh.  I thought it was going to be one of those "imminent death of the Internet predicted!" but it's actually the web is DOOM, not doomed.  Nicely done.

https://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/the-web-is-doom

And just about a week ago I was searching data like this...

The article describes how much websites have grown since 2011 and the number is pretty impressive.

I would have loved to see some cpu load numbers, since I do not believe that the amount of shipped js will make that grow just linear.

Tue Mar 15 2016 13:16:09 EDT from zooer

I thought that this was an interesting elevator (German?)  I like the push buttons for the floor selector.  Also there doesn't seem to be doors on the elevator, just outside doors on the floor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0cDfpp0lGw

I think they had the best solution, don't try to communicate with the people on the other side of the door, just push buttons.

I guess from an american POV Norway is technically germany.

For all practical purposes, he is.  :(

I am not sure what I was thinking when I posted that.  I wish I could blame it on drinking but I can't.  I was tired, for some reason I thought Kasich was on the democratic ticket.

(sigh)

4028013@Uncensored

I thought that this was an interesting elevator (German?)  I like the push buttons for the floor selector.  Also there doesn't seem to be doors on the elevator, just outside doors on the floor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0cDfpp0lGw

I think they had the best solution, don't try to communicate with the people on the other side of the door, just push buttons.

Fri Mar 04 2016 01:10:01 AM EST from ax25

Set up a Veronica-2 server to crawl it (or something sorta like it)?

- i.e. indexing the dark web question from I.G.

Ok, so I was mostly trying to be funny, but what I found was even more funny.  I figured I would search for the pre-cursor to Veronica search and see if it related to the "dark net":

searh : "dark net archie search"

Pulls up this as the top link:

https://www.deepdotweb.com/grams-search-darknet-marketplaces/

Which, you have to dig up - search : "sonic grams archie comics"

and find this:

http://info.sonicretro.org/Category:Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(Archie)_comics

I have to admit, I love the historical references here.  It probably does not work as a search engine, but at least they kept the theme alive.

Set up a Veronica-2 server to crawl it (or something sorta like it)?

- i.e. indexing the dark web question from I.G.

elevatorfan.com is DieselDucy (Andrew from VA) ... yeah, he's the uncontested biggest name in the elevator fan scene.  He's been doing it longer, and does it more, than anyone else out there.

Hey, you can't call it the CitaNet, because that name is trademarked by some dude in New Jersey who doesn't like other people using it.  :)

So ... I know how to connect to the Darknet ... what I don't know is how to navigate the Darknet.  I don't know how we would get the word out that there's a new destination people can try.

I am sure you know about this site.
http://www.elevatorfan.com

Nice.  I'm a fan of Big Clive ... I love watching him take apart LED stuff :)

Elevator video.

Old electric/mechanical elevator control unit, for those who like elevators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Dvg7DhCtg  (12 mins)

I'd shut it down.  Or move it to the darknet.  And I'd remodel my bathroom so that the toilet faces 31 degrees northeast and put green tile on the floor.

So if the "new" internet and the UN took over and said that all users must identify themselves with their real names and that uncensored must be censored to comply with UN approved comments what would become of uncensored? 

I saw a new error code on the internet today.

A 451 error.  (From Wikipedia)

In computer networking, HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons is an error status code of the HTTP protocol to be displayed when the user requests an illegal resource, such as a web page censored by a government. The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books are outlawed.[1] 451 could be described as a more descriptive variant of 403 Forbidden.[2]

Examples of situations where an HTTP 451 error code could be displayed include web pages deemed a danger to national security, or web pages deemed to violate copyright, privacy, blasphemy laws, or any other law or court order.

However, some sites may be forced to produce HTTP 404 (File Not Found) or similar if they are not legally permitted to disclose that the resource has been removed. Such a tactic is used in the United Kingdom by some internet service providers utilising the Internet Watch Foundation blacklist, returning a 404 message or another error message instead of showing a message indicating the site is blocked.[3][4]

The status code was formally proposed in 2013 by Tim Bray, following earlier informal proposals by Chris Applegate[5] in 2008 and Terence Eden[6] in 2012. It was approved by the IESG on December 18, 2015.[7]

I hate when 404 errors redirect me to a search engine, but this was the first time I came across this.  It was for a bakery/cafe that recently changed name/owners, the website was under the new owner's/business name and I clicked on it from Google maps.

Junge! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kids

4001651@Uncensoredhttps://uncensored.citadel.org/readfwd?go=Web%20Stuff?start_reading_at=4000328Fri, 22 Jan 2016 19:27:01 -00004000328@Uncensored

Complex but correct.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZRK1dBW0AAIQTw.jpg:large

One of my favs, and the link was better.

UTF-8-Character of the day:

↩

;-)

Drunk on facebook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coavTGQ_8O8

(from the team that brought you the "we did the varoufakis finger-fake"-fake)

VPS seems a good idea. Your right, not much dearer atall. 

Mo, you should be able to run on a small vps (around $5 - $20 USD / mo) - depends on what you need for resources. When I first installed Citadel, it was a self hosted at home with dynamic dns service on an old AMD K5 with 128 MB ram.  I switched from Exim running on an old 486 with 32 MB ram, so I figured 128 MB was plenty.  Turns out, it was :-)

Currently, I use a vps with 8 mb for citserver, and about 16 mb for webcit.  The bulk of the ram goes to spamd (currently at 76 mb).  The VPS I use has 512MB with about 3 users (5 total, but only about 3 active most days).

Looks like i would have to get a VPS or self host for sure. Didn't hurt to ask though.

Thanks Dothebart! I'll ready the wiki first next time :). Glad i asked, maybe the ISP would be interested in offering citadel to it's customers, aswell as the two webmail programs that come as standard (squirellmail and roundcube)?

Mon May 18 2015 21:56:36 EDT from mo Subject: Citadel on a shared hosting plan

I am gonna get a shared hosting plan one of these days, to run a wordpress powered website, and just wondered if i could run a citadel on it, (rather than host at home, or on a VPS ). 

The ISP i am considering use debian on their servers, so i contacted them just in-case they already have heard of citadel. They would install citadel-suite from the debian repositories for me, but what would be the best way for them to manage citadel on a 'shared' server? Here is the end of their email to me.

So going back to the shell account: if we type "apt-get install citadel-suite" to our shell account server, that will certainly pull in all the packages. But from just a very brief glance at the front page, I'm predicting that it's going to want to "own" at least the mail system on the server.

 

Can you tell us a bit more about what it is you're wanting to do? Possibly we can work out some way to hook it into our existing systems and does what you need.

http://citadel.org/doku.php/faq:generalquestions:can_i_install_citadel_on_a_shared_web_hosting_account

its going to have more priviliges than they will want to admit to you.

For shure you can disable port 25, 587, 443 imap, imaps, pop3... But if you're aide you could re-enable it.

however, you could use the citadele only with port 504 federation, and with webcit behind an apache proxy.

therefore they should only install citadel-server and citadel-webcit (which will not demand to become the mta)

I am gonna get a shared hosting plan one of these days, to run a wordpress powered website, and just wondered if i could run a citadel on it, (rather than host at home, or on a VPS ). 

The ISP i am considering use debian on their servers, so i contacted them just in-case they already have heard of citadel. They would install citadel-suite from the debian repositories for me, but what would be the best way for them to manage citadel on a 'shared' server? Here is the end of their email to me.

So going back to the shell account: if we type "apt-get install citadel-suite" to our shell account server, that will certainly pull in all the packages. But from just a very brief glance at the front page, I'm predicting that it's going to want to "own" at least the mail system on the server.

 

Can you tell us a bit more about what it is you're wanting to do? Possibly we can work out some way to hook it into our existing systems and does what you need.

I have to say I'm quite surprised with FCC chairman Tom Wheeler with respect to Net Neutrality.

[ http://www.wired.com/2015/02/fcc-chairman-wheeler-net-neutrality/ ]

Prior to his appointment to the FCC, Wheeler was a cable and telecom lobbyist.  It was generally predicted that he would simply turn the wishes of pigopolists like Comcast into official FCC regulations.  As it turns out, however, he's actually making a sensible set of proposals to the Commission regarding Net Neutrality.

Pretty much everyone observing the issue from a political perspective has got it wrong.  They see it as an issue of giving control of the Internet to the government vs. giving it to corporations - which finds me, as a conservative, landing squarely on the "wrong" side of the debate.  The "scarce resource" here is the last-mile connection to every home and business.  Companies which operate these resources are granted artificial monopolies, or at least duopolies, which means they absolutely have to be regulated in order to keep them from abuse.

Wheeler is proposing the imposition of Title II protections on broadband Internet service, essentially cementing it as a common carrier.  Predictably, Comcast/AT&T/Verizon are crying foul, while everyone else is cheering.

Hm.  It seems that Communist China is now forcing everyone to use their real names online.

[ http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/04/us-china-internet-censorship-idUSKBN0L80ZF20150204 ]

In particular, impersonation for entertainment is explicitly banned.  Fake Steve Jobs won't be able to publish in China anymore.

So I read today, that an old Opera guy came up with a new browser called Vivaldi. Just trying it and it is amazingly fast and looks totally nerdy. Although it is only a tech preview, I am in love!

Link: http://vivaldi.com (the .net domain belongs to them, too, as it seems, but is for their socialist stuff)

censored in germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69CCsfaZlA

Whaaaaat?

Who won?

A view of danes from an american:

http://www.thelocal.dk/20140907/five-danish-life-lessons-for-the-rest-of-us

(there are similarities in germany, but not everything is the same)

I like his comments about public health care - until very recent you had to pay 10E each quarter year if you would go to the doctors, they dismissed this now in germany.

Practical joke on a Dragon Hunter fan. 

Boarderline SFW (nothing overt, just implicit....but it might make you laugh out loud)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZqoh2aUW7g

I don't know if this is the right place for this but here it is:

I have a recommendation for a calendar program. It is a stand alone calendar, non networked but is the best little calendar program i have found on the web.

It might not be for everyone but it is quite a powerful  program, and its written by one guy and free under the GPL.

BORG is the name, and i just noticed the author added support for syncing with a caldav server.

http://mbcsoft.com/joomla30/index.php/borg   

One for the record, i love it!

I do shop there, but I only find the ad campaign mildly amusing, too. 

The 16 year old exchange student from Germany is only slightly amused.  Mostly amused / repulsed by the image of the old guy in the bathtub of milk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlN1pZqO8Zo

the original song.

However, I think the edeka version superseedes this one rather then anything else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxVcgDMBU94

new tv comercial of german supermarket. super geil!

Ah, did not notice the topic moved on from Owncloud.  Miss-parse on my part, sorry.

There is some Django involved

Thu Feb 20 2014 04:21:51 PM EST from dothebart Subject: Re: On the web no one can eat icecream...

oh, python ;-)

Nope, php.  But thanks for playing.

oh, python ;-)

I think I asked here about an open source cloud solution for business use and somebody told me it was obvious to use owncloud.

Well a friend of mine had some consultants test it for his company, the result was devasting:

They have about 20gb of files and 16k files or something along those numbers. Now owncloud is written in a way that it checks each and every file's hash with the sync server for changes. So in his scenario, a computer had to be continually online for 48h to check if any of those files was actually changed.

And this is not a bug, it is the way it works, they were told by upstream.

Today, these numbers of files and gb are not really uncommon, I guess. Think about movie and audio collections...

My clients do not have to sync barely 6gb in 1k files, but I am currently trying Seafile. Looks nice, relatively easy to install and seems to work so far.

http://seafile.com

My wife says that I can't buy a fleet of them.  Bummer, it would have been both fun and stupid at the same time.

And apparently, lots and lots of cheese....

Combine the two and have an adult pizza shop!

Ugh, my stomach does not agree with that kind of architecture. Luckily, we have enough "real deal" italians all over the country so we are spared by the Hut.

Just wanted to know if there were any alternatives to check out, wether I should have a look into OpenNebula or OpenStack or some such thing.

Or if anyone could tell me about hosted solutions. OwnCloud is high up on the list, since there are apps for every major mobile OS.

Three of my clients have been asking me for a while now, if it was possible to "give some people access to the local nas", via their dsl.

I think that is beyond stupid for several reasons, so I try to propose a dedicated server with some open source cloud software, hence I am asking for your advice.

• The clients all know each other, they have their offices in the same building, they already share printers and meeting rooms.
• All of them need to share stuff for inhouse employees who work on building sites, etc.
• All of them need to share lots of 50-100mb pdfs with sub contractors. (They are architects and need to share building plans)
• Some of them need to share stuff with partner companies.
• Most of the files are project related.

The software should be easy to use and one of their more tech savvy employees should be able to operate it, set permissions, create project based shares, etc. It should be a bit like dropbox, some things should be accessible without authorization, some things should be locked by passwords.

Any thoughts or hints?