[–] 2 points 1 month ago

My hypothesis is that those scrappers run on botnets hosted on infected servers, so they want to get the info as fast as possible, since you don't know how long it will last before they are detected and removed.

Another option is that so many servers are scrapping the same web that one server may send only a request every a few seconds, but the whole fleet could be sending thousands of requests per second, some big websites can handle the load, but most small to medium size sites get overwhelmed.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Water is such a good radiation insulator that you need to be a few meters from the nuclear waste to be able to detect any radiation, the issue usually is the effect to wild life, that absorbs radioactive heavy metals, but so deep in the ocean, it's not much of an issue.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago (19 children)

    So they looked at a known nuclear waste disposal location and they are surprised they found leaking nuclear waste.

    At least nowadays the nuclear waste is stored in nearly indestructible stainless steel and concrete canisters and not some unsuitable steel barrels, thrown in the ocean.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    One thing to note, CORS only makes sense if your API uses cookies for authentication, most APIs use custom headers, the Authentication header, or even url tokens, they don't rely on cookies, so most of the time, APIs don't care about CORS. People keep blindly repeating that accepting all origins "*", is bad for security, but the situations where this is relevant are really uncommon.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    Oh no, the same scam again, when will people realize that putting dehumidifiers in the desert, where there is little to none humidity in the air does not produce significant quantities of water.

    You can claim that your solution produces thousands of liters of water, but in practice its obvious that you cannot extract more water than what's already im the air, once you extract it, there is nothing left, it may work at first, but is not going to work continuously forever.

    This is another example of a promised technology scam, pay me for the development and once it doesn't work, disappear with the money. People keep falling for it for some reason.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is another crypto scam. If we are generous, we could call it TOR 2, since it is on top of regular internet, but it has so many flaws in its design that it is useless.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't use Windows anymore, but I understand if you have to. Recently I found this alternative to the windows explorer build from the ground up to be as efficient as possible https://filepilot.tech/ It's a cool project from a great programmer that has a presentation on the Better Software Conference showing how it works underneath. It uses older windows API functions that apparently are way faster than the modern alternatives.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Reminds me of Serial Experiments Lain, an anime released in 1998 that talks about the power of social networks and how companies will compete to gain control of the internet. Some of the predictions are outstandingly good.

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