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Checked my girlfriends family. Some of them are army officials and their info is in there as well. With that info you could actually do some serious damage.

Also, based on address info we know this dump is 2-6 years old.


I'm using Dan Pollock's hosts file method[1] which is detected by Wired and Forbes, but not this site.

[1]: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/


Thank you. You're right, pure host-based blocking is not currently detected by the site. We'll try to include that too.

At the moment we're relying on a rule in Easy List - https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ - it's used by Adblock Plus, uBlock, AdGuard and a probably others. But we need to take into account other methods/blockers that don't rely on this list.


My two layers of blocking are also not detected.

Layer 1: Similar to what @accommodavid has, my router uses several lists of ad-server domains to block requests to them. The list URLs are at https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/963eacfe0537a7abddf3...

Layer 2: My browser has uMatrix. It is set up to only allow a) first-party requests of any kind, and b) third-party requests for images and CSS. (So on your site, the JS from ajax.googleapis.com is blocked.)


just because it's all javascript, doesn't mean you can "just" make a web client. electron, the shell atom is built on, has a lot of functions that are tied directly to the operating system and atom relies heavily on them. it also has a module system that allows you to do require() in front end javascript without needing to bundle anything. it would definitely be an interesting project, though.


So it is 1. built on top of heavy heavy Web technology 2. very much tied to the OS. The worst of both worlds...


I just looked at the source code and, well, wow. Comments sometimes in English and sometimes in Chinese, scripts are being loaded all over the place, one tag is just commented out, one inline script does nothing but assign a global variable to a value that's presumably just an output from PHP and many more things that feel really... odd for something that's supposed to advertise a new and complex technology.


I wouldn't be so surprised. They're a robotics company, not a web design company. They probably contracted it out.


Surely it's far worse if they contracted it out as then this is the results of people who they bought in on the basis of their web design. If it was in house then there's an excuse of sorts.


Nah. If you're not a web design company, than you're not going to know what to look for when trying to contract a web design company. I'd expect shit-show engineering to be the norm rather than the exception.


The saddest part about this is that using WebViews really doesn't have to mean that it's clunky and slow. Slack's interface is pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript and it works just fine.


Now if this whole thing could be accomplished using pure redstone circuitry http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/109385-Computer-Bu...


Redstone has no means of communication to the outside, so even if you created an entire computer with redstone(very unlikely) you would have no means of communication outside of minecraft.


That would be a neat experiment to see if the conjecture, "Redstone has no means of communication to the outside" is true. It would be interesting to find bugs within the redstone rendering engine that leak or emit data. I'm thinking of something similar to the Super Mario World bank switching pong game.


That would be using a security vulnerability to reprogram the game then, of course if you can do that you can do anything on the computer. Since Minecraft is sandboxed in the JVM that might prove difficult though.


Well, if you have Computer Craft (or presumably Open Computers) you can get redstone out of the game and send an SMS: https://boomtree.com/r2p I made that. But just this week LittleBits released a Minecraft mod called "bitCraft" that lets you use their CloudBit to simplify all these steps even further: http://discuss.littlebits.cc/t/bitcraft-our-minecraft-mod-is...


Reverse engineer the client code such that a little bot player runs around in game flipping levers and seeing if redstone torches are on/off. Then you would truly have a computer with a little guy running around inside it doing all the thinking.

The famous (is it?) minebot already implements about 99% of the required functionality and requires no server side mods. There are of course competitors to minebot some of which may be closer or further away from this goal.



Getting the same message on iPhone. I mean, I know that is technically Safari... But "please press cmd+c"


I met Bernstein a few months ago after he gave a talk about this same subject. In his talk he pretended to be a Verizon employee, explaining how vital it is to him and his company that they can track what their users are doing on their network in order to improve their advertising services. (Without breaking character at any point, pretty impressive.) I guess it's easier to reason about these things when you're trying to break something, rather than trying to prevent it from happening.


Come for the witty README, stay for the actually pretty nice NW app structure


Okay, I'll bite. The thing is that this isn't meant to be revolutionary, that's not the point. The typeface isn't designed to distinguish Apple from others, that's not what this is about. It's not even about 'returning to functional and readable' either. Hell, this isn't even about Apple. This is about the fact that typography, a craft that is as old as written language, is adapting to the digital age and we're starting to see fonts become intelligent and tweaking themselves depending on the context they are put in.

To me, that's a very interesting trend. Type is traditionally designed for print first, with screens as an afterthought. The idea of having fonts that adapt to different contexts and are actually designed for screens first is something I think is going to become more common practice and we'll probably see some really advanced applications very soon. Generative fonts are already a huge thing in poster design and it's nice to see the idea of fonts becoming more context-aware extend into interface design as well.


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