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New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades

groupdiy.com
123 points·by SpikedCola·last month·54 comments

Virtualbox.org "402 Payment Required"

virtualbox.org
3 points·by SpikedCola·7 months ago·5 comments

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SpikedCola
·25 days ago·discuss
VxKex/VxKex-NEXT really is an amazing bit of work. It helps me run the latest Apache, PHP, Go-based tools (ngrok/stripe cli), node. It’s been a game changer for keeping W7 going.
SpikedCola
·last month·discuss
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SpikedCola
·6 months ago·discuss
Thank you!
SpikedCola
·6 months ago·discuss
And it downloads at ADSL speeds for the full experience (although Cloudflare in front of the ISO kind of breaks character).

https://imgur.com/a/HEjIEVn
SpikedCola
·6 months ago·discuss
That certainly doesn't come off well for SparkFun.
SpikedCola
·6 months ago·discuss
+1 for a Windows 7 clone. I have not seen a theme that comes close to copying Win7.
SpikedCola
·7 months ago·discuss
Thanks for that! So it's most likely user agent then. Wonder why they don't like it.
SpikedCola
·7 months ago·discuss
If you wouldn't mind, I would be curious - if you run the above curl command, do you get the same error?

It could be a combination of IP + user agent (+ something else) that's causing me trouble.
SpikedCola
·7 months ago·discuss
I can't access virtualbox.org any more, they now show an error page saying "Payment Required", with status code 402.

Interestingly, if I change my user agent to "curl/7.70.0", I can browse virtualbox.org again.

They seem to be unhappy with my user agent specifically:

  curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://www.virtualbox.org 
  
  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
  <html><head>
  <title>402 Payment Required</title>
  </head><body>
  <h1>Payment Required</h1>
SpikedCola
·7 months ago·discuss
Not sure why, but the text doesn't appear in Chrome 109: https://imgur.com/a/QyIdfax

If I disable "font-family: Atkinson" it comes back, so guessing it's font related. I do see the two .woff files load in the Network tab. Interestingly, when I preview either font file, I see the sample of the font (AaBbCc etc.) in a flash for just milliseconds, and then it disappears and I see nothing.
SpikedCola
·8 months ago·discuss


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SpikedCola
·10 months ago·discuss
> Those <Pause [0A]> tokens cause the came to pause for a few moments before ...

Should be "cause the game to pause" :)