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·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
My friend, if you have the time, learn to refill your cartridges on your own. I own one of them cheap HP 25XX for home use, I simply refuse to buy new cartridges and give in, I instead got a refill kit with 100ml bottles of all colours for ~9$, and now all I need is 15 min of time for refill and the slight risk of creating a mess during the process.

The HP cartridge holds an approx 9ml, so that gives an idea of how long those bottles should last(Also colour is 9/3 ml colours). Once these are done, I can just go ahead and get just a few more bottles which drives the price down further.

I've had no issues in printing apart from the first time I had done it. I obviously would recommend getting one of those brother Ink tank ones, but there's no need to trash an HP if you can figure to do this and keep a backup cheap maintenance printer.

Btw, I still use the stock cartridges that came with the printer, saving on a ton of cash and pain of hunting for cartridges.

P.S: I've tried this on 2 other models too with no issues
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·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Are you familiar with Opera Mini's(mobile) extreme data saving mode? It's quite remarkable at reducing web page sizes and has an option to render images at a preferred quality, or turn it off altogether. Also, some of the design of the original web page is preserved and it's somewhat usable.

But the issue with it is all the compression happens on their servers before reaching you, which is troublesome from a privacy standpoint. I wish there was a browser(or a selfhosted instance) similar to Opera Mini which can compress pages before it reaches the client
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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> hCaptcha is making cloudflare money by earning them Human Tokens on the Ethereum blockchain

> Most people do the convenience from Google CAPTCHA, although they sell some kind of info, but they won’t hurt you

I can't even...this is the Cloudflare forum wow.

I've personally had a few hiccups with hCaptcha quite some time back as I "wasn't sure what I was looking for" and consistently fail on VPNs. But in recent months these there's definitely been substantial improvement , and needless to say I hope to see hCaptcha be the majority provider
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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
This reminds me of a similar solution I saw on PH last year, I think it's a great alternative for smaller websites that are less likely to be targets for spams/bots

But say, there's a website and it's a likely target, you implement IP protection, fine, the user uses residential proxies. Now your best bet is to go off fingerprinting, but there are marketplaces which sell those too in bulk.

Maybe I'm wrong, but wouldn't the best approach be to stick to human interaction puzzles, which are hard and don't have a set way to solve by a machine(for now)?
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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> anonymous whistleblowing/exposes of shady business practices becomes a thing

We need this so much, the guy who started this in fact was posting anonymously, but all his accounts from Reddit, to twitter got taken down following which he was forced to use his real identity and the developments the past few weeks followed.
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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
That's because this news is as fresh as it gets. The details of the suit were just released a few hours ago, and for the sake of international media recognition OP selected the most prominent article with a title reflecting the current scenario.

I've been following this saga for a while, it's all on Reddit. Here's a summary, the guy started off by creating a YT channel a few months back called "WhitehatSr" where he documented what actually happens in these classes and showed that the 'teachers' literally have no idea what they're talking about. They're literally throwing around buzzwords whilst pressuring the child to pay for the full course to learn advanced concepts. The videos were posted to reddit, and soon the reddit accounts got taken down by the admin.(Not mods) Soon his twitters too, only his original remained, and so he began posting under his real name.

The guy persisted and created more Reddit accounts and continued to post till his videos got taken down on YT. I think after creating a bit of noise and being picked up by a few minor publications, the videos were reinstated, but any other person that posted videos exposing the same had their YT taken down. At this point he was posting on LinkedIN too, and around this time he got a barrage of messages from WhiteHatJr employees, one of them claiming to file a sexual assualt case against him if he does not back down. He ignored them for a while and finally called them out, after which they did briefly stop, but soon after his LinkedIN got taken down.

He said in one of his posts, that a lot of editorials would reach out to him and collect information but never end up publishing, almost as if their was a driving force stopping them from it.

He soon began to get death threats to him and his family which were deleted within seconds, but he managed to capture evidence. They were from anon accounts but they made it pretty clear where they're from

His most recent big development was screenshots from their Slack channels, which clearly showed their so called students with laurels don't exist, and one of them even show their CEO saying something along "We have to make the app on behalf of the student" and one of the employees says he'll get it it done.

Shortly after this, a rupees 200 million lawsuit was filed against this guy for "defamation". He hasn't decided what to do

I hope this gives an idea what kind of scum this 300mn USD valued "edu startup" is, whose primary targets are parents from middle and lower income households who can be enticed with a few programming jargon and images of Sundar Pichai. I'm sorry for the improper phrasing and structure, I tried to jot down what I could recollect.
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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Anybody else here who uses Fineliners? I've only stuck to fineliners ever since the first time I've used it, the upgrade in comfort and penmanship was extraordinary. Yes fountain pens are great and I've used them most of my life, as most ballpoints weren't suitable for my left hand writing style. But fineliners are way less cumbersome
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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I knew I had to get Winamp again when I saw a site with an insane collection of themes. Probably one of the only times I would make a switch because themes