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until someone claims the old name as a new org/repo


Most mobile ISPs in the UK use Procera Networks (now Sandvine) products that do basic deep packet inspection to filter traffic.

You can allocate users to pools and provide contectivity based on the pool, ie allowing you to limit speeds of high usage users or have different filtering lists like this under 18s list.

With these devices you are able to block traffic to specific domains even if SSL is used with relative ease.

As it is done at network level, you can't bypass via different DNS provider, only vpns can bypass


Nothing can stop SNI sniffing & blocking except DNS with encrypted client hello.

Which is taking forever to be standardized.



Fixed, thanks! The former did a redir to the latter and our software follows redirs now.


Pretty revealing that a HN post can make to the front page with a broken link.


The original link works (for me), it just directs me through a captcha first. That's not a broken link by the usual meaning of the phrase, it doesn't mean people weren't reading the post...


Directed me to a captcha too. It's just that the captcha didn't work and "please try again".


Yeah broken here too


Are you implying people don't read the body of the article or that there's bot interference? (I can imagine either could be true.)


The former. I for one happily upvote a submission before reading it, to keep it on the front page which is so fragilely ephemeral for new submissions, so I can read the article and then come back to (hopefully) some good comments from others in the thread.


Only if you haven’t been paying attention to how upvoting rings control HN, against all the behind the scenes work to thwart them.


Or is it intentionally broken, as a ploy to hurt Bloomberg's bot detection algorithm.


Nope, just a dumb accident. I think Bloomberg redirected me right before I copied the URL from the address bar ...

Is there any way to easily fix the link?


@dang, can you do us a favor and fix the link? I don't seem to be able to fix it myself.


Not an expert at all, but my basic understanding of GDPR is if you outsource a service to a 3rd party and they collect data or do any processing that they shouldn't, you are essentially responsible.


It makes sense. I'm the one selecting the tooling afterall so I should also be responsible for making sure to comply with whatever laws/directives there are.

This being said, it feels unfair when you try to comply but somebody fucks you over.


Yes, the Brit plugs are great until you step on them in the night

Funny comparison of different plugs from a few years ago https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/plug-versus-plug/


Who just leaves plugs lying around on the floor though?


To be honest unexpectedly stepping on any plug that's lying around on the floor is pretty unpleasant :)


Yes but the UK plug has a high likelihood of idling with its prongs pointing up, a characteristic not shared with most other plug designs. As painful as it is to step on the side of a plug, stepping directly on the prongs is worse.


The response to GDPR is interesting. If they are handling and selling your data in ways that are not compatible with GDPR, then you should seriously consider using someone else for that information.


Essentially every publisher that integrates with google might be out of compliance with the GDPR.

Until that gets sorted out lots of sites are going to start doing this out of desperation.


That and the facebook pixel.


> If they are handling and selling your data in ways that are not compatible with GDPR

Very few businesses actually sell data the way you are imagining and if all GDPR did was ban that business model I would be happy with the existence of GDPR. GDPR is much more than that and this insinuation that every business that doesn't want to deal with this hassle is somehow evil and selling ultra detailed profiles on you to the highest bidder is highly mistaken.


The Three changes came in response to this change in regulations.

As a relatively new operator they have always hated roaming, as it has made them less then the established operators.


I'd actually argue that Three has been in a good position to introduce free roaming as they are active in a few European markets. I'm not sure when they go from being new to established though, as I first recall seeing them sometime around 2000.


There is a current growth due to fintech startups like monzo, who are using prepaid cards to test the market


HSBC UK silently truncates passwords to 8 characters :-(

https://twitter.com/HSBC_UK_Help/status/579661876017139713


Never used an OCR library before so gave it a challenge with the latest xkcd cartoon.

curl https://ocr.a9t9.com/api/Parse/Image --data "apikey=helloworld&url=http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bells_theorem.png" { "ParsedResults": [ { "FileParseExitCode": 1, "ParsedText": "T-as IS CALLED I THEOREM. IT LAS FIRST\u2014 t: 1 wostcop n, FASTER- FIRM-LIGHT com)MCBT10N IS E6SlBLE! EL's rta\u201eNDERSTRtDlNGS ELLS THEX\u00dcI I-IPPPEN VIOLATE LOCALITY", "ErrorMessage": "", "ErrorDetails": "" } ], "OCRExitCode": 1, "IsErroredOnProcessing": false, "ErrorMessage": null, "ErrorDetails": null }


Doesn't look like it likes xkcd hand lettering or the font that approximates it. I had better luck with a this...

curl https://ocr.a9t9.com/api/Parse/Image --data "apikey=helloworld&url=http://www.uky.edu/Providers/ScannedText/page1s.jpeg" {"ParsedResults":[{"FileParseExitCode":1,"ParsedText":"In 1830 there were but twenty-three \r\nmiles of railroad in operation in the \r\nUnited States, and in that year Ken- \r\ntucky took the initial step in the work \r\nwest of fhe Alleghanies. An Act to \r\nincorporate the Lexington & Ohio \r\nRailway Company was approved by \r\nGov. Metcalf, Jarinary 27, 1830.. It \r\nprovided for the construction and reÔÇó \r\n","ErrorMessage":"","ErrorDetails":""}],"OCRExitCode":1,"IsErroredOnProcessing":false,"ErrorMessage":null,"ErrorDetails":null}


Same image in free-ocr.com returned :(

BELL'5 SECONDTI-IEOREI’I: WWINGSGWTW HPPPBI‘BOFHSFHRFTHEYVIOLMELDCNJTY.


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