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Sampling bias? I know plenty of leftist publications like The Wire, Scroll, News Laundry and even NDTV who are free to express their opinions without censorhip. It's just that the majority of Indians don't ,trust any documentarists anymore (leftist or rightist) because they all push their own agenda.


Given the article's contents, I wanted to add a data-point.

Also anyone who makes news/etc. that does not push an agenda is simply pushing the hegemonic agenda - Modi's, in this case.


That claim that news outlets in general are free to express their opinions without censorship is unfortunately, not really true in practise - most outlets may express opinions but might face sanctions, bans or other forms of censorship, depending on the topic of the opinions. NDTV has faced multiple such actions in the past (one example: https://www.dw.com/en/ridiculous-and-arbitrary-indian-journa...) Another topic with heavy censorship is the ground situation in Kashmir. Social media and internet bans have been common since a long time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Kashmir).


Is there something special about "international" documetarists? BBC fought tax evasion in the courts and lost the case.


> BBC fought tax evasion in the courts and lost the case

Sorry, what’s the relevance of this?


I'm replying to the person who shared link on BBC website about tax raids on BBC office by Indian authorities


> They used to have edgy ads quoting Ghandi and ... It's funny they used to be so devoted to that Ghandi quote ...

It is Gandhi, not Ghandi!


oops, mis-typed that!


Could someone (@dang ?) fix the title please? It is /etc/shadow , not /etc./Shadow


There's a reason for this - having /etc/shadow in the title breaks searching from Algolia search due to a WAF.

eg try this

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=What%20We%20Do%20in%20the%20%2...


That WAF needs to be tuned. If they’re worried about the possibility of a local file read that can disclose /etc/shadow, there are much bigger issues.


Or it is defense in depth. Although blocking it even if the / is percent encoded seems a bit excessive, especially as a default.


...that's a Cloudflare security page. Is this a default setting for one of Cloudflare's security options, or did Algolia specifically add this to some edge detection worker or something? I'm curious which party is being ridiculous.


I just hit a website I know has an entirely default config on the free plan as https://website/q=cat /etc/shadow and got the same exact error page.


So much for CloudFlare's stance on free speech, I'm being censored for comedy!

(The title is a wordplay on What We Do in the Shadows.)

Joke aside, I can understand why, generally, protecting from /etc/shadow disclosures is a good default, but it should be possible to disable this particular protection. If anyone knows how, that'd be good to share.

EDIT: A bypass has been discovered https://infosec.exchange/@jsmall/109647469548014823


It's a great title


Ohhh Cloudflare. I have to wonder how many sites are left that are actually vulnerable to having their shadow file dumped. Even for the sites that have filesystem traversal vulns, how many of those would cough up something publicly accessible from the shadow file?


That’s so depressing.


Yes, indeed. It is mentioned in the wikipedia link ("गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रात..."). I first read it in the "Vedic Mathematics" book by HH Bharati Krishna Tirtha Swamiji. Since he didn't give any attribution, I suppose he was the first one to reveal it.


UI with minimalism, open source and cross-platform (Win, Lin, Mac) -- what's not to like about it?!

And a great name too. Kavita means poem or poetry in Sanskrit and pretty much all Indic languages.

I'm sure others will point out the pros/cons vis-a-vis Calibre reader. But each serves a different niche. This one seems particularly geared towards comics. So cannot expect all the bells and whistles of Calibre.


> Kavita means poem or poetry in Sanskrit and pretty much all Indic languages.

Thanks for posting this. They don't seem to have that in their FAQs, and I find that's a very common thing. I often wonder about the naming of a project, and too often it's far too hard to find out. (In this case, it is simple enough to google "kavita meaning" and find out, but I feel like I find myself unable to find out for lots of projects)


  > Kavita means poem or poetry in Sanskrit and pretty much all Indic languages.
Interestingly, in Semitic languages Kavita means writing or written things.


In case anyone else is confused: in Sanskrit it's Ka-vi-ta (it seems), in Semitic (at least Hebrew), it's k-ti-va. So quite different.


if you take the K as a ch throat sound, it means omelette in hebrew.


Of course, it can be customized.

     (put 'dired-find-alternate-file 'disabled nil)
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredReuseDirectoryBuffer


This does not solve the issue, if you enter a folder with RET (a slightly more obvious key than `a`), it still opens a new buffer for every directory. What you would have to do is to remap the key in dired's keymap. Which still doesn't solve the issue that it keeps the buffer open even though you close it with `q`, which requires some other fix.

Or: you can use a file manager that isn't made by crazy people, which is what I do. I say this as a loyal Emacs user: there are so many things in Emacs that are amazing (org-mode and magit are the two famous ones obviously, but a personal favorite is Emacs calc, which is just a work of art), but dired is not one of them.


I wouldnt say dired is made by crazy people, It just doesnt fit your expectations

I like that it opens multiple windows it makes it easy to quickly jump between directories. I dont worry about having a clean list of buffers though but it never gets in my way


Typo there, it should be colab.research.google.com


Oh, thanks for that. Too late for me to edit, but hopefully everyone notices your comment here.


> 0x6. I like monospaced fonts.

Author doesn't follow his own advice?

http://fabiensanglard.net/git_code_review/index.php

May be he forgot to update his php pages, which are all in proportional fonts.


He changed layout and theme in 2018. See related post[0].

[0] http://fabiensanglard.net/bloated/index.html


Not Octave, but the other Matlab-clone Scilab has a package called Xcos which is similar to Simulink.


Octave strives to be 1:1 with Matlab, while Scilab aims to be close to 1:1. A subtle distinction there :)


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