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A comment on Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine.

Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by sergiomattei on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:49PM (#27978095)
Not gonna lie, keeping up a machine like this spitting fire drinks for years is a great couple's activity.
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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by hammock on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:54PM (#27980105)
Omg it was you!
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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by sergiomattei on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:58AM (#27981039)
Nah, but judging by the picture of the folks it looks fun.
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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by ju-st on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:48PM (#27978081)
2nd link for Europeans: http://archive.is/2017.08.07-014013/http://www.capitolhillse...
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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by mastazi on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:47PM (#27978934)
I appreciate you putting out an alternative link.

Unfortunately I cannot access archive.is (shows a Cloudflare page with Google reCaptcha).

Why not using the more well known archive.org instead?

Also IIRC archive.is is hard to access for some users depending on the DNS server they're using.

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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by soneca on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:50PM (#27978952)
I get those from time to time. Isn’t just solving the captcha enough to reach the page?
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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by mastazi on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @09:21PM (#27979431)
> Isn’t just solving the captcha enough to reach the page?

sure but why not using an alternative service that doesn't have the reCaptcha to start with?

Edit: Just to explain more the problem: depending on your privacy settings, it might take up to a couple minutes to solve the reCaptcha because Google makes it much harder for users who are running anti-fingerprinting tools in their browser. This is also my case. In the end, I usually just give up and don't visit the page in question.

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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by Psychedelicly on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @08:56PM (#27979309)
This is dependent on a host of things, such as OP using a VPN lol.

A lot of people are opting away from Google as a standard, to add to that, American websites are a real pain when it comes to harvesting personal information and as such when you see a horrific anti-user gdpr notification you just ... Leave. Same with constant captcha.

I'd like to see stats on websites using OneChoice or whatever its bs name is. For a site called hackernews there sure is a large lack of care regarding personal information.

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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by techsupporter on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:03PM (#27978235)
Quick question: Why "for Europeans?" I tried from a couple of EU-based endpoints and could access the second link just fine. What error did you get?

I ask because I know the operator of CHS via a friend of a friend kind of thing.

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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by thesimon on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:07PM (#27978281)
Error 1020: Access denied by Cloudflare.
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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by Jiokl on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:57PM (#27978620)
Getting the same Cloudflare error from Germany.
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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by asadhaider on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:24PM (#27978401)
Also European (UK) and can access the original link just fine.
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Re:Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine by cmckn on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @08:03PM (#27979023)
Aw man, they should have at least blurred the license plate :(

Really cool story, I just moved to Seattle last year. Anyone know of something else I could check out?

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