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Re:Lighthouse for Agent Readiness on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:01AM (#48932447)
A free tool for testing your site's agent readiness. Unlike a lot of other tools it determines what recommendations are actually relevant to your site type. It won't recommend you build an MCP if your checking a marketing site! Its pretty comprehensive and agentic itself so you can discuss the findings and figure out the best course of action. Have a play!
Re:OpenLayers on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @01:59PM (#21755674)
We had the exact opposite problem! We built a custom webgl rendering layer on top of leaflet to get around leaflet's performance issues. We have now switcher to openlayers and very happy. Guess it depends on the exact use case.
Re:Advice wanted – Stumbled across active phishing scam on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:20AM (#14802695)
Haha given the context I'm not sure I should say. Are you running your own phishing site?
Re:Advice wanted – Stumbled across active phishing scam on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:19AM (#14802693)
Yeah whoever set this up knows very little about the web and has obviously purchased this. They have made a number of mistakes including not withholding their domain registration info! So the police actually have a name and address in the UK. Whether that is a decoy or not remains to be seen, but given the other mistakes that have been made I wouldn't be surprised if it was the attacker.

The site has already been reported to netcraft and is now showing as dangerous in chrome. Unfortunately this doesn't appear to show on mobiles, where most of the of the victims are falling for the scam.

Re:Advice wanted – Stumbled across active phishing scam on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:07PM (#14800069)
Yeah this should be possible, their emails are listed in the data. I suppose I could write a script that watches the log file and instantly warns anyone added to it.
Re:Advice wanted – Stumbled across active phishing scam on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:03PM (#14799147)
Have tried that and unfortunately the abuse email bounces :/

Advice wanted – Stumbled across active phishing scam

So yesterday I received a suspicious sms message with standard phishing speil asking to follow a link and renew a subscription to well known app.Out of interest I followed the link to see how the attack would work, and before I knew it I had discovered that the attacker had left directory listings enabled on their server!After looking through the PHP used to perform the scam, I could see that...

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Re:Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:53PM (#14547501)
> Ethereum is actually a platform for new kinds of decentralized (often financial) applications (dApps) that run on a peer-to-peer network of computers

There are a few very interesting things in the pipeline. Here are a few: https://golem.network/ https://status.im/ https://gnosis.pm/ https://basicattentiontoken.org/ https://augur.net/

Re:Should gifted students go to a separate school? on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:50PM (#13487027)
Strangely grammar schools still exist in Kent.

You have to sit an exam called the 11+ to enter which is much more like an IQ test than a standard subject based exam.

The most comman argument against them is that privelleged families can afford to tutor their kids specifically to pass this exam.

I was lucky enough to pass the exam, and while there definitely were instances of well off kids who had massive amounts of tutoring, the vast majority were from all kinds of different backgrounds, and levels of education.

For me it was an overwhelmingly positive experience, but I completely understand both sides of the argument.

Re:CraftCMS vs. WordPress vs. other CMSs on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:28PM (#12009655)
For your sanity please do not use Drupal 8! I have recently finished a very large project using Drupal 8 and it nearly killed me.

Without bashing it too much the main issues were severe lack of good documentation, bugs in the core, bugs in contributed modules and poor development workflow.

Funnily enough, as a result of this project I started investigating alternative cms's and from now on will be using Craft.

Initially I was concerned it wouldn't be suitable for a project as complex as the project above, so I spent a day or too recreating some of the more complex parts of that project with Craft and it was a dream!

The developer learning curve with Craft is one of the best I have ever seen with a cms. We now have devs who previously only did frontend using craft in no time.

Nothing but good things to say about it really!

Re:Show HN: Chaos-game – Play to create fractal images on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:12PM (#11099773)
Nice! Love fractals. I made something similar, its very buggy though: http://pixellab.jozefmaxted.co.uk/#/drawings/1249