Yahoo! just announced TONIGHT they are releasing a "Chrome killer" of a browser: Yahoo! Axis

CRASNY · 2012-05-25T00:27:49.672611+00:00

I know, right? I'm amazed that it's lasted the years it already has.

I was pretty sure when yahoo had the recent round of layoffs that pipes was going to be dismantled. What follows is just a guess. Maybe pipes is "too small to fail" (it has a has half a dozen employees or whatever) that the MBAs that lead the downsizing ignored it.

But I bet < 0.5% of the public would even know the phrase "yahoo pipes".

Pipes makes zero effort to market itself. I'm certain that it eventually will be shut down or more likely merged with something.

CRASNY · 2012-05-24T17:18:21.267438+00:00

the implementation makes me want to tear my hair out.

For me going through all my pipes to see which of them use fetch page is beyond hair pulling. It's an express ride to hell. At this point - I really don't remember which use that module and which don't.

drgath's mention of YQL reminded me that it might be time to give up on pipes. Beyond everything else YQL is likely to be supported for a long time. Pipes could be shut down anytime.

I'm going to start to learn about YQL in depth. I might get frustrated and quit. But at least I won't have to deal with pipes anymore.

Wastebreed · 2012-05-24T17:04:39.028775+00:00

I have posted the original and have never hid the fact that the photo is shopped...

Photoshop can easily become a fucking visual auto-tune. Hey look everybody - I'm creative!

What you're doing is the sleek digital equivalent of those horrible (yet pricy) Hawaiian "art" prints. They have a marine theme with a jumping dolphin and the background is "the universe".

At least some of them are so awful and ridiculously over-the-top - like if they add a tiger to the dolphin and universe - that they have a perverse charm.

But your work is entirely charmless button pushing photoshop with a bullshit title.

You should thank me. Because I'm right and your friends should have told you a long time ago.

So - pardon me if I don't want this reddit to become filled with digital mashups that belong as a prints on the walls of a cheap and tacky hotel.

I have actually posted a few times that it is shopped in these comments.

Hey everybody - I still want karma! Hey! I know the universe wasn't really there, but still...

Next time you could add a tiger too. At least you'd be posting something Reddit has never seen before.

Aloj · 2012-05-24T14:23:50.502043+00:00

A history channel TV series that devotes one episode per state.

Nevada - aliens
Texas - aliens
Idaho - aliens
...

lordlicorice · 2012-05-24T13:32:19.991006+00:00

This is what I noticed:

He is one of only eight federal officials in American history to be impeached and removed from office.

Eight... I wonder how many federal officials there have been in American history.

Wastebreed · 2012-05-24T13:25:34.194584+00:00

ITAP and photoshopped it - Earth from the window of my 747!

FTFY as in Fuck That Fuck You.

therationalparent · 2012-05-24T13:18:56.910707+00:00

submitted 1 hour ago

How do you say "Don't re-invent the wheel" in Greek?

Google and ye shall find.

I don't know if this is any good - Encyclopedia Mythica: Pronunciation guide - but it's the top result.

I also have the same issue with dinosaur names...

I think you get the idea.

Jon-A · 2012-05-24T05:56:32.785076-07:00

Well... I made it to 0:37. What do I win?

AmericanDerp · 2012-05-24T12:44:51.128176+00:00

Blog post from the guy who raised the issue.

New Web Order - Yahoo Axis Chrome Extension Leaks Private Certificate File

Implications

The clearest implication is that with the private certificate file and a fake extension you can create a spoofed package that captures all web traffic, including passwords, session cookies, etc. The easiest way to get this installed onto a victims machine would be to DNS spoof the update URL. The next time the extension attempts to update it will silently install and run the spoofed extension.

I immediately reported this to Yahoo! on their security contact address and have yet to hear back.

CRASNY · 2012-05-24T03:35:55.513881-07:00

Yahoo! and back to the future technology - a winning combo!™

CRASNY · 2012-05-24T10:32:04.685565+00:00

they've managed to ruin their games section

I use yahoo chess (because I'm cheap and I'm lazy) and it's pretty crappy.

There's a flaw that allows jerks to use obnoxious software to boot everybody in a game room. The software floods everybody in a game room with pings. And doing that boots everybody.
Clocks often are broken. People with zero seconds can keep moving, etc.
The 3 moves (by each player) stalemate rule is broken. Sometimes near identical (but not identical) moves incorrectly make the game a draw.
Yahoo has things set up so it's easy for people to cheat with chess engines.
Spam can be a problem. But It seems they finally have the upper hand on spam. I haven't seen any spam this year. Maybe I shouldn't say "finally". "Temporarily" could be a better word.

The only saving grace of yahoo's ineptitude is that I can use adblock to block all the ads.

CRASNY · 2012-05-24T03:17:04.030012-07:00

New Web Order - Yahoo Axis Chrome Extension Leaks Private Certificate File

Implications

The clearest implication is that with the private certificate file and a fake extension you can create a spoofed package that captures all web traffic, including passwords, session cookies, etc. The easiest way to get this installed onto a victims machine would be to DNS spoof the update URL. The next time the extension attempts to update it will silently install and run the spoofed extension.

I immediately reported this to Yahoo! on their security contact address and have yet to hear back.

Sheesh.

CRASNY · 2012-05-24T10:12:32.227995+00:00

Let's start with an example - example.com has a daily cartoon that I want to grab.

With pipes...

Basically the biggest job is that I scrape the site

Everything else is likely to be minor details. All I have to do is focus on the scrape. If I create the pipe on a Monday and it works (and example.com isn't stupidly designed) I can assume that the code will work everyday. Pipes takes care of all the details. I don't have to even think for one second about anything else.

I'm very fuzzy about how YQL works. I mean, I've used the YQL module (as an alternative to fetch page) but I can't say I really understand it.

This is how I envision YQL alone without pipes

A host site holds my code.
The 1,001 gritty details (time-outs and who knows what) I never worry about in pipes are now things I have to worry about.

How close am I to the way things are? Maybe it's time I "leave the nest" and - if I can - try to make my own code with YQL.

Armond404 · 2012-05-24T04:53:46.113674+00:00

It's not the Onion but it's not fucking news either.

LimeWire: Injunction

In early 2011, the RIAA announced their intention to sue LimeWire, pursuing a statutory damages theory that claimed up to $75 trillion in damages – a sum greater than the current GDP of the entire global economy.

CRASNY · 2012-05-23T21:50:03.783813-07:00

That's true. When pipes manages to work smoothly stuff like filtering and sorting are really nice.

CRASNY · 2012-05-24T04:47:40.727814+00:00

It's the only mashup editor currently alive. All the other ones are dead (Google, Microsoft) or are toys (Intel, etc). I assume there are also very expensive editors designed for mid and large sized corporations - those are useless for me.

In fact - for me (a non-programmer) pipes is the only way to do "simple" stuff like this:

Grab the feed of a site with editorial cartoons.
For each feed item - scrape the page.
Put the full-size image into the description
Create a new RSS feed.

I would have abandoned pipes years ago if I could have. It's a shame whoever is responsible keeps fucking pipes up. [Edit - Haha, I started to rant more... I should try to be positive: maybe one day there will be an alternative.]

Mozen · 1 day

Thanks - it looks interesting: Customer Reviews: The Human Zoo

CRASNY · 1 day

Why would I want this?

I bet it's like Yahoo Pipes:

Yahoo pipes - in a nutshell

Yahoo is total crap at explaining the "why" of pipes. I've used it for years and I'm dreading the day it gets cancelled. Yahoo has made nearly zero effort telling the public at large about it. All they did is give it a cute tag line "Rewire the web". I bet one day there will be a very short pipes blog post saying that in a week pipes will be turned off.
Pipes has lots of bugs. And some bugs have existed - no exaggeration - for years.
Pipes has nearly no support for its users (non-programmers and programmers). There's no bug list. The forum doesn't even support code tags. Beginner/introductory videos break over and over and stay broken for months (years?) at a time. I could go on...
The pipes team treats its users like crap. I learned the other day that fetch page module (aka scrape page) is going to be phased out in a very stupid way. They aren't keeping it as a legacy thing. A new x-path based module is replacing it and fetch page is simply getting turned off. There's no backwards compatibility. That's like if built-in js functions were killed. Poof. Pipes using it will break. Lots of published pipes use fetch page. All of them will break. For me personally - fixing/checking my pipes would take dozens of hours (at least) and I'm supposedly using Pipes for "fun". All of my neato feeds will die. Nice job "rewiring the net" Yahoo...

Hawkwer27 · 1 day

Favorites

Lenny Breau
Bill Frisell

Traditional

Django Reinhardt [Most tracks will have Stephane Grappelli too. But skip all other "gypsy jazz" since they just rip them off.]

Not exactly recent

Grant Green
Emily Remler [She died young so she didn't record much as a leader.]

Contemporary

Kenny Burrell

Jazz-rock

Jeff Beck [His jazz-rock albums from the 1970s.]

ancient88 · 1 day

I was amused that it took him nearly a month to realize he wasn't including a link in his posts.

ancient88 · 1 day

Right now I can imagine analyst at a computer at the NSA (or wherever) testing out software he wrote. He leaves for the day. The software chugs away.

He comes back to the office and the next day

ID: Thinkyt
NOTES: iPhone, social media scan & other data
suggest possible criminal activity has occured.

The analyst gets a promotion six months later when Thinkyt is arrested after the corpse of this girlfriend is found.

ancient88 · 1 day

She probably knows anyway via your GPS data.

Edit #1

↓↓↓↓ POSTS_IN_BABYTALK -95 points 11 minutes ago (12|107)

Haha. I know that's not a record. But I've never seen so much negative karma happen so fast. It's like a black hole of negativity.

Edit #2

POSTS_IN_BABYTALK is probably headed for 4 digits worth of negative karma.

Tyrion_Panhandler · 1 day

Offbeat would have been better. A cartoonist and magazine having a "nah-nah-nah" argument isn't really news.

MusicWithoutWords · 2 days

Apparently he just put out one album: "Sweet Sister Funk" by Ramon Morris - Grooveshark.

MusicWithoutWords

TROPHY CASE

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