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Are Plotly and/or Seaborn still the best Python packages to get these kind of visualisations out of the box? I am always looking for new ways to better visualise data in reporting, and some of these look very helpful in telling a story from data.


My (opinionated) take is that if you learn 4 basic plots, it will take you far. These are easy to do with Pandas. In fact, I think the easiest way to do Matplotlib is with pandas rather than the Matplotlib API.

I do pull out plotly for 3d scatter plots (for PCA visualization). Matplotlib is horrible for this.


Personally I find plotly hard to beat. Unless you're doing really fancy stuff, it gives you everything you need. Seaborn also a great option IMO.


At this point, legitimate companies buying credential dumps from cybercriminals might be the biggest spenders on cybercrime forums. The number of separate services offering "personas" to go buy these dumps is getting out of hand.

I understand wanting to protect your customers but at what point are they further funding and encouraging the infostealer actors?


Yes I did post an issue a while back, unfortunately it went with no response. I will try their Gitter and go from there.


Thanks, I think I'll try contact via Gitter. My last issue report has sat with no response for a while.


I wish they'd extend the option to the Daily Mixes. Sometimes they throw in a random song into an otherwise perfect Daily Mix.


The site itself looks like a front. It's the bare minimum of a website, a template and images with non-transparent backgrounds. Compounding with contact information not working, this should ring alarm bells for most.


For those who are curious what it looks like but don't want to visit it, here are shots from LambdaTest.

Desktop: https://i.imgur.com/moLNdTo.png

Mobile: https://i.imgur.com/ci5037w.png


please consider not using imgur.

it does not return the image even if the url directly points to it and does not work correctly with a lot of browsers.

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Good to know, what's a better alternative that doesn't require a login?


https://postimages.org/ is what I've taken to using, once Imgur became bloated and annoying to upload to.

(FWIW, the direct link to Imgur images above do work for me, as in loading only the images. I have JS disabled, but I don't think that makes a difference in this case.)


The imgur link doesn't work for me and I'm running Firefox with JS disabled.

I just get a text saying:

If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work.

EDIT: I've disabled showing the referer in Firefox and the link works fine now. Imgur must be looking at the referer and redirecting when coming in from outside the website.


What could be the risk visiting the site?


It's not about risk, it's about it being annoying. When I click a link where the hostname is i.imgur.com and the path ends with jpg/png/gif, I want my browser to load a single image resource and not an HTML page.


And, somewhat randomly: A list of countries and what they claim to be the IPs in that country on a subdomain:

http://countries.openportstats.com/


>It's the bare minimum of a website, a template and images with non-transparent backgrounds.

To be honest, if I were doing a pretty bare bones but legit web app that was of the more informative type and did not have to have much customer engagement, a template or an unoriginal design like that is likely something I would use.


Not saying the site is legit, but there's nothing wrong with using a template with some simple custom images. People on HN are constantly complaining about overengineered websites.


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