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by 3xblah 7y ago
"... as intended." There's the catch. The web developer's intent does not necessarily align with the user's. The developer wants to use Javascript. What does the user want? The simple example is a website that ju
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Try disabling Javascript.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Solution: Use alternative HTML parser lynx -tagsoup https://www.google.com/search?q=whatever The program will now display search result URLs as visible links.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"I spent a lot of time with photos (Picasa) trying to do peer to peer..." As I recall, one of Google's many "failed" projects was a means for transferring large numbers of photos person to person called "HELLO&
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by 3xblah 7y ago
However if you can get a correspondent to also set up their own mail server, then you may realise the pleasure of emailing directly from sender's server to recipient's, without using third party email "services" and thir
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"... the web browser is a mess." s/web/graphical &/
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by 3xblah 7y ago
General policies * Should not break useful websites or apps * Blocks tracking servers * Blocks advertising servers * Blocks analytics servers * Blocks fake websites * Blocks malware ser
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Ah, no. What if the network is up, but the server is down. If the network were the issue, Chrome could log the attempts to a local store then send the report when the network is up again.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The trend I see is that an enormous amount of effort is made to make "centralisation" easy, while a relatively minute effort goes toward making "decentralisation" easy. Another name for decentralisaton in this context (
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Perhaps by doing the monitoring client-side they can get reports both on successful attempts to create a calendar event as well as unsuccessful attempts to create a calendar event. For example, even if the browser for some reason cannot
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by 3xblah 7y ago
sed = 1.txt Use small buffer. No need to fit all the data into memory.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
ChromeOS/Chrome gets new update and sure enough, problem is partially "fixed". Now there is a new settings page: chrome://settings/content/all These settings seems to stick, however the ability to globall
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by 3xblah 7y ago
One theory is that the update is making it impossible for Chrome to save settings when in Guest Mode and chrooted in Developer Mode. Probably not intentional but frustrating because it will neither be noticed nor fixed by Google.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
One opinion, possibly shared by others, is that small programs are actually more versatile than larger ones. The obvious example is working with text in UNIX versus in a large, graphical program with, e.g., cascading menus full of features
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by 3xblah 7y ago
No one has yet mentioned but some people have built special keypads for inputting hexadecimal addresses. I remember seeing a patent a number of years ago for an "IPv6 keyboard". Not sure if he ever tried to mass produce it. A w
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"But many of the questions related to software embedded internally in Google's Chrome browser that employees worried was designed to monitor large gatherings. The software engages when employees try to create meetings for 100 or m
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Perhaps there haven't been enough tutorials showing how to implement constant-time fixed-base scalar multiplication."
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"At the end of the day, the price that you and I pay, whether it is for the print copy or digital, it is only a very small part of the revenue. The price paid for the printed copy was by no means sustaining the newspaper business. It w
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by 3xblah 7y ago
A third party is supplying the answers but not necessarily the third party the user thinks she is using. Sometimes we can bypass this by using non-standard ports for DNS.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"ISPs providing DNS and caching was a key part of the Pai FCC's reclassification of ISPs as an "information service"..." I thought the same thing when I read about that decision. Many try to label DNS as "intr
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by 3xblah 7y ago
There was a time, before Google existed, when the "top result" was not assumed to be the "best" result. The researcher was expected to examine more than just the first entry in a list of citations. Google advertising t
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Is there a difference between loopless and " largely loopless". https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28370/loop_... The wiki author, who also wrote J for C Programmers, never uses
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Maybe they are not "infrastructure". Maybe they are actually middlemen.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"A bold assumption with no citations." https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado... The author of the Yale LJ Note assumed that there is in fact a conscious desire on the part of investors
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by 3xblah 7y ago
IME, it really depends on the website. If the user normally has Javascript disabled, then suddenly enables it on a graphical browser while visiting a news website, look out. Dumpster fire indeed. The user's computer resources are qui
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by 3xblah 7y ago
How about measuring zone file access programs? How many users utilise the full number of existing domain names in the world today? How many names do users realistically need to access in a lifetime? What if we exclude ad servers and other d
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Will there be any alternatives to those black box devices from Google, Amazon, etc.?
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by 3xblah 7y ago
s/queries/packets/
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by 3xblah 7y ago
I personally run CurveDNS but here is a quick and dirty script to show how DNSCrypt might be used to encrypt DNS traffic between stub resolvers or caches and authoritative servers, if authoritative DNS providers used dnscrypt-wrapper. To d

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