Chirael

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by Chirael 7y ago
To be fair, they're generally around the same quality as Master locks. :D
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by Chirael 7y ago
See "Analog: The Last Defense Against DRM" [0] [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/analog-last-defense-ag...
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by Chirael 7y ago
It seems like this change by Firefox would bypass a pi-hole. Am I understanding it correctly?
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by Chirael 7y ago
Yes please. I hate articles like this that tell you what Facebook will now allow you to do... but don't give you the actual link where you could do it yourself _right now_. Makes me think these articles are actually Facebook PR which w
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by Chirael 7y ago
I would love a button or menu action to RESET my window to the standard size in regular Firefox but so far I can’t find any easy way to do it. You’d think an extension would do it but when I checked, all the extensions related to window siz
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by Chirael 7y ago
Also, if I'm researching a product or category and find several articles discussing it, knowing which ones have affiliate links allows me to weight them appropriately (i.e., discount the affiliate articles somewhat, and give more weigh
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by Chirael 7y ago
Quick filter is a power user way to clean out email like a hot knife through butter. GMail is a good product but for this particular use case Thunderbird blows it out of the water. I felt, and still feel, that Thunderbird is for 'serio
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by Chirael 7y ago
I worked at the help desk when I was in college back in the 90s and our mantra to users (and ourselves) was “save often and make backups”. We figured the more people we could inculcate that practice into, the fewer “I’ve been writing all af
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by Chirael 7y ago
Probably true. But I notice, not infrequently, that stuff which is posted to HN ends up showing up on other news sites a day or two later. So I get the feeling some reporters/writers mine HN for content/ideas regularly which would
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by Chirael 7y ago
I thought I was going to have to build something like this myself but finally found a “good enough” app (ABC / Always Be in Contact). It has a few warts but since it’s free I can’t complain and it’s definitely helped me stay in touch w
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by Chirael 7y ago
I’m not sure about a term, but the Underhanded C Contest [1] is (another) great example. [1] http://www.underhanded-c.org/
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by Chirael 7y ago
I’d really love it if HN allowed me to save in my profile a simple “hide from me” list of domains, so I could say just don’t show me wsj.com, nytimes.com etc.
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by Chirael 7y ago
It's absolutely unbelievable that something like this could occur in modern society. It makes me fearful for the future, not convinced that we are much more advanced than aggressive apes. The way everyone else in the court just ignores
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by Chirael 7y ago
If two or three tenants in a row move out and cite sky high power costs due to poor insulation as the reason, the landlord will notice and do something about it. One tenant is a fluke, several all saying the same thing over a few years is a
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by Chirael 7y ago
When traveling, to keep bandwidth usage down I exclusively use Firefox as my iPhone browser because of its ability to turn off images. Turns out most web pages are actually a lot better with only text.
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by Chirael 7y ago
I went to bookmark this site as a hosting company supporting a ton of languages, only to see that I’d already bookmarked it back in 2006. So I guess they’ve been around for a while :)
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by Chirael 7y ago
I understand why authors do it, but to me the credibility of a post like this is severely undermined when I see affiliate referral links.
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by Chirael 7y ago
I don’t know that web pages would have have access to user chrome settings but I still have to ask, do any of those changes make browser fingerprinting easier?
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by Chirael 7y ago
I recently noticed that Windows 10 helpfully automatically opens up your browser(s) when you restart your computer so you can pick up right where you left off [1]. That’s great because you don’t need to question whether going right into you
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by Chirael 7y ago
I think it’s basically the same problem as small businesses, people have this psychological expectation that I’m too small to target. They don’t realize that they are just another IP address or email address in a sea of IP/email addres
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by Chirael 7y ago
I got a new computer recently (old one died), and because of this change I will not install Chrome on the new computer. I’m planning to use Edge for anything Google-specific like Google Docs or Sheets, and Firefox for everything else. Unfor
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by Chirael 7y ago
OK thanks, I added it
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by Chirael 7y ago
I’m in Providence but have no idea how to send a DM on HN; if you can see the email on my profile feel free to send something
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by Chirael 7y ago
The other downside is that if you have a laptop and take it outside your home network, the ads will reappear.
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by Chirael 7y ago
In environments where use of Chrome is forced on us (e.g., a workplace), with this change will we still at least be able to use NoScript to protect from drive-by malware downloads? If uBlock Origin is going to go away from Chrome, my first
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by Chirael 7y ago
I use OneNote... just kidding, I actually use TiddlyWiki
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by Chirael 7y ago
Looks like it. I had the same yellow "One or more installed add-ons cannot be verified and have been disabled" banner in the Tor browser as in Firefox, the NoScript extension icon is missing, and I went to two different "do I
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by Chirael 7y ago
Just discovered the same message in the Tor browser, and it seems that NoScript got disabled. So people running Tor are a lot more vulnerable right now. Also, wow, the web has a ton of ads. I've been running uBlock origin so long I for
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by Chirael 8y ago
I've been using it for 2-3 years now on a Chromebook I converted to dual-boot with one of the options being Linux Mint on a USB. I don't use it every day but I do use it probably one a week for something vital. So I want to second
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So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux(richardmavis.info)
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