Flimm

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   by Flimm 3y ago

   I've set Brave Search to be my default search engine for private windows (incognito mode). I've grown annoyed by the cookie consent dialogs and captchas that are presented to me by Google when I open Google's search engine in
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   Shufflecake: Plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux(shufflecake.net)

   4 points by Flimm 3y ago|1 comments
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   by Flimm 4y ago

   There is django-zen-queries[0], mentioned in another comment. [0] https://github.com/dabapps/django-zen-queries
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   by Flimm 4y ago

   Privacy is not the only use-case. Some users need to monitor data usage to avoid bills they cannot afford.
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   Ask HN: Which progressive web apps (PWA) do you use, if any?

   7 points by Flimm 4y ago|12 comments
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   by Flimm 4y ago

   How would they be affected by this, either positively or negatively? The people who don't use virtual environments tend not to use pip either.
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   by Flimm 4y ago

   Also, the order of the containers isn't synced properly. When you have a few containers, it's helpful to have container configured in the same order on every device you use.
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   by Flimm 4y ago

   This is great news! Thank you Petter Reinholdtsen for putting in the work to do this.
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   by Flimm 4y ago

   Webmasters can ensure that browsers only load their websites over port 443 by submitting their domain to the HSTS Preload List. Surprisingly, google.com is not on this list: https://hstspreload.org/?domain=google.com
10. 160.▲
    by Flimm 4y ago

    You're in for a treat: that library already exists and has been ported to multiple programming languages: http://docopt.org
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    I like Python 3. It eliminated a whole category of encoding/decoding errors. Even Python 2 codebases benefited from it, as libraries were updated to handle Unicode better in an effort to achieve compatibility with Python 3. I didn&#x27
12. 162.▲
    by Flimm 4y ago

    Migrating from LastPass to another password manager is actually a pretty easy process. Many password managers can import passwords from LastPass.
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    Todoist allows you to to create a repetitive tasks (that restarts the clock after task completion) by typing "every!" with an exclamation mark.
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    The book The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton caused me to experience several lightbulb moments. Before reading this book, I didn't understand whether central banks truly could create money out of thin air, and why some countries (USA,
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    Just to give you all heads up, only the first part of the article is available for free, the rest of the article is behind a paywall.
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    But aren't iPhones popular in the US? Signal on iOS never supported SMS to begin with.
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    I read the blog post with delight. I have been waiting for this change for a long time. I opened HN comments to join in what I thought would be a celebration, and I was surprised to find dismay. It never occurred to me to encourage my frien
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    All copyleft software is Free software (as defined by the FSF), but not all Free software is copyleft. So it's incorrect to say that all Free software licenses obligate you to share your changes to the source code. Permissive licenses
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    You can sign up for a Google account without signing up for a Gmail account.
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    Thank you for spending time reading privacy policies. I'm glad someone is looking at them. What keeps you motivated to do this (boring) work?
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    I see two links, including one to the Coinbase blog.
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    Some countries use a comma as the decimal point. So it's not obvious to everyone that 3,900 == 3900
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    This is the polar opposite of abusive behaviour.
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    It's not. Also, WHOIS privacy is banned for .us domains, unlike .com domains.
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    JMAP is not JavaScript embedded in email. Are you thinking of something else?
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    I completely agree. Use anything except LastPass, I found it to be really buggy, which makes me wonder how secure it can be if bugs that users notice don't get fixed. Granted I haven't used it for a couple of years, but I'm n
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    The article isn't complaining about in-app browsers per se, but that Instagram implements a special version of an in-app browser that injects Javascript code to track user behaviour. If you have noticed TikTok doing the same thing, ple
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    iOS provides a way of showing a browser that looks like it's within the app from which it is launched. This is not what Instagram is doing. Instagram is doing something different from what other apps like Telegram do, according to the
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    My proposal: 1. Browsers should ship with a set of fonts used just in the web browser that web designers can count on. Right now, there isn't a font I can count on finding in Chrome on all platforms. This especially matters for non-Eng
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    by Flimm 4y ago

    Looks fantastic. There are a lot of rough edges when building a string representing an SQL query in the programming language that you're using. You have to be careful to avoid SQL injections, for starters. Do the bindings for PRQL inno