JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
When was the last time you bought a ThinkPad? This is my third one and suspend works. The Trackpad is great, with three buttons. 24 Gb of RAM, 11+ hour battery life in Linux, and a 4-year at-home next-day repair plan. It was $1,900 includin
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It wasn't done the right way in the past. Sometimes an implementation is 80% right and you just need to do a few things to get to 100%. It needs a better name than RSS/Atom. It should sound like English: "Subscribe to this we
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that. Mozilla should make that more prominent so that users who don't know what RSS/ATOM is could "subscribe to this website" with just a click.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Most podcasts that I've encountered lately don't have RSS feeds listed. You have to view source to find the URLs. The Internet needs to revive that open technology culture. Instead of Facebook/Twitter/G+/etc. subscr
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I'm referring to the after-close animation. To reproduce, open a Chrome window and open enough tabs to fill the top (ctrl-t), and then add a few more. Then click on a tab in the middle somewhere to select it. Close a few tabs quickly w
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Using underlines for input boxes is not clear. And the animation everywhere is very disturbing. I have high sensitivity to visual motion, which is a useful thing in most other situations, but the web is becoming increasingly difficult to us
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I had to know the answer, so I wrote a quick script to test it. It appears that incognito windows can't read cookies from normal windows. I've linked to the source code there. If I've missed anything, let me know. https:&#x2
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> The new "Refresh" design looks more closely to a user interface designed using the rules and guides from Google's visual design language known as "Material Design." That's the most worrying thing about it.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
If incognito mode is that broken in Chrome, and still allows sites that are open in normal tabs to track you, that would be very newsworthy.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
You can see all open Firefox tabs, including titles, with a button to the right of the tabs. You can move a tab to the right with ctrl-tab and back to the left with ctrl-shift-tab. If you go too far, just ctrl-shift-tab. How would you go to
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs. Worse than that is Chrome's way of animating tabs long after you close the tab. You close your tab, go back to what you're doing, and then the tab row animates to slide into a new p
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Are you sure about that? Wouldn't it mean that all third party trackers could continue to track you while in incognito mode? How could it be called incognito mode if sites can still read your non-incognito cookies?
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> People were delighted to have a walled garden where they only communicated with friends, instead of random drive-by trolls in the open. I spend most of my time on the open web, and don't see many drive-by trolls. I don't thin
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Why not just use VLC, gPodder, or another open media player?
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It sounds like a terrible idea. What if you don't have Android, Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon products, or even a smartphone at all? Smartphones collect too much information and it shouldn't be required to link all that data just to
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
In the top left of the matrix, click on the `.com` part of the domain. I think that will change the scope to all sites rather than the current domain. Then block the JS column. It should then be blocked by default when you go to new sites.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
That's like saying that you shouldn't bother eating healthily because if you're really concerned about heart disease you should just have heart removal surgery.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Sometimes "3rd party" JS is served from within the page. Also many sites are hacked and will cloak the JS depending on how you visit the site. It's especially common with hacked WordPress sites.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
In general, one should serve HTML on the web unless you're doing something that requires JavaScript. JS is a big security/privacy risk. At the moment, I keep JS and CSS off by default on my main browsing profile, overriding it w
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
We're reliving this: https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/uploads/post-12-1098049148...
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
You can add a version number to the query to get a specific version: https://www.google.com/search?q=postgres+functions+9.1
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
AMP causes many other problems, so it isn't really a solution. uMatrix is one way to block third-party scripts, but it requires some knowledge to use.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
uMatrix should fix that. https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It's easy to launch new Firefox profiles if you create an alias something like: $ alias ff='firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote &' You can also make desktop icons that open different profiles quickly.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
You can also run multiple Firefox profiles at the same time, each with different extensions. Something like: $ firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote & Also interesting: https://github.com/mozfreddyb/webext-fir
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
In addition to clean markup, render the HTML on the server and don't try to be too clever with the frontend code. Reading a lot about it and experimenting with many sites is the best way to learn. It requires more than just good conten
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
If you send your typing patterns for passwords, couldn't they be decrypted by using the other collected typing data? Or do they mean you just enter the TypingDNA password into TypingDNA? I'd be more interested in a tool that preve
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Also too much animation. Material Design has accessibility problems for motion sensitivity.
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Most consumers don't know what data Facebook has or what can be done with it. They do often have a helpless, fatalistic response though: "The Internet already has all of my data, so there's nothing I can do." They don&#x
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
What about Google's sharing of data with data brokers? Example: the wifi at Starbucks (run by Google) now appears to use Experian's API to verify that your email address exists in Experian's database. I would be surprised if

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