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by Sephr 1y ago
For some startups (mostly dealing with local and self-hosted software), it may be a better option to offer perpetual license grants to the product being worked on as opposed to equity in the startup itself. This encourages employees to make
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by Sephr 1y ago
The new CEO isn't any better. According to their first CEO (Brendan Eich) "Mozilla is being looted now, mitchell taking $38M+ out over 9 years was just a start"
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by Sephr 1y ago
Android does not require this if the app developer instructs users to disable battery optimizations for the app so that it can poll for notifications itself.
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by Sephr 1y ago
I think the point the parent comment is making is that companies shouldn't be able to trademark common phrases with their usual spelling. 'Dev mode' is a common short form for 'developer mode' which has extensive us
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by Sephr 1y ago
> does not monitor motion This doesn't mean that they can't monitor motion (e.g. as compelled via NSL). This product sorely needs E2EE.
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by Sephr 1y ago
> “Fingerprinting has always been a concern in the privacy community, but until now, we had no hard proof that it was actually being used to track users,” said Dr. Nitesh Saxena, cybersecurity researcher, professor of computer science an
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by Sephr 1y ago
Can the creator /user/bill_yang explain this contradiction in the readme? It claims to support tracking unique users, but then immediately afterwards claims not to track users. Do you mean that you don't do any user tracking
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22-inch foldable external display(uperfect.com)
8 points by Sephr 1y ago|10 comments
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by Sephr 1y ago
Awesome! I was making exactly this library 13 years ago but only made it as far as creating CSS and other asset inlining+normalization tools before I ran into a few major roadblocks. The most significant roadblock was that drawing SVG <f
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by Sephr 2y ago
To achieve an ESM-only future, we can't have features that only work in non-ESM. Browsers don't support synchronous blocking loading and execution of ESM scripts.
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by Sephr 2y ago
If only Ladybird development had taken off sooner. The best balance of {respectful defaults, security, privacy, extensibility} out of the top 5 browsers seems to be Brave[1] for now, which isn't the most ideal situation. 1. https:&#x2
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by Sephr 2y ago
I've substantially expanded and revised this article since the initial posting. Also dang says that a small amount of reposts for stuff that hasn't taken off is okay: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#repos
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Choosing a Browser(eligrey.com)
1 points by Sephr 2y ago|2 comments
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Choosing a Browser(eligrey.com)
3 points by Sephr 2y ago|0 comments
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by Sephr 2y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA, US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Web full-stack (deep -- cross-browser support, old & new environments, niche single-browser-formats, etc.), node.js, deno. Privacy and security expert:
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by Sephr 2y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification
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by Sephr 2y ago
Both companies are known for highly invasive tracking.
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by Sephr 2y ago
This only comes up after searching for Google
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by Sephr 2y ago
> the scrolling probably isn't intentional What makes you believe that? It's pretty clearly intentional even if it only applies to Chromium browsers.
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by Sephr 2y ago
I never said that it misleads people into thinking that they might be on Google. The aspects that you're bringing up aren't particularly relevant since everything you're describing is auto scrolled away.
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by Sephr 2y ago
This behavior is clearly intended to confuse the user, with the effect of making inattentive users think that they aren't on Bing. On mobile, you never see the Bing header due to the auto scrolling behavior. If any other company tried
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Bing Is Impersonating Google(bing.com)
9 points by Sephr 2y ago|5 comments
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by Sephr 2y ago
When you search for 'Google' on Bing, you are currently presented with a fake Google-esque search page that displays and auto-focuses a new empty search field. Microsoft is misleading people into thinking that they are on another
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by Sephr 2y ago
To be fair, Honey could easily bypass the blocklist redistribution legal issue by downloading filter lists at runtime from the official source. Then they aren't redistributing the resources. Update: It looks like they're also usin
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by Sephr 2y ago
Privacy-first generally entails designing the service on a technical level to be unable to leak personal data. A promise not to store your data is not sufficient.
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by Sephr 2y ago
A hosted service for this is underwhelming, especially with Chrome shipping on-device AI models and APIs that can also handle summarization.
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by Sephr 2y ago
Mozilla doesn't seem to care much about creating linkrot. They've previously deleted a bunch of historical docs such as their JavaScript engine release notes with changelog information.
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by Sephr 2y ago
Well, no human blood. A Waymo has hit a dog in what seemed like an unavoidable accident.
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by Sephr 2y ago
> These days browsers may expose how many cores your device's CPU has to websites. This information could be determined prior to the introduction of navigator.hardwareConcurrency. I published a timing attack polyfill that derives th
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by Sephr 2y ago
Agreed that users need more baseline protections. Separately, privacy signals are being required by law in some regions. If we're going to have browser level privacy signals in the first place, we might as well support and use them as

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