Sidnicious

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by Sidnicious 10y ago
I'd say yes. Defer-in-<head> works just like bottom-of-<body>, except the browser can start downloading and parsing the scripts right away (and in parallel if it wants).
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
One difference: when a script executes in the <head>, the <body> doesn't exist yet — document.body is null. A <script src="…" defer> always runs with a body, which is nice in any case since it keeps scripts
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
To see this error page without disconnecting from the internet, visit chrome://network-error/-106.
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Philips Hue app disables light control until users accept updated firmware, T&Cs(twitter.com)
24 points by Sidnicious 10y ago|6 comments
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
I played with ‘The Lab’ a little in an open space with a Vive. It was an intensely magical technological experience. (So was Tilt Brush.) Exploring an environment in VR can’t be compared to exploring one on a screen, because the objects hav
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Definitely, but according to one of the linked articles, the goal of the project was to demonstrate why key escrow is broken in general, not just these locks: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/hopeconf/videos&#
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
I'm not aware of any tool to automate regular backups of cloud services, even though many of them have “download everything” buttons like this now (awesome). That sounds like a thing that should exist.
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
The OS X equivalent of an iOS passcode is FileVault. Its current incarnation (v2) uses full disk encryption and doesn't have a (known) backdoor. (v1 used per-user encryption but didn't protect the rest of the disk, and v3 might us
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Only in plain text mode, sadly. If you send an HTML message, a plain text version gets included, too, which isn't auto-wrapped. It's encoded as quoted-printable instead, which keeps lines short enough to be legal for SMTP but ca
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Very cool! Going by the acronym, are you trying to make a Stallman-ish IMAP client that works well offline and only needs an occasional Internet connection to sync?
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Last I heard, service centers have to request these files from Apple on a case-by-case basis, so that only a small number of people need the ability to generate them. All of the complexity (writing a nonce to flash when the firmware passwor
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Maybe not so amusing! As far as I know, you’ll need to take the machine apart to reflash it, plus special hardware — because when a firmware password is set, a Mac requires the password to choose a different boot disk. with this feature, Ap
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
You can grow a RAID-Z “vertically” like this, but can't grow it horizontally by adding disks… which is frustrating. (I'm also frustrated that it's not possible to change redundancy within a vdev — e.g. go from RAID-Z1 to RAID
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Woah, I've been struggling with the idea of “going to conferences” (on the list of distractions). I have personal projects that I want to finish (not a startup), and the conferences I enjoy tend to feature people showing off their own
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Yes. It's been approved for capital punishment in the US state of Oklahoma: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-oklahoma-came-to... Also search for “exit bag”. You’ll find instructional images, as wel
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
> Coin 2.0 is equipped with contactless NFC technology that increases merchant compatibility and allows users to transact using EMV payment standards.
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Could you elaborate on this? Apple Pay et. al are "contactless EMV", and Coin very explicitly says that they support it for some banks: https://support.onlycoin.com/hc/en-us/articles/207353218-Wha...
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Coin 2.0 supports it via NFC (through agreements with banks, similar to Apple Pay, AFAIK). That's what Fitbit would want.
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
I just installed this. It's a really good keyboard: responsive, and "glide" typing and corrections work implausibly well. I haven't tried the search features yet, but it's winning me over from the stock keyboard.
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
It doesn't — by default, Homebrew lives in /usr/local/bin/, which is already in the default $PATH on OS X.
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
> I specifically said "as a developer" to make clear that my requirements in this respect are not necessarily the same as those of an ordinary user. I was speaking as a developer, too. What kinds of things do you count as nee
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
> And the user can unmask them just as easily. It's not at all the same as having root access. I don't think so. Running as your user, I could add an entry to your .bashrc that execs your shell with an injected shared library
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
It's interesting, lately I've been changing my view on this and looking at everything outside of my home directory as the realm of my OS maintainer (Apple or some Linux distro's community). I configure my package managers (br
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Off topic, check out the uninstall instructions. Uninstallation is bad on OS X, and it would be amazing if someone could come up with a nice, general answer (like Sparkle did for updates). On topic, this is great work.
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by Sidnicious 11y ago
I use IRC over SSL to avoid leaking my credentials (e.g. NickServ password). You can certainly assume that at least one person in a given channel is logging or on a compromised connection, but that's not the whole point.
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by Sidnicious 11y ago
They plan to: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/marking-http...
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by Sidnicious 11y ago
This seems like an example of how things are broken. Women are penalized[1] as employees because, unlike men, they might take maternity leave someday. One solution is to give everyone parental leave — and some countries do. [1]: https:&#
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by Sidnicious 11y ago
The framing of this put a bad taste in my mouth. A few weeks ago, Amazon sent out notifications that basically said "you must run this binary blob on your device or you'll no longer be able to use it with our service" without
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go-exc: a tiny exception handling library for Golang(github.com)
1 points by Sidnicious 11y ago|0 comments
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by Sidnicious 11y ago
One interesting use: https://vimeo.com/157990864 This library lets visitors rearrange the books organically (if you pull out multiple books on a topic, you're encouraged to put them back on the shelf together instead o

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