Tobu

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by Tobu 11y ago
Did you consider making a simple Chrome app of this?
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by Tobu 11y ago
A website I visit is using the new PageVisibility API to cover content with an annoying message if I switch away from their tab.
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by Tobu 11y ago
I don't think "good at executing bad code" applies for embedded CPUs. Of course, good code is still more the province of the compiler (with PGO for example).
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by Tobu 11y ago
I don't think it does, it's just a few bytes. There's a client with a different identifier for the major platforms (µTorrent on Mac, Linux, Android IIRC) but that doesn't include the OS version.
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by Tobu 11y ago
The code is still easy to find, but they threatened the main developer so he won't work on it anymore. I think they won this round.
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by Tobu 11y ago
The developer console can disable the cache so that you can edit websites live, is that what you're seeing? Also, I wonder if it's still slow if you restart with extensions disabled. There's a lot of hidden interactions in t
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by Tobu 11y ago
Funny you should say that, Git's fast-import format was adopted by most DVCSes for easy transfer of commits from a foreign repository. Transparent-ish proxies do exist, like git-remote-hg. Those others have different models for histo
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by Tobu 11y ago
I think I would introduce the new APIs through Jetpack (which has a formal separation between the extension proper and the APIs it uses, but ships the implementation for both). Once an extension uses only stabilised APIs (APIs taken from ch
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by Tobu 11y ago
Such a fluffy article. Here is what he's publishing: http://arxiv.org/find/cs/1/au:+Hinton_G/0/1/0/all/0/1 This seems to be a good introduction to the topic: http:/&#x
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by Tobu 11y ago
Yup, it's basically a spider. The Anticontainer plug-in enhances it to fetch images that are a few steps away from the original page. Looks like it just needs unrestricted XHR, which greasemonkey and every other chrome extension alre
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by Tobu 11y ago
OSes are getting hardened with a per-app security model (instead of per-account which you describe). Hardening Firefox so that it won't compromise itself through XPI (which are opaque to the OS) is part of a defense in depth strategy.
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by Tobu 11y ago
Feature parity is a meaningless term. Extensions currently have access to the entirety of Firefox internals. That huge internal surface couldn't be stabilised without stopping development entirely.
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by Tobu 11y ago
XPCOM has support for stable, versioned APIs, but no one cared about using that subset since the rest was also available; it stagnated and the supposedly unstable APIs ended up bearing the compatibility burden. Now there will only be a sup
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by Tobu 11y ago
Chrome did a similar change which led to a pretty spectacular drop: http://blog.chromium.org/2015/05/continuing-to-protect-chrom...
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by Tobu 11y ago
They'll probably be less broken, with a proper API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions#Additional_APIs That kind of keyboard permission could be used for keyloggers though, it's not something every extension s
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by Tobu 11y ago
Tab Mix Plus is explicitly mentioned as something they'll support: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions#Additional_APIs
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by Tobu 11y ago
They're using the WebExtension model of isolated extensions with permissions. They're not going to limit themselves to any competitor's API, they'll build a superset by consulting with the developers of popular extensio
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by Tobu 11y ago
Great news. With the current system, firefox's stability, upgrade compatibility and performance were entirely dependent on every author of every extension I use being sufficiently careful. It meant a lot of periodic purges, housekeepin
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by Tobu 11y ago
Hopefully enough has been altered that they can't be identified too easily. That said, it looks like they can, maybe should find better elsewhere.
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by Tobu 11y ago
xhtml worked like that, html5 has moved towards specifying the quirks that are used to deal with poor conformance. That said, if you look at a webdev console, things that cause poor performance (à la document.write) tend to be noted.
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by Tobu 11y ago
The novel part here is transducers and the funken package built on top of them, right? What are they used for, in your applications? The documentation is really terse and could use a few examples.
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by Tobu 12y ago
The next release (in six weeks) will also disable RC4 fallback, except for a few sites which are on a whitelist for one release after that.
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by Tobu 12y ago
The cross-compilation stuff is already addressed in the article. The jhybrid demo is a calculator and doesn't do storage.
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by Tobu 12y ago
> a magistrate judge with authority in any district where activities related to a crime may have occurred Weasely enough that the warrant-seeker could pick a pet court wherever they have computers. There's a judge who made Marshall
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by Tobu 12y ago
Just don't enable any filter lists. A while back you had to add them manually; now I think it's a matter of unchecking them in the first-run dialog. ABP also makes it easy to create very specific rules: only block a particular res
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by Tobu 12y ago
This doesn't work with the push to HTTPS. Either you use proxy connect, and Privoxy is no better than /etc/hosts blocking. Or you'd rely on the proxy's poorer and slower implementation of TLS. Certificate verifica
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by Tobu 12y ago
Not really. I have some integrists (Catholics) in my family, and they took the trouble to forward e-mails explaining that they didn't really like Charlie Hebdo, because it wasn't respectful towards any religion. In fact, they do
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by Tobu 12y ago
It's a worthwhile effort. If you just go with the first thing that goes through your head, you're probably repeating someone else's meme. It's a shitty thing to equate islamic terrorists (Al-Qaeda, in this case) with Isl
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by Tobu 12y ago
That /robots.txt does tell the other bots to not crawl most of the site. These results are unlikely to stay.
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by Tobu 12y ago
Sorry, but any self-moderated forum is going to have content you don't like and lack content you like. That subreddit has the community's self-moderation, which scales, and moderators who don't. The moderators' aren&#x

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