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> But London and Switzerland are already working to ensure they don't get badly hit by the minimum tax rate, as they fear it will make their financial districts less attractive Well they're missing the point of this imposition,
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at@at.at And there's a HTML page for it: https://at.at/
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Linux x86/x86_64 Will Now Always Reserve the First 1MB of RAM
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Yes but disabling JS as a default wipes out whole classes of attacks against your browser. On top of disabling JS, just a simple AD blocker like uBlock Origin greatly diminishes the amount of profiling. There is no silver bullet however. It
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> FLoC is premised on a compelling idea: enable ad targeting without exposing users to risk The second you open your browser you are exposed to risk. Many times I have had to tweak the default settings of my browser to comply with my (no
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Obnam2 – A New Backup System
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You're just added to a (very large pool) of people who browse with JS turned off. Turning JS off as a default is a common thing.
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> A long token is used precisely because it is long and unguessable This. So much fun can be had by enumerating link shortener URLs. I've experimented with enumerating some services' URL schema. Most of the time the link pointe
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https://www.kerstner.at/2012/07/shortening-strings-using-bas...
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> My link shortening tool provides me with analytics I run a link shortener site, and use it privately and don't publicly expose the API. One thing I noticed regarding analytics, is that the click count is always skewed. When I post
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You can't detect if WebGL's turned on/off if JS is turned off. You need JS turned on to detect WebGL's presence
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Vivaldi – Spyware Watchdog
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> End the arms race on fingerprinting Google is known to fingerprint you on their sites[0] and this practice will continue unless some sort of political action is taken to make fingerprinting illegal. WebGL is not the only heuristic used
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> It doesn't say they file the taxes for you Yay for automation, but is using third parties to file taxes not open to fraud and potential error (if you don't do it yourself?)
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KDE Plasma 5.22 Released with Much Better Wayland Support
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Phones for me were always for consuming content, and I rarely 'created' anything with them. For creation I would use a standard desktop PC with Ubuntu and code to my heart's content. If you want a 'bicycle for the mind&#
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I always just done: font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; Well at least for CSS on the web. When designing posters I usually visit dafont.com to find something suitable. Remote webfonts don't even load for me since I turned
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Worth reading `Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? ' by Seth Godin > Seth Godin describes a Linchpin as somebody in an organization who is indispensable - who simply cannot be replaced because their role is just far too unique and valu
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Exploring the Vasulka PDF Archive
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Partnering with Anki
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> There's great power in scratching your own itch Yes I build for myself foremost, and if other people get to use my tool, then that's a bonus. However this comes with the caveat of having to build in business logic from the ge
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Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison
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Data privacy-focused NFT startup raises $2.3M in seed funding
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The European Union’s troubled Covid-19 vaccine rollout
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Maybe I'm missing something vital here, but why trust these `drug dealer` phones? What's wrong with using Signal on an encrypted Android device? Since the Encrochat scare I would imagine no dealer in their right mind would ever us
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I only use my Apple ID for getting apps from the app store. I have disabled all the 'cloud storage' features of iCloud for privacy reasons. iCloud isn't even encrypted[0]. It's a privacy nightmare. [0] https://
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Another plaintext PG link. Here's a HTTPS version of it: https://outline.com/yArYj7
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The No-Code Manifesto
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I started appreciating single duty snippets of code instead of creating large abstractions that tie together multiple snippets of code that all work together. I do this to set myself up for success. (Think of it as making the rungs on a lad
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Yes if you are dealing in small amounts that you wouldn't mind losing to fraudulent apps, then do it, but read my previous comment about locked down machines if dealing with very large transactions.
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