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by akersten 1y ago
I'm not really grokking the explanation in the article of why the SameSite cookie attribute doesn't fix CSRF. I thought that was the whole design intent of SameSite=Secure on an HTTPS cookie, was to fix CSRF. Can someone boil it d
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by akersten 1y ago
> Having an official Google domain that anyone can hijack is dangerous, This makes me wonder if they're retiring sites.google.com any time soon?
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by akersten 1y ago
Is there a look back period? What stops me from selling my business to my buddy the day I leave and then buying it back the day after?
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by akersten 1y ago
> specifically semiconductor design tools required for developing high performance computing I call that EDA for brevity > Can you do that with KiCAD? Yes, depending how you define "high performance computing" (my question
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by akersten 1y ago
So what's the secret sauce that cadence is not allowed to sell to personas non gratas? The article just says EDA tools but that's so broad. Is KiCAD export restricted?
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by akersten 1y ago
If we're to regain any ground here we need to adjust the messaging wrt terms like "wild west" - that's precisely the kind of terminology that scares the average voter into thinking the government needs to do something
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by akersten 1y ago
> If this pans out for them, as cryptographically it will but remains to be how vendors and implementations handle it at scale, then they can introduce voting from your phone — the previously-unattainable holy grail of modern democracy —
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by akersten 1y ago
> If you take that outcome as inevitable, I don't and I wish Google et al would take a god damned stand against it. All it takes is 2 or 3 big companies to just not play along with the destruction of the open internet (the very sa
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by akersten 1y ago
> that bothered to implement hardware-to-app attestation chaining live in production end-user devices This is why it's important that initiatives like Web Environment Integrity fail. Once the tools are in place, they will always be
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by akersten 1y ago
Anticheat might throw a fit
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by akersten 1y ago
In my experience, Samsung is a label that means "stay far, far away." From the Galaxy Note fiasco to my microwave to my dishwasher to ... Probably at least three other products before I learned my lesson. I even refuse to buy QD-O
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by akersten 1y ago
Harder than it sounds! So much of what we interact with online winds up with YouTube in the dependency chain. Kids' coursework, how-to videos, etc. I could also just pay the $$/month to "solve" this problem, but I need m
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by akersten 1y ago
Thank you for your important work fighting this battle, it must be exhausting. The more Google insists on forcing advertising on us, the more we should look closely at the wildly inappropriate and downright scammy ads they are hosting. If
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by akersten 2y ago
- Why is picker a function like `::picker(select)`, and not a CSS pseudo class like `::before` to select the `select`'s `picker` component? I.e., `select::picker` makes a lot more sense to me. - What about multi-choice (`multiple` attr
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by akersten 2y ago
I was really excited about the new UniFi G3 access card reader claiming support for iPhone unlock until I realized it's $5/year/device. It just seems like a slow boil into subscriptions for a company whose entire value prop i
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by akersten 2y ago
It's also not a novel threat model. For example prior art, the browser confirmation dialogs in Firefox at least don't enable their buttons until the window has had focus for 500ms or so. Possibly to avoid inadvertently unintention
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by akersten 2y ago
> I was eventually kicked off Woah, can you expand on that? Did you get IP banned from YouTube?
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Google to use digital driver's licenses to verify the age of website users(nfcw.com)
4 points by akersten 2y ago|0 comments
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by akersten 2y ago
Is it a CFAA violation to check a box that says "I'm not a robot" when you are, in fact, a robot? I know we've had some victories recently for web scraping like the hiQ case, but I don't remember it it covered bypas
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by akersten 2y ago
The most genuinely bad and frustrating part of the new control panel that made me ask "did literally anyone even test this for 5 minutes" are any of the pages where you have a list of things longer than 6 or 7 items. Like per-app
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by akersten 2y ago
Even the fair use argument is putting the cart before the horse. I would think these plaintiffs need to convince a court that the works are derivative first, and iff they are derivative, then the fair use argument can be made (that the repr
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2024(backblaze.com)
8 points by akersten 2y ago|0 comments
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by akersten 2y ago
Also when I close a single line code with `, the formatting stays as if I'm writing more code. It should reset to whatever formatting was before the opening `
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by akersten 2y ago
It's not hidden in about:config thankfully. It's a checkbox in about:preferences labelled "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement"
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by akersten 2y ago
> We also expanded Web AdAttributionKit (formerly Private Click Measurement) as a replacement for tracking parameters in URL to help developers understand the performance of their marketing campaigns even under Private Browsing. Without
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by akersten 2y ago
Yeah, those cheering this on are missing the trees for the forest - laws with these kind of identity/age validation requirements are the path to normalizing deep bureaucratic integration with the internet at large, it's dishearten
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by akersten 2y ago
This is great, I hope they look into fixing addictive music next. Chechnya is way ahead of the game on solving these societal woes [0]. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/europe/chechnya-music-ban-scl...
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by akersten 3y ago
Math, however, is uniquely identified in the law as non-patentable.
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by akersten 3y ago
I've never used firebase before. But are you saying that, in it's default configuration , anyone who registers a firebase account has R/W access to any firebase database as long as the database owner forgot to put that line
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by akersten 3y ago
How am I supposed to know I'm committing fraud versus just being very good at negotiating?

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