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by ccouzens 4y ago
There have been a couple of these posts recently and they all contain the same flaw. They talk about their experience on an iPhone and assume it's true on all ecosystems. It's not true for mine (Firefox and Android). When followin
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by ccouzens 4y ago
It has gotten so bad that I now wait to I'm on my laptop before I post to Facebook. I did try the app again recently and it was bad in other ways (eg not using my phone's photo picker. As the photo I wanted was on a cloud service
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by ccouzens 4y ago
My reply is also to the parent comment. This behaviour is possible because most browsers aren't configured to block third party cookies. Make sure you've set yours to do so, and embedded content like Facebook's like button
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by ccouzens 4y ago
My solution to not having content aggregator sites like hacker news cluttering up my history is to use them from a private tab. I suppose on the desktop you could also use Firefox's containers.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Peagasus is an evolving product. Probably the early versions are useless these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)#Development_... I wouldn't be surprised if it hasn't always been at full ef
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by ccouzens 4y ago
It's in the /dev/ folder so it looks like a device file provided by the operating system. But it's not. It's a bash built in pseudo file. So it should work in bash on other operating systems.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
It puts the device owner in charge rather than the network owner. I've checked, my android gives me the option to reconfigure it including turning it off. It makes DNS based advert adding Impossible. Hopefully this is the end of captiv
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Is this open source? Does anyone have a link to the code?
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> It is also the US who made Apple back off of encrypting iCloud backups E2E. I think it's maths preventing e2e backup. E2E supports sending messages to known devices. Backups need to support unknown devices in order to restore to y
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by ccouzens 4y ago
I can't try Chrome out on my work iPhone because Apple won't let me download a free app without first signing into their store. That and other things make me doubt the sincerity of their privacy push. Why do I have a work iPhone?
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Long press the timestamp to open a tweet in a new tab. This is a UI convention shared with Facebook and hacker news. Tested in Android Firefox on https://mobile.twitter.com/home .
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by ccouzens 4y ago
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62a22d5bd3bf7... This is a comparison about the difficulties (real and perceived) about switching between platforms. It gives me the impression that Apple goes out of thei
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> Does it even make sense to talk about an Android "stranglehold" when the OS is forkable and many vendors have their own spins on it, There are improvements to be had here. > The agreement (to pre-install Google play) place
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> From my experience using Firefox on Android, very few websites care about compatibility with it. I get an inferior version of Facebook on mobile Firefox compared to mobile Chrome. What other sites have caused you problems?
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by ccouzens 4y ago
And this is the press release itself. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-plans-market-investig... The pdf from the original article doesn't work. https://www.gov.uk/government/publica
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by ccouzens 4y ago
On Windows and Mac docker is run in a virtual machine without full access to the host's files so root is less of a problem. Even though docker runs natively on Linux, perhaps a similar vm setup can be achieved for security reasons. I u
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> iCloud ... backup > E2EE If you can lose all your existing devices, and can still restore your data, then that data isn't end to end encrypted. I'm taking the "end" in e2ee to mean your devices. Nothing but your
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by ccouzens 4y ago
just the one external screen (two screens total including internal). https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/specs/ People have gotten round it by connecting additional screens using display link adapters.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
My phone does that on the lock screen too, but it works it out from sampling sound, so it "integrates" with everything from someone's AppleTV to an Alexa.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Just because you're using an IDE doesn't mean you can't use a second tool simultaneously. It sounds like using a second program to add and commit files to git would work better for you. (I've not spent much time with vis
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by ccouzens 4y ago
If you search for Android or iOS within this page, practically everything that happens for one happens for the other https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investig... The report is about the app befo
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Is the prompt about the app requesting your permission using the API designed for that? And is the counter about the app making background data requests? Any network request can be used to infer permissions from your IP address? That IP add
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> Docker is useful if you have multiple applications with different versions of the same dependencies running on the same machine, as well as for deploying onto any machine Different languages get a different amount of boost here. Ruby i
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by ccouzens 4y ago
If this doesn't work nicely for you, you're probably running X11 rather than Wayland.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
Maybe pressing both together registers as a the third button?
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by ccouzens 4y ago
https://medium.com/p/302f83a362a3 There's a heading "This is how we made it fast" about 1/3 of the way down if you'd like to skip the introduction and background.
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by ccouzens 4y ago
I've got a Fastly compute@edge service. My state is relatively small (less than a MB of JSON) and only changes every few hours. So I compile the state into the binary and deploy that. I can share a blog post about this if there is inte
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by ccouzens 4y ago
My work ThinkPad (Carbon X1 gen 8)'s touchpad is fine. The gestures work fine with Fedora. The touchpad wasn't a downgrade after coming from a work MBP running OSX. In some ways it's better because I can use 3 finger click to
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by ccouzens 4y ago
> not unix If it was built against a different Unix (say Solaris) it still wouldn't help MacOS
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by ccouzens 4y ago
When I used a Mac at work .DS_Store files on shared drives were annoying. It meant directories loaded with someone else's preferences about how it should be shown.

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