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by ccouzens 5y ago
Google is no saint, but they don't sell your data.
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by ccouzens 5y ago
In a lot of ways web apps are more native and a better experience. "Native" apps often bring their own file picker and their own camera control for no good reason. Web apps use the native versions. It's easy to run multiple i
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Facebook's mobile website works well enough. They keep pushing me to use their lite app, but I suspect it's not in my benefit. The web app is a bit buggy (only the first few photos load on an image post), but there's no reaso
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Maybe no one wants sites wrapped in an app, but some of us do want to use the site through our web browser. So please keep on building web sites/web apps :)
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by ccouzens 5y ago
With a web app you're able to use the same app on your laptop. And it doesn't lock you in to having to buy an iPhone for your next phone.
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by ccouzens 5y ago
I've got a reasonably cheap screen with USBC input. The screen is the hub. It's great, as I only need to plug in one cable and my laptop is powered, connected to both my external monitors (displayport mst) and USB peripherals. It&
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by ccouzens 5y ago
I use fedora gnome desktop and although it could be better, I'm happy with the scaling. The native apps like the terminal and Firefox scale perfectly. When in-between screens one screen may show the window very zoomed in, but when tota
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Google doesn't sell your data. What they do do is use your data to decide what adverts to show you. If they sold your data, they'd risk a rival company buying it and making a better ad network.
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Do they sell your data, or does your data allow them to profit by showing you more targeted ads?
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by ccouzens 5y ago
The majority of the changes in iOS 15 are updates to system apps. Your Samsung galaxy s9 will be recieving updates to the equivalent apps.
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Next week on HN: School teachers able to determine which students have been using their phones in class by looking at battery charge before and after.
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by ccouzens 5y ago
> 7 years of software updates I read this as requiring some software on the device to be updated every now and again for 7 years. I believe most Androids receive updates on the bundled Google apps for approximately that time period. The
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by ccouzens 5y ago
Chrome requires android 7 (about 5 years old). Firefox requires android 5 (about 7 years old). Very old phones don't get browser updates. https://m.apkpure.com/google-chrome-fast-secure/com.android.... https:&#x2
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by ccouzens 5y ago
YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Google Maps all have good enough experiences using a mobile web browser. You don't need their app to access their content.
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by ccouzens 5y ago
If the different versions have different parameters but share a path you won't be able to document them using openAPI
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by ccouzens 6y ago
Macs show an advert for iCloud after most large updates. Maybe it doesn't show up if you're signed in. And "search with google" keeps pushing you to safari https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793530
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by ccouzens 6y ago
I don't know much about nix. Does it solve the security problem by preventing access to the majority of your home directory? Or solve it by only allowing you to install vetted libraries?
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by ccouzens 6y ago
Are most of the database's files within the container's filesystem (as opposed to a volume mount)? Most of the performance issues with Docker on Mac happen in setups where source code or other files are volume mounted from the Mac
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by ccouzens 6y ago
It's a shame it didn't work out for you. > we have WSL 2 on Windows which is what I use My new work laptop runs Windows, so I'm interested in WSL2. I gather that it has good integration with Windows (eg you can type notepa
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by ccouzens 6y ago
My first attempt at this configuration was using a podman container (my laptop runs Fedora). It worked well, except that I occasionally want to run a container within my dev-environment. Running a container inside a container is possible, b
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by ccouzens 6y ago
> Wouldn't simple running a docker instance both be less cumbersome, far more resource efficient, and quick to iterate, than literally installing an OS on a virtual disk? On Mac, docker works by installing a VM- so the two aren&#x27
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by ccouzens 6y ago
I think running your dev environment in a VM is the future on all platforms. As developers we trust so many different libraries. And it is important that they are safe when used in production code. But we shouldn't have to worry about
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by ccouzens 6y ago
Wikipedia (Encarta, Encyclopedia Britannica)
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by ccouzens 6y ago
bcrypt(plaintext) != bcrypt(plaintext) The output of the function includes a random salt. The verify function looks like verify(plaintext, hash) This is why the bcrypt cyphertext needs to be stored
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by ccouzens 6y ago
> sandbox your games. There's a reason I run Steam in a flatpak, on Wayland If flatpak works perfectly, I suppose an attacker could still steal the "cookie" that automatically logs you into Steam. Ideally you want Steam to
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by ccouzens 7y ago
I have created OpenAPI (Swagger) schemas for Keycloak's admin rest API. https://github.com/ccouzens/keycloak-openapi/tree/master/key... Hopefully these are useful to other people. See the parent dir