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by dngray 7y ago
Eugh. Every time these vim distributions get mentioned I shiver. Have a read of: https://old.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/92a9y0/whats_your_hone... for some context. In all seriousness though they tend to c
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by dngray 7y ago
I used to use a Macbook, in fact I had two of them. I used the as my daily driver from 2008-2014. I have also used Linux on my workstation, (development machine) that doubled as a Windows gaming workstation and on my servers. When it came t
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by dngray 7y ago
I have to admit it's a pretty ugly manual. Some of those formulas were really blurry, while some of the tables spanned weirdly over pages. The hosting issues could have been fixed as well if it was LaTeX as it would have been neat in a
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by dngray 7y ago
There is https://lobste.rs but that often just has what hit the top page on here. If you're looking for new content then I'd suggest looking at research paper sites like https://arxiv.org or other eprint ar
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by dngray 7y ago
I think the purpose is advertising targeting kids disguised as child safety. > KidSwitch works by evaluating a number of signals in a content session (gesture patterns, content interaction, hardware inputs etc). These are all the sorts
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by dngray 7y ago
> It lives in a private NextCloud instance, so everything's available from my laptop or phone (although editing markdown on a phone is no fun). Have you tried Markor? https://github.com/gsantner/markor#screens
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by dngray 7y ago
> Well Cisco wrote the code so it has to be in some way intentional but it doesn't necessarily mean it was done maliciously though. It could a private developer key used for testing accidentally got pushed out in production code or
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by dngray 7y ago
> People sometimes read "backdoor" as something intentionally left by an insider for later use by themselves or others. And considering you can never know if someone else knows about it, that means you can never know if it wa
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by dngray 7y ago
Really what you're saying is that if you open source your product the degree of shittyness will be then obvious to everyone, and that security by obscurity keeps the managers happy because they think there is less work.
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by dngray 7y ago
> Backdoors aren't bugs like most others. Buffer overflows happen because someone mistypes or forgets a length check, etc. > Backdoors are unusual: They happen because someone writes code of the form addAccount("s3kr3e&qu
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by dngray 7y ago
It's not something that Apple openly markets as being a reason why you should buy them so my guess would be a lot less than you think, because of cost to do so. Whereas with Macbooks they openly tout that https://www.apple.c
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by dngray 7y ago
> When my Airpods die, I'll take them back to my local Applestore to be recycled. Which isn't going to solve the problem the article talks about. They will have to dispose of those lithium ion batteries like everyone else.
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by dngray 7y ago
> hands-free phone calls and indulge in music on the go without having to lug another large device around You've pretty much described any ear-bud/canal earphone. The point is there's choices that have removable batterie
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by dngray 7y ago
I see so many teenagers these days with those things in their ears. It makes me facepalm every time I see it. Makes me feel good that I got such a good deal on my Audio-Technica ATH-IM04s. They were normally $700 US but now they are end-of
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by dngray 7y ago
I would say this entire post is spam in order to generate traffic towards said shitty blog. Given that OPs account is only 1 hour old at the time of posting that makes sense.
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by dngray 7y ago
> Following up on this, I found an article[0] claiming that it isn't really an issue since a pure CSS keylogger can only catch one character. That reminds me of: • Stealing Data With CSS: Attack and Defense https://ww
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by dngray 7y ago
The reason I don't use it is because it can make your browser fingerprint more unique. As a result I use uBlock, uMatrix, Temporary containers. More info about that configuration here: https://github.com/dngray/gha
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by dngray 7y ago
My point is that if you don't allow, the two requests, the page still loads and you don't have to answer any questions. www.engadget.com -- script https://consent.cmp.oath.com/cmp.js 3p www.engadget.com -
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by dngray 7y ago
> But AFAICT from the bloomberg article, at least (I won't go through the Oath hoops to read engadget), I didn't need to allow oath that to read that. I have my browser configured like so https://github.com/go
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by dngray 7y ago
I don't agree with this article. > Set your secret as the value of an environment variable, then in your program have a section that reads that data and assigns it to a constant that can be accessed wherever it is needed. I would
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by dngray 7y ago
> https://riot.im aka Matrix, (Riot is the main client) is a good one because it is decentralized and federated. This means there can be many servers and they can all be linked up. Additionally IRC can be be bridged among oth
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by dngray 8y ago
We've documented it here: https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-android The setup is aimed to minimize
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by dngray 8y ago
I tried out Brief. It looks nice but there are a couple of problems: 1) There also doesn't seem to be a way to sort them by date or alphabetical order or domain.[0][1] 2) It seems like it should be possible to 'group' feeds,
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by dngray 8y ago
I was looking at this the other day[0] I actually think Brief[1] might even be better than the RSS support that was in Firefox. I haven't tried it yet but I intend to. I use Thunderbird as well, and that has RSS support but to me that
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by dngray 8y ago
How does that compare to CleanURLs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/ I only ever used CleanURLs, but I have seen Neat URL mentioned. I rather like Clean URLs (seems more maintaine
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by dngray 8y ago
I use https://yadm.io to manage my dotfiles. What I did was created a fork, ie https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop Then I added it as a submodule, ie "yadm submodule add
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by dngray 8y ago
That's exactly what I did. * https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-desktop * https://github.com/dngray/ghacks-user.js/tree/fx-android