doctor_radium

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by doctor_radium 2y ago
If it comes to it, the military.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Hmm, but there are ways of streaming video that don't have traditional Play/Pause/etc. buttons. If there's no way to turn it off, how can Chrome "learn my preferences"? Maybe it can sense me swearing? Not a Chr
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
The page doesn't load in Opera Mini. It just hangs on the SVG busy dots. Wonder if it works in Pale Moon?
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
In the past a Cloudflare representative typically appears in these threads, and if that's happened, I missed it. Not to mention the MVP's comment in the locked Cloudflare thread that "You should use an up to date major browse
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
> Otherwise they'd have to support every possible engine which is infeasible. If I understand correctly, this is why I've said on previous Cloudflare threads that they've managed to design a game they can never win. They p
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
In concept that's a good idea, but the fingerprinting potential is VAST: user-agent, TLS, JavaScript quirks, CSS, Canvas, proprietary features like Chrome's Topics, maybe WebGL, WebUSB, etc. In practice it's very hard to do.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
If you're thinking of Google's WEI, I'm thankful that went down in flames: "Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websit
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
On one hand, I'm okay with that. If Cloudflare or some other self-appointed Internet cop blocks me from a site, I just go somewhere else, and I hope the site goes out of business as a result...which happens to businesses everyday for a
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
> Whatcha gonna do, take Cloudflare to court for blocking your access to your bank? Under what law is that illegal? In the USA, I think it would be worth trying to sue Cloudflare for either "free speech" or "public nuisanc
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Newbie questions: How do you debug an interpreter when you aren't coding for it directly? How far does fuzzing strings of opcodes get you? How much practical difference is there between a server side WASM engine and a browser-based one
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Location: Pennsylvania, USA Remote: absolutely Willing to relocate: no, but limited travel OK Technologies: more a sysadmin, jack-of-all-trades type than a developer, but I can bang something out in Java, Python, JavaScript, PHP,
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Somehow I wasn't previously familiar with about:compat, which led me down a rabbit hole to finding about:about. Great stuff!
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Early fall 2023 it certainly feels like I caught Verizon discriminating against Firefox. It was a CSS issue in their payment portal where some information wasn't rendering as a DHTML popup but at the bottom of the page. You could still
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Hopefully the law is written broadly enough to include algorithm-driven decisions that existed long before the current "AI" trend.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I've rolled my eyes for years over when this sort of thing would happen for real: "score 3000 points at Pac Man and maybe we'll let you view our web site". +1 for the technical achievement, but I turn and run at Cloudf
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I wrote a Zork-style text game in high school as an end-of-year project on a TRS80 model III, using its built-in BASIC. There were three stages of the game, and all was going well until I ran out of RAM. :( Stage 1 was complete, though. For
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I live in the US and have never heard of a phone that uses a different technology for emergency calls vs. normal calls. Why is this? Is it worldwide? As for the problem itself, I can understand government regulators not wanting to micro-man
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Of the obvious fake job postings I've seen, I always assumed they were attempts at Russian or Chinese espionage. Example: for a very brief time I was a US DoD contractor.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Agreed, and I know Opera is Chinese-owned, but Opera's web site still lists their headquarters as Norway. Doesn't this still make them a Norwegian company, with some safeguards against abuse? Not sure if any EU laws might also com
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I get what you're saying, and on a philosophical level you're probably right. If a website owner misconfigures their CDN to the point of impeding legitimate traffic then they can fail like businesses do everyday. Survival of the f
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Hey, same here! For better or worse, I use Opera Mini for much of my mobile browsing, and it fares far worse than Firefox with uBlock Origin and ResistFingerprinting. I complained about this roughly a year ago on a similar HN thread, on whi
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I had a conversation with a web site owner about this once. There apparently is such a feature, a way for sites to configure a "Please contact us here if you're having trouble reaching our site" page...usage of which I assume
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Skimmed the article and it seemed like a lot of speculation and redacted military communications. From Wikipedia: On February 16, 2023, US President Joe Biden stated that the downed object was probably a civilian-owned balloon and "mos
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Assuming a compatible phone and a compatible carrier (AFAIK AT&T and Verizon both still operate white lists), no there's nothing stopping you. There are/were US users who bought Sailfish over VPN. But for official hardware at
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Is this possibly the first pushback against "app culture" ever?? Then it's a long time coming. "App" has been my most hated word in the English language for at least 5 or 6 years. Myself, I never fell into the trap
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
https://www.firstenergycorp.com/ https://www.truist.com/
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Ask HN: Inappropriate Uses of WebAssembly
2 points by doctor_radium 2y ago|1 comments
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by doctor_radium 3y ago
Not sure I'd go that far but do wish the story had a few more details. Did the reporter talk to his friend/girlfriend, or to any of his peers? Lots of people own vintage cars. Lots of people collect something. Some people own vint
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by doctor_radium 3y ago
I am starting to make a collection of such sites. Wonder if UBlock Origin would be interested in adding them to a new or existing "annoyances" filter list?
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by doctor_radium 3y ago
Speaking as a person who hopes to contribute a non-trivial amount of code to a little known web browser sometime in the coming year...yes.

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