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by franky47 8y ago
The author mentions learning how to properly format metadata to have links unfurl nicely in Slack and other social media platforms. Are there any debugging tools that let you see what an URL would look like on all platforms at once, without
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by franky47 8y ago
The issue of advertising and marketing pressure towards a conforming image of what "young males" should be/look/smell like is a similar one to that of females. Not conforming to this image is often seen as a rebellious a
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by franky47 8y ago
The short film "Period, End of Sentence." [1] won an Oscar this year, depicting Indian women taking control of the production process of pads manufacturing. In a strange sense, while that process helped women gain a bit of control
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This "life tax" is hardly a surprise when most governments and boards of directors are made of mostly men, who have been taught not to ever speak about these issues (a taboo due to religious or social beliefs). Now if there's
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by franky47 8y ago
I use Exodus Privacy [1] to learn more about what SDKs and permissions are used by the app before even installing it, and as a last line of defense, NetGuard [2] which is an open-source VPN-based firewall that lets you block requests to som
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by franky47 8y ago
It depends on the point of view, for startups looking for a tech solution at a small scale to test their products, these solutions are usually much cheaper than doing everything by yourself. It's only when you start to scale that you r
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by franky47 8y ago
Any centralization of power, at large enough a scale, will escalate to such problems, it's not limited to social media. One tech field where this kind of centralization is now at similar levels with social media is cloud computing, whe
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by franky47 8y ago
It refreshes every 5 seconds, and uses the data from the petition JSON API (just add .json to a petition URL).
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by franky47 8y ago
It relies on the JSON enpoints of the petition API to be up, and with all the load they are unstable at the moment.
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I made a progress bar against the NoDeal counter-petition: https://brexit-petitions-count.now.sh (Pending API availability)
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I made a progress bar with React to compare it to the NoDeal petition, for when the JSON endpoints come back up: https://brexit-petitions-count.now.sh/
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Nice ! This is something that could be listed on https://free-for.dev
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Telegram got some bad press in France after it was revealed that some terrorist groups used it to coordinate their attacks [1]. Now most non-tech people I talk to about alternative messaging platforms know it as "The terrorist messagi
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by franky47 8y ago
Signal on Android relies upon Google Play Services for the microphone and camera permissions, which can't be turned off. It is open-source [1] so one could install it without going through the Google Play Store (it's not on F-Droi
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by franky47 8y ago
Google Wave was a lot of fun back on the day, they were just experimenting with real-time editing that ended up in Docs, but it sure led to some crazy conversations :)
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You get Spotify URLs for each song, that still counts as lock-in. For European residents, if you request a copy of your data (GDPR), you get your playlists as JSON. Granted, the data is not very elaborated, but it's a start: {
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by franky47 8y ago
Excited to see webassembly moving forward. I feel like the issue of feature detection [1] will be more and more relevant now that browsers start implementing parts of the specification at different rates. [1] https://github.com&#
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SIMD in WebAssembly – Tales from the Bleeding Edge(brionv.com)
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Very nice tool ! Quick suggestion: consider adding user-select: none on the color selection buttons, on mobile it triggers text selection popups.
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I wouldn't go as far as to say we "trust" our governments. But having privacy tools to ensure both corporations and governments stay off the path to mass data collection on their users/citizens can only be a good thing.
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I also use that, but I find it faster and more straightforward to just drag the window edge, especially when devtools are not opened. One example is using browser and editor side-by-side on a single macOS split-full-screen.
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by franky47 8y ago
Nor be stored for later retrieval. Such a firewall, when disabled, would essentially have to restore the whole page memory to how it was when it was enabled, and block access to localStorage / IndexedDB / Cookies / Cache.
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While I welcome another way to fight the constant tracking that we've come to know and love, this is, in my case, a break of workflow [1]. I do responsive web design, and spend a considerable amount of time resizing my browser window a
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Somehow I expected it to be about the life of a tracking pixel, through ad networks, CDNs, iframes, and it's ultimate legacy as small point of data in an analytics log trace.
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I use Bitwarden for TOTP generation, this is how I use it for command line TOTP code generation, with NPM's 2FA as an example: npm publish . --otp $(bw get totp npm) Note: it requires the Bitwarden vault to be unlocked for the
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by franky47 8y ago
That /.well-known/change-password redirection is very clever. Easy to implement, and could automate a lot of things (good or bad, obviously it relies on your password change strategy to be good [0]). I've only discovered (iro
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by franky47 8y ago
I like the "Time Machine" feature of going back 1 (to N) year(s) in the past, it brings a lot of insight as to how technologies and trends evolved (for those of us who have only recently joined Hacker News).
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They also have recently opened a public discussion on how to build secure apps in Rust: https://github.com/ANSSI-FR/rust-guide
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French citizen here. For as long as I can remember, there's been a strong will in the French FLOSS communities to develop local alternatives to the ever-expanding reach of the FAANG/GAFAM, for many reasons. The obvious one being t
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by franky47 8y ago
This is a very nice tool, well done ! My wishlist of nicethingstohave would be: - A choice of camelCase output for attributes (JSX-friendly) - multiple selection and download

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