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by gkbrk 3y ago
Almost none of that money goes to the development of Firefox though.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
A huge number of people only use the internet with their phones, and Google is doing their best to tie the entire system to Google services and the Chrome browser.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Renders just fine on Firefox on Android as well. Doesn't have a weird zoom or scrolling on the horizontal axis like some "mobile friendly" websites either.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Gemini being part of the web is pretty baked-in. You can link to http:// pages from gemini, and gemini:// pages from HTTP. And all these links participate in the hyperlinked "Web". It even supports mime types
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by gkbrk 3y ago
1. Not all VPNs are paid, a lot of free VPNs and open proxies 2. Not all payment methods are connected to your identity. Mullvad for example accepts cash in an envelope, or cryptocurrency payments.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> Do you think the HN audience is unaware of ad blockers? Clearly some portion of the HN audience might be unaware, as they are in this thread complaining about ads.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Anonymity. Now the VPN operators and people who are watching the VPN logs don't know your IP.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> Linux security best practices of curl | bash I don't know who tells you about Linux security, but you should replace them. The best practice for installing software on Linux is to use the package manager and install from the repos
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by gkbrk 3y ago
And you don't consider that the website puts up a consent dialog because they want to (ab)use your personal data? No need to put a consent dialog if you are not stalking people.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Works on a few machines / connections I tried. Perhaps you should switch to a better browser or change your ISP if they don't let you visit websites that are on the web.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
https://www.gkbrk.com I write about a variety of topics including reverse engineering, amateur radio, digital signal processing, cryptography, machine learning, IT security etc. Just a static site built with Jekyll, along with s
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by gkbrk 3y ago
It is good practice to isolate any email/chat links from regular browser cookies, and similarly it is good practice to isolate PWA cookies from browser cookies. It's not expected that the browser to dig up auth tokens from the Ins
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Ahrefs operates their own crawler, and gets really valuable data from it. Source: My server logs.
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A Syntax for Self-Tracking (2020)(gibney.org)
81 points by gkbrk 3y ago|32 comments
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> Of course signal is open source, it’s on f-droid Even with their criticism, the author is giving Signal too much credit. Signal is not on F-Droid. Signal sends their lawyers after open-source app repos for including their app. I think
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Python insists on the difference between 2 spaces, 3 spaces, 1 tab, and 2 tabs; which is just wild. How is it that Perl works fine without all that noise, for chrissake? Or Javascript?
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Why should you need to? Just use a stable language, or a language that has a standard or a specification.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Slashdot
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by gkbrk 3y ago
If you access a piece of content over ipfs.io, and you don't have your browser set up to actually do those requests over a local IPFS daemon, you are not using IPFS. You are just using a normal centralized website.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
And one must have magical powers to enforce a contract that doesn't exist. Enforcing a hard-to-enforce contract is possible, and such contracts have been enforced before. You will have a more difficult time getting anyone to enforce go
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by gkbrk 3y ago
I think this can be translated pretty accurately as follows. You may not have a reason to trust Cloudflare, a company that you have no contract with, and a company that you do not pay, and a company that blocks most of the internet to peopl
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Based on the kernel boot time (28 ms) given by the author, this process takes 1.97 milliseconds. I'd consider this less "haha dum code is slow" and more "you are booting the kernel way too much, even a 1.97 millisecond d
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Langton's ant is really cool, especially considering the extremely simple rules. - At a white square, turn 90 degrees clockwise, flip the color of the square, move forward one unit. - At a black square, turn 90 degrees counter-clockwis
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Microsoft is not training their code autocomplete on parts of GPL/MIT/etc code that is not covered by copyright. They are training it on all of the codebase.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Elastic isn't really an OpenSearch competitor if you want an open source solution. When I check their Github, I see recent commits, merged pull requests etc. Doesn't look half-dead at all. I don't know if other open-source al
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by gkbrk 3y ago
All the other options that were mentioned are open-source and available to public usage. They actually exist. Mojo on the other hand has an empty Github repo, no downloads, and no public access. You need to get approval from Modular Inc bef
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by gkbrk 3y ago
It's standard to say 12h and expect this to read as 43200? Sounds like a lousy standard if the correct way to use it is to say "I want to delay by 12 hour seconds". What is even "12 hour seconds"?
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Appending to files should be atomic, so I don't think you'll run into any corruption issues just by appending.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> Well done, you’ve defeated link rot! Except you haven't, because anyone that wants to view these images where they are linked needs to know to change the URL to Haasie instead of Imgur. So all the links are still broken. And on to
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Because if you host your own email server, the email address has a domain or possibly IP address to point at your server. But getting domains, or getting IP addresses are both centralized. If you gave your email address to someone, you cann

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