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by gkya 9y ago
I don't believe password managers need autocompletion to insert passwords etc. Doesn't it only disable the completion popup?
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by gkya 9y ago
How does autocomplete=off affect password managers?
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by gkya 9y ago
Quantum is a great improvement to Firefox. I'm running 57.0b14 ATM (normally I'm quite conservative with anything except Emacs) and quite pleased. The performance improvements are quite noticable. Though I do wish they created
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by gkya 9y ago
It's not onto Google or someone else to decide good or bad coding practices, and implement this sort of precautions breaking standards.
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Intel ME (in Libreboot FAQ)(libreboot.org)
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by gkya 9y ago
Emoji fanboys I guess... I seem to not be able to vouch for it. Is it a karma thing or can't one vouch for submissions?
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by gkya 9y ago
Hi, very useful stuff, thanks! A tiny nitpick: if you have a little description in the page title it's easier to find it when searching the bookmarks. It's easy to append a bit more information when bookmarking on desktop, but wh
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by gkya 9y ago
I'd rather the original title of the article if it's not too long or is deceiving the HNers. The original title is kind-of clickbaity but not really deceitful at all, so I suggest we keep the original title here.
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by gkya 9y ago
There is a reference to a study on the topic elsewhere on the thread, and in the article itself, if I'm not mistaken. Also AFAIK it's not required to be a medical doctor to talk about these issues here, and not everyone has a lis
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by gkya 9y ago
Yeah whatever you don't like is evil fearmongering. And they don't even say trying it will drive you nuts.
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by gkya 9y ago
Well it was useless to begin with anyways, as it's just kindly asking ad-publishers to please not track you, which is the closest thing we have to the platonic idea of naivety.
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by gkya 9y ago
:) I find it really hard to follow news from movies because often they use things like Squarespace and Wix, and these motherf^W^W^W^W^W^Wsaints never have any feeds. You have a mailing list to follow if you're lucky, and usually the
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by gkya 9y ago
> Apparently turning on "Do Not Track" has long been known as a way to single you out on the web. You'll help them narrow you down by about three orders of magnitude. It was a silly idea to begin with. Wouldn't that b
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by gkya 9y ago
> Fingerprints use information that’s gathered passively from your browser such as the version number, operating system, screen resolution, language, list of browser plugins and the list of fonts you have installed. Why any of this infor
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by gkya 9y ago
It's very strictly controlled by the council, and I guess it also participates in the production and sales.
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by gkya 9y ago
It was all Catholic before the schism. And the rest is just silly minor errors. The translations of the players' names are very wrong. So what. What's important is as a stambouliote I've felt my huge hate and my huge love
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by gkya 9y ago
Calm down. I can trust the academicians in the field. Also the world is more than the US. And I'm fed up with having to trust my data with possibly/usually incompetent people (and sometimes one really has to, e.g. my schools on
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by gkya 9y ago
I guess we need a kind of CE mark for websites. Some standardisation and an approval mechanism for security and reliability. We wouldn't trust our closest friendss with our banking accounts but we do use websites without any guarante
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by gkya 9y ago
- If I'm not mistaken Quicklisp does allow different versions of a package coexist. - Hutchentoot is very popular. Haven't used though. - If you want common lisp only, IDK, but Clojure has Datomic. Though wrt databases, I'd
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by gkya 9y ago
That their business model is to get the money move as much as possible, as they charge per transaction.
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by gkya 9y ago
I see quite a bit of signatures there. Create your own Patreon. It needs not be porn or erotica specific, but it should not be that hard to build a similar service with more ample freedoms to content creators. And given most of these peo
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by gkya 9y ago
> Another day, another technology that gained momentum thanks to adult content abandoning that high risk/high cost demographic for less turbulent waters . Wut? I heard patreon via Crash Course, and the Greens are among the founders
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The Smalltalk-80 Programming System [video, 18:44] (1983)(m.youtube.com)
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by gkya 9y ago
I guess most of us saw it for the first time used in the url bar. It did surprise me too altho I knew how they were used to embed images and such.
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by gkya 9y ago
Thanks, this is half if what I meant; the other half being the inverse: the producers and the marketers have present a very remote, inorganic knowledge of their customers' preferences, only a shadow of their ideas. If they were set fr
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by gkya 9y ago
Plato's cave comes to my mind... Also, whomever I talk to, from the most techy to least (and I'm a humanities student so nearly all my usual contacts are non-techies), I hear they want sturdier phones. Most people use protective
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by gkya 9y ago
Just after the upgrade I can say that everything looks crisper. This might be because I just recompiled Emacs for this week (I follow master), or because default fonts changed, or because Gnome 3.24 -> 3.26, or because Wayland, or some
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by gkya 9y ago
> The Ubuntu GNOME flavor has been discontinued. If you are using Ubuntu GNOME, you will be upgraded to Ubuntu. Choose the Ubuntu session from the cog on the login screen if you would like the default Ubuntu experience. Installing "
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by gkya 9y ago
I do not only write code.
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by gkya 9y ago
Mechanical machines are really satisfying, for their tactileness and simplicity. I have a typewriter, watching real impressions appear on real paper is way more fulfilling, and the organicness of the interaction is not even nearly matched

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