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Moz: //Gfx Newsletter #51(mozillagfx.wordpress.com)
2 points by hartz 7y ago|0 comments
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The Beacon Hill Tunnel: How a Half-Mile of the Boston Subway Was Built (1911)(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by hartz 7y ago|0 comments
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Local activist determines derelict Massachusetts courthouse has exposed asbestos(twitter.com)
1 points by hartz 7y ago|0 comments
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Unrollme settles FTC allegations that it deceived consumers about email access(ftc.gov)
4 points by hartz 7y ago|0 comments
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by hartz 8y ago
More widespread use of DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS/QUIC can't come soon enough
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Mail, mail, mailx, nail – history notes(heirloom.sourceforge.net)
1 points by hartz 8y ago|0 comments
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by hartz 8y ago
The article mentions that Food Link and Giant (both part of Ahold Delhaize USA) are two supermarkets that responded to the ACLU survey saying that they do not use face recognition. I searched around and found the more complete list of compa
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by hartz 8y ago
This is also a good point. There's the related problem of the extension author selling the extension to a shady company for some extra bucks, who then pushes out an auto-installing update bundling it with malware/adware. Example:
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by hartz 8y ago
I'm also excited to see where this leads. From the release notes: > Go programs currently compile to one WebAssembly module that includes the Go runtime for goroutine scheduling, garbage collection, maps, etc. As a result, the resul
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Police raid at Zwiebelfreunde: Donor data compromised(tails.boum.org)
160 points by hartz 8y ago|57 comments
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by hartz 8y ago
Wow, I didn't know that they just shut down this month. I definitely still have the add-on installed in all my browsers, and thought it was still syncing...
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by hartz 8y ago
You still see these "trackless trolleys" in Boston too where some of the old streetcar and trolley lines used to be. (Unfortunately, most of those streetcars were replaced with diesel busses instead)
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by hartz 9y ago
I think it would be useful to implement some security against this at the registrar level (until a better fix is more broadly available). For example, if I'm registering "epic.com" (the ASCII version), the registrar could sug
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by hartz 10y ago
The point of standards for browsers is that you shouldn't need a polyfill just to support a feature (localStorage) in one browser. Ideally, it would just destroy its contents after your private browsing session is done, just like the w
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by hartz 10y ago
Probably not normal people using cards, but it wouldn't be hard to train cashiers/managers what to look for. However, this would probably just lead to shimmers made out of clear plastic
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by hartz 10y ago
I feel like, instead of MITM'ing all TLS connections, antivirus companies could implement this same thing in a browser extension. If good ad blockers can prevent requests for ads from being completed, an antivirus extension should be a
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by hartz 10y ago
If you run your own mail server, it's hard to get email deliverability to the inboxes of people who use the Big 3 (Gmail, yahoo mail, Outlook.com). This makes using these privacy-invasive email services a much easier decision
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by hartz 10y ago
So you are one of those sites that reject email addresses with "+" in it?
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by hartz 10y ago
I've found that Google's Messenger app[0] is a nice, no-frills SMS app (not to be confused with Google's other messaging apps, or any of the other apps called "Messenger") [0] https://play.google.com&#x2F