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by iwalton3 7y ago
Chrome and Firefox don’t support top-level navigation to data urls anymore. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/11/27/blocking-top-le...
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by iwalton3 7y ago
The problem is if these features become common enough you will start getting asked about them. Even worse, if you aren't using them you may be asked to provide something that is impossible to provide.
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by iwalton3 8y ago
The headline for this article almost makes it sound like Slack was acquired by Microsoft, which is not the case.
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by iwalton3 8y ago
Cached Version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
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by iwalton3 8y ago
A lot of news websites seem to be lazy-loading images when they are scrolled into view. This is presumably to save bandwidth, but it may also encourage people to execute unwanted JavaScript.
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by iwalton3 8y ago
The Spotify playlists aren't even a license. They are just a list of songs that you want to listen to. The only thing that prevents you from switching services is restrictions on porting the playlists. (Currently, the two ways of getti
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by iwalton3 8y ago
Wine translates Windows syscalls to POSIX syscalls without using virtualization.
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by iwalton3 8y ago
A fake SD card is one that doesn't store all the data it claims to. There are SD cards on Amazon that claim to store 64 GB (or whatever), but they really store a fraction of that, with firmware that lies to the user and corrupts the da
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by iwalton3 8y ago
Yes. The lxc commit[1] states that this issue only affects privileged containers. No CVE has been issued for lxc because they consider privileged containers to be insecure. In my experience unprivileged containers work for most tasks, but t
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by iwalton3 8y ago
You can use the malware domains blacklist [1]. It can be applied through uBlock Origin or as a hosts blacklist if you process the file. Although I personally treat ads as a malware vector and block them. Hopefully I don't get banned fr
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by iwalton3 8y ago
At least Let's Encrypt has made certificates easier than ever to add and update. Installation of a self-updating certificate takes less than 10 minutes on many server setups.
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by iwalton3 8y ago
Scheme like Shamir's Secret Sharing [1] allow you to split a secret between multiple people, and also set how many people are needed to reconstruct the secret. For instance, you could share it with 5 people, and only require 3 to recon
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by iwalton3 8y ago
Those filesystems seem to handle different design requirements though. I also don't trust most vendors to properly encrypt the drives in the firmware [1], so I end up putting dm-crypt over most drives. It also doesn't account for
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by iwalton3 8y ago
This lets you easily search your command history by typing the beginning of a command and pressing the up arrow. bind '"\e[A": history-search-backward' bind '"\e[B": history-search-forward'
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by iwalton3 8y ago
You can use this Javascript to bypass the block in the F12 console or a bookmarklet: document.getElementsByClassName("onp-sl-content")[0].style.display = "block"
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by iwalton3 9y ago
You can also have this happen automatically when you scroll, and then get the headers back when you scroll up. https://iwalton.com/wiki/#NoFixed
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by iwalton3 9y ago
I tried something like thiswith a user script to attack those fixed banners, but I found that it caused too much breakage. (For instance on Youtube you would not be able to use the menus.) I settled on hiding the fixed headers and other obj
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by iwalton3 9y ago
You can use this userscript [1] to hide most floating headers when you scroll down the page. (When you scroll up, the header is displayed again, so the site doesn't become unusable.) [1] https://iwalton.com/wiki/#N
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by iwalton3 11y ago
Comment threads likely close because they are archiving the data into some format that is harder to modify but easier to serve. (For instance, rendering the thread to HTML and saving that.) It doesn't make sense to store comments in un
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by iwalton3 11y ago
> $31,000 for a terabyte What kind of storage are we talking here? Even 1TB server SSDs don't cost nearly that much.
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by iwalton3 11y ago
I think RedditStorage was what you were looking for: https://github.com/Rossem/RedditStorage (I also found redditfs, which is for browsing reddit: https://github.com/ianpreston/redditfs )
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by iwalton3 11y ago
Here is a quick clone of this project for Linux using the STOP and CONT signals: #!/bin/bash currentProcess=$(xprop -id $(xprop -root | grep -F '_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)' | awk '{print $5}') | grep -
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by iwalton3 12y ago
I can think of 2 solutions to this issue offhand. - Accept general input from a keyboard or mouse only after the user's password has been entered into a confirmation window. (Even just a yes/no would work here.) - Change all key
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by iwalton3 12y ago
I remember needing a single use url shortener a while ago. I created this out of necessity: http://iwalton.us.to/vl/ It only shortens URLs, it doesn't host anything.
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by iwalton3 12y ago
There is a Wikipedia archive now that includes images: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_all_languages
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by iwalton3 12y ago
You can also use DuckDuckGo to do this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cron+0+0+*+*+*+some_report.sh&t=lm
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by iwalton3 12y ago
What they could do is show the important distinction between the uses of IAP with 2 categories: - Games where each purchase can only be made once: Most games where purchases are used to add extra content - Games where the same IAP can be ma
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by iwalton3 13y ago
I found this in the source code: If you're reading this, we figure you are probably technical enough to work out what's going on. See below for the code that generates our never-ending form. We built this because we are always
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by iwalton3 13y ago
DuckDuckGo also supports BTC conversions (through Wolfram|Alpha): https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=1btc+to+usd
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by iwalton3 13y ago
On my system the webcam works without any fuss. I use a Thinkpad T430 with Debian unstable. All hardware works as intended. I purchased mine with the Intel wireless, and that requires a non-free firmware blob. Optimus works, but if there ar

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