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   by jannes 6y ago

   Reminds me of the fact that filenames in OneDrive are even more restrictive because of some legacy SharePoint software that was representing filenames in URLs. "?" and "#" were not allowed in OneDrive for Business for a
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   by jannes 6y ago

   I was going to say the same thing. Everytime I format my hard drive I have to look up which mode is the one that doesn't break things...
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   by jannes 6y ago

   This makes me wonder if there's a tool that can auto-generate random inputs and send them to the application. (maybe excluding Alt-Tab to avoid switching away from the application) Fuzzing is a pretty popular testing technique for libr
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   by jannes 6y ago

   Happened to me too. I was already thinking about Qualcomm suddenly owning ARM (through Nvidia) and how anti-competitive that would be.
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   by jannes 6y ago

   They only require it if you already support other third-party authentication methods in the app. If you exclusively use your own authentication it is not required.
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   by jannes 6y ago

   The most interesting part for me is that Firefox and Chrome use the same drawing library for 2D canvas. Does this mean that all engines use the same library? Or does WebKit use something else? It reminds me of the Web SQL situation where ev
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   by jannes 6y ago

   Agreed. The red LED seems to be a conscious choice to indicate something that you need to get rid of (like those notification badges on iOS app icons or the unread indicator on Facebook). This is especially jarring as the rest of Alexa LEDs
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   by jannes 6y ago

   Unfortunately, you can't use Steam Guard without a phone number.
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   by jannes 6y ago

   I think it has something to do with founders being able to take money "off the table" when they raise a round.
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Email? Text messages? Phone calls? Those are the only alternatives with enough penetration to rival WhatsApp (that I know of). I know that they are not secure, but neither is WhatsApp.
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Link previews are generated server-side, I think. The app sends a request to a Facebook API for every link that you send/receive. Usually this returns the little image + text snippet that you see in the app, but obviously this could al
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Which Opera API are you talking about? Isn't it just a wrapper for https://web.whatsapp.com/ ? I wouldn't call that an "API"
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    by jannes 6y ago

    That's easy to say when you live in a country where it's not a social norm (I assume you do)
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    by jannes 6y ago

    I think that’s what he was getting at when he said: > Most allowed are owned by large companies. He was implying that big companies are not in the business of selling their extensions. Smaller actors are more susceptible to this.
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Why do you put Iraq in quotes as if it weren’t a real country?
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    by jannes 6y ago

    It would also be nice to support other currency symbols. In Europe there are € and £, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_currencies_in_Europe
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    by jannes 6y ago

    I think there's been a bit of an inflation when talking about unicorns. It just means any startup that is valued at >= $1bn
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    by jannes 6y ago

    You can even run Nextcloud on your Synology NAS with a Docker container (provided that your model is one of those that supports Docker)
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    by jannes 6y ago

    That might be true for some US universities, but it's definitely not true for the rest of the world.
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    by jannes 6y ago

    I was talking about the use of `browser.tabs.executeScript`. You have to define a content script [0] in the manifest instead. I presume that's what Google's extension does, too. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/e
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    by jannes 6y ago

    That wouldn't work, because it needs to execute before the analytics script. The runAt:"document_start" doesn't really do anything unless you invent time travel.
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Or disable builtin DHCP for that matter...
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    by jannes 6y ago

    MitM is not possible with DOH if the client checks for a valid certificate.
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Wait, how do you block DoH without blocking other HTTPS traffic? Do you have to block every known DoH server? Looking at Google's DoH certificate they list quite a few hostnames and IPs as Subject Alt Names: dns.google *.dns.
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Can we just finally say that Google is evil now? Run as fast as you can. And take your data with you.
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Didn't Amazon also avoid collecting sales tax in the US until recently? I think they didn't have to collect sales tax on any cross-state transactions (tax is owed at the point of delivery). Whereas brick and mortar stores almost n
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    by jannes 6y ago

    I had no idea enormous hosts files were the predecessor of DNS. Thanks for posting this! Ironically, hosts files are still passed around today, but for blocking purposes instead [0] [0]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ste
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Luckily, not everything uses WiFi. There are tons of Zigbee and Z-Wave devices which physically don't have a WiFi chip. Of course, you should build your own bridge to connect them to (rather than using the bridge of a big tech company)
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Ironically, some Xiaomi vacuum robots are possibly the only cloud-free vacuums, once you root them and install Valetudo: https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo#readme
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    by jannes 6y ago

    Did you look at the source that I linked? Craig Federighi is a pretty high-level Apple employee. He seems to be saying that the lack of Bootcamp is because Microsoft is unwilling to allow it (rather than Apple).