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by johnfernow 3y ago
It's still using Firefox extensions, this is for people switching from Chrome to Firefox (or those who want to use both browsers with the same extensions.) From the article: "Mozilla decided to create a list of extension pairs for
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by johnfernow 3y ago
> Not paranoid but just want to know if this tool can be downloaded once and run from browser forever -- without having to disable internet. You can turn off Internet for a single tab through Chrome's dev tools. F12, Network, change
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by johnfernow 3y ago
In order to login through some captive portals on restricted networks you need a browser. Presumably you sometimes even need JavaScript, or else Nintendo likely wouldn't have included a JS engine since that greatly increases the attack
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by johnfernow 3y ago
> How much of that actual cost is related to running a simple social blogging/connecting tool vs anything that is ad/surveillance/manipulation/etc? It's plausible that the ad/surveillance/manipulation&#
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by johnfernow 3y ago
> Why aren't there non-profit (or benefit corporation) versions of these services? From a quick search, it seems that the operating costs for Meta in 2022 was USD $87.66 billion. Twitter was $5.6 billion in 2021. Reddit's is a
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by johnfernow 3y ago
> Any "new" used phone is going to come with a battery of undetermined age and quality as well as its own set of potential problems and failures Not necessarily, as I can't imagine most refurb/used sales worldwide com
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Most people aren't spending 5-10x that amount on buying a new phone. Global average selling price of all smartphones was $317 in 2021. Excluding iPhones (only Androids), in 2019, the global average selling price was $269. https:/
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by johnfernow 3y ago
The Samsung Galaxy XCover6 Pro has an IP68 rating (same as Galaxy S23 and iPhone 14) and has a replaceable back (and Samsung sells official OEM batteries for less than $50.) It also has a headphone jack, and is only 1mm thicker than the S23
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by johnfernow 3y ago
iFixit sells iPhone XS Max batteries for $35, nearly a third of the cost Apple is charging. $99 may not be a ton in some regions of the world, but it is enough that many are unwilling to spend that kind of money on a 5 year old phone, versu
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Same. Was the Samsung Galaxy S3 (which in 2012 had wireless charging and a removable back) not sufficiently thin? It's less than a millimeter thicker than the current Galaxy S23, and I'm not sure that the <1mm of difference in
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Same (I also paid for it because of the numerous easy email aliases). Like, it's a domain name registrar! What was their objective and plan and where did this go wrong? Out of the 2,650+ active registrars, it's the fourth most pop
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by johnfernow 3y ago
> This one doesn't make any sense to me I'm also confused, it's a paid product! If it wasn't making enough money, why didn't they just raise the price? It already wasn't the cheapest name registrar, so I don
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by johnfernow 3y ago
This is exactly what needs to happen to get Microsoft to stop doing things like this. How many sites not working properly does it take for someone to switch browsers? Maybe as little as 1, if the user really wants or needs to use that site.
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Reddit is highly addicting but usually brings me little joy. Most of the time when I'm just browsing the front page I don't laugh or learn anything particularly useful. But in a web full of bots and SEO blogspam, it's refresh
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by johnfernow 3y ago
C was created over 50 years ago. I wonder if the creator ever imagined that it would become and remain the language used to develop the kernel that powers the majority of the world's servers and phones half a century later (though Rust
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by johnfernow 3y ago
For the past 5 years or so, it has gone in spurts for me: no time in VR for months (sometimes even a year or more at a time), then nearly all my gaming time is in VR for a couple months or so. Since the PSVR2's release, when I hang out
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by johnfernow 3y ago
I am a huge fan of VR gaming: some of my best gaming experiences ever have been in VR (notably Resident Evil 7 on PSVR1 and RE8 on PSVR2). Even still, I acknowledge putting on a VR headset comes with some notable downsides: those sacrifices
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Finland "warned that the proposal could conflict with the Finnish constitution" and Germany "has staunchly opposed the proposal", so I don't think there's going to be an EU law banning end-to-end encryption. So
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by johnfernow 3y ago
Looks like they're still the leading cause of dead kids, > While gun and motor vehicle deaths increased substantially in 2020, the latest year for which final numbers were available, claims that more children and teenagers die due t
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by johnfernow 3y ago
My iPhone 6S (which still receives security updates) has received more years of major OS releases than Google plans for security updates. I'm not a fan of Apple or iOS but Google's devices largely feel disposable: if I buy them on
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by johnfernow 4y ago
Maybe a balancing act would be allowing Linux gamers for casual matches but preventing them from playing competitive matches. Unfortunately, there still might be some cheaters to ruin people's fun, but likely significantly fewer since
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by johnfernow 4y ago
I think that for most businesses, their sites could be statically generated, with iframes and embed tags for interactive parts like forms, and the web would become much faster, more pleasant to use, and have a notably lower carbon footprint
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by johnfernow 4y ago
There's the Mylo etrike, which has a tadpole design (two front wheels), so it's far less likely to tip over than a delta style (two rear wheels). Unfortunately it doesn't have any pedals, so not sure if that's street leg
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by johnfernow 4y ago
There are not many companies that make etrikes, especially none remotely as big as Rad. It is quite big news for one of the largest ebike manufacturers to start making one, as it up until now has been a tiny niche with only expensive models
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by johnfernow 4y ago
> Does anyone know what Australia is like? I hear good things about it, and it is very homogeneous. Never been there, but Australia has a very low murder rate (0.9 homicide victims per 100k people). But it's also not what I'd c
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by johnfernow 4y ago
Yeah an attacker may be able to use their own personal dual SIM Pixel phone to bypass the SIM lock screen for a stolen SIM card that they don't know the PIN or PUK code to using a similar technique, but like you said, I'm almost c
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by johnfernow 4y ago
That's incredible, thanks for sharing! Looks like it's still working on supporting some APIs (claims to currently support about 70% of Web Extensions APIs), and so far both the Firefox and Chrome NoScript extension don't appe
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by johnfernow 4y ago
From the study you linked: > Our study has limitations. First, detection of an interaction effect requires a large sample size. The present findings require replication with a larger sample of trials designed to test the interaction. The
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by johnfernow 4y ago
> Bike commuting always seemed to me like a niche white thing Hopefully someone can find some more recent data on it, but as of 2009 [1] the demographics of cyclists in the US mostly matched up with the demographics of the overall popula
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by johnfernow 4y ago
> Within two years most apps will probably stop supporting iOS 15 so you’ll start having issues. Some might, but I don't think most will, and I feel overall there's a fair chance they may not run into many problems. Let's

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