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by lima 6y ago
Plus, it does so non-reproducibly and downloads random binaries from the internet.
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by lima 6y ago
(the title was changed, it used to be "You can no longer join any Google Meet session without a Google account")
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by lima 6y ago
The title is simply not correct - you can join GSuite Meet sessions anonymously. I just tested it and confirmed it was still possible. This only applies to personal accounts, and was already the case in April when consumer Meet launched:
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by lima 6y ago
Wasn't this always the case?
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by lima 6y ago
See also: https://oauth.net/3/
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OAuth 3 Specification(oauth.xyz)
2 points by lima 6y ago|2 comments
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by lima 6y ago
Mozilla recently got rid of the devtools team: https://twitter.com/flaviocopes/status/1293510322528100352
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by lima 6y ago
So who's going to pay for browser development, then? Google bankrolled both Chrome and Firefox.
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by lima 6y ago
Ripcord is written in a memory-unsafe language and deals with media codecs. It's not necessarily safe.
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by lima 6y ago
Exactly. They were tired of Microsoft doing it badly and realized they couldn't build on someone else's platform.
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by lima 6y ago
Accidental clicks are invalid clicks according to Google's own documentation[1][2]. For this to not be an accident, one would have to assume that Google actually makes more money from those invalid clicks, and that someone decided that
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by lima 6y ago
LyX has been a constant in my life and I'm very thankful for it. It's such well-written piece of software, it still makes me happy every time I use it! I remember reading their (excellent) tutorial on a laptop with a 700 MHz CPU a
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by lima 6y ago
The whole point of Chrome is to push the web ecosystem forward such that Google can build better products on top of it.
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by lima 6y ago
The "proprietary changes that google adds" are API keys[1], branding, and external plugins like Flash/Widevine. Other than those, the source code is identical. [1]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/how
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by lima 6y ago
> - Google still hasn't raised the rules count like it announced last year in the blog post you linked. The current API is still limited to 30k rules. (the dynamic rule count is ridiculously low too) Manifest v3 is still in develo
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by lima 6y ago
> A trivial "backspace to go back" extension needs access to all sites. Yes, this is bad and a big security risk. I don't use any extensions that request this permission. My company even pushes a Chrome policy that outri
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by lima 6y ago
I like declarativeNetRequest and think that the tradeoffs are reasonable, especially after the last revision[2]. Ad blocker extensions are a major security risk, and this fully eliminates the risk without breaking most of the functionality.
648.
by lima 6y ago
> [...] which is impossible for non Google sites to do No, they don't. This is false. It's a mechanism called Media Engagement Index, Google properties have zero advantage, and any site can get a high score. Chrome ships with
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by lima 6y ago
> The pre-seeded site list is generated based on the global percentage of site visitors who train Chrome to allow autoplay for that site; a site will be included on the list if a sizable majority of site visitors permit autoplay on it.
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by lima 6y ago
> But they purposefully use CLS in Search to increase clicks on Ads You present this as a fact, but it would be absurd that Google would use such a cheap and easily detected trick to increase CTR. It would be bordering on ad fraud and
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by lima 6y ago
> It's your computer that store a cookie to local storage. It's your computer that decide to send back previously stored cookie. And they're crying like they don't have a consent. Fortunately, EU regulators understa
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by lima 6y ago
Italy doesn't, they're currently experiencing a major spike like much of Europa.
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by lima 6y ago
We have a chance at eradicating COVID-19, unlike other viruses that have been endemic for decades.
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by lima 6y ago
Studies on long-term consequences of a virus that has been around for <1 year?
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by lima 6y ago
It doesn't even have to be worse than post-viral syndrome caused by other severe viral infections for it to be a problem. There's little immunity to COVID-19 and it's highly contagious. This is like saying "COVID isn&#x2
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by lima 6y ago
There's plenty of evidence of long-term damage even in young and barely symptomatic cases - it's not a binary "dead/not dead" outcome. What if the virus causes substantial disease burden years to decades down the ro
657.
by lima 6y ago
What's wrong with NTT? Always found them to be a reliable, and they've been the main driver of innovation in dragging the ISP industry towards modern standards.
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by lima 6y ago
> A single failure point is not what worries me. They are competent enough to avoid that. Like recently, when a single BGP configuration mistake brought down their entire backbone?
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by lima 6y ago
> The sale hugely benefits an American company, Amazon, with the profits going to ARDC who will likely be biased in benefiting or providing preferential treatment to the American amateur radio community by virtue of themselves being an
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by lima 6y ago
> Consider Ubuntu with its snap store that can only be run by Canonical. That's a Canonical thing, what other Linux vendor does this? Distros have less lock-in than ever thanks to userland defragmentation.

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