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by lnl 2y ago
The parent comment is talking about distractions, not ads. YouTube has plenty of those, even embedded YouTube videos, unless you pause the video before it ends. uBlock Origin Lite cannot block elements except through packaged rulesets, and
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by lnl 4y ago
KeePass supports TOTP out of the box without any plugins since the 2.47 release in January 2021: https://keepass.info/news/n210109_2.47.html Usage: https://keepass.info/help/base/placeholders.
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by lnl 5y ago
Sometimes it's necessary, when the protocol itself is updated, e.g. the multi-device beta page currently says "Messaging or calling someone who is using a very old version of WhatsApp on their phone won't work from your linke
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by lnl 5y ago
I use PotPlayer, which can show two subtitles at once; also, when you click on a word, it can search it in the search engine of your choice (e.g. a dictionary). You can also add multiple search engines (as well as "Copy to clipboard&qu
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by lnl 5y ago
While I am happy that Notepad++ added a dark mode, I am frustrated that Microsoft forced Notepad++ (and all Windows programs) to add hacky workarounds for a dark mode. Notepad++ already obeys the Windows system colors, and I have been using
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by lnl 5y ago
The only cases that I can think of are me doing something stupid, like posting my password somewhere public by mistake (e.g. using KeePass password auto-typing on comment field instead of password field, or pasting it in a wrong place if I
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by lnl 5y ago
> you're back to 1 factor (your password manager master password) That's only true if you are using an online service as a password manager, so the master password is the only thing protecting you. Not necessarily for offline p
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by lnl 5y ago
In my case, I actually enable 2FA mostly for convenience, rather than security. I often log in from different country IPs (VPN), I auto delete cookies, often use private mode, etc., so some websites are frequently suspicious about my login
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by lnl 5y ago
> “Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,” > It's a pretty big problem for society when hospitals, universities, and countless business have been ransomed. Well, at least their "ethics" page d
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by lnl 5y ago
> When you phrase it in a way that suggests the host's choice is itself random, people get it wrong. In other words, they still get it right; they get it right for the separate question that that phrasing implies. If the host's
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by lnl 5y ago
I just dislike library software in general. I like files, I like keeping files neatly in folders and subfolders (and adding tags in filenames if necessary), so that I can easily use whatever software I like at the time on whatever platform
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by lnl 5y ago
See the map on page 7 (PDF page 9) of the GSMA report "Access to Mobile Services and Proof of Identity 2020": https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads... To get counts, I also analyze
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by lnl 6y ago
I find it interesting that ads are considered acceptable and commonplace in Android and to a slightly lesser extent iOS apps; but on desktop they are seen as almost malware. To be clear, I also avoid it when I can, and most of the time ad-f
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by lnl 6y ago
His writing really reminded me of my high school bullies. I couldn't help but imagine him reciting these lines against me with a smirk in his face. Just a passing remark would have been bad enough, but he devotes a significant percent
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by lnl 6y ago
I am not talking about Germany at all, certainly not Germany of today. I think you missed that we are talking about a hypothetical future where a prospective dictator with overwhelming support is concentrating power. It already happened in
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by lnl 6y ago
> It could. But why explicitly write down things that are obvious anyway? Maybe it's obvious to you; to me it's obvious the other way. Perhaps, when penning their supposed bulwark against dictatorship, they could afford to spen
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by lnl 6y ago
If that was how it was meant to be understood, it could have easily been written explicitly by making it a recursive clause. E.g. in the case of my country, article 4 of the constitution says that the first 3 articles cannot be changed; it
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by lnl 6y ago
The relevant blog post, that the article doesn't link to: https://blog.whatsapp.com/more-information-about-our-update Goes into slightly more detail then the article, and also takes obvious jabs at Telegram and Signal.
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by lnl 6y ago
> All that hassle so that you can save $10 a year. You are talking as if KeePass's only advantage is being free and it is only preferred by people who cheapen out. That's not true, just as it's not true for similar argumen
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by lnl 6y ago
> Parler is its own platform and Element is just a client. Indeed, people made that point, but I don't see how this is a useful distinction. Parler (the app) that Google and Apple removed is also just a client, that facilitates acce
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by lnl 6y ago
If you're talking about this [1], it's written by Mozilla's CEO, not by one random who has access to blog on Mozilla. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
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by lnl 6y ago
Two months ago, Microsoft announced the Pluton security processor and that future AMD, Intel, Qualcomm CPUs will have it. It seems to be for this exact purpose: > These sophisticated attack techniques target the communication channel bet
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by lnl 7y ago
Not just Firefox, all programs in Windows 10 allow shift+click to jump. The only exceptions are new UWP style scrollbars (the ones that are affected by the "Automatically hide scrollbars in Windows" setting). Fortunately I don&#x2
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by lnl 7y ago
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/best as an alternative for a similar purpose. I learned about those two and other undocumented features from https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undoc
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by lnl 7y ago
The feature was called fast forwarding, and old Opera's successor Vivaldi still has it. For those unfamiliar with it, it also works with more complex pagination schemes than just incrementing the number at the end; e.g. Google or Bing
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by lnl 7y ago
That, and calling battery "juice". It shouldn't bother me this much, but it does. Same for saying "daily driver" instead of "main phone". I guess they are meant to color up speech / break monotony, bu
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by lnl 7y ago
Mine was based on the answer here[1], now I see that the script in the answer was edited after I started using it. I should try the new version to see if it works better. My experience with the previous version was that while it sometimes w
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by lnl 7y ago
I would hope that Firefox would have an about:config setting to disable it, but with the direction they are going, removing customizability left and right, who knows. Normally I would have also expected addons to disable this browser-side l
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by lnl 7y ago
As another lazy loading hater, I think that's a good thing. If a website wants to use lazy loading, it should be handled by the browser, rather than using a custom JavaScript code that the webpage requests. There being one universal me
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by lnl 8y ago
Google is the developer of the most popular web browser. If this is really a common problem, they can make UI changes to their browser to make that more accessible. It is not so hard to imagine a way to do it for even the most casual users,

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