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by pilif 7y ago
For the last 3 years, the most reliable way for me to fall asleep quickly has been watching youtube videos on my phone. Night-shift is off too. Seeing how differing everybody's experiences seem to be, maybe this is one thing where peop
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by pilif 7y ago
While I do like GoAccess and I like owning my own data, there's still a huge difference between what tools like GoAccess offer and what the elephant in the room, Google Analytics, offers. It's not just the data available by defaul
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by pilif 7y ago
uBlock will stop working in Chrome as they got to Manifest v3
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by pilif 7y ago
It doesn’t matter as it has already happened a long, long time ago. No matter what it was
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by pilif 7y ago
You are right. That's controlled by gatekeeper which you disable with `spctl --master-disable`
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by pilif 7y ago
Macs do have such a toggle. You can boot from the recovery partition, launch the terminal and issue the `csrutil disable` command. This will turn off all the security features that have been added over the years, including the “Catalina Vis
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by pilif 7y ago
You can disable all of those checks by booting from the recovery partition, opening the Terminal and use `csrutil disable`. Then you can do with your machine whatever you want.
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by pilif 7y ago
Nitpick: > Now this may come as a shock to some of you, but Apple really doesn’t seem to like it when third party developers change just about anything about their UX > Deploying a kext requires it be signed using a special Kernel
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by pilif 7y ago
> Using "sie" to specify one person in german sounds a lot like "pluralis majestatis" to me." no. we have that too, but it's the second person plural. Nobody uses this any more though because we killed our
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by pilif 7y ago
no. it would be "sie". Personal pronouns are not capitalized. The only "Sie" in use is the second person singular in formal form (something else English doesn't have) when used to address a person directly.
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by pilif 7y ago
I envy the English grammar over this. In German the equivalent third person plural pronoun "sie" could absolutely not be used in singular context and would cause the predicate of the sentence to have to switch to plural too which
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by pilif 7y ago
way simpler (and thus, I would argue, way more secure). way faster. On the other hand: No built-in client in any of the mobile OSes, so a third-party client install is required.
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by pilif 7y ago
> They all seem really good. the question is what you're basing this assumption on. Fake Apple chargers also "seem really good" until they blow up or are disassembled to unveil the obvious electrical issues.
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by pilif 7y ago
It's about providing some defense against buggy and/or untrusted kernel driver modules maintained out-of-tree. An exploit in your closed-source nvidia graphics driver should not get access to your private keys.
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by pilif 7y ago
> LibreOffice is open source and its spell checker is fine as far as I've seen Curious. Both LibreOffice and Firefox use Hunspell
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by pilif 7y ago
Yes. But if they deal with the low-hanging fruits, this change on TOS means that they have covered their asses when the banned people start complaining
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by pilif 7y ago
> This doesn't make sense. Anyone can watch YouTube without an account. So even if they terminated a consumer using adblocking it wouldn't change anything for Google. there are means to identify (and block) unique users without
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by pilif 7y ago
YouTube Premium allows you to pay for the service.
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by pilif 7y ago
Safari has a much larger limit for blocking list entries though.
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by pilif 7y ago
For classes it's enforced since PHP 5. For scalars you get to chose between enforcement or type coercion for callers on a per-file basis. However, as with other dynamically typed and interpreted languages, all of this is happening at r
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by pilif 7y ago
Depends on what you count Win95 as. It billed itself as a 32 bit OS, but it wasn't really. However, you could update from Win 3.11 to Win95. To go from the DOS based Windows (95, 98 and ME) to the NT based Windows versions (Windows NT
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by pilif 7y ago
Mozilla’s track record in that regard isn’t stellar either though between episodes like the pocket integration and that forced iRobot marketing promo extension. I think browsers have become so complicated that maintaining them is so expensi
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by pilif 7y ago
Chromium based Edge is de-googled. However it is Microsofted and Binged instead. At least there is now choice which company gets to have all of your data.
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by pilif 7y ago
> Make the report readable by a simple text editor. Let the users have a look at the content inside. how do you explain the concept of a backtrace to an end-user so they can make an informed decision whether it's fine to submit t
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by pilif 7y ago
Where do you show the notification when an AP crashes? How do you handle users not familiar with the concept of a crash? How do you make sure you get their crash reports? How much are you willing to spend on dealing with edge-cases (like cr
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by pilif 7y ago
Contrarian opinion/question: Out of the software developers reading the comments here: Who is offering an op-out (much less an opt-in into) from their crash reporting solution they have included in their software? And of those who do a
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by pilif 7y ago
Though you have to be careful not to fall into the https://xkcd.com/1172/ trap. Sometimes a user might think they need feature A to make task B easier when in reality instead of doing B they actually want to do C but t
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by pilif 7y ago
It causes spec-compliant password managers to not work. Unfortunately, disabling autocomplete for password fields is an often used form of security-theatre
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In Defense of «macOS 10.15 Vista»(blog.pilif.me)
1 points by pilif 7y ago|0 comments
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by pilif 7y ago
It was the OS dialog which allows apps to customize the prompt text. No need to fake anything. That article was wrong. Check the HN discussion from back in the day

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