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by pilif 10y ago
The version of CSS Grid that's supported by IE isn't the version that's in the standard and supported by all other browsers. Same with Flexbox.
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by pilif 10y ago
> it should be available for 95%+ of users within a year only if you don't have enterprise customers. Those will continue to run IE11 for the foreseeable future as IE11 will remain supported in Windows 10 until 2025. While Microso
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by pilif 10y ago
Oh my god. This is the pinnacle of stupidity and stuff like this is why over time extensions will lose functionality until they will be removed completely. Browser vendors understandably want blunders like this to not be happening. We'
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by pilif 10y ago
> While Cassandra has schemas not unlike a relational database, they are cheap to alter and do not impose any temporary performance impact in most relational databases, the schema is cheap to alter and does not impose a temporary perfo
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by pilif 10y ago
> These outfits have lost sight of what their web site is for. Their web site is for them to make money and considering that these practices exist, I have a feeling that they make more money by ad-sales than by actual sales of their ac
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by pilif 10y ago
I didn't start with Turbo Pascal as when that was in wide use my parents still didn't allow me to go near a computer. That didn't however stop Pascal from starting my career though as I started programming for real a few year
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by pilif 10y ago
> If I was the NSA, I'd certainly be looking to launch a VPN company or two not worth the trouble when you can just compel existing VPN companies to send all traffic to you.
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by pilif 10y ago
> plus, the "notify key changes" setting is off by default that's the thing: That setting is pure placebo security-theater. There's nothing to guarantee that this setting actually causes notification on all key chan
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by pilif 10y ago
sure. but they share none of their engineering insights. As Mr. Lattner is an engineer, I would assume that sharing engineering-related stuff is more interesting than pre-announcing marketing information.
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by pilif 10y ago
If the secrecy wore him down, why is he moving to Tesla which is equally secretive? I'm not convinced by this argument.
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by pilif 10y ago
... minus the libraries in native code which also are considerably harder to reverse-engineer than the java parts. Also, unless you're suspicious and actually check, you could be served a special version by the App Store that was compi
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by pilif 10y ago
> I disagree. WhatsApp have a known vulnerability which they won't fix (indeed they deliberately added this vuln on top of the Signal protocol) how would you fix it without causing notification-blindness?
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by pilif 10y ago
> Signal is bad as explained previously, it requires Google on your phone to even work. only for notification delivery. The message payload is not part of the push notification.
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by pilif 10y ago
No matter what IM service you use: As long as they manage the public keys for their users, they will be vulnerable to exactly this problem. This isn't just WhatsApp. This applies to iMessage and Signal too. In all cases, we rely on the
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by pilif 10y ago
No. But the installer that wrapped around the thing the user actually wanted certainly can. You know. These adware "downloaders" that completely hose your browser unless you find the correc checkbox full of double negatives to che
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by pilif 10y ago
How do you make sure it's the user responding and not the installer that tricked the user that's sending keystrokes?
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by pilif 10y ago
> Do I understand correctly that Google Chrome is uninstalling software that the user has deliberately chosen to (not tricked into) install? How would Chrome discern deliberately installed extensions from extensions the user has been t
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by pilif 10y ago
> What I am saying is that input sanitization would prevent this attack because it will only allow valid characters to get to your mailer, you have to be careful with the meaning of "valid" though: What's valid in one co
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by pilif 10y ago
You could use youtube-dl and request the content in an iPad compatible format. It would save you the waiting time for the transcoding
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by pilif 10y ago
It's still end-to-end encrypted though, so all google can hand over is random data.
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by pilif 10y ago
This is a limit of the public API. The private APIs apparently make more things possible and AFAIK (I don't have a TB mac) better touch tool allows to change the control strip part of the touchbar
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by pilif 10y ago
Also that ß submitted by one browser is \xc3 \x9f in one browser and \xdf in another and \xe1 in yet another. Sure - if the client behaves correctly, you'd know what it arrives as, but some browsers don't and suddenly the password
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by pilif 10y ago
The commit is written by postgres developers for postgres developers. I would say that 90% of the intended audience of that commit message doesn't need an explanation what table partitioning does. For them this would be needless clutte
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by pilif 10y ago
If you combine the partitions with tablespaces, you can put tables on multiple disks. Let's say you keep a record of all orders you have processed. During the day-to-day operation, you need, say, the last 2 months of data all the time,
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by pilif 10y ago
> What? If a person is using a password that contains such a character, they'll know how to type it or at least find it to copy/paste... I have had to deal with people not being able to type their passwords because a characte
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by pilif 10y ago
Some of the restrictions of special characters I can somewhat understand: Depending on the keyboard layout, many of these often disallowed characters require proper right-alt support to be set up in order to be typed. People tend to get the
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by pilif 10y ago
Even better: you can configure it per application in the foreground.
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by pilif 10y ago
> to avoid some of the BSDisms on macOS to be fair, you should probably call the GNU behaviour "GNUisms". The BSD behaviour is the historical POSIX behaviour. The GNU behaviour is, in a twisted sense, the result of embrace, e
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by pilif 10y ago
NAT gives the same amount of security as dropping all SYN packets at the firewall level. The latter just requires much fewer resources to do as it allows for completely stateless operation.
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by pilif 10y ago
IPv6 NAT is generally discouraged and providers can gain huge benefits too from not doing NAT. NAT always implies state which needs to be stored somewhere. The moment you NAT, you very likely won't be able to do the routing in pure har

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