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Three ways of re-creating Firefox Focus behavior on Firefox desktop
(blog.r3bl.me)
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It's not like we're losing the previous tools completely. This is just switched defaults and net-tools and ifupdown are just one "apt install" away.
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9y ago
It's sweet that they've now merged with Ubuntu GNOME and you can switch between the stock experience and the GNOME Ubuntu's experience simply by installing/uninstalling a package.
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Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Release Notes
(wiki.ubuntu.com)
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People change, and so do its companies (or at least, their management). Looking from a non-Windows-user perspective, in the last couple of years: VSCode is now a thing, .NET is open sourced, they've started financially supporting organ
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9y ago
FYI, if you're already shortening the so-called "bangs", you could use "!h" for Haskell. :) Worth pointing out: submitting bang ideas is very, very trivial, but the whole process may last months. Last time I've
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9y ago
And let us not even mention that those key indicators could trigger all sorts of alarms (like email notifications and SMS notifications) when something goes wrong.
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Nextcloud Introducing Native Integrated End-To-end Encryption
(nextcloud.com)
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9y ago
It means you select the amount of money and they deduct it from your account once the crowdfunding is done. Before they've reached their goal, it was an "all-or-nothing" campaign, so the backers wouldn't lose any money i
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9y ago
> but fragile usb dongle hanging from the side of your laptop isn't still optimal. And that's why we have Yubikey Nano versions. And as for them being fragile, I really don't experience that. Mine one has been sitting on m
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Hey, it's kind of appropriate that you find what you're looking for in the comments section on an article from the commenting platform itself. :)
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9y ago
That was the last drop. I switched to an alternative immediately as soon as I've noticed LastPass requesting premium for something as essential as a 2FA method.
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9y ago
This extension will become deprecated with Firefox 57 (WebExtensions update). Unfortunately, it seems that they've failed with shipping U2F support in Firefox at the time, so the browser support seems to be coming to 58 (currently in N
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9y ago
But she will enter the info from the SMS that Facebook sends to her? I mean, comparing U2F keys with the alternative 2FA methods (like SMS and Google Authenticator), it sure seems simpler to just tap the USB key instead of taking out your p
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9y ago
Yes it is. Here's the official Disqus statement: https://blog.disqus.com/security-alert-user-info-breach According to it: > As a precautionary measure, we are forcing the reset of passwords for all affected users. W
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9y ago
> Also, Google has increasingly made it difficult to automate searches That's an understatement. Doing something as simple as inurl:"humans.txt" ...and consuming the first three pages showed me CAPTCHA. It was don
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9y ago
Here's two examples: https://medium.com/humans.txt , https://www.python.org/humans.txt .
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9y ago
Well, yeah, but without that google_translate part, they wouldn't get nowhere. Bing Translate, even though it's been used by default on both Facebook and Twitter, will probably never give you good enough results to have a conversa
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Worst case scenario: it's just 200 bucks. I never plan on buying a phone that I would be devastated with the amount lost (like, 1000 bucks) if something ever happens to it for whatever reason.
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What about updates? I've purchased my Nexus 5x just a couple of months ago. Since it's a two-year-old model, you can also get it for a fraction of a flagship model (~$200), and, well, since I've purchased it brand new, I stil
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The latest update from May this year on Thunderbird's status: https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-fu...
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There's more where that came from: A $2 Million Prize to Decentralize the Web. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/21/2-million-prize-dec... [Disclaimer] Mozilla Foundation employee as of recently
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Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects
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FYI the U2F key support landed in Nightly (probably stable in 58). Enable "security.webauth.u2f" and "security.webauth.webauthn" to enable it. Of course, now it's up to the developers to allow U2F support via Firefo
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No, this version has so many groundbreaking changes. It starts to be fully multicore, CSS engine was re-written in Rust, there's a new design (that they've named Photon), Pocket integration is now slightly tighter, WebExtensions b
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This is the version that breaks the legacy plugins and switches over to WebExtensions API. Add-on developer are still catching up, but I think that the majority will be ready for the 57 release in November. I tried switching maybe two weeks
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Hey, if you've tried the beta or nightly versions, you can't expect them to be stable until the enter the stable version. If you've tried the stable version, the stable version is still one version behind the changes that are
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9y ago
How does a ML Python library that's shutting down remind you of Chrome?
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Huh, I am in that group, and I have no clue how I got there, why, nor how do I get out. Proof I guess: https://twitter.com/r3bl_/status/912800305833799686
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9y ago
The EU is convincing the USA for years that they should allow visa-free entry to five of its members (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland, Romania). Without concrete actions against the USA, they got nowhere. https://www.nytimes.co
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