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by scalableUnicon 1y ago
I had a Samsung phone and did the same with mine. Wrote a small tutorial here( https://harigovind.org/notes/removing-samsung-android-bloatw... ). But even then, these apps will pop right back after system updates and tho
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Using HTML landmark roles to improve accessibility(developer.mozilla.org)
2 points by scalableUnicon 3y ago|1 comments
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Registration of .au domain names opening soon(news.gandi.net)
2 points by scalableUnicon 5y ago|0 comments
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by scalableUnicon 5y ago
In Firefox, it used to show the punycode when clicked on the lock icon. Now I just checked one such domain( https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/ ) and it didn't show the punycode until I clicked the lock icon > Connection
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
It is possible to opt-out of Google's Wi-Fi network location mapping by appending "_nomap" to SSID[1], I'm not sure if it works with other providers. Although I think this should have been opt-in instead of opt-out, the
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
For browserless.io, the developer behind it talks about the tech stack in this podcast: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/62-browserless-gives...
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25801693
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How We Built the GitHub Globe(github.blog)
376 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|101 comments
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
Even if that's the case, it made the website unavailable for future victims who got the same text messages.
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Ransomware gang publishes tens of GBs of internal data from LG and Xerox(zdnet.com)
2 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|0 comments
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
Do they loss access to their domain name as well if their TOS is violated? From their website it seems like they offer first year domain registration for free, tied to their account. It seems to fragile if the domain name goes with the susp
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
Reminds me of my all-in-one "Ink Advantage" HP printer. The cost of ink cartridge had gone so high that it was reasonable to just not use it anymore. The cartridges can be reliably refilled 3-4 times but they put an artificial #X
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
Coursera has a financial aid program for this, and it is easy to avail if one is a student from developing countries or low income households. edX has a similar program as well, where the price will get reduced to around 1/10th of orig
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
With WireGuard, it is easy these days to setup a VPN on our own server( https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-server... ). Obviously it won't give us anonymity, but it is a good choice for security w
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AMD Ryzen 5 4500U Performance on Windows 10 vs. Six Linux Distributions(phoronix.com)
3 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|0 comments
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Open VSX – A Free Marketplace for VS Code Extensions(gitpod.io)
2 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|0 comments
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
I just hope firefox doesn't follow this trend. It was too difficult for me to adjust to their "one click select all" address bar that I now use ctrl + L for address bar interactions.
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
If you're using DuckDuckGo, we can use the !w bang to search directly on Wikipedia. Bangs are really handy, when you know where you'll find the answers, and can fallback to !s (startpage) if you feel google will have better answer
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Gnome Foundation settles lawsuit with patent troll(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|0 comments
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
Firefox even shows a link to "Common Myths about Private Browsing"( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/common-myths-about-priv... ) whenever private browsing windows are opened.
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
That used to be straight forward, but now most of the apps come with certificate pinning and for seeing through network request, toying with tools Frida are now needed.
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Scientists discovered the first animal that doesn't need oxygen to live(edition.cnn.com)
4 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|0 comments
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
I rarely use Facebook, but when I do I use https://m.facebook.com instead of the main site. Similarly i.reddit.com and the HTML version of Gmail. Which aren't great looking, but pretty usable. I hope these versions will be
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
Somewhat unrelated but, there are some WordPress themes that are trying to keep the bytes sent minimum. One such example is: https://sustywp.com/ and there's an excellent article by its author: https://blog.
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Beyond emulation: the effort to reverse-engineer N64 source code(arstechnica.com)
1 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|0 comments
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Hackers hit Chegg for the third time since 2018(techcrunch.com)
2 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|1 comments
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
You could add !s before your search query to get Startpage results(google results without tracking) for that query. See the complete list of bangs here: https://duckduckgo.com/bang_lite.html
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Kdenlive 20.04 Is Out(kdenlive.org)
2 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|0 comments
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Dell releases new tool to detect BIOS attacks(zdnet.com)
8 points by scalableUnicon 6y ago|1 comments
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by scalableUnicon 6y ago
I don't use twitter android application and the browser version on mobile is extremely slow. This made twitter usable on my browser again. Thanks! PS: It would be even more useful if someone hosts it in a domain like <someshortcode&

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