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by skymt 6y ago
Backspace will no longer be used for navigation by default in Firefox 87: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041377 That key binding was added for interface compatibility with Internet Explorer, which is less imp
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by skymt 6y ago
This appears to be the bill in question, if anyone would like to read it. https://legiscan.com/AZ/amendment/HB2005/id/89532 I'm not sure why it was introduced as an amendment for a bill about distri
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by skymt 6y ago
I'm not sure it's even accurate to say that Wayland closes one of the holes when the hole Wayland closes isn't part of the system's security boundaries. It's like installing a deadbolt in a door standing in the midd
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by skymt 6y ago
Firefox Sync encrypts all data client-side; Mozilla has no way to read it. Chrome also supports client-side encryption as an optional feature using an additional passphrase.
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by skymt 6y ago
MS and Google have already said so. Flash will be blocked from loading in every version of Chrome next month, and the next version of Chrome to ship will remove all Flash support entirely from the codebase. Chromium-based Edge will follow s
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by skymt 6y ago
Enough folks have replied that transactions are the way to go, but I just wanted to add that whatever interface tool you use for your database may have an option to force you to commit your transactions manually. For example PostgreSQL&#x27
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by skymt 6y ago
I looked for a way to disable the media keys feature when it landed in Developer Edition and it seems to be only in about:config. The key is "media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled".
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by skymt 6y ago
Seconded. Here are the filters I use for blocking recommendations on YT, in case anyone else finds them useful: youtube.com##.ytp-suggestions youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay youtube.com##.videowall-endscreen youtube.com###
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by skymt 6y ago
Not a gossip column, political reporting. This is appropriate because this is a political story. The subject isn't the case against Google but the internal conflicts in building the case.
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by skymt 6y ago
The WinRAR post doesn't say that the file was submitted to VirusTotal, only that the CA said it "looked like a file used by hackers". Either there was no VirusTotal record for it or there was and WinRAR omitted that fact beca
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by skymt 6y ago
You are misunderstanding. WinRAR's implication is that the CA is lying about the 570 MB file because they didn't mention it until WinRAR challenged them on the VirusTotal justification for revocation, and because they were unable
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by skymt 6y ago
"Growth hack" is an industry euphemism for "unethical practice." You can tell it doesn't literally mean "growth hack" because it's being applied here to the website that Alexa currently ranks #152 wor
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by skymt 6y ago
Firefox's private browsing feature blocks tracking scripts. Edge's doesn't as far as I can tell, and I haven't looked into the behavior of smaller Chromium-based browsers. https://support.mozilla.org/en-U
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by skymt 6y ago
You're allowed to link GPL'd code that you own against your own closed codebase, because the GPL is just the terms under which you license your copyright to others. See also: "open core" and dual-licensed software.
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by skymt 6y ago
The concept for SimCity was inspired by how much fun Wright had playing around with the map design tool for Raid on Bungeling Bay. The design of SimCity was inspired by Wright's research on urban planning and system dynamics during i
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by skymt 6y ago
I love AutoHotkey, and it works wonderfully in the niche of writing a bunch of tiny UI- and workflow-smoothing functions, like how an Emacs user gradually builds up tweaks in their config file. The one time I tried to use it for scripting t
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by skymt 7y ago
XKCD on tricking self-driving cars: https://xkcd.com/1958/ I wanted to link that not because of the "there's an XKCD for everything" meme but because it makes an interesting point: sabotaging roads isn&#
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by skymt 7y ago
As noted in a recent (and very busy) thread, Chrome sends an installation-specific ID to Google domains in a special header. This can easily be used as an identifier for tracking in the absence of cookies, and it's an advantage that Go
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by skymt 7y ago
The policy that the system is intended to implement requires suspending customer accounts for detected fraud but not for cases of sabotage, so it needs to judge intent until the policy is changed. I would imagine that the current policy was
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by skymt 7y ago
The fascinating thing here is that Google's systems are required to make a judgement of intent. Is this ad fraud ordinary fraud that's intended to increase payouts, or is it intended to be caught so the account is suspended? From
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by skymt 7y ago
2020 was a common pivot year used in the "windowing" workaround to the Y2K bug. 2-digit years < 20 are defined as 20XX, while years >= 20 are defined as 19XX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing
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by skymt 7y ago
> And I wonder how copyright even applies to "code snippets"? The Software Freedom Law Center has a substantial article on copyrightability of code: https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/originali
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by skymt 7y ago
You don't need to develop for HTML/JS directly to target the browser as a platform. (Not to say it's not an option worth considering, just that you can get the delivery benefits from other stacks.) Many current engines can bu
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by skymt 7y ago
I started searching for the private identifiers listed in the blog post and ran across this document describing Chromium's Mac compositor: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/chromiu... Techn
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by skymt 7y ago
That's true. (And this is tangential anyway.) I do think that a greater familiarity with how the government works could help in that moment of panic, reducing the self-doubt of "I don't think this sounds right, but what if I&
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by skymt 7y ago
There are a few common scams that directly demand Google Play or iTunes gift cards from the victim. The most depressing one I've heard about is a phone scam where the caller claims to be from the IRS and demands that the victim pay som
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by skymt 7y ago
The basic economic angle of it is that video games are a hit-driven business. Large publishers especially during the 1990s have a diverse product portfolio that can cushion moderate failures with the income from hits (more so during the 90s
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by skymt 7y ago
There's a great wiki called The Cutting Room Floor that collects odds and ends found inside video games: remnants of cut content, differences between regions and revisions, and about a thousand examples of this sort of hidden message.
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by skymt 7y ago
ReCAPTCHA v3, the version I was referring to in what you quoted, doesn't have an audio CAPTCHA or any kind of fallback option at all, which is part of what makes it so much worse than v2. (The other part is the privacy implications of
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by skymt 7y ago
That's correct. ReCAPTCHA v2 is the one where if your opaque, invisible ML humanity score is below a threshold it makes you squint at weird little photo squares and try to figure out whether the part of a bumper at one edge is enough t

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