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by tech234a 4y ago
One of the comments on the article points out that this comment may have actually been from Plex and mislabeled. PCMag credits Plex for the quote: https://www.pcmag.com/news/lastpass-employee-couldve-prevent...
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LastPass breach could've been stopped with a 3-year-old Plex update(androidpolice.com)
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Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers (2020)(mdpi.com)
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YouTube appears to have used ffmpeg, at least in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831292
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I have also seen a lot of fake Tesla/OpenAI/Elon Musk livestreams in the recommendations recently. They aren't ads, but instead seem to be run on hacked channels that have a few thousand subscribers.
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by tech234a 4y ago
Official announcement, December 2022: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221
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by tech234a 4y ago
The app also has a $4 weekly subscription, with $40 annual and $60 lifetime options. As of when I wrote this comment, the app can still be found on the App Store.
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Authenticator app advertising on App Store sends QR codes to developer(twitter.com)
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by tech234a 4y ago
That popup has been around in Edge for awhile, judging by the Bing icon in the top right corner of the article screenshot, I think the author is using a pre-release version of Edge that has the bigger version of the prompt.
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At least 5000 active Chrome extensions still use the webRequestBlocking API(groups.google.com)
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Telemetry Required? Ask Users First(dev.blog.documentfoundation.org)
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It's a good idea to move away from IE, but it's fairly easy to get around the block. When the Edge prompt comes up, roll over the Edge icon on the taskbar and use the X to close the prompt. Then, click on the IE icon to unminimize
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by tech234a 4y ago
It's great to see additional capabilities being added to Safari on iOS; the bottom of the article also mentions additions of the Screen Lock, Screen Orientation, User Activation and Web Codecs APIs. The idea of limiting some APIs to ap
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It requires adding the app your Home Screen first.
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Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS(webkit.org)
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> I wonder if I can automate re-installing it every week/year. There are some third-party programs like AltStore that could help with this.
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I’ve been using a Chrome Extension to replace Edge’s PDF renderer with pdf.js [1]. It’s a little outdated at this point and it does change the URL in the address bar while viewing PDFs, but overall I find it works better (especially while s
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by tech234a 4y ago
Gone for at least two years now [1]. [1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/cws-payments-depr...
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Windows has winget built in.
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Tell HN: Use Twitter to Mastodon account matchers before February 9
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You might be able to eliminate the VPS by making it P2P using something like PeerJS [1]. PeerJS provides a free shared connection broker server. [1]: https://peerjs.com/
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See also: 2023 update that adds dictation: https://www.bjnortier.com/2023/01/05/Hello-Transcribe-With-D...
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Hello Transcribe – OpenAI Whisper on iOS (2022)(bjnortier.com)
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Microsoft Edge browsing activity for personalized advertising and experiences(support.microsoft.com)
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Typically you can go into the file properties and check the “Unblock” checkbox to remove what Microsoft calls the “Mark of the Web”.
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The update adds a message box shown on startup that reads as follows: Thanks and Goodbye Echofon started over 12 years ago, and today we say farewell. Twitter's ownership has made it clear that they will not support 3rd party apps. In
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Echofon Is Discontinued(apps.apple.com)
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They’ve taken down the discontinuation pages for talk.google.com and reader.google.com. Reader redirects to a 404 page, but Talk is NXDOMAIN entirely.
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Pythonista for iOS: Python 3.10 support in beta(twitter.com)
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Previously posted 18 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435338

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