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541.
by veeti 9y ago
Authenticated encryption, for one.
542.
by veeti 9y ago
> A self-signed cert could be supported and effectively trust on first use like SSH Hopefully needless to say, it's a bad idea to blindly connect to SSH hosts without verifying the fingerprint. (Of course, everyone just types in &qu
543.
by veeti 9y ago
PyQt is nasty GPLv3 or commercial license only. (And no, PySide is not an option: their last stable release is years old and for Qt 4.)
544.
by veeti 9y ago
There is no single blessed "complete stack" for React and there never will be. That is a feature, since it is a view library only. It sounds like you're looking for a full framework, e.g. Angular or Ember.
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by veeti 9y ago
What is the tangible benefit of providing a Qt build? Do you expect them to support both a GTK+ and Qt backend?
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by veeti 9y ago
> we want an option to protect our privacy by killing trackers You mean like https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-pbm ?
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by veeti 9y ago
EPEL is part of the Fedora project and shares the packaging infrastructure.
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by veeti 9y ago
> That package was just something you googled that hasn't been updated in two years because maven has required signed packages forever. That something hasn't been updated in two years because it's feature complete and does
549.
by veeti 9y ago
In fact, this has been a thing since Android 4.1, released in 2012. Newer versions have more granular controls than just all or nothing.
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by veeti 9y ago
The upcoming Android O update introduces standard limits on background tasks very much like these manufacturer "optimizations": https://developer.android.com/preview/features/background.ht... The differe
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by veeti 9y ago
> I'm asking because the two features are outwardly very similar, but have internal differences. Prove it, then. What are these "internal differences"? Let me reiterate: there is literally nothing that relies on a propriet
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by veeti 9y ago
> Chromer doesn't do what the tabs in recent option does. Yes, it does. Which part do you not understand? > Supporting being a provider for Custom Tabs has nothing to do with being able to have your tabs show up in Recents. No, b
553.
by veeti 9y ago
It is literally the same thing. You can download a third party browser called Chromer that opens every link as a separate task and see it for yourself. It's based on Chrome custom tabs, which is a pluggable protocol. Firefox is working
554.
by veeti 9y ago
This is not true at all. https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/re...
555.
by veeti 9y ago
Pyramid really is the underappreciated hidden gem in Python web development. It can be as much of an micro- or full stack framework as you need it to be, while being much better thought out and extensible than something like Flask or Bottle
556.
by veeti 9y ago
There is more to building a secure end-to-end messaging protocol than dropping in libsodium and calling it a day. See issues like https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 .
557.
by veeti 9y ago
Homebrew crypto written by 4chan. No offline messages. Drains a gigabyte of data and battery overnight thanks to P2P.
558.
by veeti 9y ago
You need to double check the library you're using. For example, older versions of the Python standard UUID library would fall back to an insecure RNG silently. It's easier to just read 16 bytes from /dev/urandom and enco
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by veeti 9y ago
Utterly worthless, because apps on Android are sandboxed. Third-party AV can't do anything useful, and Play Services already provides built-in app scanning.
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by veeti 9y ago
Custom ROM's are an unstable mess on most Android devices, Samsung being particularly notorious for poor developer support. Don't be surprised when 911 calls don't work [1] [2] [3] [4]. [1] http://www.androidcentra
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by veeti 10y ago
If you're going to switch JS frameworks every time some hipster on HN tells you to, you're never going to get anything done. Use Angular/TS if you like it.
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by veeti 10y ago
> It's only a matter of time until Firefox is just a wrapper for webkit This tired "Firefox is just turning into Chrome because Australis/DRM/web extensions/xkcd 1172" hyperbole simply couldn't be furth
563.
by veeti 10y ago
https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center/
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by veeti 10y ago
> I just couldn't justify slower speeds and much poorer performance overall anymore... once Mozilla kills off XPCOM and XUL-based addons, there won't be any real reasons left to use Firefox. Now, make an enlightened guess as to
565.
by veeti 10y ago
Refresh the HN front page all day long, like I do.
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by veeti 10y ago
> I have not heard of any major security incident recently with Firefox. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/11/30/fixing-an-svg-a... https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015&#x2
567.
by veeti 10y ago
Both the old and new sync encrypt all data before storing it on the server.
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Finnish Government Investigates as Tens of Thousands Face Piracy ‘Fines’(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by veeti 10y ago|1 comments
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by veeti 10y ago
Antivirus itself is a huge attack surface for remote code execution. For example, see Kaspersky's atrocious track record so far: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1&q...
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by veeti 10y ago
Is there anything like this that doesn't leak the folder structure in plaintext? Manually obfuscating site names would be very tedious.

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