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by witrak 2y ago
>uBOL is not an important extension on Firefox. Perhaps you should read some earlier comments then you wouldn't say such things? Hints: Firefox mobile; range of privileges required.
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by witrak 2y ago
It may be true, but your point of view isn't the sole possible. Many people have to use more than one browser and for them, the Google decision (effectively forcing the creation of uBOL) was really painful so Hill's new product is
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by witrak 2y ago
>Self-hosting inbound email is trivial. Anybody will send email to any random domain, they're just not willing to accept it from random sources. That is simply not true. I have self-hosted email service and starting about 1.5 yr ago
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by witrak 2y ago
>76 ideas which were submitted are currently in development and 84 have been delivered. So what? Does it invalidate the critics of glacial speed of making other improvements?
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by witrak 2y ago
>I look forward to your explanation of how the temperature of Bob's Raspberry Pi poses a threat to his employer. Hmm, anything like this can be used as part of side channel if an attacker is able to influence the temperature of Bob&
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by witrak 2y ago
Would you admit - just for the sake of more balanced arguments - that there's another possible reason for the exclusion of the majority of studies? Like visible bias towards "alcohol in reasonable amounts {is | may be} {good | no
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by witrak 3y ago
Relation between consciousness and intelligence seems to be a problem for everyone including the authors of the article. Hmm... Peter Watts, Blindsight. The novel explores themes of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligen
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by witrak 3y ago
>They were all the size of washing machines. More like a cube - all dimensions equal. And it was because they should fit into an American submarine hatch. After all, they were used there...
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by witrak 3y ago
Seems to be quite an improvement. Thank you for the tip! But it would be even better if it had "stylus mode" because, with a precision stylus, it's easier to tap directly alternate characters than to drag from the center of t
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by witrak 3y ago
The problem is that far too often extensions' authors require unnecessary privileges under excuses of need for improvements (usually of doubtful value). And users are used to accepting it...
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by witrak 3y ago
Unfortunately, the suggestions related to characters representing elements of regular expressions are completely wrong when you consider the non-ASCII text. Thus except for program text containing string literals and comments in pure Englis
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by witrak 3y ago
>Those things are stopped by other tools, such as query builders and web frameworks. No. All tools can be used with an improper attitude which leads to the creation of weak points. The proper way is to have a deep understanding of the ro
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by witrak 3y ago
No, it was at my university computer center. I wanted to improve the Executive program, the simplest operating system for the computer they had. So we took a binary dump of it... :)
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by witrak 3y ago
I remember such a piece of code, perhaps the shortest ever created! It was 4 instructions in the machine language of ancient British ICL1900 computers. I - together with my colleague - spent some hours to understand it - firstly, what it do
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by witrak 3y ago
I remember such a piece of code, perhaps the shortest ever created! It was 4 instructions in the machine language of ancient British ICL1900 computers. I - together with my colleague - spent some hours to understand it - firstly, what it do
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by witrak 3y ago
Sorry, but I don't understand the basis for the opinion presented by a couple of people that the Kaktovik numeral system is similar to the Roman one. Is that because both of them use short lines as the sole element to build digits&#x2F
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by witrak 3y ago
Earlier thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35523948
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by witrak 3y ago
> [...] for most topics I think many would rather see no article than a crap one. I'm sure that many people would support just the opposite. And in the case of Wikipedia, it is even more probable: the first person who finds the weak
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by witrak 4y ago
Perhaps not exactly what OP expects but AFAIK the oldest book directly dealing with the subject. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV
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by witrak 4y ago
So any claim such as your previous one is rather of no value. >It does help make it much less likely. Yeah... To the same extent as the infamous proof of formal correctness of an example program published in a book, until the program was
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by witrak 4y ago
Interesting that in these all comments, nobody referred to the (un)reality of the creation of proofs. The fact that the proof has to be longer than a program - ignored completely 40 years ago - undermines the generality of the "purely
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by witrak 4y ago
>Google has more of a history of this, but even there it’s not core to their strategy—they might be harming SMTP but they’re not going to kill it[...] Well, did you have an email server for your family, friends, and your small business?
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by witrak 4y ago
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/we're-going-to...
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by witrak 4y ago
>It just don't understand how they stared from "Protect your privacy from sites like translate.google.com by using this add-on to translate webpages locally!" and ended up at "Let's make firefox users connect to
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by witrak 4y ago
>[...] keep in mind that these computers did have malware on them: the spyware the researchers planted there! As a former repair tech, if I’d seen some thing writing screenshots and activity logs to disk (we would use, among other things
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by witrak 4y ago
Perhaps other people may have another opinion but I'm afraid that most people seeing 200 issues think that the product is in the phase of intensive development so is not mature (what can be true) or that its development is stale (what
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by witrak 4y ago
Strangely, half of the discussion concentrates on the arguments for and against the alleged (in)security of the PayPal solution in general cases while obviously the solution quality can be decided in a specific context. At the same time nea
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by witrak 4y ago
>I use Firefox. However I can't help but chuckle at how they introduced it. Some people at Mozilla live on a different planet. Exactly. Next example: 2 weeks ago they introduced a new version of the internal pdf viewer and set it as
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by witrak 4y ago
Would you be so kind as to say what you mean by "foreign" in this context? I'm asking because I was sure that .com, .org, and .edu are international domains...
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by witrak 4y ago
"The net result is that CT gives us visibility into all web certificates [...]" including not always the desirable effect of publishing information on hosts in the non-public part of the institution network...

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