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by zeta0134 8y ago
Having spent a couple of years working for tech support for a large retail chain, I can confirm that this happens much more often than you might think. Non-technical users are floored the browser locking up, especially if the site starts
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I would absolutely love to, but does the author even accept donations? I just combed through my about page and the Github README and didn't see anything related. I was kinda hoping he had a Patreon. Am I blind, or is it just not there?
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by zeta0134 8y ago
The specific pain point we ran into was a security consideration: my company needed to sign and distribute a private internal extension whose code betrayed the layout of an internal API. The signing process for stable Firefox requires uploa
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by zeta0134 8y ago
If it was just distribution through the add-on app store, that would be one thing. As of Firefox 48 however, in stable builds of Firefox, unsigned addons (which haven't gone through Mozilla's review process) cannot be installed.
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by zeta0134 8y ago
At least in Let's Encrypt's case, I thought the free SSL cert was handled as a normal CSR request; the private key should never leave the server the certificate is issued for, assuming the client performing the CSR isn't comp
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by zeta0134 8y ago
Does anyone else notice the length of a moment changing? I especially notice a difference if something causes me to trigger an adrenaline rush; I noticed it a lot when playing DDR and similar, since the physical motion would trigger adrenal
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by zeta0134 8y ago
Infrared LED devices are quite easily defeated using an appropriate filter. Doing this though introduces another problem: most security cameras use an array of infrared LEDs for lighting. These are ideal because they produce almost no visib
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by zeta0134 8y ago
The amount of time investment is really surprising coming into it, even as a hobby developer. The media portrayal seems to imply that you download a model, press a button, and out pops this perfectly printed part hot off the bed. The realit
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I played WoW for exactly one month, back when... I think Wrath of the Lich King or something? When that was new, and they'd just revamped all the starter areas. I got my character all the way up to level 60, bought the next expansion,
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I got one image into this article and tried to block the "Like us on Facebook" element. While I was doing that, a full-screen nag popped up and, upon being blocked, I discovered that scrolling was now permanently broken. Refreshin
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I don't trust them either, but I muuuuch prefer this practice over the old "admin:admin" standard. Someone going through the trouble of cracking a Pseudo-Random Number Generator, even if that's a weakness, is a heck of a
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I'm not convinced it'd be impossible to use the GOOL code though. It should in theory have been plausible to port a GOOL interpreter, and then simply use the original code in the new interpreter. That said, there are some possible
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by zeta0134 8y ago
As a regular user of ad-block, I am 100% in support of this model. It's a bit more work (and I expect third-party delivery server-side to be a thing) but ethically it makes a lot more sense. I think it's much harder to stand by a
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by zeta0134 8y ago
Could you please provide a citation for your first claim that ProtonMail sells your email for profit? Their entire sales pitch heavily revolves around clientside decryption that should in theory prevent this from being possible; I'd ve
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I use both ProtonMail and FastMail for different purposes, and am considering switching my FastMail account to the main one. It may not be as well integrated, but that's kindof a boon. GMail's new user interface is _really_ clunky
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by zeta0134 8y ago
Very cool! I recently worked on a similar project (which is not quite ready to launch), and also had a lot of trouble with the interface. It seems like your Gameboy emulator runs way too fast on my machine; is the framerate not actually loc
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by zeta0134 8y ago
At least in the mobile space, I get the feeling that theft of the device factors in here. A lot of carriers advertise some sort of remote lock + wipe mechanism, which isn't guaranteed to work if the device's bootloader is unlocked
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by zeta0134 8y ago
Exactly this. I don't understand why this is being thrown about like it's a bad thing; I gladly pinned all of Wikipedia, but it's also a huge amount of data and I made sure I was prepared to follow through before I asked my
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I don't think I want to live with a legal system that claims that my performance (as a human player) of someone else's sheet music is somehow bound by copyright. I draw that line at recorded performances, wherein, say, the orchest
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by zeta0134 8y ago
As someone who is homosexual, I'm... not entirely certain I disagree with that classification. From a purely biological standpoint, if I act on what my body would very much like me to continue doing, I will never reproduce. It's
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by zeta0134 8y ago
Nah, it's that Best Buy doesn't make most of its money on the items they price match. Their big sellers are their mobile department and all the accessories folks like to pick up with their new purchase, which are very often stor
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by zeta0134 8y ago
It's been quite a while since I visited NYC so forgive me if my memories are outdated, but when I was there, parking meters were commonplace along the roads. Would it not at least make sense to slowly replace those with combination par
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by zeta0134 8y ago
If they'd just make the content available on Spotify, which all of my pirate friendly but otherwise non-technical friends use, they'd have their conversion. Piracy continues to solve the discovery and "listen to just this o
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I knew which XKCD you were referring to without you even needing to link it, but if you _must_ obligatorily link xkcd comics, do remember to actually post the link. https://xkcd.com/927/ As for Linux standards, at leas
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I switched to Syncthing a while back and haven't looked back. It's self-hosted, so there are no storage limits, and if you care to put in the work (setup is a tad more complex), it's also pretty easy to hook it up to a cloud
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by zeta0134 8y ago
That has me wondering if kind of a hybrid solution could work, like a 3D printer that can also pick and place components mid-print. That could be a reliable way to deal with the permanent magnets, since presumably there isn't going to
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I think Verizon and other carriers should simply be required to advertise the lowest guaranteed speed, right next to the word Unlimited, in equal size font. None of this hiding it in the microscopic print nonsense; if it's only unlimit
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I think there's a certain understanding of process with any version control system that's kind of hard to teach without one. Collaboration by "sneaker-net" often results in one person doing all of the computer work, or h
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by zeta0134 8y ago
I believe this is the premise behind image sensors which support global shutter (as opposed to rolling shutter) but other than being aware that this feature might exist, I'm no expert on the subject.
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by zeta0134 8y ago
Right, which is why the researchers were reliant on video artifacts caused by the rolling shutter effect. Even at NTSC resolution, that could get you 262.5 scanlines per frame at 60 FPS (525 at ~29.75 FPS, because of interlacing... NTSC is

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