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ComodoHacker··on The first high-yield, sub-penny plastic processor
2122 headlines: New Gigantic Botnet Built on Western-Atlantic Plastic Waste Agglomeration Causing Major Outages in Critical Infrastructure!
ComodoHacker··on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
I'm not a front end guy, but AFAIK no, even the existence of. Apart from various hacks, of course.
ComodoHacker··on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
A site isn't allowed to see another site's cookies, common sense doesn't fail you.
ComodoHacker··on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
Just to clarify, Total Cookie Protection in Firefox is not the same as blocking third-party cookies. Firefox will accept third-party cookies and send them back, but only on this particular site. So third parties (read ad networks) will be able to track you on any site, but not across sites (without some other means of tracking).
ComodoHacker··on Religious Discrimination at Google
> he never tried

Are you sure this isn't because you aren't rich enough? :)

ComodoHacker··on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
>be able to see what code is running

Is there any way to verify what code is actually running on your servers?

ComodoHacker··on Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS
>That's what I don't want - Firefox offering services.

That's what I actually want from Mozilla — offering (but not forcing) privacy-enhancing services, preferably for free.

ComodoHacker··on AltWinDirStat
What do you mean? I sort by (reverse) date almost everywhere where I look at files.
ComodoHacker··on AltWinDirStat
And I'm a big fan of SpaceSniffer (http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/)

The executable is a bit bigger (950K), but it's very fast, looks nice but not fancy, and gets the job done.

ComodoHacker··on Show HN: Visualize SQL Queries
I'm not sure a procedural visualization is appropriate for a declarative language like SQL. It can be misleading both on underlying concepts (sets and relations) and actual query execution.

I'd more like to see a visualization it terms of tuples, sets and operations on them leading to result set.

ComodoHacker··on Stage win: FinFisher is bankrupt
On the other hand, we need to strike a balance between "sustainable funding" (be it government or corporate) and true independence.
ComodoHacker··on Firefox UI/UX History
That's what TFA is from.
ComodoHacker··on Disabling automatic refresh for Snap from store
I see they're honestly trying to ease life for technically illiterate users (or, put it another way, to chase Apple's "just works" experience). But ignoring the needs of professional users (who are influencers) is a sure way to divert all users.
ComodoHacker··on MDN Plus
Are you arguing Mozilla shouldn't add paid subscription, or you're just expressing grief that you as a contributor won't see that money?

You can get into MDN team and get "overcompensated" too. There must be plenty of budget after recent layoffs, right?

ComodoHacker··on MDN Plus
The only thing missing from this announce is the promise that all proceeds go to MDN and nowhere else, like subsidizing a failing product or paying C-suite bonuses.
ComodoHacker··on Browser in the Browser (BITB) Attack
Or extremely dumb one.
ComodoHacker··on Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?
I don't think this could be useful to you. SNR would be too low. The fact you were convinced to click on a link someday doesn't mean the link contains anything useful.

EDIT: Perhaps ranking by how much time you've spent reading the content could help with that.

On the other hand, your shell history is already filtered by your brain, it contains mostly potentially useful things.

ComodoHacker··on BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTorrent client
From the Features page, looks like the main differentiator is social and content features:

* Tag Discovery to discover what other users have tagged content with. This can be very helpful before deciding to download the content.

* Decentralized ratings and comments. You can view them before the torrent is added to BiglyBT.

* Decentralized public and anonymous chats with default channels for individual torrents, tags, subscriptions, and trackers

* Media Playback

* Media Conversion (Transcoding)

* UPnP Media Server and DLNA support, allowing devices to connect and browse your content, and allowing BiglyBT to send content directly to devices.

https://www.biglybt.com/features.php

ComodoHacker··on ThinkComposer. Flowcharts, Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Diagrams and Models
Levels of abstraction and nested diagrams were invented to solve the exact problem you describe.
ComodoHacker··on Ws4sqlite: Query SQLite via HTTP
Sending arbitrary SQL for remote execution feels very much like a remote shell, and can quickly turn into one with a misconfigured or buggy extension.
ComodoHacker··on My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
That's what many elder people are actually doing for years and decades. It definitely doesn't help to cut down fake news.
ComodoHacker··on Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes
The problem is best practices change over time.
ComodoHacker··on Why I will never buy another Samsung device
Does it apply to washing machines? I use one from Samsung. It's not connected.
ComodoHacker··on Automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently
Please reread the "same property in the same object" part. You need row+column level locks for that.

In cases where users update the same row but different [independent] columns, you can avoid unnecessary conflicts. Either by redesigning relational model or by using CRDTs.

ComodoHacker··on Automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently
No, the point is avoiding conflicts where possible. Cases like "users concurrently update the same property in the same object" are rare in real life.
ComodoHacker··on Microsoft YARP
So, basically vendor lock-in is the difference?
ComodoHacker··on Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
Not with dynamic obfuscation.
ComodoHacker··on Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
Doesn't exactly this behavior create echo chambers and lead to polarization?
ComodoHacker··on Open-source online SVG path editor
>what you mean by invoking Vim

A tool praised by almost everyone and used by almost no one? :)

ComodoHacker··on React Native for Windows is helping Settings improve more quickly
Well, they have telemetry, they see where users go most often. They probably see what users tried to use but haven't completed. Maybe they even can correlate that with support requests.
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