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DavideNL··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
> "There's no point unless a critical mass of people use these tools"

That's what Mullvad Browser attempts to solve i guess:

https://mullvad.net/en/browser

DavideNL··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
Aren’t tracking cookies mostly irrelevant nowadays, because every browser can be uniquely fingerprinted anyway?
DavideNL··on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
...or automatically remove the quarantine attribute: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913209
DavideNL··on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
Meanwhile, just automatically remove the quarantine attribute: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913209
DavideNL··on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
See here for a workaround : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913209
DavideNL··on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
Fyi, this might be a useful workaround, if you are aware of the “risks” :

“lightweight service for macOS that automatically clears quarantine flags on everything in the given folders”

https://github.com/Absolucy/autoremove-quarantine

DavideNL··on Android developer verification: Early access starts
> We are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified

Sure, they'll keep building it forever — this is just a delay tactic.

DavideNL··on Steam Machine
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/115538125708522123
DavideNL··on Firefox expands fingerprint protections
That’s most probably a conflict with another extension…

https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers/issues/347

DavideNL··on Firefox expands fingerprint protections
It does not break uBlock Origin / ad blocking…
DavideNL··on Firefox expands fingerprint protections
You probably mean Temporary Containers…?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

DavideNL··on Firefox Forcing LLM Features
You can specify a port also:

    user_pref("browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost", false);
    user_pref("browser.ml.chat.provider", "http://localhost:3000");
DavideNL··on Live Stream from the Namib Desert
Nice :-)

Fyi the page is not rendering well for me on an iPhone Pro Max (latest iOS 26, Safari browser.) It's basically cut in half...

DavideNL··on Update on Plans for Privacy Sandbox Technologies (Google Chrome)
Google phases out most Privacy Sandbox tools against third-party tracking in Chrome
DavideNL··on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
One of the other (not transparency related) things i hate in the iOS 26 redesign is how difficult it has become to switch Safari profiles...

It was already bad because you can't use Shortcuts to launch a specific profile, or set the default profile to use, but now it's so cumbersome, it's become mission impossible to use.

DavideNL··on Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?
https://cani.rootmy.tv/
DavideNL··on The RSS feed reader landscape
Agree, i’ve also been running it for years. It’s stable and has great features like CSS selectors, filtering, sharing as rss feed, etc.
DavideNL··on Kagi News
Yup, i quit Proton (Mail) for the same reason. I had been using it for a long time… There are so many little bugs and annoyances, it’s frustrating to see new features being released all the time while obvious bugs and shortcomings are not fixed.

It was a very big relief going back to a normal email client.

I still support Proton (i pay for Proton VPN) and hope they will succeed in their mission.

DavideNL··on Helium Browser
The biggest problem with Orion is the Firefox & Chrome extensions; Many don't work properly, but you don't see any errors, so you have no idea what parts are working and aren't.

Like using a content blocker and "hoping for the best". It might work, or not.

That's one of the reasons i stopped using Orion...

DavideNL··on Helium Browser
Note that Zen Browser is (yet another) Firefox fork. Might as well just use Firefox, with better settings (like Arkenfox user.js, customized how you like it). Would be better security & privacy wise.

Orion is a WebKit based browser (like Safari).

DavideNL··on I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
Will the pixel 10 be supported too, i wonder…
DavideNL··on AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
Have you ever tried bluetooth audio devices on an iPhone/ iPad?

Apple does this very clever, it works, but it has so many annoyances and bugs. By making 3th party products “annoying” to use, Apple nudges people to just buy Apple products/the ecosystem…

DavideNL··on Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
Do they store photos end-to-end encrypted?
DavideNL··on Passkeys and Modern Authentication
…and do you think we can trust Big Tech on their promises, based on their reputation / recent news events?
DavideNL··on Obsidian Bases
Related and Bases description: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/76...

> The idea is that you can store properties, or metadata about the current file, in Obsidian notes. For example, if I have a note about Decoder, I might put the name of the host and a list of episodes. For each episode that I want to take notes on, I might write down which guests were on, what date it came out, or the episode number. What Bases allows you to do is visualize a certain kind of note as a table or eventually as a Kanban view or another type of view. So, it’s like a visualization layer on top of the data that you already have. We just make it really easy to create that database from the bottom up.

> It’s kind of like a backward database because all the data is already in there. You’re just looking at it and saying, “Show me all notes that have the ‘books’ tag,” for example, or a link to “Casey.” Then, I get a table and then I have all my metadata, which I can edit. It’s quite powerful if you’re someone who enjoys tracking books that you read, or the movies that you watch, the places that you go, the articles you’ve read. You can very easily create these structures or do project management.

DavideNL··on Obsidian Bases
Obsidian Sync: https://obsidian.md/sync
DavideNL··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
Orion does NOT support all Firefox/Chromium extensions. Many extensions only work partly;

The fact that it does not produce errors, does not mean it works.

I hate that they (Kagi) make it *look like* extensions work…

For reference, a cheat sheet: https://orionfeedback.org/d/2174-crowdsourced-list-of-extens...

DavideNL··on MacBook Pro Insomnia
Same.

Fyi, you may want to use Keyboard Maestro to do that automatically...

DavideNL··on MacBook Pro Insomnia
My solution to prevent Macbook Pro M1 insomnia was to create a Keyboard Maestro Macro that disables Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with the Trigger "At System Sleep" (and re-enables them at wake.)

Worked perfectly... no more issues since.

DavideNL··on Pebble is officially Pebble again
> ” I find smart watches extremely frustrating and antisocial.”

Well, it’s the people who are antisocial, not the Watch…

My Watch is 100% silent and does not have notifications / vibrations (i disabled them.);

The exceptions are some Health related notifications, and regional/national alarm apps. But those are very rare to push notifications ( < 1 per month.)

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