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ascomon Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies

uBlock Origin is your friend.

ascomon Starbucks’ Wi-Fi Found Using People’s Laptops to Mine Monero

It might take days or weeks using an average laptop to mine the equivalent of a cup of coffee.

ascomon MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch

I recently upgraded to High Sierra on my MacBook, and I had random reboot problems: https://discussions.apple.com/message/32649321

Downgrading to Sierra fixed it... I still don't know what was causing the reboots.

ascomon Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems

I recently upgraded to High Sierra on my MacBook, and I had random reboot problems: https://discussions.apple.com/message/32649321

Downgrading to Sierra fixed it... I still don't know what was causing the reboots.

ascomon I Watched All of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 Videos

https://duckduckgo.com/html

Or if it's really bad: https://duckduckgo.com/lite

ascomon Text-only CNN

EDIT: As I wrote this, someone deployed a server-side rendered version of the site. Now the site is perfect. :)

This site appears to load ~350 KB of JavaScript, which I think is a bit excessive for a "lite" text-only site. From the sourcemaps, I found a long list of libraries, including:

* react

* redux

* redux-thunk

* react-router

* axios

* base64-js (why not window.atob/btoa?)

* core-js

* fbjs

* react-hot-loader (should not be in a production build)

* ...a bunch of other smaller modules

There's only about 10 KB of non-library application code. Note that I ignore gzip when evaluating this sort of stuff, since that many bytes of code still need to be parsed, no matter how much it compresses.

For the person who made this site, I would replace React with Preact (or Inferno), which should remove most of the bloat. Server side rendering would also be nice for those who don't have JavaScript enabled and would also improve the loading time.

At least it's still better than cnn.com. http://www.webpagetest.org/result/170910_C8_e78305788a19b0fb...

ascomon China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones

I downloaded it and decompiled it here, if anyone wants to take a look: https://mirrors.asun.co/chinese-spyware/

ascomon ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification

Looks like ECMA's site is overloaded. Here's a Wayback Machine link for the lazy: https://web.archive.org/web/20170711055957/https://www.ecma-...

ascomon Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (2013)

Here is a small sample of ads I have blocked from my sites: https://imgur.com/a/5SD9b

ascomon Nylas Mail is now free

I haven't been able to find the tracking pixel server on GitHub.

ascomon The Line of Death

It's actually subtly above the line of death in Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/dEootju.png

And Firefox greys out some browser chrome: https://i.imgur.com/JfJ57qA.gif

But these things are probably not going to be noticed by your average user...