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cbolaton Device-detector: Universal Device Detection library from User Agent

It has a misleading name, it should be just a user-agent detector, as one cannot identify devices by just looking at user-agent header.

cbolaton ChatGPT Edu

OpenAI is working the exact same way drug dealers working... give it away to students for free at parties, make them get addicted to it.

cbolaton Traff: A universal format for live traffic information

Honestly, why XML? Isn't JSON 100 times better, smaller and easy to use than XML? why choose a legacy format (with known security problems in parsers, compability, and unnecessary use of bandwidth) in 2022?

cbolaton Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

Might sound weird but I do really miss that old msn.com homepage, that super weird home page always made me excited back in the days.

Also Friendfeed, shame to Facebook that they dissolved my first and best social media web site.

cbolaton Self_update: In-place updates for Rust executables

What about integrity and security of downloaded binary? You should implement signature check as well to verify binary.

cbolaton Leaflet – social media platform built with Node.js and MongoDB

social media with 10 million dependencies.

cbolaton FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch

Swarm Technologies Inc Advisors: Julius Genachowski Former Chairman, FCC (2009-2013)

good advice Mr Genachowski..

cbolaton Intense debate privacy weakness - I know who you are

I think they don't need our comments about something while they have access to all our e-mail, DM's etc...

cbolaton Measuring heart rate with a smartphone camera

it works fine for me, but images seems broken.

http://www.ignaciomellado.es/blog/Measuring-heart-rate-with-...

cbolaton Cisco's Pentesting Team Open-Sources Vulnerability Management Tool

it's nice to see their internal projects as open source.

cbolaton Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

Hope they'll keep promises

cbolaton Brian Kernighan's Advanced Programming Techniques Class at Princeton

I saw the font and closed my browser.

cbolaton Ruby is too slow for programming competitions

Ruby is uber fast for hipsters..

cbolaton What open-source e-commerce platform to use?

Firstly, I can not trust open source e-commerce softwares for use in production. Lots of them have security bugs. But if you wanna use open source solution, TomatoCart looks nice.

cbolaton Fiddler has joined the Telerik family

Time to backup current Fiddler binaries.