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chrisxcross

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Doing some HCI research stuff.
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chrisxcross··on Google loses challenge against EU antitrust decision, wins 5% fine cut
This ruling is not about the users. It is about Google pressuring manufacturers. This is completely different case.
chrisxcross··on Valetudo: Open-source cloud replacement for vacuum robots
I run valetudo with OpenHAB. No cloud needed just a little rPI.
chrisxcross··on “Zero fucks given” in other languages
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zero_fucks_given needs some love
chrisxcross··on Session Encrypted Messenger
The company/main developer seems to have ties to the alt-right https://nitter.42l.fr/WPalant/status/1281540005190672384
chrisxcross··on Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft from stores
https://archive.is/s4S8a
chrisxcross··on Do political stickers work? (2020)
Full agree. Political stickers are much more like graffiti tags. It's pretty fun to 'follow' some groups around by just recognizing their stickers.
chrisxcross··on Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
For users of NetworkManager:

  nmcli device wifi show-password
chrisxcross··on $1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)
I used it to integrate sketching into a web-based diagram editor ~10 years ago and it was a breeze. OK, I had to train it myself. But it takes only minutes to draw all the shape variants needed. In practice I used 6 shapes and about 5 variants per shape. I conducted a usability test and the $1 recognizer only failed to recognizes the sketches 2-3 times out of ~300 shapes drawn by different users with no additional training.
chrisxcross··on Why are there so many unfinished buildings in Africa?
https://archive.is/BCIzr
chrisxcross··on Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
gpick is a nice tool to do it: http://www.gpick.org
chrisxcross··on A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 – a FOSS OS for phones [video]
I'm on 0.11, too. OS crashes are rare ~2 time, maybe. It's minor things, embedded qr-scanner fails, AntennaPod crashes and needs a restart, some Apps like eBay just crash... But checking the apps I got from /e/'s-Store: They are up-to-date :)
chrisxcross··on A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 – a FOSS OS for phones [video]
I'm a FP3 and /e/ user for about half a year now. And well, it works for me but frankly there are some issues. Nothing I'm not willing to take, but it's different to the premium android device with google services before. The Appstore provides some apps. But not all of them and some are quite outdated. They seem to get their APKs from https://info.cleanapk.org/. Some apps just don't work or stop reacting to touches. But this can be an Issue with the missing Google Services. The FP3 is a decent phone. It does its job well images are ok (old camera) focus and stabilization are not as good as flagship phones. The fingerprint reader is pretty unreliable. It usually needs some tries... However, its repairable, the price is fair for what you get, they try to be sustainable, there is /e/-os and lineage available. That's the main reason I bought it: I expect to use it as long as I want and not only as log as the manufacturer publishes the patches.
chrisxcross··on Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
Relevant Study examining different types of banners and their impact on interaction: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3319535.3354212 (Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.02638.pdf)
chrisxcross··on Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
It's the official solution created by Interactive Advertising Bureau and as the standard way to opt-out for all the companies in this organization: https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/GDPR-Transpa...

There are serious doubts if this is a complaint way to handle cookie consent.

chrisxcross··on Open access to ACM Digital Library during coronavirus pandemic
It should be Open Access all the time. Keep the change!
chrisxcross··on DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
OSM is really awesome in (western) Europe. I use it all the time. All new bike trails are in it. Even the trees in down town are in it. It is even great for car navigation. I used the map data to navigate in tiny beach villages in Spain, for a round trip in Iceland and on several other occasions in western Europe. However, i only relied on the data and let my Garmin device create the routes.
chrisxcross··on Ebay posts every character a user types into the password box
Google does the same. They regularly send your password to their server to rate it. A curl-example is provided below.

I think I already noticed that some websites used googles api to do the rating of passwords on their website but I can't recall where I saw it.

curl 'https://accounts.google.com/RatePassword' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data 'Passwd=jbcfaihrwefgbGWETZHGAESjbnajfcw24704%$§&%§!vf&Emailnotme@useless.domain=&FirstName=Hacker&LastName=News'

or another endpoint:

curl 'https://accounts.google.com/InputValidator?resource=SignUp' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"input01":{"Input":"Passwd","Passwd":"GoogleBatteryHorseStaple","PasswdAgain":"GoogleBatteryHorseStaple","FirstName":"Hacker","LastName":"News","GmailAddress":"i-have@none.yet"},"Locale":"en"}'

chrisxcross··on Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder
Well, they seem to have some opensourced some of their code. But they are far away form being free software although they claim to use the GPL. If I can't build the software myself, I won't use it.
chrisxcross··on Ask HN: What's the best ad-blocking, privacy-enhancing extension set up?
Flash is not installed, so there is no need to block. For Adblocking I use Bluhell Firewall, to stop tracking Ghostery and Self-destructing cookies. On top of that I run noScript to kill remaining junk. And because I like to encrypt: HttpsEverywhere.
chrisxcross··on Ask HN: What's the best ad-blocking, privacy-enhancing extension set up?
The connection time outs will make your browsing experience feel slow as page take ages to load before they fail to do so.
chrisxcross··on WordPress base configuration files on GitHub
Maybe the password is the same for the wp-admin user. Password reuse is a really serious and common problem.
chrisxcross··on WordPress base configuration files on GitHub
1500 Results on Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22define%28+%27DB_PASSWORD%...
chrisxcross··on Hacker News User Ages
Just tried a quick google search: https://www.google.de/search?q=inurl:news.ycombinator.com/us...

Reveals a lot of usernames and creation dates.

chrisxcross··on Ask HN: Why USB drives are still using the FAT32 format?
Use UDF as FS. Working for every recent OS
chrisxcross··on Ask HN: How do I become a faster programmer?
Don't google every error and use the top answer on stackoverflow to fix ist. Read the docs and try to understand why your solution didn't work in the first place. Basically this results in getting familiar with stdlibs and/or frameworks.
chrisxcross··on Should Bountysource allow committers to delist their projects?
Bountysource should invite projects to their program rather than removing them on request. As this discussion and previous ones have shown diffrent communities, diffrent maintainer even diffrent project member have diffrent opinios on introducing financial rewards into their projects and need to firstly discuss it. Afterwards they can approve or reject getting the offer listed on bs.
chrisxcross··on Ask HN: Why are usernames not secured like passwords?
Wirting an email to b63954c01ec5069d16b5bfc0cd7c2684317c195c63470ddc8826928beb21909b will get hard...
chrisxcross··on Show HN: Spritz like bookmarklet
Cool Bookmarklet. I was just looking for something like that. But it shows the inline Javascript to me, too.
chrisxcross··on Show HN: Password-Protect My File
It's the same as using openssl aes-256-cbc -in plaintext -out ciphertext That's as easy and convenient as it can get for me. But it might be helpful if I have to send an encrypted file to someone not able to use openssl or gpg. It's pretty cool to combine an encrypted file with the tools needed to decrypt it :)