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deepstackon Out of prison after 30 years and people telling him to find forms on the web

Glad another software guy saying this. Digital infrastructure as how it now has no integrity.

I prefer going to bank if I have time.

Even the largest bank like Feds can have 3 trillion dollars operation error. https://thespeakernewsjournal.com/us/bank-wires-worth-trilli...

Knowing what I know and the kind of security that is in online banking does not bring any confidence in me.

deepstackon Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users

> audio, video and 3d web applications

For sure, audio, video do not need JS to function.

Yes you need JS for 3d webGL, but it also opened another can of worm that allows company to fingerprint GPU pretty much anyone who is not using Safari regardless if you are in incognito mode.

What most web developer don't realize browser was build to be a sandbox to protect you from the world wide web. Seems like the current trend is tear down that sandbox for usability and functions. Which is fine, then advertise that browser with JS enabled pretty much open you all that risk. It should be in the educational to the public as well as the first page of any browser that doesn't sandbox GPU finger printing.

deepstackon Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users

> Disabling Javascript would have helped

Thank you for saying that. I'm one of first in 2005/2006 advocating JS rendering in the browser. JS in the browser has really gotten out of hand. I no longer advocate to do everything on the client/browser side. A web site should just work without JS.

deepstackon Grabby Aliens

> I'm still not very convinced any civilization will actually expand significantly beyond one solar system.

Whether a civilization expand beyond their solar system is entirely depending on if they develop the technology to do so in a relatively short time compare to their life span.

One good reason could be habitable planets. There may not be enough habitable planets left in the solar system.

Extra: some sci-fi look at Kardashev scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

deepstackon Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

nice to hear you guys open sourcing this product! Also be interested how you resolve this issue.

deepstackon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

Personally I don't really mind receiving too much info (asid from DoDS attach of course). Bayesian running locally is pretty good at filtering out spam any way. Stop pretend to corporate nannying us.

deepstackon Line app allowed Chinese firm to access personal user data

icons!

deepstackon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

Exactly! Same with Google, FB. Disk space is almost free, let who ever sign up.

deepstackon JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site

For sure. Using code or data structure to generate code is recent (or resurrection ) phenomenon of function programming.

The function is formatted and it does what it suppose to do. It can be refactored to make it less code.

deepstackon Facebook's GDPR consent bypass reaches Austrian Supreme Court

Weaseling around consumer protections indeed. Seems like something corporation do often. Check out this documentary it is quite insightful (e.g. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (not a United States government agency, but a lobbying group for businesses)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(film)

deepstackon Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone

wormhole, onionshare, syncthing

Depends on if people you are send are online at the same time. If they are not online at the same time, you would need some in-between services. Or else you can just rsync the files between you guys.

deepstackon Based Cooking

I thought it was the PH level of the food. That would being cool

deepstackon Asahi Linux Progress Report: January/February 2021

I see the booting process is quite complicated. Isn't ARM and PowerPC chip similar enough that many PowerPC linux can be ported over to use the M1 chip?

deepstackon Write site-specific extensions to replace sites' JavaScript code

Thanks for the article. I agree this article may be too technical focused. However, with current JS api accessing GPU and many other hardware, I often visit site with JS turned off. It would be good to rewrite or block certain JS APIs. Maybe split JS API to categories. Stuff that change CSS color to be in group, and stuff that access GPU/WebGL and accessing hardware of the computer put that in another group. Seems like browser vendor really ought to think about that, I don't want to enable JS just so it can start accessing all kinds of stuff. But some JS to play with CSS of the page are quite nice to have around.

deepstackon Developing an underwater robot to save people from drowning

So the reasoning is: job training for lifeguards is not feasible (why?), so we should develop super expensive robots that local pools can't afford.

Yeah when I first read this article. I was thinking "Lifesaver". Cheaper and just as effective.

deepstackon The puzzle of Europe

One thing that an older retired executed who has worked all around the world said to me is "in US people live to work", and in Europe, "people work to live" Really rings true to me.

deepstackon The puzzle of Europe

right on the money. One index that is far from perfect that give an alternative view is https://happyplanetindex.org

I'm not saying it is more accurate than the GDP measure, it just offer a different view.

deepstackon The puzzle of Europe

US is very much pumped up by their FAANG stocks. It is not very representative of wealth of the country in general. If one were to take other things in into account quality of life, time spent with family/friends, is US really better off?

deepstackon Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies

Good for Switzerland! The only reason US (or maybe other countries) out source their gov contract to private companies is because it makes kickbacks for their friends. Public sector ought to be separated from private. And electronic ID may be counter productive for a democratic government.

deepstackon Bring Your Own Client

>I'd like to see an enforced separation in law between commercial application providers and storage providers. So, if someone writes an app like Google Docs, they can't just store the data opaquely on their own cloud servers. They legally have to integrate with a separate storage provider. And that storage provider has an obligation to make my data accessible and manageable by me.

Same can be said about gmail. In the old days, one can access gmail via imap/pop3. I believe that was removed. All email ought to provide an alternative way of getting the email other than company's web interface.

deepstackon DuckDuckGo – two non-JavaScript versions of search results

The lite version has a broken image at the bottom. Other than that it is very nostalgic of Alta Vista home page back in the days. Kudos to DDG for having such simple non-javascript version. In current days, non-javascript web page is on the rise. All web pages should have a non-javascript lite weight version.

deepstackon On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't

Indeed. Comparison is not bad as that is what current academia is based on. However also be aware comparison is NOT the ONLY way to experience life.

One of the effect of comparison is that it diminishes one thing over another.

I often find new the thing when I just experience one thing for itself without comparing against a pre-existing experience and thing.

deepstackon Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)

the company is also doing some sketchy things in the smart home space under their brand "Aqara"

The whole idea of connecting everything to the internet is getting out of hand.

1. Internet and digital infrastructure has no integrity as how it is currently.

2. Anything for home, machinery, all should work when there is NO internet connection. Just like an app should work (to some extend) in airplane mode. It really comes down to the idea of data/device sovereignty.

Is this my device or not? If I need to ping some place in China to get this working. Then make it clear on your front page that it is is a lease.

deepstackon On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't

It is never about how much money you have, rather what situation you are in, what you are expecting and what others around you have.

deepstackon GNU Taler – Payment system for privacy-friendly, fast, easy online transactions

Brave or maybe chrome keep on insisting that it is

http://taleo.net and forward me to https://www.oracle.com/human-capital-management/taleo/

Shame on your brave!

deepstackon Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

Why would any one use Shopify 20% instead of 3 -4 % of stripe? Sounds like Shopify is total rip off.

deepstackon Daft Punk Break Up

Good idea to make it anonymous, that way you can swap out your friends when you get sick and tired of performing.

deepstackon Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore

>They announced the "Monero Enterprise Alliance." An inside joke, supposed to piss off other projects that had started to take themselves too seriously. Being slightly confused that day myself, I now can't recall if the effort had ever been successful. But in any case, I can't recommend buying Monero. It's useless.

Why is Monero useless? Is because of transaction fee too high?

deepstackon Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?

If you are comfortable with command line, DevOp and system admin would be a good place to look. Since you are comforable with mac(freebsd)/linux There is always need for cloud engineer, SRE. Did you also look at the startup company from Ycombinator.

deepstackon Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)

> also in not using caffeine regularly

Yeah I used to use coffee when I was in school, however there are side effects. Some including not allowing me to think clearly. I found out sleeping is the best remedy. Work should allow workers to take naps!

Edit: of course I don't mean jobs that involves heavy machineries. But more like white collar jobs.