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kkarp··on Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
plus a lot of Facebook users concerned about their privacy installed some third party script blockers. They are probably now below Alexa's radar
kkarp··on Retrospective: Looking Glass
TL;DR: next time when we inject adware, we will name it correctly and we will spy on you to meet SHIELD's criteria.
kkarp··on Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly rerouted to Russia
China did the same but for bigger scale in the past. The reason to do this is to store all traffic for future analysis. Now it is protected by https but there is no protocol or cryptography which couldn't be exploited in the future.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/11/how-c...

kkarp··on Station X Linux Machines
Next reseller of the same OEM laptop ordered somewhere in China.

Check the right side of this laptop: https://stationx.rocks/products/spitfire

and compare with Galago pro: https://system76.com/laptops/galago

sides: https://screenshots.firefox.com/0I2YsDmIvbKuYbr3/stationx.ro... and https://d1vhcvzji58n1j.cloudfront.net/assets/products/galp3/...

and I've seen this model at least on two other resellers.

kkarp··on Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Firefox Nightly
> I hope it spreads to other browsers quickly.

It is in other browsers for years

kkarp··on The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
I suggest reporting a bug to Bugzilla. The positive side effect will be you will see how efficiently they handle such reports. And you will get it fixed.
kkarp··on Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
omg, I am on 14.04 LTS and didn't believe until now it is not fixed in newer releases! :)
kkarp··on Detection of radioactive iodine at trace levels in Europe in January 2017
This is a map of air pollution in Europe.

http://www.zzit.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Powietrze.jpg

Poland is struggling right now because of huge smog. This makes me believe in this part of an article, which says that higher iodine detection might be caused by accumulation in smog.