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samoa42··on How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
totally the same here.

i cannot grasp why browsers abandoned the vertical-tab ui. is there something difficult about it?

samoa42··on How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
A: it supports vertical tab-bar out of the box

thou wish they'd put more effort into tab-grouping, the tabkit ff-plugin pushed this to perfection some time ago.

samoa42··on How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
same same

"it's never quite the same as the first time you fall in love"

samoa42··on Malware on My Android Phone
yea. really buggers me that there is no native webdav support in ios (at least there is cal-/carddav)
samoa42··on Ubiquiti Networks Breach
avm is like the apple of home-networking.

hardware stats and software features are severely behind the curve but it mostly just works and you dont really need those features anyway.

certainly not prosumer

samoa42··on Ubiquiti Networks Breach
FritzBox is way better than isp-provided or TP-Link-like boxes but certainly not pro-anything (no vlans or ingress-qos, guest-wifi but no real multi-ssid, severely limited dns-customization ...)
samoa42··on Ubiquiti Networks Breach
as the name implies, that company made a ruckus in the prosumer segment like ubiquiti but since bought by Arris is declining same same (like you only get FW updates with registration).
samoa42··on Ubiquiti Networks Breach
i have had different hardware running openwrt and never experienced problems regarding to multiple ssids...

maybe you have a known-bad hardware in regards to driver support, but that is absolutely not to be expected.

samoa42··on My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions
as noted ITT:

set ServerAliveInterval in your ssh_config to avoid this (default uset)

samoa42··on President of Mexico warns about Silicon Valley censorship
> freedom of speech(Redefreiheit), the latter doesn’t exist as such in Germany.

yes it does! article 5 of the constitution

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_5.html

samoa42··on Malware on My Android Phone
noted, hence i wrote 'can pay' and not 'must pay'.
samoa42··on An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
i see, apologies.

why do you prefer software encode?

samoa42··on Malware on My Android Phone
so there are a ton of different apps for which you can pay to get a feature that ios has builtin. great
samoa42··on An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
you dont even need to download it because most players can access an url just fine. mpv with ytdl integration is my goto for viewing sites that just wont give users access to the video-url (youtube/twitch/vimeo...)
samoa42··on An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
maybe growing up with PAL is hampering my expectations here, but imo 1GB/hour in h264 looks just fine whereas same size HEVEC, while having supperior contrast and sharpness, almost always has fucked up colors so i try to avoid it. also HVEC makes my fans spin up.
samoa42··on An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
probably because h264 en-/decoding is supported in hardware even on dated platforms
samoa42··on An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
this!

h264 is the most widely supported codec to decode in hardware, so the inclusion of a software decoder in the browser is kinda moot.

samoa42··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
e2e encryption is mostly moot considering neither the client-application nor -device are really trustworthy.

then there is the problem with push-notifications passing throu either google or apple as well as device-backups which both hand over your metadata and probably message content.

imo telegram is in a better spot simply because it is not affilliated with the facebook/google ecosystem but in the end it does not make much of a difference due to aforementioned systematic deficiencies.

imo good reasons to cash in on the platform compatibility and convenience of telegrams cloud-messaging architecture.

samoa42··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
username checks out
samoa42··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
one can add new contacts to telegram via the desktop app
samoa42··on Linux Hardening Guide
> Public keys really are the better way to handle user auth, less of a minefield for regular users.

I'll go along with that, thou i consider a secret that resides in my brain vastly more secure than one residing on my disk.

samoa42··on Linux Hardening Guide
> never let people SSH in with a password

this seems to be a recent cargo cult rooted in the fact that people tend to choose weak passwords and/or reuse them, but there is technically nothing wrong about it and the opensshd defaults (MaxStartups) make bruteforcing reasonable username/password combinations unfeaseable.

A private key is just a very long password that is stored on disk and if there is no password on the key-file, it is stored there in plaintext an can be used by every other application (e.g. browser)

samoa42··on Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
imo for the 95%-task of get-me-to-this-address i find the apple routing actually superior to gmaps (in germany that is)
samoa42··on Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?
also http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
samoa42··on Fun with IP address parsing
> I'm now going to change my LAN to use 10.0.0.1 instead of 192.168.0.1 so that I can just type 10.1

people doing lan-partys around 1995 called ...

just kidding, great you discovered it

samoa42··on Hell Yes CSS
not for me. try w/o .js

but yes, linking to non-free resources should be discouraged

samoa42··on What's the deal with openportstats.com?
please consider not using imgur.

it does not return the image even if the url directly points to it and does not work correctly with a lot of browsers.

ty

samoa42··on Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
it's not nothing if most whatsapp groups contain at least one member that gives an un-ecrypted archive to google. sure it's stated in the fine print, but nontheless most ppl argue that whatsapp is "private because encryption right?"
samoa42··on Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
yep, chances are that most whatsapp groups contain at least one person the uses the google drive backup.
samoa42··on Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you own
> every time there is a power outage, luckily there are only a few a year

loled - i mean sure its no biggy, but i dont even remember when i had to reprogram the ovens clock the last time. probably been a year or two since the last outage.

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