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teichmannon 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

Odd, I also live in Switzerland but have no such instructions in the message I got.

teichmannon The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird

ECMAScript Language Specification 13th Edition / June 2022 (846 pages): https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-2...

Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++ from 2020-01-14 (1815 pages): https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/n48...

I'm not sure what's the "correct" spec for the current C++ standard is. Still a big difference between these languages, but 846 pages isn't exactly small either.

teichmannon Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS

It’s mentioned in the article, see “Third-party browser support for Add to Home Screen”.

teichmannon Apple Car: Jony Ive’s design, Federighi’s skepticism, the jogger incident

> Apple reportedly hopes to “gain exemptions” from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to remove the steering wheel and brakes, relying fully on self-driving technology.

That sounds crazy to me given the state of self-driving technology. But it sounds like Apple.

teichmannon How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?

I'm not sure about down voted ones, but I can confirm that I sometimes get already watched movies recommended again (even in recommendation mails).

teichmannon Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware

In Germany there was the Staatstrojaner (Federal Trojan horse) case uncovered by the Chaos Computer Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club#Staatstroj...

teichmannon Why does Instagram continue to store and use all of my contacts?

What are you referring to? Users are asked to grant access to contacts since iOS 6 (released 8 years ago).

teichmannon Lesser-known Web APIs

I don't know about other browsers, but Webkit/Safari only allows writing to the clipboard when triggered by a user interaction.

Copied from https://webkit.org/blog/10855/async-clipboard-api/:

"The request to write to the clipboard must be triggered during a user gesture. A call to clipboard.write or clipboard.writeText outside the scope of a user gesture (such as click or touch event handlers) will result in the immediate rejection of the promise returned by the API call."

teichmannon Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy

She’s on the board of directors: https://www.dropbox.com/about.

teichmannon Apple should acquire DuckDuckGo to put pressure on Google Search, analyst argues

Considering how much control Apple exercises over apps/content in the app store, I definitely prefer for DDG to stay independent. I say this as an Apple (Mac, iPhone) and DGG user.

teichmannon Make resilient Go servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation

I’m not sure if I consider that an ad, but I got the same after scrolling way down. I’m on Mobile Safari.

teichmannon Interpreting Go

Gomacro provides an interactive REPL https://github.com/cosmos72/gomacro.