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vbcr··on YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby
This is a great addon. works on most channels.

I personally do not use it though as I do not have a problem with advertising in general. As long as there is no data collection and targeted ads, I am good to sponsor with my time.

vbcr··on Tell HN: (weirdly, it works now) DuckDuckGo is blocked by Indian govt
Working for me. Pioneer broadband. Hyd.
vbcr··on Disney surpasses Netflix in global paid streaming subscribers
Also in India, Disney+ is called Disney+Hotstar which is a much cheaper alternative to Netflix. Their most expensive plan is ₹1500/year compared to Netflix's ₹7788/year. Even Netflix's basic plan in India is ₹2388/year.
vbcr··on Why Kreya isn't open source
Couldn't they have gone Intellij Idea route. Their community (free) version is Apache License 2.0, Ultimate (paid) version is closed source.
vbcr··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
Interesting product. Do you play the videos from YouTube, if yes how do you embed them in your app. If no, do you host these videos on your end and how are they licensed from those content creators.
vbcr··on KeePassXC 2.4.3
Explained in detail here:

https://superuser.com/a/879013

vbcr··on How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup
I know this is not reddit, but this video drives OP's point home.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA

vbcr··on In Java 3 = 12
and easily mitigated by the right use of parentheses.

System.out.println((1 + 2) + " = " + (1 + 2));

vbcr··on China Doesn't Understand the Concept of American Chinese Food (2014)
Hakka Noddles

Chilli Chicken

Gobi Manchurian and many more...

vbcr··on Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature
> Stay evil.

Wow. Google went a full 180 from being a company that promoted itself by saying "Don't be evil" to something evil. Couldn't Google have made its billions still being not evil, without its privacy issues, without its obnoxious desire for tracking everything. Did they turn to this evil for the money or just because they can do it (or if not someone else will).

vbcr··on “autocomplete=off is ignored on non-login input elements”
Google's Search input field has autocomplete="off" setting. This is one of the popular use case I think.
vbcr··on 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
How can they think that the clock was a bomb when it is ticking up rather than down.
vbcr··on The Poor Reviews of Apple Watch Now Probably Means It Will Be a Major Success
> and a lot of flaws that I'm probably forgetting right now

when the first iPhone was announced, I couldn't help but think of an emergency use case where I could dial 911 on my old nokia even while it is switched off. Now I have to switch on my phone, unlock, open phone app, dialer and then 911. A total of 4 additional steps.

Was this addressed in some way that I am not aware of?

vbcr··on Stop Firefox leaking data about you
Yes. Hello sounds amazing, but it could have been an extension along with hundreds of other amazing extensions for firefox. The point is there are extensions that I use and there are extensions that I do not use. There is no reason to stuff something down my throat however amazing they sound.
vbcr··on Show HN: Similar Phone Finder
This looks good. What I was expecting though was a low price phone which match the specs on my phone. I know those phones are out there, but I would like to sort by price (so that I can find cheapest), OS (android/windows/ios), manufacturer.
vbcr··on Your PBX has been hacked
...and to press #4 to talk to their security department

Does something bad happen by pressing a number on dial pad or they just transfer to a human to talk to. Just curious because I heard from someone that pressing a button was good enough for the spammer who is calling you, but it does not makes sense how that can harm.

vbcr··on On Mozilla's forced SSL
> ...solved by simply including a signature of the content rather than encrypting everything.

How do you deliver the signature to the client. If it is through the unencrypted channel, then the signature could also be MitM'd.

vbcr··on Ask HN: Do you feel like you live in the future?
Future was when I watched Steve Jobs flick his finger to scroll through contacts when he was introducing the first iphone. Prior to that I always felt scrolling through 200+ contacts on my sony ericsson phone was unnecessarily hard. It has been almost 8 years since and I can distinctly remember the awe on my face.

I am living in the future ever since.

vbcr··on Open Sourcing Visual Studio’s GDB/LLDB Debug Engine
I have debugged a C# application in VS and a Java application in IntelliJ and in Eclipse. I did not see any debugging features in VS that can claim its superiority over the others. May be I have not used all the features that were available.

Are there any features in VS debugger that are better or non-existent in Java IDEs?

vbcr··on Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand
Not sure about Thailand, but this is true for USA.

My colleague's wife is on H4 (dependant) visa and prior to coming to USA, she had a job in India. We talked to a lawyer and then with USCIS and both of them confirmed that it is not a possibility that she can work remote here in USA on H4 even though she gets paid in India.

vbcr··on Remotely send Chrome and Node.js into infinite loops via OS X kernel bug
The last statement reminds me of Linus saying

we do not break user space

If an application is utilizing a bug, it is not a bug but a feature

vbcr··on The Solar System and Beyond Is Awash in Water
But this line of thinking eventually leads to Fermi Paradox.

The apparent size and age of the universe suggest that many technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations ought to exist. However, this hypothesis seems inconsistent with the lack of observational evidence to support it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

vbcr··on Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
Why does the browser even allow any toolbar/extension to modify the content that was delivered on a HTTPS connection. Isn't the data that is delivered over HTTPS pristine that it should not be modified at the browser endpoint by the browser.

I am a layman in security and do not understand a lot of this. May be I missed something here. Is my question correct?

vbcr··on Hindu units of time
I guess the relevance come from

"The current Universe was created in Padma kalpa, the last day Kalpa of 50 th year of Bramha.This is 10.51 billion years ago.This figure is close to modern estimated 13.78 billion years."

But now the question is was it pure luck that the ancient humans came up with a number that is close to the current scientific values or is there something that is lost in time. May be they were advanced than us and we just don't know. Of course, no evidence = grain of salt.

vbcr··on DHS Extends Eligibility for Employment to Certain H-4 Dependent Spouses
Its not that bad in the recent years. I applied for my labor in aug 2012 (step 1), it was approved in less than 3 months. later applied for I140 (step 2), it was too approved in less than 4 months. Since I have an approved I140, my wife (an H4 holder) can apply for EAD under this new rule. Also the rule states that its either approved I140 OR H1B over 6 years.
vbcr··on Passive WiFi Tracking
genuine question - this sounds illegal? is it and if so why?
vbcr··on Fake name generator for social media
Your math does not checkout.