anowlcalledjosh

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New Chrome Protections from Deception(security.googleblog.com)
2 points by anowlcalledjosh 7y ago|0 comments
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by anowlcalledjosh 7y ago
Presumably it's no more confusing than, say, a shebang is for Windows users.
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by anowlcalledjosh 7y ago
Sorry, totally missed that. Looks like some other people have had similar issues with upgrading to previous versions: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3489 (though the issue is for (I think) 16.04->
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by anowlcalledjosh 7y ago
Sorry, brain fart – you have to upgrade between non-LTS releases sequentially, as far as I know there's no supported way to upgrade to 19.04 from anything but 18.10. (in general, to get to release n, you must either be on release n-1,
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by anowlcalledjosh 7y ago
IIRC, do-release-upgrade won't upgrade between LTS releases until the .2 release.
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by anowlcalledjosh 7y ago
Not exactly the same, but: https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/ tldr: if you verify the download against a trusted PGP key, it doesn't matter where the download actually came from.
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by anowlcalledjosh 7y ago
One difference between ctrl-tab and alt-~ (or alt-`, depending on your keyboard layout) is that tabs within a window are very close to each other, and obviously distinct from windows in their own right, whereas it's frequently not imme
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
> Installing F-Droid is easy but nevertheless harder than installing Netflix > installing and managing apps through it is also easy but updates are not automatic (unless you root) I don't dispute that F-Droid is not terribly diff
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
It also doesn't come preinstalled on any devices I'm aware of, which adds a significant amount of friction. Even once you've installed it, it can't auto-update apps.
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
Likewise, I'm not sure I'd think anything was strange if I came across https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/12110 .
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
That's from the "tabs" permission; I'm not sure why the extension requests it, as it doesn't appear that it's required by the code (the chrome.tabs API does not require it, you only need the permission if you&#
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
Because it's not true! Threads in Python can muck around with the state of any other thread, at any time – it would be a language change to assume otherwise.
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
Probably not, see https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/44 (tldr: maintainer says no). There's a fork that purports to add support, but it's not been updated for a while: https://github.com
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
Is this speculation, or sourced? The article seems to contradict you: > Google said it would sell a license for a package including its Google Play app store, Gmail, YouTube and Maps. Another license will be available for companies that
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
Although you can change your nick, you can't have a per-server profile picture, which may or may not be a problem for business use.
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
If you have a firmware 5 kindle (Touch, Paperwhite, Voyage, Oasis), see the screensavers hack thread on Mobileread: > Dou you prefer to just show the last thing that was on screen, with an overlay indicating when the device's alseep
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
> What if animations started at a slightly slower speed, and gradually increased in speed the more you used them? Ubuntu's Unity does this; it keeps track of the number of times you've minimised a window, and as you minimise wi
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
There are a couple of comments on the linked thread suggesting that someone may be using it (scam emails containing people's old reddit passwords).
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
Quick reminder: JWZ despises HN, so you'll need to copy-paste that link in order to remove the referrer header.
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
Sadly no detail on how to find the keys, which is the hard bit. Vulnerabilities in the protocol make it relatively trivial to discover the keys if you have the correct hardware (e.g. a Proxmark3), but as far as I know nobody has done this w
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by anowlcalledjosh 8y ago
I figured it out after a few minutes poking around. You'll need some way to set "secure" settings – if you're not rooted, the easiest way is via a Tasker plugin called AutoTools. Once you've set that up, create a ta
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by anowlcalledjosh 9y ago
Would it be ridiculous to suggest that this is no different to requiring all usernames to be composed of CJK characters? That would be inconvenient and exclusive, no? (also, a nitpick: "just ascii" is still the wrong approach, sin
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by anowlcalledjosh 9y ago
There's also: - cloud storage - shared document editing - translate - instant messaging - calendar - maps Not that any of those have no non-Google alternative, but they're all things that Google offers.
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by anowlcalledjosh 9y ago
Personally, I'd much rather run my old Windows games directly from Linux than spin up a whole Windows VM – it's much more convenient.
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by anowlcalledjosh 9y ago
On 8.1, it's in Network & Internet/Data usage/Network restrictions. It does seem odd that they put it in the data section, not the wifi section.
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by anowlcalledjosh 9y ago
The issue is that the current OOM killer doesn't support this usage at all. To extend the analogy: what do you do if grandma comes and fills your house with stuff? You need space to work, so you go and drop it off at the self storage p
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by anowlcalledjosh 9y ago
Yes, I noticed that too. I wonder when the charts got removed.
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by anowlcalledjosh 9y ago
> at least in Edge, I can disable javascript Note that you can also do this in Chrome: Settings/Site settings/JavaScript. If you're looking for another way to block ads on mobile, DNS66 works pretty well for me, and it&#

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