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by girst 2mo ago
I strongly suspect that this book is little more than LLM output, based both on the writing itself and the existence of https://github.com/AdrianMastronardi/bookwright . I find it despicable that the "author"
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by girst 5y ago
> Using LegacyFox means I have to build/make it after every update of Firefox, right? Nope! Installing once is enough. As long as you're upgrading in-place (which you probably do), it will stay persistent, since Legacyfox doe
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by girst 5y ago
Hi, I'm the maintainer/"janitor keeping the lights on" for VimFx. It still works on up-to-date Firefox versions, as long as you copy a litte bit of javascript in Firefox' install directory[1]. > Vimium these day
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by girst 5y ago
> It does contain a bit more information than required, such as the specifics of the vaccine. between eu member states, the acceptance of e.g. sputnik-v (the russian corona vaccine) varies. having the name (or id) of the vaccine in the
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by girst 5y ago
well, i've written that code quite hastily, and mostly for my own need. i'd guess, the most likely cause would be a missing libzbar.
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by girst 5y ago
the juicy bits seem to be here: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development
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by girst 5y ago
First, the music itself wasn't written by me, but by Rob Miles[1]. So I had a version in C available. I then iteratively transformed the code into simpler and simpler expressions, and finally into a simulated assembly language, written
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by girst 5y ago
Hi, author here. What a nice surprise to see my project turn up here :) If you have any questions, shoot!
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by girst 6y ago
Happy Holidays, HN! Serles-ACME is a small (1300 LoC) Python ACME server that you can hook up to your existing PKI. We have written an adaptor for the Free-as-in-Freedom and Free-as-in-Beer EJBCA Community Edition, or you can write one for
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Show HN: Host your own “LetsEncrypt”/ACME server with Serles-ACME(github.com)
2 points by girst 6y ago|1 comments
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by girst 6y ago
given that the outage affects redirector.googlevideo.com and youtube.com/get_video_info, but as you say, not the f3---<something>.googlevideo.com domains serving the actual streams, i suspect they have problems with the database
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by girst 6y ago
and now youtube.com/get_video_info, the undocumented endpoint for querying (among other things) streaming urls, is broken as well. returns "Video ID is invalid." or "An error occurred. Please try again later."
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by girst 6y ago
yep. thinking it over, that makes more sense. amended my comment
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by girst 6y ago
doing a `curl -v https://redirector.googlevideo.com ` (the host you'll connect to before getting redirected to the actual mp4/m4a streams) opens a tls connection (and gives a cert), but it then hangs for two minutes, be
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by girst 6y ago
Regarding Fedora's Firefox: The Fedora Firefox mainainers, Martin Stransky and Jan Horak, are also the main maintainers of the Linux/GTK parts of Firefox. The VAAPI patches you've mentioned are (afair) mostly-if-not-all Mart
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by girst 6y ago
Just pouring some salt into your wounds: this video < https://youtu.be/RBL1cVzIQik > is over nine years old :^) (I don't think it's exactly the same, but at least similar)
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by girst 6y ago
wow, that's as simple as it is genius. the core of the hack is the realisation that one can generate arbitrary tcp or udp packets from a browser by exploiting ip packet fragmentation (embed the evil packet in a large http post request
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by girst 6y ago
The plan you've described is exactly what https://jshint.com/relicensing-2020/ did. ETA: discussed here, with a more in-depth link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24051655
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by girst 6y ago
It has really annoyed me that CircleCI thinks it's a good idea to force you to connect your Github account to see CI output. I wrote this addon so I can contribute PRs to projects that use this CI provider without divulging personal da
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Show HN: Bypass CircleCI Login Wall(addons.mozilla.org)
2 points by girst 6y ago|2 comments
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by girst 6y ago
Or they can lull you into a false sense of security. (which is the reason chrom{e,ium} has removed their XSS auditor)
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by girst 6y ago
Cloudflare's and all other "Webapp Firewalls" are just snake oil. They can't know what transformations are done server-side on untrusted input, so you'll always (with enough time and determination) be able to craft
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by girst 6y ago
In a 1000 years people will surely benefit from the millions of copy-pasted dotfiles :^)
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by girst 6y ago
wow--impressive! the core is here ( https://github.com/lhoursquentin/sed-bin/blob/master/par.sed ), and it's 600 lines of beautifully commented sed
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by girst 6y ago
well, compared to undisclosed affiliate marketing for trading sites[1], soliciting of donations without consent[2] or the recent redirection through affiliate links[3], this seems pretty tame. [1]: https://github.com/brave&#
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by girst 6y ago
> because the existing implementation was too mature. That's not what I gathered from their official response to the deprecation[1]. But the major problem with WebSQL for Mozilla seems to be this: > We don’t think it is the righ
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by girst 6y ago
nearly all of those APIs are also considered 'harmful' by Mozilla[1]. Some have even been disabled after implementation because of this[2]. These were developed by Google for Chrome OS, and besides the privacy issues, they substan
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by girst 6y ago
Do not keep it transparent! The Gimp for example keeps the underlying colour data, and just sets the opacity to 0. this bug (closed as Expected Behavior) has a demonstration: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-&#
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by girst 6y ago
Note that a browser firewall like uBlock Origin with EasyPrivacy (easylist.to) already blocks this: https://imgur.com/s7efEez.png
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by girst 6y ago
deldo.el has come a long way since 2009! https://github.com/qdot/deldo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo

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