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by jonchang 5mo ago
Why wouldn't you just recycle it instead of throwing it in the trash? Seems wasteful.
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by jonchang 8mo ago
Got any sources for that?
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Attempting Cross Translation Unit Taint Analysis for Firefox(attackanddefense.dev)
1 points by jonchang 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jonchang 10mo ago
The author of nethack4 (Alex Smith) subsequently joined the original nethack (nethack 3.x) dev team: https://nethack.org/common/news.html#newmembers
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Hull Failure and Implosion of Submersible Titan(ntsb.gov)
5 points by jonchang 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jonchang 1y ago
It seems like this is the corresponding iPhone 8-era update: https://support.apple.com/en-us/125141
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by jonchang 1y ago
Her name is actually Rachel, not Karen.
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by jonchang 2y ago
Developing media literacy is an important skill! One way to approach this work is to understand the genre of the work you are reading! We can determine genre in a few ways, but in this case, we see that the publication is the New Yorker
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by jonchang 2y ago
You'll be interested to know that Safe Browsing was introduced in Firefox 2 in 2006, and the malware check feature was introduced in 2014! I suggest you search using your favorite search engine to see how this feature works while also
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by jonchang 3y ago
CZI and CZF are structured as a for-profit LLC and a non-profit arm, respectively. Depending on where the money came from, it might not be a problem at all, though it could potentially jeopardize Harvard's nonprofit status. I'll l
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by jonchang 3y ago
These kinds of union votes are all publicly available online with the NLRB, if you want more details: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/31-RC-323290
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by jonchang 3y ago
https://jonathanchang.org Mostly bits of code and explanations that I took notes for and then later realized would make a good blog post.
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by jonchang 4y ago
It's because of fingerprinting. See https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting for the official standards position.
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by jonchang 4y ago
Firefox and other browsers use an optimization called the bfcache (back-forward cache) that is intended to do exactly that. However, lots of web developers write their pages in a way that defeats the bfcache optimization. Moreover, bloated
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by jonchang 4y ago
Sounds like a rebranding of the much-reviled Clippy.
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by jonchang 4y ago
When has the state declared bankruptcy?
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What I Mean When I Say 'Ban Cars'(jalopnik.com)
2 points by jonchang 4y ago|0 comments
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by jonchang 4y ago
Our solution to the infinite-backtracking pip dependency resolver was to instead rely on poetry to do dependency management via lockfiles. This way dependency resolution only needs to happen once, and oftentimes on CI through dependabot ver
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by jonchang 4y ago
> I think that what this means in the long-run is that this small number of very highly resourced private colleges (Ivies, a lot of the small New England liberal arts schools, Duke, MIT, etc.) will be able to sustain "normal" p
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'Buy now, pay later' is sending the TikTok generation spiraling into debt(sfgate.com)
33 points by jonchang 4y ago|45 comments
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by jonchang 5y ago
These are the first paragraphs of the email I got: > On December 13th 2021, the Firefox browser will be officially "resorbing" Firefox Lockwise. Don't worry, all your saved Lockwise passwords will still be available throug
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by jonchang 5y ago
This article appears to be focused on laptops, desktops, and servers, and the author uses the term "system" to collectively refer to these. If this really is "infurating" (and you're not just using the term to be hy
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by jonchang 5y ago
This should be updated to link to the original website, rather than to R-bloggers, which is a blog aggregator. http://skranz.github.io/r/2021/09/24/bundestag2021.html
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by jonchang 5y ago
Quote: Why go after hotel or airline rewards? Because these accounts can all be cleaned out and deposited onto a gift card number that can be resold quickly online for 80 percent of its value. “These guys want that hard digital asset — the
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by jonchang 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27922841
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by jonchang 5y ago
It does, on page 4.
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by jonchang 5y ago
How exactly would you make this paper shorter? Do you have any specific suggestions beyond your analysis here?
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by jonchang 5y ago
This is a summary of the more detailed findings in their paper, which I found easy to read and has some intriguing suggestions for fixing privacy issues with the original proposal: https://mozilla.github.io/ppa-docs/flo
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Privacy Analysis of FLoC(blog.mozilla.org)
288 points by jonchang 5y ago|164 comments
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by jonchang 5y ago
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/ Scroll a little bit down and you'll see the country of origin for the parts. Most are of US origin.

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