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chrisxcross

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About chrisxcross

Doing some HCI research stuff.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #32837957

    This ruling is not about the users. It is about Google pressuring manufacturers. This is completely different case.

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    Comment #31682478

    I run valetudo with OpenHAB. No cloud needed just a little rPI.

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    Comment #29647534

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zero_fucks_given needs some love

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    Comment #28716650

    The company/main developer seems to have ties to the alt-right https://nitter.42l.fr/WPalant/status/1281540005190672384

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    Comment #28404140

    https://archive.is/s4S8a

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    Comment #28390357

    Full agree. Political stickers are much more like graffiti tags. It's pretty fun to 'follow' some groups around by just recognizing their stickers.

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    Comment #27808205

    For users of NetworkManager: nmcli device wifi show-password

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    Comment #27047668

    I used it to integrate sketching into a web-based diagram editor ~10 years ago and it was a breeze. OK, I had to train it myself. But it takes only minutes to draw all the shape va…

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    Comment #27023203

    https://archive.is/BCIzr

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    Comment #26398101

    gpick is a nice tool to do it: http://www.gpick.org

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    Comment #24565419

    I'm on 0.11, too. OS crashes are rare ~2 time, maybe. It's minor things, embedded qr-scanner fails, AntennaPod crashes and needs a restart, some Apps like eBay just crash... But ch…

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    Comment #24564313

    I'm a FP3 and /e/ user for about half a year now. And well, it works for me but frankly there are some issues. Nothing I'm not willing to take, but it's different to the premium an…

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    Comment #23760011

    Relevant Study examining different types of banners and their impact on interaction: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3319535.3354212 (Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.02638.pdf …

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    Comment #23759972

    It's the official solution created by Interactive Advertising Bureau and as the standard way to opt-out for all the companies in this organization: https://github.com/InteractiveAd…

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    Comment #22728520

    It should be Open Access all the time. Keep the change!

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    Comment #18919336

    OSM is really awesome in (western) Europe. I use it all the time. All new bike trails are in it. Even the trees in down town are in it. It is even great for car navigation. I used …

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    Comment #12003317

    Google does the same. They regularly send your password to their server to rate it. A curl-example is provided below. I think I already noticed that some websites used googles api …

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    Comment #11277869

    Well, they seem to have some opensourced some of their code. But they are far away form being free software although they claim to use the GPL. If I can't build the software myself…

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    Comment #10136346

    Flash is not installed, so there is no need to block. For Adblocking I use Bluhell Firewall, to stop tracking Ghostery and Self-destructing cookies. On top of that I run noScript t…

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    Comment #10136313

    The connection time outs will make your browsing experience feel slow as page take ages to load before they fail to do so.

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    Comment #10074625

    Maybe the password is the same for the wp-admin user. Password reuse is a really serious and common problem.

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    Comment #10073003

    1500 Results on Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22define%28+%27DB_PASSWORD%...

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    Comment #9409902

    Just tried a quick google search: https://www.google.de/search?q=inurl:news.ycombinator.com/us... Reveals a lot of usernames and creation dates.

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    Comment #9352979

    Use UDF as FS. Working for every recent OS