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The disadvantage of those methods is that they require installing custom software, and they don't work on mobile devices unless you put them behind a router with custom firmware. I…

DoH does wonders against ISPs which filter DNS traffic (including traffic to third-party DNS servers). This happens more often than many people realize. My ISP blocks traffic to a …

In Rust, if expressions are not place expressions. In the example, arr_ref is a reference to a temporary, not to an array element. In Rust, it is possible to take an address of any…

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I understand that some people prefer a dark theme. What I don't understand is why do some people think that everyone must prefer a dark theme, so they set up their websites to alwa…

(2018)

Says someone who can't even spell "don't" correctly. Though this doesn't really bother me at all.

If you can use Firefox, it allows you to create multiple "containers", each with its own set of cookies and other state. You can create a separate container for each Okta login, th…

Project Euler

Usually SSO means that you have to login just once to access all of your accounts. If it requires you to login multiple times a day then something is not configured correctly.

Mallory-in-the-Middle

It's a fairly old trick. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/behol... Solution: configure your browser to force new windows into new tabs. Also, if you are using…

Also you can type f?? to get the source code of f.

That's why I always set up my browser to force new windows into new tabs. I think that it should be the default. Web pages shouldn't be able to open new windows, and certainly not …

Sharing Python objects between processes is not safe. Python assumes that access to objects is protected by GIL, but this is not the case when using multiple processes (even if the…

I have my email client configured to display messages as plain text. A large fraction of emails that I receive have a text part that is empty or has some placeholder text. Also, se…

This link was already posted three times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39846010

Minor issue: sometimes several "countries" (not actually countries, but dependent territories) have the same flag, but the game only accepts one answer as valid.