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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 …

> 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),…

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 d…

> 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…

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.

the juicy bits seem to be here: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development

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, …

Hi, author here. What a nice surprise to see my project turn up here :) If you have any questions, shoot!

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-a…

given that the outage affects redirector.googlevideo.com and youtube.com/get_video_info, but as you say, not the f3--- .googlevideo.com domains serving the actual streams, i suspec…

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 occur…

yep. thinking it over, that makes more sense. amended my comment

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)…

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 …

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)

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 fragmentati…

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

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 …

Or they can lull you into a false sense of security. (which is the reason chrom{e,ium} has removed their XSS auditor)

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 a…

In a 1000 years people will surely benefit from the millions of copy-pasted dotfiles :^)

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

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 …