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Nope, our standards position on that is still negative, for one thing.

Hopefully it will just work, if not please file a bug! I tested with a variety of hardware and sites but of course I couldn't try everything...

Yup! Arduino is one of the things I tested with. (I worked on this for Mozilla)

(I submitted a PR for caniuse a few days ago :-) https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/pull/7523 )

As others have said, you'll get a dialog if any site actually tries to use this. But if you want to fully turn it off, just set "dom.webserial.enabled" to false in about:config (an…

https://gregstoll.com is mine

Many more addons are now available on Android, and any extension can make itself available there (as of this month): https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/new-extensions-youll-lov...…

To be fair the blog posts have original intros that often give more context about what prompted him to write about that topic at that time.

The author just wrote an article about this as well - https://dynomight.net/no-soap-radio/

I'm guessing like Mt. Gox, the former bitcoin exchange that halted trading and eventually shut down.

Thanks! Just gave this a try and it didn't seem to help, but I'll remember for next time :-)

Yup, that makes a lot of sense - I didn't realize Python cached so many previous regex's, which is nice! I did use cprofile a while back and I think at the time it showed a lot of …

OP here. I went ahead and tried using the slicing instead of startswith() a few places, and moving the regexes out to module variables. (thanks for the suggestions!) It did speed u…

Yes - with Android Pie and above you can add a "Lockdown" option to your Restart/Shutdown menu, see https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/quickly-disable-finge... You can also jus…

The Tech Solidarity guide at https://techsolidarity.org/resources/security_key_gmail.htm has detailed instructions on how to set up 2FA with U2F and then remove SMS 2FA. (I've been…

I'm not sure - most mutual funds include that in their returns, but I'm not sure if stock prices/indexes do.

I liked this chart so much I made my own version that adds options for non-inflation adjusted and dollar-cost averaging instead of lump sum investment: https://gregstoll.com/~gregs…

I assume it's a measure of the amount of malnutrition.

I wish he had acknowledged the role of good luck. Clearly, he worked hard to get where he is, but how many other comics have done the same? (I don't know much about the comedy busi…

It's in the graphic attached to the NYT article. It's also near the bottom of the Tesla post.

On my Lenovo laptop, there's a BIOS setting to swap them, which I was very happy to find!

You can do the same thing - pressing the Start key does bring up the Metro UI, but if you just start typing there it does the same sort of search for apps/files/etc. that Windows 7…

I'm a paid user of WorkFlowy and love it...now if it only worked in the browser on Windows Phone!