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Apple already takes this approach to limit some entitlements to web browsers on macOS. See the Passkey entitlement as an example: com.apple.developer.web-browser.public-key-credent…

He didn't mean that literally. It's a tongue in cheek way of saying "when you're a 23 year old and you think you've mastered the markets, you don't think about wealth preservation.…

Donations go to the Mozilla foundation which does "internet advocacy". Donations do not go towards Firefox development, not towards the CEO's salary or Firefox engineers' salary. W…

This narrative ignores the fact that many of the executives have been replaced whether voluntarily or involuntarily.

On macOS, the PDF reader Preview.app runs sandboxed by default. The Preview.app sandbox is not quite as secure as what is used by browsers such as Firefox or Chrome on macOS for we…

That seems really disingenuous. Can't you update the article with this important detail?

I don't think you mentioned that the student doesn't have to pay back Lambda after 60 months of deferred payments. That seems important. From the Lambda site: "The income share agr…

> FTFA "People who drank hot tea daily but didn't smoke or drink alcohol every day had no increased risk of oesophageal cancer." Actually, it's the opposite. From the article, "Som…

Apparently, the two are related. From the post, "We’ve recently learned that Google Accounts has slipped their schedule for using Web Authentication to register new credentials. Th…

"The second vulnerability was in Microsoft Windows. It is a local privilege escalation in the Windows win32k.sys kernel driver that can be used as a security sandbox escape." https…

This came up last month and a Tesla driver had this to say. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16822623

> What prevents a new update to revert this or cause other safety problem? One would hope it's a culture of safety first at Tesla where all software changes are extensively reviewe…

Which simply means it is because the car's AI isn't good enough to classify that object as something it should slow down for versus something it can ignore (like an empty plastic b…

That is very significant! Your comment suggests that Tesla's claims about the driver having his hands off the wheel for x seconds before a crash could be wrong. If the sensors dete…

No, they can still see the IP address of the site you visit.

Hi, I'm your ISP. Now that I'm not limited by net neutrality over-regulation, life is going to be better for you. Hacker news and those other niche new sites you visit are niche si…

It's pretty close to being the same thing. You're downloading Firefox at some point and not verifying the binaries you get match the source. Unless Firefox provides fully reproduci…

>> one has to trust Mozilla not to do that. > > Exactly. One has to trust Mozilla every time one visits > the page. They could easily configure it to be malicious > one time out of…

From the article, "a University of San Francisco study of data from 1988 to 2008, extended to 2013, demonstrated male nurses made an adjusted $5,148 per year more than female nurse…

> Nope. Dropbox has never claimed they don't have access to your files I don't mean to nitpick and it's been a while, but Dropbox used to claim that "even our employees can't acces…

> Hard to love when the broken extension ecosystem prevents the use of vertical tabs for these scenarios. Here's an in-development vertical tabs extension using their new extension…

> Publishing it after the fact for review by > the public doesn't make sense, and calling for it is > petty. Carmack isn't calling for it to be published. He only said he thinks th…

> You could say the same thing about anything people do in secret. I don't think that makes sense. There is no attempt to generalize this to things people do in secret. There is no…