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The parent comment is talking about distractions, not ads. YouTube has plenty of those, even embedded YouTube videos, unless you pause the video before it ends. uBlock Origin Lite …

KeePass supports TOTP out of the box without any plugins since the 2.47 release in January 2021: https://keepass.info/news/n210109_2.47.html Usage: https://keepass.info/help/base/p…

Sometimes it's necessary, when the protocol itself is updated, e.g. the multi-device beta page currently says "Messaging or calling someone who is using a very old version of Whats…

I use PotPlayer, which can show two subtitles at once; also, when you click on a word, it can search it in the search engine of your choice (e.g. a dictionary). You can also add mu…

While I am happy that Notepad++ added a dark mode, I am frustrated that Microsoft forced Notepad++ (and all Windows programs) to add hacky workarounds for a dark mode. Notepad++ al…

The only cases that I can think of are me doing something stupid, like posting my password somewhere public by mistake (e.g. using KeePass password auto-typing on comment field ins…

> you're back to 1 factor (your password manager master password) That's only true if you are using an online service as a password manager, so the master password is the only thin…

In my case, I actually enable 2FA mostly for convenience, rather than security. I often log in from different country IPs (VPN), I auto delete cookies, often use private mode, etc.…

> “Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,” > It's a pretty big problem for society when hospitals, universities, and countless business have been ransome…

> When you phrase it in a way that suggests the host's choice is itself random, people get it wrong. In other words, they still get it right; they get it right for the separate que…

I just dislike library software in general. I like files, I like keeping files neatly in folders and subfolders (and adding tags in filenames if necessary), so that I can easily us…

See the map on page 7 (PDF page 9) of the GSMA report "Access to Mobile Services and Proof of Identity 2020": https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads... To get…

I find it interesting that ads are considered acceptable and commonplace in Android and to a slightly lesser extent iOS apps; but on desktop they are seen as almost malware. To be …

His writing really reminded me of my high school bullies. I couldn't help but imagine him reciting these lines against me with a smirk in his face. Just a passing remark would have…

I am not talking about Germany at all, certainly not Germany of today. I think you missed that we are talking about a hypothetical future where a prospective dictator with overwhel…

> It could. But why explicitly write down things that are obvious anyway? Maybe it's obvious to you; to me it's obvious the other way. Perhaps, when penning their supposed bulwark …

If that was how it was meant to be understood, it could have easily been written explicitly by making it a recursive clause. E.g. in the case of my country, article 4 of the consti…

The relevant blog post, that the article doesn't link to: https://blog.whatsapp.com/more-information-about-our-update Goes into slightly more detail then the article, and also take…

> All that hassle so that you can save $10 a year. You are talking as if KeePass's only advantage is being free and it is only preferred by people who cheapen out. That's not true,…

> Parler is its own platform and Element is just a client. Indeed, people made that point, but I don't see how this is a useful distinction. Parler (the app) that Google and Apple …

If you're talking about this [1], it's written by Mozilla's CEO, not by one random who has access to blog on Mozilla. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than…

Two months ago, Microsoft announced the Pluton security processor and that future AMD, Intel, Qualcomm CPUs will have it. It seems to be for this exact purpose: > These sophisticat…

Not just Firefox, all programs in Windows 10 allow shift+click to jump. The only exceptions are new UWP style scrollbars (the ones that are affected by the "Automatically hide scro…

There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/best as an alternative for a similar purpose. I learned about those two and other undocumented features from https://github.com/minimaxir/…

The feature was called fast forwarding, and old Opera's successor Vivaldi still has it. For those unfamiliar with it, it also works with more complex pagination schemes than just i…