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malepoon

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    Comment #32712716

    > or do these KF people do doxing on sorts on other sites and use KF as a central place to coordinate attacks? Yep. KF is their harassment HQ where they share information about ind…

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    Comment #32712697

    > between two internet mobs headed by two unsavoury individuals This is a bit too much "both sides are bad" for me. Fact is that Kiwi Farms is a horrible website where people haras…

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    Comment #32622583

    > Most densely populated country in Europe has solar parks for fuck sake. I don't know how much is from solar parks? About 20% of all houses in the Netherlands have solar panels ac…

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    Comment #32532803

    Remember (P)NaCl? Or WebSQL? Google has a bad reputation for pushing poorly designed web "standards". Thanks to Mozilla we then got asm.js, wich evolved into Wasm and ultimately re…

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    Comment #32509416

    It's true though. You see something similar with the address bar: Chrome's is pretty horrible for accessing history or bookmarks, it instead tries to push you to do a search. Firef…

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    Comment #32493833

    From Wikipedia: > Today, FreeBSD is used by many IT companies such as IBM, Nokia, Juniper Networks, and NetApp to build their products.[16][17] Certain parts of Apple's Mac OS X op…

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    Comment #32399658

    This is why I love (WebAuthn) security keys: it's completely separate from your phone (and easy to register a second/third key as backup for in a safe location) so you eliminate th…

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    Comment #32189139

    So the students learn to use these "free" services and then later pay with their data for their personal accounts? Even worse if you ask me.

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    Comment #32188836

    Even if that's true, do we really want our children to grow up with (and get used to) these services that are usually "free" for personal use but paid for by tracking people across…

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    Comment #31705915

    Please no, if you need to add so much complexity just to work around problems with glass stairs, it's better to just go with boring normal stairs.

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    Comment #31240666

    Twitter also supports WebAuthn security keys as 2FA, much stronger than SMS/TOTP.

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    Comment #30184505

    To be honest I only notice that with movies. Books are fine, TV show episodes are usually fine, but long movies I can have a hard time concentrating on. Maybe because I can easily …

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    Comment #30015735

    It's too bad these Chromium "specs" tend to be pretty low quality and rushed. They're then never changed because "too bad, we shipped it already, can't break the web!" See the garb…

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    Comment #29354143

    Thanks. At some point Twitter itself didn't let you read threads without logging in, but it looks like they changed that...

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    Comment #29354046

    Twitter thread from a vaccine developer: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1464222680731820043.html A lot of speculation still, but it's not all bad so far.

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    Comment #29005942

    Indeed. Also, using the generic web.dev domain to market Chrome reminds me a lot of Project NERA.

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    Comment #28975785

    Brave and Edge are better than Chrome if you care about privacy, but 99% of the code base is still controlled by Google and they don't really have a voice in standards committees. …

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