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So-called "cookie banners" usually ask for your consent to much more than optional tracking cookies. By accepting you might be giving your permission to e.g. track you through vari…

It shows you the automatic account matches on import, allowing you to double-check and correct any misclassified ones.

>Isn't this suitable for a Bayesian classifier? I think that's what GnuCash does by default. Even with years of past transaction data it still gets some very obvious matches wrong …

>There is a sign-in/create account screen, but this is easily bypassed if you know how to edit an sqlite file. You can also just add "SideloadedMode=true" to your "Kobo eReader.con…

>Add special signals you can change on your server, which the app will understand, such as a forced update that will install without asking the user. I understand the reasoning, bu…

I tried the the linked example search for "baby cat" and it returned the same three AI cats you can see in their Google search comparison screenshot on the first page. None of them…

>I don't remember where I've used my YubiKey in the past. I track this in my password manager. Accounts where the YubiKey is enrolled are tagged "YubiKey (FIDO)".

I don't get those prompts with Google Photos. Have you tried selecting "Use without an account" in the account menu at the top right?

>Not if this is one of a few dozen or few hundred similar ongoing operations. The risk is always there, they have to expect some amount of failure. That actually makes me think it'…

>OpenWRT's hardware table seems not very useful; I can't, for instance, filter for at least two ethernet ports. You could download the CSV dump of the hardware table [1] and filter…

Last time I checked the Linksys E8450/Belkin RT3200 was widely recommended.

That wouldn't work for dynamically injected ads that could be at different timestamps and have different lengths for each user.

There's a great summary from LWN[1] with lots of references and links to other articles for further reading. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/631631

More of these can also be found at https://old.reddit.com/r/CrowdPulledOnStage/top/?t=all .

>simply making the username equal to "[deleted]" is likely compliant. What if any of the comments themselves contain a name, username or other personal data that could be used to c…

I've been using OpenSnitch on Linux for some time now as well. While the user interface can be finicky at times, it's generally working very well. My biggest annoyance would be cre…

Don't all Firefox extensions have to be signed by Mozilla in order to be installable (in non-developer Firefox editions at least) these days? Even if they're publishing it on their…

>imagine that every spam mail receives a masterfully crafted response showing utter fascination and interest in SEO That would necessitate reliably detecting the emails as spam in …

I agree, it's a little weird that some very basic quality of life features are missing from such a popular and relatively mature product. Folder management in particular seems to h…

More like a canary I think.

>No cryptography can protect against this scenario I remember reading about how MITM is prevented in U2F [1] by using information about the connection as part of the challenge that…

Reminds me of Bytebeats [1]. My favorite being echo "g(i,x,t,o){return((3&x&(i*((3&i>>16?\"BY}6YB6%\":\"Qj}6jQ6%\")[t%8]+51)>>o)) >14,12)+g(i,s=i>>17,n^i>>13,10)+g(i,s/3,n+((i>>11)…