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You’re right, the math is slightly more complicated than rent v. mortgage payment. Ben Felix, a popular financial YouTuber, made many a video about the math: https://youtube.com/wa…

I don't think this is a useful comparison. This is Google's bug with Google's software vs. Project Zero's discoveries are (as I understand them) typically in software used by multi…

https://confs.tech/ has a decent crowd-sourced list

Even if your Master Password is “hunter3”, 1Password, as an example, will mix in a locally generated Secret Key to increase the entropy [1] [1]: https://blog.1password.com/what-the…

GitHub Pages also doesn’t (yet) support custom headers and you can add them with Cf via Workers. So if you’re concerned about the results of securityheaders.io, for example, you ca…

1Password's cloud offering architecture has a few important distinctions from other offerings. Namely the use of a password authenticated key exchange (PAKE) and a "Secret Key" tha…

And what does this revocation accomplish? The app still has your unique address. This revocation is simply "don't log me in next time." You still need to use the app to delete any …

> Web3 is by far the easiest way to provide auth to a web app right now Easiest by what measure? As I understand it, few browsers (read: only one or two) have built in wallets and …

Similarly, basically everyone using Ethereum just uses Infura nodes [1]. Web3 is no more decentralized than anything it purports to improve upon. [1]: https://infura.io/

This is something that folks are working on via the `passwordrules` attribute https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518 With that and a well-known endpoint for changing passwords …

Small plug for LavaMoat ( https://github.com/LavaMoat/LavaMoat ) which includes tools to more granularly disable dependency lifecycle scripts via @lavamoat/allow-scripts.

Yeah they’re similar feature-wise but the communities that exists on GitHub vs. GitLab aren’t remotely comparable.

"If you like this you might also like" https://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html I too am happy to see more Awk material in the world, once I learned a bit about it I started reaching…

The author linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Unfair_Competition_... (I can't speak to its relevance)

Even inside in the web world, this approach wouldn't quite work for features with even a modicum of state.

Yup, there's quite a few different configuration options available: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-securi...

There could be a simple explanation for this: Mozilla has its own browser stack whereas Edge is Chrome.

> Let's be honest here. Curl to 98% of people is http/1 requests with some post params and maybe json body, with some custom headers. 100%, that's why we see so many smaller projec…

> I was surprised that "Awk '!a[$0]++'" works too (on Mac at least). If I "ls Awk" in \usr\bin, it says Awk is there. If I "ls awk" it says awk is also there—but it seems they're t…

There are platforms that don't use PoW that are becoming quite popular. The NBA's Top Shot platform is built [on Flow]( https://www.onflow.org/primer ) which does not use PoW. I'm …

> This is the result of rendering everything to a element. If the accessibility story isn't rock-solid, frankly this is a non-starter for a lot of applications. Web apps suck in a …

I don’t understand, so what? They’re doing their best and if users go somewhere else so be it. I’m sure if they could avoid the outage they would. They’re not losing profits or any…

I had similar issues with their macOS app using a pretty basic headphone+microphone setup (EarPods). I ended up leaving it off and not re-installing in on my latest setup. I've had…

Where does one find VPSs this cheap?