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Just as privacy conscious is a misleading statement. Choosing to migrate their default search to Google was a money grab by Firefox and that money is, in turn, 100% dependent upon tracking. I think this is why what limited privacy options Firefox does offer are entirely opt-in, and often hidden behind menus that your average user will probably never visit.

By contrast Brave has had things such as blocking of fingerprinting for months (years?), and also natively supports OPT-OUT ad blocking, script blocking, third party cookie blocking (which FireFox does also but once again in a less direct fashion), single click native TOR access + ID swapping anywhere, and more. And I think the biggest difference is that this is all directly exposed to the user. If a user clicks the big iconic Lion icon in the top right they get a popup that shows nothing but:

- [x] Shields Up (adblocking/etc)

- [x] Third party trackers blocked

- [x] Connections forced to HTTPS

- [x] Scripts blocked

- [Third Party/All/None] Cookies blocked

- [Third Party/All/None] Device recognition blocked

So even users that know absolutely nothing and don't bother to navigate through menu options will almost definitely immediately be exposed to all of these privacy options, though again given the opt-out nature of much of it - even if they weren't, it would be less of an issue.
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>It's like Google found developer goodwill burdensome, and decided to pack it all up into container trucks and ship it all to Microsoft.

Funny how that changes. If anyone told me in 1999 that Microsoft would eventually become one of the Good Guys...
Even using the official repos doesn’t guarantee you to be safe. The project developer might have had their development machine hacked and/or their source repository hacked and malicious code inserted. So when Arch / Ubuntu / etc package maintainers pull the latest source, unless they’re doing very thorough diffs of each source file, they could easily miss the injected malicious code and subsequently repackage that for the distro. What has actually happened before.

Also if your Linux / UNIX machine has an addressable WAN IP then you have all the usual risks of involved with hosting services on the public internet. A few years ago there was a spate of compromised web servers with the malware running as Apache modules.

So there aren’t really any guarantees when running Linux.
iCloud security code can come over SMS if your account is configured as such, therefore the above example of a SIM port applies
The interest mystifies me too.

OK, it's rare. Everything that flopped is rare. But there are millions of flops. I get that SEGA has a following. But even when SEGA was selling like hotcakes, SEGA fans were not interested in this. Why the interest now?

Genuinely curious.
The IP might be in question; PowerVR made the GPU, and the patents wouldn't have expired yet for instance.
They were launched right when ML was going mainstream & ability to infer the proprietary algos became widespread by simply learning hand state from their own data points & raw input images from commodity RGB cameras.
No idea about Australia, but where I live I get ice creams with an ingredient list that looks like this:

Milk, Figs & Sugar

Of course I can also get ice creams with all of the stuff you've listed, too, but the option exists.
Facebook's Capture The Flag event starts tomorrow
A possibly relevant distinction for DDG ads is that (I believe) they're anonymized and tied only to the search, not to your identity.
No because every line has a timestamp and the sort is done comparing numerical value, but still I question the use of uniq, unless it's invoked with the --skip-fields option.
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> You shouldn't need a CDMA phone for an LTE network, unless it doesnt support VoLTE, which Sprint uses.

But you absolutely do on Sprint. There's only a handful of models (iphone XS models and Samsung S8 and variant models) that support voLTE on Sprint in a handful of markets. There's also some USCC roaming areas supporting voLTE. I am unsure if that allows for more models.

CDMA2000's 3G technologies are slower. None of the proposed improvements were rolled out stateside. Sprint/Verizon rolled EV-DO RevA topping out at around 2-3mbps on a good day. To contrast: HSPA+ was rolling with 21mbps and 42mbps peak downlink in markets (AT&T and T-Mobile)
I don't think you need to pay to develop a Safari App Extension.
I don't really like Mozilla as an organization. I don't like Google either. Recently, I've started using the Brave browser (https://brave.com). So far, I like it quite well.

I like Brave's concept of Shields, which block ad-trackers.
I also think one of the more interesting concepts in Brave is the Rewards ad-revenue-sharing program. I haven't turned it on yet, so I don't know how well it works (if at all) but I find the idea interesting and outside the box when considering the major browser players.

The developer tools in Brave are exactly what you would expect.

Brave has worked well for me so far, so I'll continue with it for the time being.
Firefox may be doing their own thing, since they own the webview, but they cannot use the content blocking API.
I doubt they want to start a cell company, more likely it is to have favorable terms for embedding 4G into Echo devices, making car and portable echos possible. They have done this for years w/Kindle, which would also benefit.
That's only "easy" for the HN crowd.

Most people use second-line apps like Hushed, or the traditional method of getting a second line from your carrier.
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Europol has broken the Threema encryption, at least in one case
Too late to edit my post, but "where Google has clearly invested time and money into optimizing things for FF" should read "where Google has clearly invested time and money into optimizing things for Chrome."

Sorry.
this is bad week for privacy security also in regards to Protonmail
So you're suggesting that it's a user's responsibility to proactively register their number with every single third party caller ID service that exists and ever will exist? And you consider that a "simple solution"?

It does not seem unreasonable for a service like TrueCaller to notify people that user-generated information about them is being irrevocably added to a globally public repository.
> Just start typing to find a particular tab by name.

Note that this is probably one of the least discoverable features I've ever seen.
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An even, shorter intuition would be that: number of pairs in a group of n people grows O(n^2), which implies some square root factor. I would lead with that before starting a more rigorous proof.
I have issue with "delusion that Monopoly is a particularly skill based game", because it's actually very skill-based, but designed in a way that allows bad players to win a single game. It's like Poker in that respect, skilled players will win more frequently.
You stated that it wasn't a problem before they were free:

"I don't think money was ever the big deal in the real world that IETF people thought it was, but it sure drove a lot of dumb mailing list posts"

I am pointing out that I disagree, it was a very big deal and it's why I created Let's Encrypt.
Maybe you meant to be sarcastic but being underwater doesn't negate any of the environmental concerns linked with pollution, treatment of by-products and their effect on the ecosystem.
TrueCaller is Facebook's face recognition for phone numbers. They are building shadow profiles using some user-valuable bait feature. For TrueCaller, most of its value is in fighting spam. So, unlike Facebook, it's not only users who compromise privacy of others, it's spammers who steal our privacy. We should examine spam fighting solutions for email, IM and others, they might be involved in the same business model.

If we solve the spam problem, we can regain some privacy back.
I think Android does/ can do just that? There's a native photo picking intent, and the app just gets back a photo. Whether it was from the camera, the gallery, etc, who cares?

In practice, most apps would rather have their own in-app photo grid. Nothing to do with wanting to violate your privacy, I'm sure :)
No, and due to the removal NPAPI extension support you cannot add this feature to it.
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Apple AirPort Firmware Data Deletion Vulnerability
Indeed. Also, stands to reason that breast cancer incidence rate is less correlated with standard of living or availability of healthcare than mortality rate. (Unless the society is so primitive that cancer mortalities don't get counted)
I wonder why James Earl Jones isn't listed for Jackson, MI. His page contains a link to Jackson, and Jackson's page contains a link to him. His page has more views than than Paula Faris'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Jones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Michigan

https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or...
No, this very paragraph is even highlighted in many major social media in China. The public opinions are oriented that people should be wise about products of Huawei.
> Standards require all participants to license at a FRAND rate.

Clearly you didn’t read the article. There’s an entire section about Qualcomm not issuing FRAND licenses.
If one is only interested to remove duplicates (your script does more) I've found this one liner in a StackExchange post:
awk '!x[$0]++' ~/.zsh_history
It also seems that not as many people want to induce labour on the 13th.
> I agree that they have more coverage in aggregate but when you go out into the boondocks. You don’t get LTE. That “1%” makes a difference in rural areas.

For Sprint this is the case that they are relying on 1X to cover the sticks with 800mhz)

T-Mobile had to build a fairly dense network with towers broadcasting 1900mhz GSM back in the day. They had less spectrum and it was mostly mid-band (1900 and AWS).

T-Mobile can now broadcast 600mhz and 700mhz in most markets LTE-only. So uh yeah, rural markets you would only receive LTE or nothing. AWS and 1900 doesn't propagate as far nor does it penetrate obstacles like the low band does.
I mean, thats essentially the apple app store right? Just with torrents and documents instead of apps? So like a freely distributed google docs, but for everything. That movie you downloaded a week ago got a better version, the sci-hub article you downloaded last week has commentary from the author or has been disputed, That microsoft office (excel, word, onenote) you've been working on with a group has a long revision history and automatic version control. You could even download the 'latest version' at 'run-time'; when you double click to open the document. There's a company, or atleast the very start of one in these ideas.
I hope the irony of Facebook sponsoring a CTF event after having given away all their literal flags on purpose and accidentally over and over again for 15 years is not lost on anyone.
> I hate OSXs Cmd-Tab ordering

What is this?
This.

This is why FinneyFor uses an iFrame to keep the private key safe in localStorage only accessible from JS running on the same domain. FinneyFor uses postMessage to communicate between the parent frame when payment is processed, so you get the benefits of creating transactions in any kind of browser, but none of the risks as the parent rightfully points out.

https://finneyfor.com/
Sounds more like they managed to access data like logs on the device after the fact, not that they broke the encryption of ongoing communication?
Interactive Online Platform That Visualizes Algorithms from Code
Meh. I prefer to leverage SQL.

I have yet to find a better way to store and search bash history than:

https://github.com/tkf/rash

More recent bash sqlite history attempts all seem to fall short than this implementation, they store less metrics or have other caveats.
No. The constitution generally doesn’t restrict a private company like FB from imposing restrictions on speech
Just checked it (I have a recommended setup) - it's whooping fast.
Trying to explore gamedev in Racket myself so cool to see the matrix related stuff in https://github.com/jb55/vrscript-samples/blob/master/vr.rkt
I think he's referring to EME (encrypted media extensions - W3C's standardized DRM for the web).
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First, I'd like to point out, that Containers are built-in with Firefox, even though you generally want at least the official add-on for ease of use.

Containers were actually the reason for me to switch over from Chrome about a year ago. The biggest benefit I see is that they're made easy to extend via add-ons.

In my set up I currently have a new container created every time I open a new tab, either blank or from a link, and automatically removed after I close them, which is made possible by Temporary Containers add-on in auto mode.

This creates automatic boundaries for all of my browsing. I then also have persistent containers for sites I want to be logged in to.
When you find the culprits on FF, what do they tend to be? How many tabs do you typically have open? Do you run an ad blocker? Not saying you're doing anything wrong - just genuinely curious about which usage patterns trigger FF to be "slow."

I usually have perhaps 5-15 tabs open in FF and I've really never had a reason to even look at about:performance.

But, I do understand that different people have different usage patterns. I run an ad-blocker and I don't typically have any "heavy" resource-sucking tabs open. Hacker News, old Reddit, Twitter, Wikipedia, NYT, etc. That kind of thing. Not heavy video/streaming/interactive stuff.

Anecdotally my understanding is that really heavy tab users (like many dozens or even hundreds of tabs) feel/felt that Chrome handed that better than FF.
I'm sure they consider that a feature, not a bug.
> What worse combination of technology can you have than being on Sprint’s network and CDMA?

You can just stack even more shit on the shit: it's branded as Google Fi and requires a modified firmware and app to hand off the calling layer between Sprint or T-Mobile.

(EDIT: The shit I'm referring to are carrier application/backdoors like this, without them the phone will not work on network: https://gist.github.com/thestinger/171b5ffdc54a50ee44497028a... )

Also note, nothing like that is required for a phone on any other US carrier, just Fi and Sprint are special.
I'm not 100% sure about this, since it's been a while since I've added a device to my iCloud account, but IIRC the prompt is not the standard 2FA one: it basically asks you to approve the addition from another device, or forces you to use your security code.
> This is cool, somebody recently suggested that I add history to sqlite in Oil

I think a shell with an embedded sqlite, which makes sqlite accessible to scripts as shell builtins, and in which command line history is stored in a sqlite database instead of a plain text file, would be pretty cool. You could store command history (and maybe even other stuff) in something like $HOME/.shell_db As well as just a list of lines, other useful information could be stored for each line, such as current directory, timestamp, username (maybe I su to root and am running commands as root but still going into my own account's history database), hostname (if $HOME is on NFS, putting aside the issue that databases, including sqlite, don't work well over NFS due to file locking issues), etc.
I seriously have to assume that this is Trump's classic playbook to throw off the news cycle from scrutiny of Robert Mueller's public statement and fire up his base over those damn foreigners, even though we ultimately pay those tariffs ourselves through higher prices on goods we buy.

Sad.
How would we be able to measure if the border crisis is alleviated? Five percent per month seems extreme.
duplicate, big discussion yesterday, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050345
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AI in an RTS, like Deepmind in Starcraft, can simply issue more commands and react faster than a human - since game information can be gleaned directly from the frame buffer, and instructions issued without going through the analogue of a mouse and keyboard.
The correct term is CLT (cross laminated timber). A big chunk of Katerra’s recent big financing is to pay for CLT factories.

The cool thing about CLT is that it can be “printed” in arbitrary shapes and sizes in a factory setting and shipped to construction sites for rapid assembly. Structurally it can replace steel/concrete in a certain range of structures.

The potential for automation and mass customization is absent from the article and the most exciting aspect of CLT.

Factory prefabrication may also be a way to reduce construction costs and schedules in expensive areas like SF.
You lost me at "accurate retelling"
Looks like you're right. I don't have experience with languages like this one. I was thinking more of things like é (e followed by U+301), or 🇦🇧 (which is two regional indicator symbols that don't map to any current flag), or a snippet of Z̛̺͉̤̭͈̙A̧̦͉̗̩̞͙LG͈͎͍̺̖̹̘O̵̫ which has tons of combining marks but each cluster is still deleted with a single backspace.
Unlike a properly configured RDS cluster, this is available outside of your VPC on the open internet.

That’s the main selling point to me, though the connection pooling of MYSQL connections by the HTTPS proxy is also nice too.
What's the compatibility with DEC VT family (100, 220, 300, 400) like, id est can this program be used to ssh into a UNIX®️ host and do work as one would for example with PuTTY?
> I can't even switch

Wait, you haven't had a security update for your browser since 2017?
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At least for the last, try container tabs. They seem to be generally regarded as superior (in convenience) to Chrome's profiles.
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Forced-IP-transfer is a double-edged sword

This article is about Huawei and the trade war is the larger background. I had some entrepreneurship experience both in China and the States. "Forced IP transfer policies" is one of the core issues between the US and China. I'd like to share some thoughts about this issue from the perspectives of some entrepreneur friends in China. AFAICT, the real impact of the "forced IP transfer" is very complex. I didn't see any media report about it, so I share it here.

The perspective from media: "Forced IP transfer policies" is very unfair because it helps Chinese companies to get an unfair advantage. It's bad for foreign companies and good for Chinese economies.

The perspective from many entrepreneurs in China: "Forced IP transfer policies" is very unfair because it helps the foreign companies get an unfair advantage. It's bad for Chinese private companies and economies.

Here is the explanation from the entrepreneurs' perspective:

1) The most "forced IP transfer" happened in the Chinese-foreign partnership companies.

2) However, the partnership is between state-owned companies and foreign companies.

3) Most of the state-owned companies are very inefficient. The system makes people lazy and corruptive.

4) The partnership companies did get some technologies, often the older technologies. However, they also get benefits from the state, very cheap land, subsidies, etc.

5)From the perspective of local entrepreneurs: Benefits from state + Foreign tech and brand makes the already-strong foreign companies even stronger. They get double advantages. It's very hard to compete with them. To local entrepreneurs, the Chinese state-owned companies + Foreign companies partnership model kills many local private companies unfairly.

6) From the technologies side, the state-owned companies get some older technologies, but since the state-owned companies have their own issues like lazy, corruption. They didn't get a tech edge in the competition. The transferred technologies outdated very fast.

One example is the Auto industry. Most auto brands from the US is very successful in China, for example, Buick is not very successful in the US, but the overall sales in China exceeded 10M!
Ford is also very successful in China https://thenewswheel.com/ford-sales-in-china-surpass-1-milli...

Did the "transferred technologies make them less successful"? It's really hard to say.

There is some "forced IP transfer" in some sectors, but the impact to the overall economies may or may not positive because it makes the local private companies in a very disadvantaged position. It's really a double-edged sword.
Let's Encrypt Certificates for Azure Web App Service
When no contract exists, no permission has been given.

The journalist has not agreed with the company, but the company is still revealing information that they connected to her through a third party.

Yet, the contract only exists between the company and third-party, and not the journalist.

There is a failure here. The company has assumed that the third-party has a right, when they likely do not.
Sounds like we should just abolish patents.
The biggest threat to privacy, is how little (most, nearly all) other users do NOT value someone else's privacy.

Re Spam: Pre-screening, and people that actually say something useful to the (automated) screening service. Actual spammers should get fed to a blacklist (filtered for multiple confirmations), and organizations that prosecute spammers should be able to read THAT list. Everyone else has to use a more public API that's rate limited.
Like other people in other replies - I want to say that I appreciate you writing this in such a clear manner.

May I ask, hypothetically, what do you think could make you change your mind? Don’t get me wrong - I am not implying this as an attempt at such, but rather acting as an extension of that digital archaeologist

Thank you.
Yeah, it's super annoying that fb knows everything about me even though I don't use their service. There's nothing I can do about it.
What about the obligation to not put people at risk of death through ignorance? If the app itself is used as a suppression too that was not previously available and one can accidentally expose someone to literal death, then yes the app has an obligation to not do that as human beings. Pretty sure not exposing people to harm is an implicit agreement with their users. Maybe I'm wrong and Indians (where the software is made) don't think like most of the rest of human society, but I'm pretty sure they do and don't want people they converse with being put on government watch lists for simply being entered into a database without their consent or knowledge.
> purposes of cryptography

That's rich.
Ask HN: We've entered into a new Cold War. What are you doing to prepare?
Why would you bother with four constant XORs in a row with no intervening operations.
I'm going to assume that this is an honest question. Here is the answer: https://www.google.com/search?q=china+media+%22has+since+bee...
> many popular sites don't work properly on it

Really? Do you have examples? I haven’t faced this issue. Some websites breaks somehow if you block 3rd party tracking (by breaking I mean that some pictures or video embedded into the page won’t load), but that’s an opt-in feature so I don’t think that’s what you mean.
The Pig Game – Simple JavaScript, CSS 2 Players Game
Introduced just weeks after Confluent introduced their similar service [1]. Has anyone done an in depth comparison yet?

[1] https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/