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Re:Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires on Saturday January 24, 2026 @11:21AM (#46744852)
It's not just A&A either. I know I'm lucky as I live in an area that's had a relatively new CityFibre XGS-PON install, but I've got 2300Mbps symmetrical and 5000Mbps is coming Q1 this year.

Virgin Media also do Gigabit plus speeds and you can upgrade to symmetrical (they don't seem to advertise this though). That's definitely a household name.

Re:Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:42AM (#19134753)
I created a pure CSS stopwatch last year. Was a bit of a brainwave in the shower after I had been playing with CSS animations. I was quite surprised how well it turned out, it works exactly as I imagined it would.

https://codepen.io/bassetts/pen/oQWdLK

Re:Adblock Plus Removed from Google PlayStore (2013) on Thursday March 19, 2015 @08:42AM (#9231436)
A two year old article is now news?
Re:Map Your Google Location History on Monday September 08, 2014 @08:22AM (#8284341)
I have messed around with mapping my location history and had some similar problems. Apparently I have been to Essex, UK although I have never been there in my life.

I tracked down the teleporting problem to the fact my tablet was at home and turned on. It seems you can't set location reporting per device, it is either on or off, so you end up being in two locations at once. I was going to look in to trying to remove problem points be setting a distance or speed threshold. That brings the problem of knowing which data point to keep and which to drop though, which I have not got a solution for yet apart from requiring user interaction.

That is true, and something I forgot to mention in my original comment. I do believe the author intends to eventually have it work on Firefox, but I doubt that will be any time soon due to the fact it currently relies heavily on the Chrome API.
I recently switched from Adblock Plus to HTTP Switchboard[0]. I find it gives you much better control over what gets blocked, and it properly blocks what you have told it to, not just hide them.

I have it set up in quite a restrictive way so by default a site level scope is created and only image/css is allowed. It means I have to take anywhere from a couple of seconds to a few minutes to enable things a site needs to function, but I much prefer that to having tracking cookies, social media buttons, obnoxious adverts etc.

Also the Adblock site claims you can also block a few annoyances specific to Facebook[0]. Is that actually the case? I thought Adblock just used element hiding.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/ [1] https://facebook.adblockplus.me/en/

Are there any guides on how to get started on penetration testing yourself? I'd quite like to run this experiment on myself and see just how much information I actually leak online.
Re:Google releases stats on email encryption in transit on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @04:43AM (#7844606)
So how do I manually check that my host supports this? I checked the list of domains and although I know I have sent mail to gmail address my host does not appear.
Re:Show HN: Honeybadger Chrome Extension on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @10:06AM (#7778272)
> At the mere click of a button, our honeybadger will let you see how much traffic the site gets, how much money they raised, what powers their stack, and much more.
Re:KeePass: OpenSource Password Manager on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:53AM (#7176246)
KeePassDroid is another good one for Android. It does use the clipboard though by giving you two notifications to click on. One for the username, and one for the password of the chosen credentials.

I need to give KeePass2Android a try.

Re:KeePass: OpenSource Password Manager on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:46AM (#7176229)
As someone who does not have my browser remember my passwords I find the auto fill feature of KeePass a necessity.