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Re:How to Build Firefox on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:25PM (#20812232)
Does anyone know if it's possible to do a 'reproducible build' of mainline Firefox so we can be sure their official releases are actually based on legit Mozilla code and not tampered copies with hidden nasties baked in?
Re:How to Send a File on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:23PM (#20812206)
Interesting. Never even knew XKCD had a blog until now. I love the way you can read all his posts on one massive page lol https://blog.xkcd.com
Re:Inline Encryption for Filesystems on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:20PM (#20812167)
I'm a Linux n00b. Can anyone tell me if LUKS is inline encryption? I use LUKS myself. Funnily this article never mentions it
Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:24PM (#20627956)
What a slippery slope. I imagine a future when the entire URL itself has disappeared and we live in some sort of Google-controlled walled garden environment, like what they're trying to do with AMP[0]. Some sites only work with WWW prefixed as the APEX DNS record is misconfigured and points to nothing. I've even seen some sites point to `0.0.0.0' but had a CNAME record for WWW and I could then view the site.

[0] https://developers.google.com/amp/

Re:Employers are mining the data their workers generate on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:16PM (#20481122)
I know this is a cheap potshot, but who has a keyboard setup like that? https://images.wsj.net/im-90409?width=1260&size=0.6666666666...

And the caption:

    Diana Hubbard, working from her home office in Texas, says she does not communicate about her private life on work devices at all. PHOTO: JONATHAN ZIZZO FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Re:Being Bored Is Good on Monday July 08, 2019 @04:44PM (#20386578)
From: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

> 3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.

> Hackers (and creative people in general) should never be bored or have to drudge at stupid repetitive work, because when this happens it means they aren't doing what only they can do — solve new problems. This wastefulness hurts everybody. Therefore boredom and drudgery are not just unpleasant but actually evil.

> To behave like a hacker, you have to believe this enough to want to automate away the boring bits as much as possible, not just for yourself but for everybody else (especially other hackers).

> (There is one apparent exception to this. Hackers will sometimes do things that may seem repetitive or boring to an observer as a mind-clearing exercise, or in order to acquire a skill or have some particular kind of experience you can't have otherwise. But this is by choice — nobody who can think should ever be forced into a situation that bores them.)

Re:Refrigerator Death on Monday July 08, 2019 @04:41PM (#20386543)
> Around the world, manufacture of latch refrigerators has been replaced by that of ones with magnet-closing doors.

And amen to that

Re:Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux? on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:48PM (#20287955)
> For one, you only get a single password per site, so you can't rotate them

Well I know Lesspass[0] has a 'counter' so that if you need to change a pass you simply increment it by one and you get a new hash

https://lesspass.com/#/

Re:Life’s a blur, but we don’t see it that way on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:14PM (#20196215)
It's worth seeing just how much the eye jiggles. Some of the work on eye-tracking software/hardware[0] which interface with a computer screen to simulate mouse movements is cool.

[0] http://www.pygaze.org

Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:04PM (#20096971)
There's even more ways you could twist the original:

- Jack of all trades and master of one

- Jack of all trades and master of all

- Master of all trades and jack of none

- Jack of all trades and master of some

Re:Firefox Lockwise – Take your passwords everywhere on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:59PM (#20096903)
It used to be called Lockbox, but they rebranded it as Lockwise[0] which (recently) now works in the Firefox Desktop version. Previously it only advertised for two app stores (Google Play and iTunes), but now offers the desktop version.

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/29/mozilla-releases-firefox-l...

Re:The Dark Side of Dark Mode on Sunday June 02, 2019 @09:31AM (#20075315)
I especially love the way you can create a dark-mode CSS stylesheet with something as simple as:

    @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {

    }