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Re:Mozilla Firefox Removes "Do Not Track" Feature Support on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:50PM (#42380010)
Probably a stupid question, but why is it not possible for a browser to ignore cookies from a site where the user chose 'Do Not Track' then that's it, they can't have cookies, can't log in e.t.c alternatively a few white labeled cookies can be agreed upon as a standard e.g just to support maintaining logged in sessions
Re:Ten Years of Logging My Life on Monday December 27, 2021 @10:07AM (#29703039)
I record daily spending activity and often add comments against the transactions, e.g if it is a restaurant bill, I will include who was with me and if it was extra-ordinarily good or bad then I will add a comment about that as well.

I developed an app installed on my phone which automatically detects SMSs transaction notifications and uploads them to my online app which is a simple General Ledger with simple and good enough reporting capabilities.

For cash payments (less than 10% of my transactions) the same app allows me to quickly take a picture of whatever I was buying or the receipt and uploads it to the online app for later posting. I even have a Google Cloud Run job which reads email notifications since some of my cards don't have SMSs notifications. I have been doing this since 2015 and it has been one of the greatest decision I have ever made.

So this said crypto whale has caused a buzz in Kenya for sending millions dollars to Kenyan students, the funds are getting frozen by the authorities due to suspicion of money laundering... what I don't understand is why he is not sending the funds in Bitcoins to get around the authorities
Re:Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge? on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:49AM (#29537062)
I browse Quora and Reddit where I have curated my feed over time by following/unfollowing specific topics and people based on my interests
Re:Perceptual Illusions (2018) on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:05PM (#28307724)
Number 12 is quite something, it works with anything you look at after staring the center of the top image. I looked at my food and I could see it moving in a very odd manner, went back to image for 15 seconds and looked at the walls, same effect and repeated the same with other stuff and after 10 minutes I feel motion sickness like the one you get after spinning and losing your balance (not everyone gets this I think)
I would prefer a normal family and friends plus a comfortable $1m networth (am working towards it) over $55m plus not liking everyone in my circles. Money can only go so far, with $1m I can travel the world with my family or friend and share stories and experiences with them, and that is good enough for me..
Re:A New Future for Icanhazip on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:42PM (#27418107)
I wonder why he did not try to return empty responses to confirmed malware sources, to discourage them from using the site.
Re:Why I Love Coding (2012) on Monday May 10, 2021 @04:25AM (#27103831)
Interesting you were coding at 5, I have 7 and 5 year olds who are pretty good with computers, can install and learn new games by themselves but I haven't considered introducing them to programming mainly because I don't feel they can manage and also it does not seem necessary...considering I personally started coding at the age of 20 when I joined university for my computer science degree and I have been fairly successful, currently working for a US company, remotely from Africa and making more than a US average developer salary which in my city puts me at top 0.1% salary range, and with a quite positive career outlook.
I don't feel like these envoys are coming out clearly on exactly what they think they will achieve by growing the number of Portuguese speakers, may be more influence in Africa and the world?
Has anybody else noticed that list is dominated by American companies? Should we be asking why are are American software engineer led companies dominating the list?
This is quite a shame on the US part to be so much behind the times:

Kenya has had a Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system for years supported by the central bank which works in near-realtime during working hours, and an even better one was recently introduced by a conglomeration of the local banks which works in real-time 24/7 called Pesalink: https://www.ipsl.co.ke/pesalink ..