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Tried it and I love it. Good work! Have you considered hosting it on F-Droid?
Re:OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise on Thursday April 23, 2026 @03:57AM (#47873233)
Annoyingly, fetch does not support progress events and HTML / XML Document parsing, which are both supported by XMLHttpRequest, which Axios is based on.
Re:Shipmap.org on Thursday January 08, 2026 @11:51PM (#46550182)
> This is weirdly beautiful

Until you notice the carbon emissions on the top left.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Re:Why our website looks like an operating system on Friday September 12, 2025 @08:11AM (#45221280)
Would you extend that argument to tabbed interfaces as well? Why should browsers support tabs (and an inconsistent interface by each vendor), when you can just open a new window instead?
Re:Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:55AM (#44809044)
Won't the fibres leading up to the operator and revealing their location not a threat?
That's assuming all interviewers are using AI. And if it's not immoral, why do it surreptitiously?
I don't use LLMs to filter out participants and I expect candidates not to use LLMs to cheat.
As an interviewer, I'm seeing a huge increase in proportion of candidates cheating surreptitiously during video interviews. And it's becoming difficult to suspect any wrong-doing unless you're very watchful by looking for academic responses to questions.

Why would anyone encourage building such a tool, I can't fathom.

GP's comment is probably a reference to this classic XKCD: https://xkcd.com/566/ (the last panel)
Uber in India gives me a different OTP for each ride. A different ride-hailing app I use occasionally uses a PIN tied to a user.

OTPs are a simple solution to fraudulent rides that it's surprising it's not implemented universally, given all the complaints in this thread.

I've disabled DRM on my Firefox browser.

Sheesh, we've come to a state where browsers can no longer be referred to as "user agents".

Re:The tools I love are made by awful people on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:21AM (#43779486)
I feel similarities to the trolley problem[0].

[0]: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

Re:The tools I love are made by awful people on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:06AM (#43779400)
While I agree with the sentiment, just out of curiosity, would you buy a Tesla if it meets your needs and even if you disapprove of Elon's actions?
Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone on Sunday March 30, 2025 @02:25AM (#43521825)
I've not heard of XPrivacyLua, which is by the same author of the excellent NetGuard[0], which I've been using for years.

Interestingly XPrivacyLua is not supported anymore and the pro companion app will be removed from the Play store by Google because it uses the permission QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES.[1]

[0]: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard [1]: https://xdaforums.com/t/closed-app-xposed-6-0-xprivacylua-an...

Re:Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:53AM (#43204639)
The main question for me is can ungoogled Chromium run uBlock Origin?
Re:I'm trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again on Sunday December 29, 2024 @10:43PM (#42546241)
> Genuinely don't know why anyone would use it when you have perplexity, gemini, chatGPT search, etc. at your disposal.

And what did they get trained on in the first place?

Re:Scientists decipher two-photon vision on Monday November 11, 2024 @05:49AM (#42106138)
The title made me think of the minimum number of photons detectable by human vision. Apparently, we can detect single photons:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172

Especially when you consider humans are animals too.
Re:Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:18AM (#39848013)
How does TypeSpec compare with Bru[0], the DSL used by Bruno? Why would I choose one over the other?

[0] https://docs.usebruno.com/bru-lang-overview.html

I continue to use TrebleShot[0] although it's repo is archived since it also enables browsing files using a Web browser. So you don't need to install it on the receiver side.

Does LocalSend also have this capability?

[0] https://github.com/trebleshot/android

Re:Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:11PM (#39086093)
> phones no longer have IR blasters

Plently of phones still do [0]. I've configured mine to operate all my devices at home.

[0] https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2023&chkInfra...

Re:48,000 companies sent Facebook data on a single person on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:51AM (#39038777)
Same here.

In addition, to prevent shadow profiles, I've blocked them on NextDNS, setup NetGuard[0] and Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android.

[0]: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/releases

“twenty-five” is counted as a single word. I know because I once sent a telegram with such a number.
Re:Show HN: Sit on Friday January 05, 2024 @04:41AM (#38877308)
> Every step you take is watched and assessed in terms of its monetisation potential, every interaction is meant to extract value from you.

Looks at uBlock Origin. Yep, requests to convertkit.com and sonnet-events.vercel.app are blocked.

India is facing a different kind of indoctrination by state education — masquerading mythology as science:

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/scientists-flag-ncerts-mi...

I definitely wouldn't want this kind of "regulated" education for children.

Hasn't the supposed weirdness of the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment been debunked? Can someone in the field please confirm? I find contradictory videos on YouTube.

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