shinypotatoe
Re:Chrome is scanning local files without your knowledge and consent
on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:41PM (#16759453)
Is this only Chrome or is Chromium doing this also?
Re:Edward Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company rebranded as 'so...
on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:44AM (#16616376)
What is wrong with his statement?
Isn't it the case that basically every keystroke is stored in iCloud? Hardly true privacy.
Re:Async Iterators: These Promises Are Killing My Performance
on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:39PM (#15112307)
Interesting and surprising. Node 8 supports async/await as well as iterator functions. So the target for the typescript transpiler can be set to 'es7'. Would be interesting if this has an inpact on the performance.
Re:ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification
on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:02AM (#14750220)
Checkout TypeScript. It's great.
Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
on Saturday May 27, 2017 @04:19AM (#14429363)
On Android there is the app Metal, which is basically a browser that shows the facebook page. It has a few tweaks to improve the user experience and because its a browser facebook cannot access contacts, gps etc. Messaging works. It's great.
Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race
on Saturday April 15, 2017 @08:13AM (#14120432)
I use umatrix for not loading ads and for tracking protection. It is a tool to define from which domains a certain website may fetch resources. It is a bit less convenient than a adblocker, because for every new site you have to configure it, but I think it is great. It's really eye opening how many things some websites load that they do not actually need to show the content I am interested in.