The parent comment is talking about distractions, not ads. YouTube has plenty of those, even embedded YouTube videos, unless you pause the video before it ends. uBlock Origin Lite cannot block elements except through…
KeePass supports TOTP out of the box without any plugins since the 2.47 release in January 2021: https://keepass.info/news/n210109_2.47.html Usage: https://keepass.info/help/base/placeholders.html#otp
Sometimes it's necessary, when the protocol itself is updated, e.g. the multi-device beta page currently says "Messaging or calling someone who is using a very old version of WhatsApp on their phone won't work from your…
I use PotPlayer, which can show two subtitles at once; also, when you click on a word, it can search it in the search engine of your choice (e.g. a dictionary). You can also add multiple search engines (as well as "Copy…
While I am happy that Notepad++ added a dark mode, I am frustrated that Microsoft forced Notepad++ (and all Windows programs) to add hacky workarounds for a dark mode. Notepad++ already obeys the Windows system colors,…
> you're back to 1 factor (your password manager master password) That's only true if you are using an online service as a password manager, so the master password is the only thing protecting you. Not necessarily for…
In my case, I actually enable 2FA mostly for convenience, rather than security. I often log in from different country IPs (VPN), I auto delete cookies, often use private mode, etc., so some websites are frequently…
> “Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,” > It's a pretty big problem for society when hospitals, universities, and countless business have been ransomed. Well, at least their "ethics" page…
> When you phrase it in a way that suggests the host's choice is itself random, people get it wrong. In other words, they still get it right; they get it right for the separate question that that phrasing implies. If…
I just dislike library software in general. I like files, I like keeping files neatly in folders and subfolders (and adding tags in filenames if necessary), so that I can easily use whatever software I like at the time…
See the map on page 7 (PDF page 9) of the GSMA report "Access to Mobile Services and Proof of Identity 2020": https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads... To get counts, I also analyzed the table in…
I find it interesting that ads are considered acceptable and commonplace in Android and to a slightly lesser extent iOS apps; but on desktop they are seen as almost malware. To be clear, I also avoid it when I can, and…
I am not talking about Germany at all, certainly not Germany of today. I think you missed that we are talking about a hypothetical future where a prospective dictator with overwhelming support is concentrating power. It…
> It could. But why explicitly write down things that are obvious anyway? Maybe it's obvious to you; to me it's obvious the other way. Perhaps, when penning their supposed bulwark against dictatorship, they could afford…
If that was how it was meant to be understood, it could have easily been written explicitly by making it a recursive clause. E.g. in the case of my country, article 4 of the constitution says that the first 3 articles…
The relevant blog post, that the article doesn't link to: https://blog.whatsapp.com/more-information-about-our-update Goes into slightly more detail then the article, and also takes obvious jabs at Telegram and Signal.
> All that hassle so that you can save $10 a year. You are talking as if KeePass's only advantage is being free and it is only preferred by people who cheapen out. That's not true, just as it's not true for similar…
> Parler is its own platform and Element is just a client. Indeed, people made that point, but I don't see how this is a useful distinction. Parler (the app) that Google and Apple removed is also just a client, that…
If you're talking about this [1], it's written by Mozilla's CEO, not by one random who has access to blog on Mozilla. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
Two months ago, Microsoft announced the Pluton security processor and that future AMD, Intel, Qualcomm CPUs will have it. It seems to be for this exact purpose: > These sophisticated attack techniques target the…
Not just Firefox, all programs in Windows 10 allow shift+click to jump. The only exceptions are new UWP style scrollbars (the ones that are affected by the "Automatically hide scrollbars in Windows" setting).…
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/best as an alternative for a similar purpose. I learned about those two and other undocumented features from https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented You could also…
The feature was called fast forwarding, and old Opera's successor Vivaldi still has it. For those unfamiliar with it, it also works with more complex pagination schemes than just incrementing the number at the end; e.g.…
That, and calling battery "juice". It shouldn't bother me this much, but it does. Same for saying "daily driver" instead of "main phone". I guess they are meant to color up speech / break monotony, but it gets…
Mine was based on the answer here[1], now I see that the script in the answer was edited after I started using it. I should try the new version to see if it works better. My experience with the previous version was that…
The parent comment is talking about distractions, not ads. YouTube has plenty of those, even embedded YouTube videos, unless you pause the video before it ends. uBlock Origin Lite cannot block elements except through…
KeePass supports TOTP out of the box without any plugins since the 2.47 release in January 2021: https://keepass.info/news/n210109_2.47.html Usage: https://keepass.info/help/base/placeholders.html#otp
Sometimes it's necessary, when the protocol itself is updated, e.g. the multi-device beta page currently says "Messaging or calling someone who is using a very old version of WhatsApp on their phone won't work from your…
I use PotPlayer, which can show two subtitles at once; also, when you click on a word, it can search it in the search engine of your choice (e.g. a dictionary). You can also add multiple search engines (as well as "Copy…
While I am happy that Notepad++ added a dark mode, I am frustrated that Microsoft forced Notepad++ (and all Windows programs) to add hacky workarounds for a dark mode. Notepad++ already obeys the Windows system colors,…
> you're back to 1 factor (your password manager master password) That's only true if you are using an online service as a password manager, so the master password is the only thing protecting you. Not necessarily for…
In my case, I actually enable 2FA mostly for convenience, rather than security. I often log in from different country IPs (VPN), I auto delete cookies, often use private mode, etc., so some websites are frequently…
> “Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,” > It's a pretty big problem for society when hospitals, universities, and countless business have been ransomed. Well, at least their "ethics" page…
> When you phrase it in a way that suggests the host's choice is itself random, people get it wrong. In other words, they still get it right; they get it right for the separate question that that phrasing implies. If…
I just dislike library software in general. I like files, I like keeping files neatly in folders and subfolders (and adding tags in filenames if necessary), so that I can easily use whatever software I like at the time…
See the map on page 7 (PDF page 9) of the GSMA report "Access to Mobile Services and Proof of Identity 2020": https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads... To get counts, I also analyzed the table in…
I find it interesting that ads are considered acceptable and commonplace in Android and to a slightly lesser extent iOS apps; but on desktop they are seen as almost malware. To be clear, I also avoid it when I can, and…
I am not talking about Germany at all, certainly not Germany of today. I think you missed that we are talking about a hypothetical future where a prospective dictator with overwhelming support is concentrating power. It…
> It could. But why explicitly write down things that are obvious anyway? Maybe it's obvious to you; to me it's obvious the other way. Perhaps, when penning their supposed bulwark against dictatorship, they could afford…
If that was how it was meant to be understood, it could have easily been written explicitly by making it a recursive clause. E.g. in the case of my country, article 4 of the constitution says that the first 3 articles…
The relevant blog post, that the article doesn't link to: https://blog.whatsapp.com/more-information-about-our-update Goes into slightly more detail then the article, and also takes obvious jabs at Telegram and Signal.
> All that hassle so that you can save $10 a year. You are talking as if KeePass's only advantage is being free and it is only preferred by people who cheapen out. That's not true, just as it's not true for similar…
> Parler is its own platform and Element is just a client. Indeed, people made that point, but I don't see how this is a useful distinction. Parler (the app) that Google and Apple removed is also just a client, that…
If you're talking about this [1], it's written by Mozilla's CEO, not by one random who has access to blog on Mozilla. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
Two months ago, Microsoft announced the Pluton security processor and that future AMD, Intel, Qualcomm CPUs will have it. It seems to be for this exact purpose: > These sophisticated attack techniques target the…
Not just Firefox, all programs in Windows 10 allow shift+click to jump. The only exceptions are new UWP style scrollbars (the ones that are affected by the "Automatically hide scrollbars in Windows" setting).…
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/best as an alternative for a similar purpose. I learned about those two and other undocumented features from https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented You could also…
The feature was called fast forwarding, and old Opera's successor Vivaldi still has it. For those unfamiliar with it, it also works with more complex pagination schemes than just incrementing the number at the end; e.g.…
That, and calling battery "juice". It shouldn't bother me this much, but it does. Same for saying "daily driver" instead of "main phone". I guess they are meant to color up speech / break monotony, but it gets…
Mine was based on the answer here[1], now I see that the script in the answer was edited after I started using it. I should try the new version to see if it works better. My experience with the previous version was that…