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MasterYoda··on If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you
PG mention that the solution his friend used wasn't any good. How does the best system there is out today work? And what different solutions are there?
MasterYoda··on AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users
I have never really understood AdNauseam. I understand it clicks all ads so there would be no useful tracking profile that way.

But if you have an adblocker and tracking protection like in uBlock Origin and Firefox, it feels it then does not make any sense. You would just send alot of data to trackers, even if its just garbage, and it would just waste your broad band. It clicks on things that would be blocked with an adblocker.

My question is, make AdNauseam any sense when you block ads and trackers (use uBO and Firefox (Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection)? Or is it just useful if you want to have ads, but not want to be profiled by trackers?

MasterYoda··on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
> The security win can't be understated: with its permission-less design (enabled by MV3) I am down to zero third-party developers that can get compromised and silently push an update that compromises all my web sessions.

Can you or someone else elaborate way it would be more secure? I dont quite follow or see the benefit.

MasterYoda··on Mullvad Browser
OT: I use Mullvad as VPN and have 2 different Firefox instances, Firefox (standard) and Firefox Dev. Does anyone know if it is possible to run all web surfing thru one of the browsers thru Mullvad VPN thru some extension or similar?

In other words: What I want to do is to use one of the Firefox web browsers to connect to my normal ISP and the others traffic to go thru MULLVAD VPN. I know about "split tunnel", but it does not feel optimal, because every single app must be deselected no to use VPN, to just make one web browser use the VPN. And if you want to run another app thru VPN, you must remember to activate it, not only turn on the VPN tunnel. So is there any way an extension could connect Firefox to Mullvad VPN directly or configure some proxies in Firefox that connects to Mullvad VPN app or similar?

MasterYoda··on Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what it is that change on an physical level for electrons to move without resistance in an superconductivity material? What is it that change when it happens and the material become superconductive and why?
MasterYoda··on Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge
No new papers since 2020? :( Maybe because of that I didn't find a paper I wanted to read. How does the nexus project work? I dont use telgram and dont want to download an app or create an account for one paper. Is it possible to access the nexus project thru the web and just simple download from there instead? Or is there any other web sites like sci-hub on the web that have newer papers than 2020?
MasterYoda··on Adobe Supercharges Photoshop with Firefly Generative AI
To see it a little bit in action... "Adobe Photoshop (beta) x Adobe Firefly: Announcing Generative Fill" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVTyLYupECI
MasterYoda··on Joy of Programming – Software Engineering Simulator
Game trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFBoCeb38c

Game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216770/JOY_OF_PROGRAMMIN...

MasterYoda··on Quantum Computing 101
I have 2 questions about QC that I have not understood or find any answers for. Maybe someone here knows the answer?

When there is examples of entanglement, it is always between two particles. But if I understand QC right, every qubit must be entangled with each other.

1a - Thus this mean that "particles" can be entangled, not only to one "particle", but to many at the same time? Or are they entangled in series or something?

It is often talk about that qubits need to be entangled in a QC, but never how this is done.

1b - So how is the entanglement between different qubits done in practice in a real QC?

As I understand QC you dont get a absolute answer, just a probability it is the right answer. And because of this you have to run the "simulation" many times to verify the answer. As I also understand is that when you read out the state of an qubit the quantum state collapse and so does it do for all the other qubits.

2a - Thus this mean that to read out the answer from all qubits, you always need to run, at minimum, as many simulations as there is qubits in the QC? That after the first run you read out the state of the first qubit, after the second run you read out the next qubit and so on until you have a state from all qubits for that simulation and then you combine them to a final anwser?

2b - How many times must you actually run a simulation in a QC to get an answer?

MasterYoda··on Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon
What does karma do on hn? What "extra" do you get with higher karma and at which levels?
MasterYoda··on Gordon Moore has died
Moore is no more. :(
MasterYoda··on World Happiness Report 2023
The top 10 most happy countries in the world according to UN World Happy Report

1 Finland (6th year in a row) 2 Denmark 3 Iceland 4 Israel 5 Netherlands 6 Sweden 7 Norway 8 Switzerland 9 Luxenbourg 10 New Zealand

MasterYoda··on Password protect a static HTML page
Does anybody know if image resources also is encrypted or is it just the html content?
MasterYoda··on Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey
As far as I know you can install any addons you want, you just have to create your own collection. Those default addons you see are only Mozillas standard collection.

Even do I would like there were more addons to choose from as default I can understand Mozillas choice here. And that is that most addons are not design for android and they would not work or give a very bad UX. So for many non tech savvy standard users, that just would be frustrated and blame Firefox, this decision can make sense to select god and popular addons they know works well.

But it would be great if more addons could be added ofcourse, and that Mozilla could have some design guidelines for new addons that they should work for both desktop and mobile (where it make sense). And mark in the addon store which addons that are design for both. Or maybe have a simple setting in Firefox for android that is for advanced users, there they could add any addon, but first they have to check a box that they understand that the addon may not work correctly on a smartphone.

MasterYoda··on “How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”
It make sense. russia's agenda is to destabilize Europe. And they were the only ones who had anything directly to gain from it with certainty as they wanted to create an energy crisis in Europe. They knew that after the EU sanctions, Nord stream would be a dead project after their illegal invasion. By blowing up what now had no real long term economic value, they created uncertainty and it helped to get the energy prices to skyrocket in Europe and they succeeded in their goal of destabilizing Europe's energy market. All the Russians want is to create as much havoc for the West they can and create conflicts and make west weak, just of that reason it make totally sense to blow it up.
MasterYoda··on ESP32 Buyer’s Guide: Different Chips, Firmware, Sensors
What good alternatives are there to ESP32?
MasterYoda··on ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut: Smart HomeKit Voice Assistant
Haha, its funny and interesting how importent it is _when_ you submit something on hn, it seems. I submitted the exact same link, with the same title for 1 day ago [1], but no comments and 1 vote :) This post a couple of hours later got alot of comments and traction.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34460202

MasterYoda··on Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
Quite impressive that little Sweden has found the second most elements in the world, 19 of them.

https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/legac...

MasterYoda··on Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode
What type of sites can be hosted on github pages? Can github pages be used free by anyone for any site? Can I have a blog under my own domain (with ads and make money) where I write about random stuff not relatade to any github project?

Feels like there must be alot of limitations, like not for profit, limited bandwidth/pageviews per month, and must be github project oriented etc or?

MasterYoda··on Just use Postgres for everything
I think "use postgres for everything" is a good solid foundation to start with (if you dont have a really good reason not to and know the exact use case beforehand). Can redis, rabbitmq or solr etc do a better job for a specific user case, of course becasue they are dedicated tools for the job. But the question is, is the builtin tool in postgres "good enough"? And for many thing they are.

I see postgres like a tractor. It's the most important machine and you can attach alot of different equipment's to get alot of jobs done. Some times you notice a task need a specific machine that the tractor is not suited for, then you invest in that machine. To invest in all specialized machines from the beginning just because they can do one single job better than the tractor is not an efficient way of farming, there is a price to have all those machines too, that does not necessarily result in a better outcome.

MasterYoda··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
87000 people is working at meta just now. What are all those people doing? Why is so many needed? How many are developer, manager, marketers, seller, anti spam/desinformation stuff etc etc?
MasterYoda··on Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
I use "simplewall" [1], a firewall to windows. What I like about it is you get a popup window every time a new program want to send data out, then you could block or accept it or temporary accept it. It's crazy how many programs that wants to talk to the internet constantly.

[1] https://www.henrypp.org/product/simplewall

MasterYoda··on TikTok makes clear European data can be accessed by China-based employees
tiktok have before promised no data should be sent to china, so much was that worth.
MasterYoda··on Privately-Owned Rail Cars
Does someone know if it is possible to own a private train i Europe and travel on the railway systems?
MasterYoda··on Falcon Heavy Launch [video]
I read that last time falcon heavy flied was in june 2019, 3 years since. Why has it not flied to space since then? No mission or problems needed to be resolved?
MasterYoda··on Apple’s Anti-Competitive Behavior Hurts Everyone
Looking at this image [1] it is crazy what apple forbids. This is really anti competitive and hope EU bans this behavior.

[1] https://i.ibb.co/vXk1KcZ/Spotify-Apples-Anti-Competitive-Beh...

MasterYoda··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
I have never had any problem with Firefox on any website. It feels most time people say that, it is actually an addon that is the problem, not Firefox.

I even have a relocation Mozilla also have mentioning this, and if I remember correctly it was like 99% of the time people blamed Firefox it was a actually an addon that was the problem.

MasterYoda··on Cloak: Censorship Circumvention Tool
Why is shadowsock needed to go thru cloak? I thought shadowsock did sort of the same thing; to masquerading proxied traffic as normal web browsing activities. What does cloak do that shadowsock does not to not get the traffic censord?
MasterYoda··on Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built
That is not specially accurate. Sweden only import from the Baltic countries plus Polen 20 + 42 GWh but Sweden export to those countries 3229 + 2747 GWh. So the import per year is only 1% of the export. The total export from Swedens to all of its neighboring countries is 23712GWh and the import is only 2957GWh. So Sweden export much much more than it imports. So saying Sweden is just a transit land is not accurate.

Why the electricity is expensive is because the electrical grid is connected to northen europe and the expensive prices there makes the prices also goes up in Sweden because it is the same market.

https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/ener...

MasterYoda··on Android leaks some traffic even when 'Always-on VPN' is enabled
Unrelated but could also be interesting to know for those who use vpn + internet-sharing/wifi-hotspot that if you turn on vpn on your android (maybe ios too?) and connect another device like a laptop to you mobile phone that traffic from you laptop will not go through the VPN, but directly thru the cellular network. So that traffic will see your real ip.
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