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backing··on Show HN: High-five strangers around the world in real-time
Thank you it's a really funny and unique experience.
backing··on “My stack will outlive yours”: Going back to raw HTML+CSS for websites and blogs
Now it's working. The images were overscanning on left and right like I've never been seeing before.
backing··on Societal Collapse
Immigration is the base of any country.

Your may be talking about more strict immigration policies but the subject here is "societal collapse" and population reduction and I was pointing out a possibility.

backing··on Societal Collapse
That is valid, but I don't know if you can still talk of "society" about a very reduced population, it depends on the reduction factor and stops at reproduction rate zero.

A probable outcome would be that another society takes over the one disappearing.

backing··on Malware Wrapped in Cyberpunk 2077(Android)
Thank you.
backing··on Show HN: Command-line-first app for capturing notes and reflections in Markdown
I'm all good about the single binary for installation and I understand the concept better now for achieving the same level of documentation in any project.
backing··on I almost quit caffeine in one year
Yes. Better than no coffee for those who stress their liver at least or get cancer.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140402095656.h...

https://www.coffeeandhealth.org/2013/01/coffee-consumption-a...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coffee-liver-cirrh...

backing··on Should the Web Expose Hardware Capabilities?
> I agree that it doesn't need to be about security

This.

You're litterally using a personal computer with at least personal data on it, passwords in a password manager, passwords in your browsers, website account sessions (!) all on your drives and folders. Everything accessible by ALL programs you execute.

The more info Javascript has and therefore the server, the more attack vectors open up to just inject code into your browser and leverage code execution on host (recent CVE on firefox and Chrome !).

Or into your slack electron's chrome. Or any spyware app.

All your keystrokes accessible also !

Consider using a virtual machine or container to isolate the apps from your data so that they can't access it. If needed, mount a folder between host and guest for purpose-only sharing.

Or at least think about it or other measures.

backing··on Should the Web Expose Hardware Capabilities?
You're so right it is messed up !

Some services even refuse to serve if one changes the UA, which is only one tracking capability. Though a blank or custom UA is worse, everyone should spoof the one in the onion browser.

User agent switch is currently "not available" on android Firefox.

backing··on I almost quit caffeine in one year
2 shots of coffee per day is better for your liver. Study says.
backing··on Show HN: Command-line-first app for capturing notes and reflections in Markdown
I really don't get it, one can simply open a README.md or TODO.md and litteraly do the same thing - taking notes - without installing anything.
backing··on Graphqurl: Curl for GraphQL, with Autocomplete and Subscriptions
Why javascript though?
backing··on GitHub is fully available in Iran
What are your sources?
backing··on Proof of Personhood
Yes the government giving you a permit for youre solely use.
backing··on Hawaii’s Beaches Are Disappearing
Isn't the sand used for building computers?
backing··on I rebuilt my old browser based racing game from 2006
Only for fb
backing··on Another study confirms Californians are packing up and moving out
That's nothing new it's cheaper elsewhere.
backing··on Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor
And uses slaves to build devices.
backing··on Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor
And how would it change the world to be more equal?
backing··on Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor
"Google" authenticator
backing··on The Lab Leak Hypothesis
Can you quote ?
backing··on The Great Covid Class War – The Bellows
Very important to read.
backing··on New strain of Covid-19 tripled infections despite UK lockdown
Everyone gets positive anyway like in France, even in lockdown situation.

Being positive on a covid test doesn't mean you'll get sick.

backing··on Design flaws of password managers
As any standardized way to store data, password managers and provider clouds have become target for pirates.

With 2FA instead, the password is less valuable than the 2FA secret token and its backup on different device to not get locked out.

backing··on A Call for a New Strenuous Age
That's nothing new, of course life expanctancy fell due to covid.
backing··on To stop the next pandemic, we need to unravel the origins of Covid-19
You simply need medication as one can't stop the next one.
backing··on Malware Wrapped in Cyberpunk 2077(Android)
"This is not available to you"
backing··on Societal Collapse
Think of immigration.
backing··on The next big thing in retail comes with Chinese characteristics
What does this mean ?
backing··on Ask HN: What was your favorite comment in 2020?
> As someone who has personally had to use Alteryx in multiple projects, fuck Alteryx. What an absolute garbage piece of software.

I've already written a rant about it before and I don't have the energy to repeat myself, but do not fool yourself into thinking switching from excel to Alteryx is doing yourself any favors. You're just trading one monster for another.

Save yourself a huge amount of money, not to mention your sanity and just take the time to learn some Python, Julia, literally anything else to get the same results faster, more reliably, and not be locked into that noveau Oracle-esque nightmare.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791017

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