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bertmanon Chrome Banishes Photo Format That Could Save Space on Your Phone

Recent discussions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

bertmanon Google set to deprecate JPEG XL support in Chrome 110

chrome://flags/#enable-jxl

Since v91 or so.

bertmanon [dead]

Please add "CSS" to the title.

bertmanon Old versions of Chrome Apps won't open on Windows devices after December 2022

1. This is not news: https://blog.chromium.org/2021/10/extending-chrome-app-suppo...

2. You removed "Old versions" from the headline for clickbait.

bertmanon PayPal Introduces More Secure Payments with Passkeys

tl;dr:

> The new PayPal log in option will first be available to iPhone, iPad, or Mac users on PayPal.com and will expand to additional platforms as those platforms add support for passkeys.

>Once existing customers log in to PayPal with a browser on desktop or mobile web using their existing PayPal credentials such as a username and password, they will have the option to "Create a passkey." Customers will then be prompted to authenticate with Apple Face ID or Touch ID. Then the passkey will be automatically created, and next time PayPal customers log in, they won't need to use or manage a password again.

>If they have devices that don't support passkeys yet, users can still use an iPhone to log in with a PayPal passkey. Users simply scan the QR code that will appear after they enter their PayPal User ID.

Rollout in the US today, other countries early in 2023.

bertmanon Global Encryption Day: Demand End-to-End Encryption in DMs

If you, as a user, are concerned about reproducibility, you are no longer an average user. Thus, if you want this extra security, you can be expected to check the APK on your phone.

bertmanon Global Encryption Day: Demand End-to-End Encryption in DMs

This is called "Reproducible Builds".

https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

bertmanon Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

GitJournal comes to mind, "Mobile first Markdown Notes integrated with Git".

https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal

Recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31914003

bertmanon Show HN: Filesystem Watcher

>or is it simply an abstraction over inotify?

Looks like it:

https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/blob/989147b183ee0547d71a1...

bertmanon Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

>[...]Firefox Colorways, a new desktop feature that allowed our users to express their most authentic selves[...]

I'd like to express myself and say that I just want a secure and privacy-respecting browser that gets its priorities straight.

bertmanon Web 3.0 – The Great Con

>except that they align more closely with the three aforementioned properties: trustless, permissionless, and decentralized.

But wouldn't you agree that the article is mainly about why "Web 3.0" has failed over and over again to provide exactly these properties, or to provide a valuable solution to a problem that hasn't been or could be solved in a better way already?

Literally everything related to "Web 3.0" has been a snowbally scam, and yet, as another commenter in this thread put it aptly, "the "pull back" in hype has allowed a new breed of charlatans to pretend there is ever more legitimacy to this whole scam".

It is, for me at least, impossible to take DAI stablecoins, AAVE positions or any other new kid on the block seriously.

bertmanon Web 3.0 – The Great Con

>while meeting the promised goals: a set of trustless, permissionless, and decentralized tools for transferring and owning value on the internet.

I'm sorry, I know this isn't reddit, but: fucking lol.

What do you even mean? What does "owning value on the internet" mean? This is exactly the kind of handwaving the article is about.

bertmanon Web 3.0 – The Great Con

>Cryptocurrencies are not "useless except for criminals"... Blockchain is also not useless.

You say this, and yet fail to mention a legitimate use case, which is exactly what a big part of the article is about.

bertmanon Show HN: Find any smart contract on Cookbook

>Currently it is extremely difficult to find good talent when building on blockchain

Hm, I wonder why that is.

bertmanon uBlock Origin Lite Now Supports Default Filtering Modes

"You have just installed uBO Lite. You can choose here the default filtering mode to use on all websites.

By default, 'Basic' mode is selected because it does not require the permission to read and change data.

If you trust uBO Lite, you can give it broad permission to read and change data on all websites in order to enable more advanced filtering capabilities for all websites by default."

bertmanon Google starts rolling out passkey support for Android and Chrome

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33178285

bertmanon Google starts rolling out passkey support for Android and Chrome

This is not a Google product, it's an initiative by the so called FIDO alliance [0]. You need some kind of secure backup for the private keys, which Google, Apple, Microsoft etc. already offer as part of their account system.

Regarding the need for a mobile device: I guess it technically wouldn't need to be a mobile phone, but that is the easiest way to get biometric authentication and a secure enclave. This is how passkeys work. Don't like it, don't use it. It will probably take quite some time before services offer passkeys as their only authentication mechanism.

[0]https://fidoalliance.org/members/

bertmanon Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year

Yep,that's what I thought of as well. Discussion from two months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32304320

bertmanon Chrome: The secure browser for your enterprise

>The Chrome browser for the enterprise, sometimes referred to as Chrome Enterprise, is the same Chrome browser used by consumers. The difference is in how the browser is deployed and managed. Downloading the Chrome Enterprise Bundle, IT administrators can install the Chrome browser via MSI, and manage their organization’s Chrome browsers via group policy to enforce over 200+ policies.

Source: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/188447

bertmanon Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

>Would love to see this packaged up as a browser extension so that it would automatically 'fix' any fandom wiki I happen to load up.

https://docs.breezewiki.com/Automatic_Redirection.html

bertmanon Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

This might be a good time and place to recommend "BreezeWiki", which I recently stumbled upon. It's an alternative frontend for fandom.com.

https://breezewiki.com/

edit: source code is here https://gitdab.com/cadence/breezewiki

bertmanon Google Chrome Upcoming Extension Platform Renders Ad-Block Useless

Lazy clickbait. What about uBlock Lite and the new AdGuard extension?

bertmanon Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

This is not "unprecedented" at all, see e.g. here: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/lf9egy/comment/iivz...

bertmanon Age – a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library

I'm eagerly awaiting the Kotlin implementation of age[0] because once that's finished, Android Password Store[1] will be able to offer age encryption next to/ instead of gpg.

0: https://github.com/android-password-store/kage

1: https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...

bertmanon The End of My Crypto Explorations

>True engineers love working in crypto

Really? Sure, reading the whitepapers and playing with something new for a while has been fun, but "true engineers" will realize pretty soon that there's always a better tool for every. single. usecase.

bertmanon uBlock Origin Lite: Description

I know there have been some threads about the mv3 uBO version recently, but this is a new, consise and imho good description by gorhill himself.

bertmanon Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?

It's called "Language Reactor" now.

https://www.languagereactor.com/

bertmanon The Ethereum merge is done

Well, the whole crypto/fin tech space is such a rotten cesspool of scammers and blowhards that it's becoming very difficult to take anything they do and say seriously.

bertmanon Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?

https://fasterthanli.me/videos

This is a nice example imho.

bertmanon Ad blockers struggle under Chrome's new rules

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32764304