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hoppelhaseon Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

Some people claim that the coinhive story had some unnecessary doxxing aswell:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/annual-protest-to-fight-... (see comments)

The users of said image board do a yearly fundraiser to protest against the unnecessary doxxing. The first one was started by a random user.

hoppelhaseon Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS

> They probably took it down because as the original app it violated the App Store’s guidelines on data collection.

Or maybe Apple took it down because - as you said - it violated the store guidelines. Or Apple just encouraged them to do it by themselves (for a better PR). So effectively, they were forced.

hoppelhaseon Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

Any European people affected? How does this play with the GDPR? Are the user's over 16? Anyone tried to file a GDPR data request?

hoppelhaseon A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (2013)

As this is valid, but only useful as documentation:

    void foo(const int n, const char data[n])

Is this also valid?

    void foo(const int n, const char data[static n])

hoppelhaseon IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses

By "this" I mean encoding information in the address in general, not this signage-thing. See my other reply in this thread.

hoppelhaseon IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses

Well, the proposal was controversial.

There was an article about this recently on the German news site Heise: https://heise.de/-4196981

Translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

hoppelhaseon IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses

If this becomes more common, the IPv6 address space will be exhausted pretty quickly. There already was a proposal on encoding phone numbers in IPv6 addresses.

hoppelhaseon Ask HN: Can I download my HN data?

Well, no.

hoppelhaseon Ask HN: Can I download my HN data?

Sessions, IP addresses and User Angents associated with oneself.

hoppelhaseon Ask HN: Can I download my HN data?

The stuff you can't scrape is the interesting stuff.

hoppelhaseon Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1

Maybe they want that people realize that the project in question depends on donations. If they just give them a bunch of money, many people won't notice.

hoppelhaseon A well-known URL for changing passwords

Well, yes. I was solely looking from a user's perspective.

hoppelhaseon A well-known URL for changing passwords

How about something like:

  /.well-known/delete-account
  /.well-known/request-user-data

This would also be nice as we wouldn't need things like https://justdelete.me

hoppelhaseon Show HN: Asdfasdf.co – emails from the internet's gibberish form fills

What about hostmaster@asedasdf.co and the remaining RFC system addresses?

hoppelhaseon Show HN: Asdfasdf.co – emails from the internet's gibberish form fills

I recommend the Firefox addon "Bloody Vikings!". You can just right-click on a form field and select from a bunch of trashmail providers. The inbox gets opened and the address is inserted automatically.

hoppelhaseon How Does React Tell a Class from a Function?

This is why I don't like the hooks concept introduced in the post. It breaks these semantics.

hoppelhaseon 8K is now being broadcast in Japan

You should watch this video addressing some of your arguments: https://youtu.be/VxNBiAV4UnM

hoppelhaseon PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

You can set the scaling to 1x, but the font size to 1.5x in tweak tools. That's what I'm using.

hoppelhaseon Blue Apron lays off more workers

I wonder how many people buying this do actually have athritis.

hoppelhaseon Blue Apron lays off more workers

Not related to Blue Apron: Where I live, you can buy peeled and chopped onions. Have to be put in the fridge and are packed in a plastic bag.

hoppelhaseon Programming Quotes

Well, optimization could also mean to remove unnecessary JS.

hoppelhaseon .NET Standard 2.1

Well, both implementations do have a strict which has the length as last member. Is there any special reason for it? Something like struct-layout optimization?

hoppelhaseon .NET Standard 2.1

Any special reason why they put the length after the pointer? Or is it just a coincidence?

hoppelhaseon React v16.6.0: lazy, memo and contextType

Is this planned for the Suspense API?

hoppelhaseon React v16.6.0: lazy, memo and contextType

Do lazy + Suspense replace the react-loadable [1] package?

[1]: https://github.com/jamiebuilds/react-loadable

hoppelhaseon GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

I created a new repository 30 minutes ago.

As I initialized it with a readme and an ignore file, I had to clone it. Cloning only succeeded by doing `watch git clone` and waiting a few minutes. But it worked.

hoppelhaseon The Awful German Language (1880)

I don't know what he is referring to. But one interesting things is that there is a language where you can express that someone is doing something without including the time when he is doing it. This is not possible in the languages I know of (De/En/Fr).

I can imagine that this ability makes different thoughts possible.

When looking at programming languages, it is indeed the case that your "lingua franca" limits the imagination of what software architectures are possible to solve the problem.

hoppelhaseon The Awful German Language (1880)

I think the best thing about compound words is that you can name things you don't know the actual name for.

hoppelhaseon The Awful German Language (1880)

A Luftschiff is not an airplane, it's a Zeppelin because it floats in the air like a ship in the water.