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jptech··on Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
Does this apply to the offline installer too?
jptech··on Show HN: Space4 – A workplace to help with staying focused and being productive
I can't even signup. Keep getting a "The e-mail could not be sent." error.
jptech··on Less secure apps and your Google Account
I am willing to think that Google performs fingerprinting on the OAUTH login dialog window, which if prevented, similar to the comment above regarding Firefox being unsafe, it would block login through OAUTH as it pleases.
jptech··on I have no capslock and I must scream
How about Mactini?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGOn-H7s3Q

jptech··on WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers
Giving out a Null value has less entropy than a unique value. It may also be likely that it gets dropped when computing the overall fingerprint.
jptech··on WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers
Not an attack vector per se, but largely used for fingerprinting.
jptech··on Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)
What makes you think otherwise? Some people's brains are wired differently?
jptech··on Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)
Just as you can run any program on any machine given enough time and resources (memory), anyone not lacking intellectual ability can learn anything - some quicker, some slower.
jptech··on Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?
Right now on websites it's not displayed as green, but blue (or greenish blue). Even the traffic light is called blue here (青) and they would look at you with surprise if you say the lights are green!
jptech··on Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
The usability of MacOS is horrible. saying it as a Win+Linux guy.
jptech··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
> I would inevitably run into a sync issues

Could it be that you weren't using it correctly? KeePass database files aren't supposed to remain open (for security of course) and it has quite a number of options to automatically close it after certain amount of time or when the window isn't focus, computer is locked, etc. This would trigger a sync with the (NC) server and assuming that all your clients follow the same usage pattern and close the DB after a small window of time, there shouldn't be any conflict.

> NextCloud to be always up of course, also self-hosted

You could use NextCloud's own hosting. But then Bitwarden's server needs to always be up too, and optionally self-hosted.

> Bitwarden just works

A low bar to recommend a password manager, don't you think so?

jptech··on Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID
Exactly this. I never understood why I had to go online when reinstalling MacOS.
jptech··on Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
I have been and still am a Zotero user. But I found it unfortunate that back in grad school many of my peers still used Mendeley. The school library even had workshops/classes in which they taught how to use the software. I found it ironic that despite paying loads of money to Elsevier for the journal subscriptions, they were advertising their software too!
jptech··on DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)
Not the latest on censorship. Couple of months ago someone was arrested for decensoring porn and putting it on their website.[1] With Deepfake and all the latest GANs, anyone can probably do it with an acceptable quality. It's just that the sale and distribution of such material will remain illegal in Japan for the forseeable future.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdq87/deepfakes-japan-arres...

jptech··on NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft
Sagawa (a private courier in Japan) provides a similar service but at your doorstep. Basically the sender registers your info with them (mainly DoB) and upon delivery you have to provide an ID, which the driver checks that it matches with what's written on the envelope, then enters your DoB and other info and your ID number into a portable wireless POS device. Only if they match, you receive the package, and then I believe the info entered into the device gets relayed to the sender.

(Use your translation service of choice if desired.) https://www.sagawa-exp.co.jp/service/kakunin/

jptech··on Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
Can you block Edge's internet access? Then if the said URL was something you needed, copy-paste to your default browser.
jptech··on Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
With the new Edge they're giving themselves a boost. They probably won't catch up to Chrome so easily but will have more to say about the underlying engine in a few years time.
jptech··on Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
I don't think anyone can enter the premise without swiping their badge.
jptech··on Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
> It was unclear how many workers were still missing, as Amazon did not have an exact count of people working in the sorting and delivery center at the time the tornadoes hit, Whiteford said.

I find this hard to accept. They keep track of workers' productivity by the second, but they don't know how many were working there at that time??

jptech··on Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
It's an assurance that the current vaccines work + less severe cases/fatality compared to other variants. Good enough for the bulls to stay bullish.
jptech··on Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
I bet they had leaked this article to Wall st. yesterday and that's why we saw the markets rise sharply.
jptech··on Goodbye Brave
Will it not work without it?
jptech··on Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
Problem I have is MS Teams doesn't work on FF. I usw Brave as a substitute for that.
jptech··on Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
I use Firefox as my main browser, Brave as backup foot sites that don't work well with FF. Brave does a good job with randomizing fingerprints.
jptech··on Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available on Linux
I prefer Brave to either of those.
jptech··on Facebook-owned sites were down
Don't they have a separate instance for internal communications?
jptech··on China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’
> Remember: Currency is not an investment. A good currency has a stable value over time; otherwise it's very difficult to conduct commerce.

Perhaps that is why countries like Japan are changing the definition of crypto and calling it "virtual assets" instead of "virtual currency".

jptech··on Australian Govt to revoke citizenship based on “confidential information”
They're leaving less room for themselves to criticize China.
jptech··on Scikit-Learn Version 1.0
You should be asking if anyone is using it for ML, not NN.
jptech··on My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)
The thing about Logitech (at least on Windows) is that it installs the updater as a device driver. So you cannot easily even block its internet access via firewall rules unless you define one for rundll32.exe

If you want to know more about it, just google "Logitech Download Assistant". There should be a device for it in your Device Manager and an LDA.exe process running.

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