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leodriesch··on Apple Passkey
Firefox also acts as a password manager on iOS and supports the standard system-wide auto-fill APIs [0].

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-...

leodriesch··on It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal
Maybe if it’s just two countries right now, but if this ban would become EU wide gaming companies would have to care.
leodriesch··on Show HN: Plasmo – a framework for building modern Chrome extensions
Currently using Parcel with its support for manifest.json as an entrypoint[0], could you explain what your framework does beyond that?

[0]: https://parceljs.org/recipes/web-extension/

leodriesch··on System Font Stack
Yes, but they could demo the serif stack for your current OS.
leodriesch··on A group of open source Android apps without ads or unnecessary permissions
Do you have some evidence of that or is this rather a feeling of yours? (Genuinely interested)
leodriesch··on The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE
GitHub Codespaces and VSCode remote development solve this problem by using docker and optionally docker compose to create reproducible development environments.

GitHub is using Codespaces itself [0], which is a huge Rails app with tons of infrastructure behind it I’d assume.

[0]: https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-move...

leodriesch··on The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE
Users can already run code on their infrastructure with CI jobs, so I’d guess they already have that part figured out.

The extensions and settings sync are going to be interesting, especially since they were pretty positive about extension support in the post.

leodriesch··on Firefox's protection against fingerprinting
If the noise would not change between individual calls but only on page reloads it would be pretty hard to get 1000 samples.
leodriesch··on The new and upgraded Framework Laptop
If you're fine with import tax and an American keyboard, there are services [0] that provide you with an American address and send any packets that arrive there to you via international shipping.

[0]: https://www.myus.com/

leodriesch··on Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
Mostly the Mac Mini to run CI workflows or build iOS and macOS applications.
leodriesch··on Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds
The screenshots are from a version before the Big Sur visual refresh, so at least 2 major versions behind the current release.

Could just be a bug that has been fixed already.

leodriesch··on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
Terra does not move in value. It’s like owning cash vs owning stocks.

The cash is less risky but it’s value does not change (apart from inflation).

Stocks are more risky but may give you profit over time.

leodriesch··on NPM Vulnerability Discussion on Twitter
typeof x !== “number” ? false : x % 2 === 0
leodriesch··on NPM Vulnerability Discussion on Twitter
I don’t get why anyone would introduce a dependency this small to their codebase.

It’s a much better choice to just copy the source code and possibly license into your own code to just eliminate the overhead.

It’s not like any of these packages depend on being updated for security reasons or anything.

leodriesch··on Preview, the Mac app people forget about
You can also add Notes to your control center in settings. You can then long press the notes icon in control center and choose “Scan document”.
leodriesch··on Tesseract.js wraps an Emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine
IIRC emscripten was around before Browser support for WASM was really a thing.
leodriesch··on GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps
GitHub is a good example of that actually [0].

[0]: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

leodriesch··on AMD doubles the number of CPU cores it offers to Chromebooks
At these specs I expect the price to be pretty hefty, what was your reason to go for a Chromebook instead of another laptop + Linux?
leodriesch··on Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
Could you expand on that?

Does it mean you don’t use your phone till 10AM or not after 9PM or something like that?

leodriesch··on Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
Doing the same, but this does not really apply for algorithmic feeds.

When you open YouTube the recommendations are always the first thing you see, same for TikTok and Twitter (although at least you can configure it there).

Sure you can say “just don’t use recommendation systems” just as you can say “just don’t go on YouTube”.

leodriesch··on Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
I’ve been thinking about this for some time, since so many people (including me) seem to struggle with this, even while being completely aware of our behavior.

I think legislation should force social networks to:

- have a reverse chronological timeline for your network

- optionally disable any algorithmic recommendations

Social Media companies are mostly unrestricted in the current legislation system while they are trying their hardest to maximize user engagement.

Just like the use of certain drugs this something some people can’t responsively deal with themselves, hence it should be regulated.

And probably my idea is not very fleshed out, but I think something has to be done, and it has to come from states as the companies themselves can’t be held responsible.

leodriesch··on Dude, where's my fuel?
The blog seems to be poorly optimized, but if you go to their home page you will see where all that power is going. Really amazing TBH.
leodriesch··on Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
And jQuery is still used in lots of places without any problems AFAIK.

Even if the React development team would stop the framework will for sure be around for a couple more years and receive at least security patches.

leodriesch··on Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments
Torrenting comes to mind. Also if you trust the VPN provider more than your ISP or VPN provider has essentially no PII of you (in case of Mullvad).
leodriesch··on JavaScript quiz that may confuse you
I suppose this is because `NaN === NaN` is false. Comparison via `Object.is(NaN, NaN)` works as expected though.
leodriesch··on I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed
You should be able to use regular JavaScript tools like sentry.io
leodriesch··on Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
Render.com is pretty great and they recently introduced free plans for Hobby usage.

Supports web services, static sites and Postgres/Redis.

leodriesch··on Terraform Provider for Spotify
Available for me on iOS when you just pull down while at the top of a playlist.
leodriesch··on Terraform Provider for Spotify
If you got Spotify on desktop you could just select all your liked songs and drag them onto some other playlist.

Should work multiple times, just click „don’t add“ when it asks you if you want to add duplicate tracks.

leodriesch··on Unreal vs. Unity Opinion
Just guesswork here, but I think they have an agreement that is cheaper and also includes CDPR engine developers contributing code back to UE that makes it better to use for open-world games.

In the UE5 Keynote it seemed more like a technical partnership than just CDPR licensing UE5 for a price.

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