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michaelbazoson Antonovs in America (2012)

On February 27th, per the article: "The fire at the hangar was detected at 11:13 a.m. on Sunday, according to the NASA data, which is obtained from a number of NOAA and NASA satellites."

michaelbazoson Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness

There are often other extensions that we find too precious to delete them, however we need them only at specific occasions. For those, I came up with a “meta-extension” to easily disable or enable them:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extension-manager/...

michaelbazoson The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components

That would be the first three years of the Internet.

michaelbazoson PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services

GAFA(M) omits Netflix but not Amazon, since it stands for Google Amazon Facebook Apple (Microsoft)

michaelbazoson Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Something I miss in Firefox, is that the webextensions `management` api does not allow to toggle off/on extensions other than themes. It's no secret that some of the most popular browser extensions require a wide range of permissions to work, while being useful only occasionally. This restriction prevents to have on Firefox a quick toggler without leaving the page like (author here) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extension-manager/...

michaelbazoson Apple's New Map

I think the improvement goes beyond greenery information, although the latter is the most obvious. If looking carefully, one can also spot a significant improvement regarding water surfaces. Those are useful reference points. Granted, they are often outside of where people are living, but this is part of a process making the map more accurate and probably more automated than before, which is a laudable thing. In my opinion the new map is also more pleasant to the eye and all in all, I would rather use it over the old one.

michaelbazoson Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

Love the clear and intuitive interface. Congratulations! Would be nice to have a way to input a free amount, imho.

Here is mine: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelbazos

Cool 404, by the way.

michaelbazoson Show HN: Thanks – See which NPM dependencies are seeking donations

Couldn't you use unpkg.com for this?

unpkg.com/:package@:version/:file

michaelbazoson I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds

"type n -> press down -> press enter to get to hacker news".

It's even shorter as you can skip the "press down" step. At least in Chrome and Firefox.

michaelbazoson Feather: Open-source icons

Selfish plug here, but I'm maintaining a library of Feather Icons components for angular 2+ applications. Current version is 3.2.2 as feather version: https://github.com/michaelbazos/angular-feather