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resynth1943on I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users

They're prompts you get when you have three Teams tabs open at the same time. When you click them, it refreshes the current tab. Kicked me out of calls a couple of times.

resynth1943on I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users

IMHO Teams isn't as good as they make out. Firstly, you have the constant stream of 'Are you there?' popups which kick you out of calls, alongside the blocking modals which stop you from editing documents. Moreover, the UI is a slow mess.

I guess the most attractive point for employers is that this is free for 0365 consumers, but O365 isn't that good either IMHO.

resynth1943on js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.

Aside: outline.com is useful for news websites which require JavaScript.

resynth1943on 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal

I'll bear it in mind in future. Thanks.

resynth1943on BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass

I'm not really talking about this from an a11y standpoint, but audio CAPTCHA's are so much easier than "choose the fire hydrant" hell.

I actually remember reading a post saying that an accessible CAPTCHA is hard. To make it accessible, you have to make it machine-readable, which defeats the point...

resynth1943on BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass

Perfect use-case for Narrator ;-)

resynth1943on Show HN: Forgo.js – a 4kb React alternative based on plain JS and DOM APIs

> They didn't emerge from React - but it isn't possible to do React without them.

I've created many React apps without any complex state management libraries :-)

resynth1943on 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal

I chose to highlight the Chinese aspect, but you're absolutely right: any keyboard with personalisation puts Signal users at risk.

resynth1943on 68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal

I think the word 'track' is misleading in this context. The proposal outlines various methods to detect the use of a third-party keyboard, whereas the term 'track' commonly denotes corporate surveillance.

They could do that, but it would have a maintenance cost. I do think we need to find a solution to this, however, as these personalised keyboards actually _track_ what people type. That could have real-world implications.

resynth1943on Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide

$100 is very expensive compared to the other platforms. These licensing fees destroy the majority of open-source projects geared around said platforms, sadly.

resynth1943on Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine

IIRC if you disable POST requests, Chromium should show the searX instance in the Search Engines settings menu.

resynth1943on We Don't Sell Ads (2012)

I'm personally worried Signal will suffer the same fate. It's heavily trusted in its current state, but it could, in time, turn into a Silicon Valley "product" (and so will we). eye roll.

resynth1943on We Don't Sell Ads (2012)

    Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.

My gosh, how the tide can turn.

https://write.privacytools.io/right-to-privacy/getting-whats...

WhatsApp now collects:

    WhatsApp: Device ID, User ID, Advertising Data, Purchase History, Coarse Location, Phone Number, Email, Contacts, Product Interaction, Crash, Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostics Data, Payment Info, Customer Support, Product Interaction, Other User, Content.

resynth1943on Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JavaScript

Oh damn, didn't realise it was a dupe. It must be really good then :-)

resynth1943on Show HN: Extension.dev – quickly build custom internal Chrome extensions

I'm confused. Where does it mention those companies?

resynth1943on The Cole-Bar Hammer, a 7-year old Kickstarter that is still going

    $2,134,374 pledged of $500,000 goal

Hmm, so it's just a rip-off?

resynth1943on Ask HN: How do you get over the meaninglessness of life?

You make it mean something. You can help others, find your passion, support your family, or create your own family. Life does not have to be meaningless, it's all up to you :-)

resynth1943on Introduction to Window Functions in SQL

I thought the same. Assumed it was some Microsoft BS. Thankfully it's not :D

resynth1943on We Built a Facebook Inspector

"there is more than one race which is scientifically incorrect."

...not quite. There's definitely more than one race ;)

resynth1943on Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail

Reminds me of this incredible talk by Tom Scott: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q

resynth1943on The Free JavaScript Campaign

That'd probably make the problem worse, by encouraging developers to force JavaScript to see the page.

Nevertheless, it probably can't get worse than it is now.

You'd be surprised how many times I've seen websites which have some sort of hidden-before-load-class attached to the HTML element. When you're not using JavaScript, you can remove this class and it all works fine.

Same thing for loading spinners. If your loading time warrants a loading spinner, you're probably doing something wrong.

resynth1943on Show HN: 7.css – for all Windows 7 lovers

The only thing worrying me is that none of this seems to be scoped, so it'll probably clash with other external libraries using the same class names. Am I understanding this correctly?

resynth1943on Show HN: 7.css – for all Windows 7 lovers

Well, Vista has a lot more blue in it. Plus it has that sweet dark black taskbar.

resynth1943on Embed Flash SWF content without the Plugin

Looks great. That being said, a lot of the open-source Flash runtimes I've seen have been left to rot. I'm hoping this doesn't go down the same path, because it's a very good idea.

resynth1943on My Experience at Apple

"One day I went to use the woman restroom my “iBuddy” was there. She told me “die!” and slammed the door in my face."

This bit made me suspicious of the whole thing.

resynth1943on My Experience at Apple

> One day I went to use the woman restroom my “iBuddy” was there. She told me “die!” and slammed the door in my face.

Dunno about anyone else, but this really doesn't add up for me. I can't imagine that happening in real life. It doesn't make sense.

That threw me off the whole story. Hoping it's real, though.

resynth1943on Tendis: A high-performance distributed storage system

Tencent + Redis = Tendis. Heh.

resynth1943on Ask HN: It's almost 2021, what social media platforms do you still use?

I use Mastodon, which displays posts in a chronological order, without any black-box AI algorithms. https://joinmastodon.org if you're interested :-)