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Author here -- just to be clear, I agree that marking the variable as const is the "right" thing to do here. I reported the investigation as-is because removing a static declaration made the code slower, which I then narrowed down to the isolated bit of code.

Author here -- I agree that const is better. The perf difference I encountered was due to the static keyword though, which is why the blog post talks about that specific issue.

The title was edited by the mods -- the original title simply stated "GDPR -- A Success Story".

I am the author -- I addressed this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27104896 .

This won't work with WhatsApp because since they do not store your messages in plaintext.

I had to use some unofficial software ( https://www.wazzapmigrator.com/ ) to extract and store the messages from an unencrypted iPhone backup. Then you have everything in an sqlite file.

EMACS + tramp - http://www.gnu.org/s/tramp/ - works great.

yes I can.

The new vimperator is out as well, and it's great. this is way better than crome now.