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shirshak55on Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices directly via TCP,UDP

Welcome to Chrome monopoly. Show as off as u are doing opensource (yeah 90% opensource) but hide DRM , do some weird trick to make YouTube fast using some shadow/hidden api, spread ads like malware using extension manifest v3 . Look at Andriod how hard it is to use ad blocker.

shirshak55on The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

1 GB may show some statistics but it doesn't reflect the reality. Most of the time I find many other things matter like latancy, throughput,qos. I am currently on 45 mbps but still when i download it starts from 1 mbps and takes like 2 minute to reach 45 mbps meaning do matter especially browsing. However I must say during my intership at India the internet was very good. Its like 10$ and you are done for 1 month with free calls .

shirshak55on Facebook says Apple’s iOS 14 changes could hurt its ad targeting

I think dedicated firewall can help a lot. Like if I use spotify i should be able to use firewall and tell spotify app can connect only to https://*.spotify.com if there are other url it should ask permission for that. I think this would help a lot. Especially when facebook implants its tracker to most app using sdk

shirshak55on NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

I agree with your statement but there are other sides too.

Regarding ads: Showing ads like "Girl Mobile Video Talk" with description "Girl Mobile Number Live Video Call" with "Install Link" in a youtube ads is unacceptable. And the worst thing is you cannot even turn off that ads without being turning on ads personalization.

Regarding Money: 10$ may be a cup of coffee for you but in other side of world people are earning 200$ of salary so they just can't afford it. So many people don't have privilege like average Americans have?

Regarding supporting creators. Sure ads pay creator but showing ads every 10minute , beginning of video and end of video is total BS. And even creator are already using their own ads like "This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org" so I don't mind blocking ads.

shirshak55on Facebook iOS SDK causing crashes on startup

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shirshak55on Deno will stop using TypeScript

remember deno is written by same person who wrote node js so please don't judge immediately.

shirshak55on Deno will stop using TypeScript

null is considered billion dollar mistake but in JS there is 2 null so the statement is not incorrect :P

shirshak55on Deno will stop using TypeScript

tbh JS is popular only because of browser monopoly. JS became popular because of internet usage otherwise it would just die. It started with 1997 changed little at 1998 and 4th edition was even abandoned lol. and it took so long to evolve after that. in 2019 there was update and from 2015 we are seeing good progress. no we still cannot avoid because browser needs it. Hopefully wasm can replace but it still has long way to go.

So i don't subscribe to idea that js is not popular because of browser monopoly.

shirshak55on Apple Response to Hey

"Thank you for being an iOS app developer. We understand that Basecamp has developed a number of apps and many subsequent versions for the App Store for many years, and that the App Store has distributed millions of these apps to iOS users. These apps do not offer in-app purchase — and, consequently, have not contributed any revenue to the App Store over the last eight years."

To me it is very very rude. And free apps do contribute to app store. And they do charge 99$ so APPLE should stop saying they have not contributed to revenue for 8 years they do have paid 99$.

shirshak55on Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode

from what i have heard they insert some headers or something like that. So this should be non issue for firefox private user.

shirshak55on 25 Years of PHP

composer is so slow tbh. It takes ages to download package and well requires me to setup swap even when i have 4 gb ram in server.

shirshak55on 13,500 Vivo Smartphones found running on same IMEI number

Changing imei is a very easy task here. People can unlock apple iphone with 50$ etc so I think having same IMEI is good at least for privacy.

shirshak55on SQLite Turns 20

While doing small project sqlite is a very good tool. Thanks to sqlite team for making such a great software.

shirshak55on We Are Trying Out PeerTube

Peertube is such a good project. I have used it and its good :) Its decentralized, unaffected by kids policy of youtube and much more. And the github support is pretty active.

shirshak55on Is Cloudflare Safe Yet

I trust cloudflare more than my ISP. And regarding dns I trust next dns over 1.1.1.1. And I trust 1.1.1.1 more than 8.8.8.8 which is ran by ads company. I would like to thanks cloudflare for their service.

shirshak55on Mycroft – An open-source voice assistant

i see error establishing database connection.

shirshak55on Unpatched iOS bug blocks VPNs from encrypting all traffic

usually vps are blocked because they use bot to scrape data etc creating useless problems.

Update: By vps i mean ip from digitalocean,linode, vultr etc.

shirshak55on Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible

why to store JWT in local storage. Localstorage can be accessed by CDN scripts also. Please don't put risk on ur users data.

shirshak55on RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki

exactly. React works so well with js. And vue claims to be simple but tbh its hard. working with async await function, promises are so weird. And you need packages for simple stuff also.

shirshak55on RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki

and using promises with vue is nightmare.

shirshak55on New MacBook Air

i don't know how is he able to compile rust. I have 2 core MBP 13inch 2017 macbook pro.

Rust compilation takes like 15 seconds for small changes in actix project. For amethyst game library i wouldn't even try.

shirshak55on New MacBook Air

bought macbook pro in 2017. Due to the issue with double typing keyboard I always regret everyday. And there is screen issue also. Probably they will charge $300. Looks like I did the worst investment in my life.

shirshak55on Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

Please don't defend in name of humanity. "Imposing its demands on workers without any regard for their safety" If local store is out of stuff amazon can bring it at u but they should not be forced to bring without regard for their safety.

shirshak55on Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/google-geofence-locatio...

shirshak55on How many users block Google analytics? (2017)

everybody should :D

shirshak55on Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

lot of pages not working already indicates why google is taking advantage right? First make stuff that don't work on firefox and later people complain its firefox issue. Yea brave is good choice for developers :)

shirshak55on Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

Microsoft is also not cool to be honest their product skype still don't work on firefox. Both are bad players to me . Slowing down youtube and google product on firefox, not allowing skype on firefox are cheap strategy used by both company.

shirshak55on Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

that's other stuff but the privacy principle is still there and we only care about that right? Its the software we care right not their management stuff?

shirshak55on Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

actually it may not work for all extension as chrome uses different api than firefox webextension standard api. I must say firefox extension api is far better than chrome one.

shirshak55on The Wheels on the new Mac Pro don't have locks. They cost $550

i feel people have some urge to buy anything if they see apple logo no matter how much price label they places on their product. Don't know why people have this urge.