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tbodt··on Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
Also they can't just roll anything back, the URL has been missing for almost 2 years since they rewrote the image search frontend
tbodt··on Termux and Android 10
This seems fairly trivial to fix by writing an ELF loader.
tbodt··on Don't set the language of your website based on user location
https://www.google.com/preferences#languages
tbodt··on Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
Hover text: https://xkcd.com/934/
tbodt··on Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
https://twitter.com/dotproto
tbodt··on Make LLVM Fast Again
The problem with that is LLVM non-optimized codegen is so bad that many projects build with -O2 even in debug mode.
tbodt··on Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?
You can't avoid Chrome extension updates
tbodt··on Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site
> to measure the Core Web Vitals you must use Chrome UX report

No, you just need this bit of javascript: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals

tbodt··on Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
It also includes a scraper for various torrent sites, which was the only part of the code specifically targeted by the takedown notice
tbodt··on Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
Pretty sure the time between reauthentications is configured by your G Suite admin, so you should ask them
tbodt··on Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU
Different projects. iSH has the advantage of not requiring sideloading.

(I wrote iSH)

tbodt··on Moving Away from Gmail
It's that slow because there's just so much JavaScript going on.
tbodt··on Moving Away from Gmail
Could you also commit to notifying users when the privacy policy or terms of service change? I suspect you already do this, but it would be good to have it in writing.
tbodt··on Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
I just checked and Steam is still on my corp laptop
tbodt··on Google bans Zoom from employees' computers
https://github.com/google/santa is used to whitelist binaries on Macs, but you can fill out a form to instantly opt out. One of the options for why is "I use a package manager".
tbodt··on The Docker Compose Specification
What is Docker's business model these days?
tbodt··on Google is shutting down Neighbourly
*Fuchsia
tbodt··on Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims
NSO likely has dozens of backup bugs and is capable of finding more, so this wouldn't work unless you can continue it forever.
tbodt··on Gmailctl – Declarative Configuration for Gmail Filters
Another advantage of gmailctl is it uploads the filters using the API, so you don't have open Gmail settings and manually import an XML file.
tbodt··on Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client
Get mad at Facebook for stuffing analytics into their login button library
tbodt··on Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
> Google Docs doesn't really work offline

It actually works quite well offline

tbodt··on FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test
"For profesional use only"
tbodt··on ISH: An Alpine Linux Shell on iOS
iSH author here. Answer to both: because that's how the Alpine Linux minirootfs image is set up.
tbodt··on LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
I suspect they paid for the 85k/year support package
tbodt··on i3 4.18
Compare to Windows 10, which got a Spaces-like feature (called virtual desktops) in 2015.
tbodt··on Wacom tablets track every app you open
The cid parameter (the one that's censored) is a unique identifier for the author.
tbodt··on Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
Actual list: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/google/core/...
tbodt··on Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
Yes and yes. It's a reverse engineered version of what iTunes does.
tbodt··on Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
There is an equivalent JS API proposed.
tbodt··on Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
There's a proposed API for JavaScript to get the same information.
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