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tbodt··on iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
Not true, VLC is GPL and on the app store
tbodt··on Why I Quit Using Google
It is completely impossible to answer this question
tbodt··on I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
Google actually detects the Lynx user agent and sends an HTML 4 page, but apparently this new code wasn't written with that in mind.
tbodt··on Google Kills Cloud Print
Google itself has based its printing infrastructure on Google Cloud Print. I have no idea how I'm supposed to print anything now.
tbodt··on Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM
This doesn't work for Widevine L1, as L1 is handled in hardware. Windows has some interface to the Intel Management Engine used for this, Android OEMs write drivers and ship devices with keys, other platforms are out of luck.
tbodt··on How to do a code review
Critique and Gerrit (code review systems at Google) also do this.
tbodt··on Google’s GDPR Workaround
There's some documentation for this mechanism: https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/cookie-g...
tbodt··on Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
> 100ms delay for each request

NOPE

tbodt··on Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
Off-the-shelf ARM systems
tbodt··on uBlock Origin 1.20
I expect by the time anything actually ships, the API will be extended enough to allow most of uBlock Origin's functionality to stay.
tbodt··on Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem
You joke, but I've read a Google postmortem with that exact quote at the top. This incident would be more fitting though.
tbodt··on An update on Sunday’s service disruption
The postmortem is currently only visible to Googlers.
tbodt··on Stop Memsetting Structures
Most interesting to me is that

  &(int) {1}
is equivalent to

  int one = 1;
  &one
How did I not know about this? I'll be using it from now on.
tbodt··on Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim
TabNine's selling point (literally, it's $49) is that it uses machine learning to provide completions without having to configure any sort of knowledge about the language you're using.
tbodt··on Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim
I wrote a javascript language server based on ESLint and Tern: https://github.com/tbodt/js-langserver
tbodt··on Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent
Edg?
tbodt··on Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
I would imagine it being implemented with SIGSTOP/SIGCONT
tbodt··on A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates
The true cost of Java not supporting unsigned integers
tbodt··on Winding down my Debian involvement
Reading between the lines I see "wouldn't it be nice if Debian's repository was like Google's repository"
tbodt··on Blue Oak Model License 1.0.0
React
tbodt··on CIDLib: C++ Development Environment
The GitHub terms of service allow forking any repository, regardless of what the license says.
tbodt··on Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
You can also do this in a Chrome extension by overriding the user's proxy settings, which is worse.
tbodt··on Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
The download includes a zip file containing source code next to every jar file.
tbodt··on Alleged Coinomi exploit shows how easy it is to have Bitcoin stolen
Access to this data is very tightly controlled, it's likely a single digit number of people.
tbodt··on Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose
Twitter will just randomize the machine IDs and datacenter IDs
tbodt··on Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users
Sitewide code search has been used to find AWS keys and other secrets people have accidentally uploaded. The login requirement is so they can set meaningful rate limits.
tbodt··on Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview
Requiring your Windows users to have the October 2018 update makes no sense.
tbodt··on Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline
This tweet was originally posted two months ago.
tbodt··on Chase had ads on 400K sites then on just 5K and got the same results (2017)
> An intern then manually clicked on each of those addresses to ensure that the websites were ones the company wanted to advertise on.

why is it always the interns

tbodt··on Where do Google's flaky tests come from?
> nonexistent

> 4.2 million

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