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wiiittttton Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor

I received different results in Firefox and Brave. Doesn't seem to be a reliable method for tracking.

wiiittttton Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation

I'm sorry to hear that. My sister has Fuch's Dystrophy as well and also had a double cornea transplant, but it seems to have mostly fixed all of her vision issues. Time will tell if I'm in the same boat, but so far have no signs of it.

wiiittttton Oatly: The New Coke?

Make your own oat milk. There are many recipes available online and the process is simple.

wiiittttton Using Go Modules

I think "go get" will only grab the latest tag. If that commit an hour doens't have a new tag, it won't see anything to update.

wiiittttton Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

Yeah, the majority are probably not, but i'd prefer to download at the highest quality available.

wiiittttton Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

Maybe for 1080p. It's 10-15GB for 4k.

wiiittttton For South Asian Cooks, Yogurt Starter Is an Heirloom

I also add some non-fat milk powder. It adds some extra protein and slightly thickens the resulting yogurt.

wiiittttton What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

The web links work for me when you copy them to an Incognito tab.

wiiittttton Badger – A fast key-value store written natively in Go

There is a link to the docs on the github page.

https://godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

wiiittttton Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (2008)

Great advice. Another point (related to 4) is don't trust your oven to tell you when it's up to temperature. The oven is measuring the air temperature and not the temperature of the stone/steel. I always make sure to give it about 40 minutes to heat up.

wiiittttton Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

Look at Crispin Glover's lawsuit for Back to the Future II as well.

wiiittttton Adobe Sensei

It definitely has a very strong "Project Jabberwocky" vibe.

wiiittttton XMonad 0.13 released

Does anyone know of a good tiling WM for Windows?

wiiittttton Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer

Xmonad has a similar feature as well.

wiiittttton Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems

For Windows: https://windirstat.net/

wiiittttton Add-ons in 2017

Only accepting WebExtension based add-ons while not yet fully implementing the Chrome API seems like it would lead to a large number of unsupported add-ons.

wiiittttton WebExtensions in Firefox 52

The post indicates that 52 was released this week, but Developer Edition still shows the latest update is 51.0a2 for me. Anyone else?

wiiittttton Soylent Bar Has Arrived

I would expect it to be relatively flavorless if the bottles are anything to go by.

wiiittttton RemixOS for PC released

No, same issue here with VMWare player.

wiiittttton Soundproofing for New York Noise

It's not necessarily only window units. Many apartments have in-wall units also. It would be cost prohibitive for most to close up a hole in a brick wall to install a split unit.

wiiittttton Reddit prepares to launch new news website 'Upvoted'

DNS for the domain only has a 300 second TTL. The site can easily be pointed somewhere else before the launch.

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;upvoted.com.                   IN      A

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  upvoted.com.            300     IN      A       192.0.79.33
  upvoted.com.            300     IN      A       192.0.79.32