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x15··on JavaScript Web Frameworks Benchmark
Here's a screenshot comparing vue, react and vanilla javascript [1]

https://screenshots.firefox.com/5I1plTW4qc61JEjR/rawgit.com

x15··on Web page service workers bypass ad-blockers after Chrome 72 upgrade?
I was not aware of these scams thanks to using ad blockers and not living in a country that is being targeted that much. A good way to educate elders might be by showing them some scam videos [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw/vid...

x15··on Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers
This is a win-win situation for Google. I doubt they haven't done the maths. If they lose a percentage of the userbase, but get increased revenue, it's only logical to do that. If their userbase decreases, their monopoly status also decreases, making regulation harder.

The percentage of users who install firefox is low because of the inertia of the default. Having Google as the default search engine in firefox certainly didn't help.

Imagine downloading firefox to replace IE or Edge on a fresh Windows install and then immediately witness Chrome ads in your search results.

Mozilla should had disrupted the third party tracking/ads business, when it had the chance, by providing a default ad blocker and severing ties with no-privacy-respecting search engines (before Google disrupted the browsers market that is).

Google's Android browser is doing well by not supporting extensions, why would they miss the chance of additional revenue by not crippling their desktop browser the same way?

x15··on Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women
It would be ironic if the USA government tried to regulate or fine Google on this, while at the same time selling heavy weaponry to SA.
x15··on Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value
Considering that Chinese tech companies have grown dramatically because of the GWoC and have enough money to invest left and right in foreign countries, it would be nice, but utterly unrealistic, if EU could copy that success model.

EU values the privacy of its people, the online interactions are certainly not tracked like in China.

x15··on Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value
I can't stress enough how helpful and interesting the /r/rust sub is to me. I have always received at least a few replies to my questions, no matter how noob or hard they are.

One of the most wholesome programming communities I've participated in.

x15··on What's next for SemVer
You might like this format:

https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/dev/add-on-structure/#recommend...

x15··on Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself
I'm currently working alone making less than 10K per year. My networking is not great and I wasn't able to land a job in many smaller than Amazon companies. I wouldn't leave even a 50K job, let alone an order of magnitude of that.

It's his life and his choices, but many of us have it quite hard.

x15··on Freshly Squeezed: The Truth About Orange Juice in Boxes
If you haven't tried fresh carrot juice, you don't know what you're missing.

I got myself this cheap machine for that purpose:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mean+juice+machine&t=chromeos&iax=...

x15··on Ask HN: What’s your laptop?
Does anybody have experience with thin clients connected to buffed workstations or servers?

My laptop is pretty good for scripting and light compile jobs, but if I could just code on it and forward the heavy computing to my other buffed computers it would save me both battery and time.

x15··on How to Convert a Free User to a Premium User
Unfortunately they denied my application when I tried to get one during my college years.

I felt envy seeing some my peers (who had no existing repos, or far fewer than me) get free PRO accounts while github probably though I should just buy one.

Long story short, I created a bitbucket account and later made heavy use of gitlab.

x15··on How to Convert a Free User to a Premium User
A good alternative to Spotify is Deezer.

Instead of ads, in their free tier, they make me listen to sponsored songs by artists I'd never have heard of.

x15··on John Carmack: writing Rust code feels wholesome
vscode has pretty good support for rust.

If you need something more advanced, you can try clion from jetbrains with the intellij-rust plug-in.

x15··on Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006)
Ruby helped me grasp the basic OOP concepts when I was a teenager, just by reading tutorials and blog posts during the time RoR was all the rage.

It was one of those unexpected moments of extreme enlightenment I haven't experienced in a while now.

x15··on Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
I'd also hesitate wasting resources in such a way.

About your first statement though, which server software do you use that still sends data after the client has closed the connection? Doesn't it use hearbeats based on ACKs?

x15··on Bezos Selfie Controversy Triggers Alarm for Billionaires Worldwide
Good money can buy a good chunk of 0-day exploits from black hats.

I wonder how many companies rely on in-house exploit research and what would be the turnaround related to buying from 3rd parties.

x15··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
It will be interesting to see how this goes.

If the users are serious about the right to choose for themselves. If they dislike adverts. Spotify may experience some business shrinkage.

That could signal a reversal of one catastrophic aspect of the current Internet.

x15··on Building a RISC-V PC
A great interview on the first Linux port on RISC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMA3Ge144U
x15··on Biography of Christopher “moot” Poole: The Hacker Known as “4chan”
This is also my biggest curiosity related to Poole.

I've read on /g/ that he's been working on Google Plus. In the thread I read that, people were joking that he is going to get fired now that the project is sun-setting, but there was no real evidence to back that up.

x15··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
1. Use an alternative like Deezer.
x15··on Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
Well, they lock threads after 6 months, probably to save moderation time. It's always possible for someone to re-create a discussion topic and get new responses going.
x15··on “100 spies” will monitor all SMS and email that goes in and out of Norway
I doubt most tech literate criminals won't use something like Telegram or Matrix over a tor relay.

Whenever I and my girlfriend talk about anything too personal, I always joke about the government's ability to hear our conversation.

WhatsApp and Viber provide cryptographic communication but, if I'm not mistaken, it needs to be explicitly enabled and I've also read there's a bunch of metadata exposed.

x15··on HTTP/3 explained
Most if not all ads can be blocked with an ad blocker like uBlock origin.

I used uMatrix myself in the past (I also used NoScript a much longer while ago), but it requires too much time to cherry pick the remote hosts (usually CDNs) and files to allow.