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yawndexon Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Have you ever actually used Brave? Because then you would have noticed the huge glowing opt-out billboard of a new tab page.

yawndexon RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

soulless unreadable AI slop

yawndexon My ASN Journey series (2024)

Probably the only part of that setup on AWS that wouldn't cost a fortune.

yawndexon How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

In defense of Vivaldi, it is actually up to date, just on the Extended Stable cycle: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Mac

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/main/do...

yawndexon Cal.com is going closed source

Cal.com is not a severely underfunded project, it raised around $32M of VC money.

yawndexon Meow.camera

The feeders are battery powered, so they can't be always streaming 24/7 with lights on.

yawndexon API GitHub Meta

It's just a bunch of information about GitHub infra, like what IPs they use, what SSH fingerprints to expect when connecting to GitHub over SSH, etc.

yawndexon StackOverflow disallows all crawlers in robots.txt file

Someone pointed this out on Twitter - it looks like StackOverflow recently updated their robots.txt file to explicitly disallow all crawlers. Obviously, this won't stop those that don't respect robots.txt, but I found this decision strange. Not even Google or Bing's crawlers (which respect robots.txt) will be able to crawl StackOverflow, which could be the final nail in the coffin for SO, since (presumably) most StackOverflow traffic comes from search engines.

yawndexon Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day

The section you mentioned does not say anything about having counters for labels. It only mentions that they record "[t]he times of the first and most recent instances of queries for each query label".

yawndexon Show HN: Temp.pw

Why does the "share" button upload the password to your server in plaintext?

yawndexon Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

Absolutely. I love the work they have been doing on the backend, like PQ3 [1], but it just doesn't work for me when the Stickers and Emojis extensions on Mac leak several GBs of RAM and I have to terminate it several times a day to free up memory.

Another thing I dislike is that it stores the whole message history on the device. It's nice to have at times, but I send a lot of photos, which adds up in storage over time. I pay for iCloud, and store my messages there. Why does my Mac need to hold every single photo I have ever sent?

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/

yawndexon Internet Archive Europe – Bringing Collections to Life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

yawndexon Liberapay

I don't think that would be possible, as Liberapay is essentially just a UI for accepting donations directly into the developers' Stripe/PayPal accounts.

yawndexon DOGE Said It Cut $232M from Social Security. It Was Only About Half a Mil

https://archive.is/73szW

yawndexon Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery

The price of "free" is very tempting. I guess the cost of the servers they offer is having to put up with idiotic requirements like "CPU utilization for the 95th percentile [must be more] than 20%" [1], or they'll shut off your server.

I use one of these servers for hosting some non-critical things, but nothing that I run there is particularly CPU intensive, so I was just forced to set up a cronjob that periodically spikes the CPU to 100% for a few minutes.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

yawndexon Visualizing All ISBNs

Because the efforts of Anna's Archive are unfortunately currently very much illegal, and XMR is one of the few cryptocurrencies that can actually offer some privacy to its users.

yawndexon Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

Any current plans for a macOS release?