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samtoday | 7 years ago | on: Cathay Pacific flags data breach affecting 9.4M passengers

Westpac's interface is quite funny. Only very recently did they allow pasting passwords from a password manager, previously you had to use an on screen keyboard (presumably to stop keyloggers).

On that note; any recommendations for Aussie banks that have a secure and modern interface?

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

> inbuilt native DOM nodes and custom DOM nodes from JS code

What does that mean? What are "inbuilt native" DOM nodes, or "custom DOM nodes"?

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: The end of the cloud is coming

I genuinely don't understand why you would want ipv6nat. It seems like a bog-standard firewall; but instead of being able to configure rules about incoming traffic, everything is blocked and you are stuck with that.

Maybe somebody who knows more about this topic could explain it?

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Updates to DevTools in Chrome 62

If it is a GET request, just open it in a new tab. Firefox has a built-in json viewer (no extensions required).

Eg. open this in a new tab: http://httpbin.org/get

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pavel Durov

Signal is built on top of the phone number system (ie. falling back to SMS, phone numbers as ids). Telephony is pretty clearly a federated system - somebody on one carrier can talk to another; even internationally.

I find it so ironic that he doesn't "support federated systems" when the Signal is tied to one.

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream

I believe it is a Samsung Galaxy 2. A quick search yielded:

http://bgr.com/2017/01/26/donald-trumps-android-phone/

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/29/donald-trump-apple-iphone-an...

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Intro to Graph APIs

Facebook has a lot of things called the "Open Graph" [1]; most of which pre-date GraphQL. Some aren't even APIs as such.

[1] eg. http://ogp.me/

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: “We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”

You'd be surprised by how many apps support Wayland natively. Gtk+ and QT support it transparently for app developers, and I assume other frameworks do as well.

And Wayland is a huge improvement over X. Whenever I go back to X, it really suffers from tearing on portrait sub-1080p DIV-D monitor.

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: AMD has no plans to release PSP code

Yes, all modern AMD processors have this. But Intel processors have an equivalent ""feature"", called the Intel Management Engine (ME). So take you pick really.

A good FAQ is done by LibreBoot: https://libreboot.org/faq.html

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: AMD has no plans to release PSP code

Well, you can get a POWER{8,9} workstation [1]; which has a big selling point of having no ME/PSP processor. But it looks a bit expensive.

[1] http://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/prerelease.php

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Google launches new security features to protect users from unverified apps

It is literally training users to dismiss these kind of errors. In Chrome, these errors are really bad, like a safebrowsing warning or a TLS error.

On the other hand, this warning will probably happen a lot! Is Google going to be able to "validate" apps fast enough?

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: How FireWire came to market and ultimately fell out of favor

The Nokia tablet is the first that comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N1

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Serving 39M Requests for $370/Month

They mentioned the cost of storing all the articles in a database at the start. I wonder how much of the cost decrease was from removing that?

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Ev3dev: Debian for Lego Mindstorms

Lego hasn't reacted yet, and if I remember correctly this has been around for ~4+ years

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Magic Name – Find the name of every email subscriber, without asking

Success rate is the % of people who we can find a name for. So you didn't encounter a success :)

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Inkscape Moves to GitLab

I just launched Inkscape, and noticed the port seems to be done! In Fedora 26, they ship Inkscape 0.92 which uses Gtk+ 3.

samtoday | 8 years ago | on: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

Maybe you could rephrase that. How many years of human progress and CO2 emissions have been caused by the uncooperative licensing situation caused by these software patent owners?

samtoday | 9 years ago | on: Google is transforming public education with low-cost laptops and free apps

Google Classroom has an interesting monopolising effect on schools. Google Classroom has changed the price dynamics hugely; making it impossible for other providers to really compete since they give so much away for free. It is really a shame - Google Classroom (the app) isn't the best LMS as it is quite unresponsive and confusing.

samtoday | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP

Surely if you dislike analytics, keeping these bogus utm parameters is "good"? They are misleading the webmaster in some form.

samtoday | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you doing that your site is so subjectively responsive?

I'm not sure who you're talking to, or what kind of sites you are talking about; but I think my site is pretty fast loading: https://learntemail.sam.today/

One "trick" that I've found helps to add place-holder gradients for images. So if you have a background image, add a linear-gradient or something as well. That means that there isn't such a jarring transition between the gradient and the image.

But really - keep the JS to the minimum and you'll be good. Also try and avoid using a large CSS "framework" - as that can easily add more bloat. If you start from scratch and only add what you need - keeping it very lean.