Throwthrowbob
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Comment · 17 days ago
Comment · 26 days ago
Link is giving "The page you are looking for isn't here." 11 hours after this post went up (per HN values).
Comment · 1 month ago
I use user.js to disable the suggestions, but this doesn't help on initial install and running of Firefox. It's among a over a hundred or so options user.js sets (and reset every startup) that I use to maintain my Firefox.
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.engines", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.importantDates", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.mdn", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.nonsponsored", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.recentsearches", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.searches", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.sports", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.trending", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.weather", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.yelp", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.yelpRealtime", false);
Updates: there is a policies.js option that allows one to take control of updates.
"DisableAppUpdate": true,
On Linux, placed into /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/policies.json
Comment · 1 month ago
I remember an inhibitor chip being a plot point in Spiderman 2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_2
Comment · 1 month ago
I remember a friend installing Zoom on a Linux computer through their software manager. Later, they removed it and found that when they visited the page in the software manager for Zoom, it automatically tried to install Zoom without interaction from them (ie, my friend did not click Install, but viewed the page and a password prompt for installing the package appeared).
I'm not sure if this was behaviour that happened with the software manager on other packages, but was a concern for us.
Comment · 2 months ago
- In their mobile application:
- They decreased the number of visible digits of unread e-mails from four (untested past four) to three. This is one of the first things the user sees when opening the application.
- Soon after, a further update (7.7.1 and further) brought this value down to two digits.
- The mobile application attachment upload has unclear wording and stopped working like it used to.
- The wording for attachments are:
- "From your photo library" (does not offer third party application selection)
- "Take a new photo"
- "Import from..." (allows third-party application selection)
- It's unclear how one:
- Adds a different attachment type
- Adds a photo in-line, or as an attachment
- "From your photo library" is in-line
- "Import from..." is as an attachment
- This may be Android related but ProtonMail was the system that changed most recently for me.
- I used to be able to upload attachments using a third-party file picker (stock android file selection is not great); the latest version doesn't seem to offer third-party applications as a choice.
- There is a newer Category view feature to roll out (or is in progress now) on mobile devices. Something had triggered this feature on my device without my consent (I assumed they were going through e-mails and adding categories based on content or sender or subject or something). An update was required to fix this. They said "Kindly note that you just got an early glimpse of what’s coming for a future update.".
In the desktop/web client:
- Their original link to e-mail login (which I had bookmarked) was then turned into a General Proton login (https://account.proton.me/login, now https://account.proton.me/mail)
- Meaning each time you'd have to log in then select e-mail (basically advertising their other products).
- I ended up asking them for a corrected link (https://mail.proton.me/login)
- In the web client: Fonts are inconsistent, and can change and adjust on you when typing, or when opening drafts. I had it consistently failing this way in Firefox and Chromium browsers; Tor works better but this is not a preferred solution.
Comment · 2 months ago
I use user.js to harden the browser settings but this is local to the user's account. It's good that someone is describing using policies.
I ended up a bunch of trial and error while looking at copies of the prefs.js file in the browser profile folder to determine what settings correlate to settings in the browser, when I couldn't search for the feature.
Comment · 3 months ago
Looks like about 30 MiB with a quick test.
Comment · 5 months ago
Dave Jones also did some videos on the LMV321 used in his uCurrent Gold project. The AS5X variant caused issues while others worked fine.
Looking now, a document source suggests the AS5X variant in the parts list... but it's explained in the video around 19:30
Comment · 6 months ago
Looks like the vendor has the option to disable Link:
https://support.stripe.com/questions/how-to-turn-off-link
Comment · 6 months ago
Neat, but Ruffle failed to load the first game I tried, with reasoning that there is possibly no file to load.
And then I was blocked by Cloudflare, even though there were no Cloudflare scripts to enable (checking in an alternate browser).
edit: It looks like uBlock origin sees the cloudflare scripts, but NoScript does not (and did not display 3 scripts) initially. I'll have to try again later.
Call/contact senators is my next step, because the Senators are the next-to-last step for this bill.