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Shameless plug: I built Cactus Comments (https://cactus.chat/).

It's an open-source comment system federated on the Matrix (https://matrix.org/) network. This means you can use your Matrix identity to comment on any site that uses Cactus, without the tracking of something like disqus. Works well with static site generators too.

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In my opinion, XSS is not a security issue autofill should deal with at all.

The real issue is if attackers can trick the autofill to fill in a password for a different site. I did a pentest for a password manager a few years ago, and if I remember correctly this type of exploit had been successful against multiple of the big password managers.

Comment · 5 years ago
Hi, I am one of the authors of Cactus Comments.

Making Cactus Comments work without javascript would require a backend server. Right now, the frontend is actually just a special-purpose Matrix client that interacts directly with Matrix homeservers.

Comment · 5 years ago
You don't, you have to trust it just like any other Matrix client. Hopefully there will be OAuth or something similar in the Matrix spec in the future, so you can use less trusted clients. If you want to comment with your user, but don't trust the client, you can use any Matrix client with Cactus Comments by clicking "Use a Matrix client" :-)
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Comment · 8 years ago
In Python `=` is not just a binary operator. Python is evaluated left-to-right (but not on assignment).
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Also, I have not figured out a good way to test `manly` yet, but maybe someone creative here has an idea?
Comment · 8 years ago
Hi everyone. For the last ~6 months I've been using this script I made to quickly find out what some flags do for a program. Saves me about 10 seconds every week :)

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