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Brave Browser: Sunsetting Strict Fingerprinting Mode

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3 points·by rand_flip_bit·2 năm trước·0 comments

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rand_flip_bit
·2 năm trước·discuss
> 3 bicycles, 2 motorcycles, 3 fire hydrants, 2 traffic lights, and 1 staircase...all for ONE site verification.

That sounds more like Google's captcha system. I've never seen Cloudflare Turnstile do this on any of my systems/browsers.
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·2 năm trước·discuss
I would look into Kaleidescape if you want blu-ray quality viewing in your home with the convenience of streaming (although you have to download ahead of time). Only downside is the price and need for their proprietary player + server.
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·2 năm trước·discuss
You could already do this before the port change, you just need a USB-C to Lightning cable (which has been included in the box for a few years now). Being able to use the same cable is nice and all, but in practice I want two or more cables anyway to charge multiple devices at the same time. If one of those cables happens to have a different connector on one end it isn't the end of the world.
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·2 năm trước·discuss
> I'd suggest that the people who make "full use" of vsc-over-ssh are satisfied with vscode, so it would be unwise to target the full featureset.

Remote SSH + Dev Containers and their seamless integration (even stacking one on the other) are the only features that keep me using VS Code. I would love to see the full implementation of these in an editor as fast and light weight as Zed.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Both the git log and git bisect commands accept the --first-parent flag, which eliminates the complexities of dealing with merge commits in the history.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Amongst many other sites, I have w3schools blocked in my Kagi search results, along with MDN being raised/prioritized.

From the looks of it, it seems like blocking w3schools is quite popular among Kagi users [1].

[1]: https://kagi.com/stats
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·3 năm trước·discuss
> It's not like you paid for it.

There are individuals that pay ~$4/month for GitHub Teams, plus other services (Copilot, CI, LFS, Packages, etc). They may not have public repos, but that shouldn't matter.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
I think part of this stability stems from the upstream repos being more stable themselves (cheaper and easier than ever to run CI, quality of tools, etc). It's not often that upstream packages break their stable releases, or heck even develop/master.

It also seems like the firehose of upgrades that is Sid/Experimental has slowed down a bit. Even Sid is still on nodejs 18 and not 20 or 21. The same version as both Testing and Stable.

I feel at home at home with Debian Testing, not as bleeding edge as Arch for sure, but I think that is more of a blessing than a curse. The Debian maintainers seem to know what they are doing and the distribution has a sense or maturity that some others lack. I just hope an update won't break GRUB on me :)

Only downsides to running Debian Testing is that it doesn't get security updates with the same speed as Sid or Stable, and third parties don't exactly put together and distribute pre-built packages for Testing specifically. I understand why, but it makes me wonder if things will break due some ABI compatibility issue down the line. Maybe once Debian 13 is released I'll just stick to stable.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
I just tried Brave on the desktop with a few videos and didn't see any pop-ups, seems business as normal to me. Are you running an up to date version?
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·3 năm trước·discuss
> But nothing about upscaling, nor frame generation, sounds like something that requires game engine support to me. The graphics card should have enough info to do that by having all the pixels.

Modern upscaling solutions (eg TAA) require not just the pixel outputs but various inter-frame/metadata such as depth, normals, motion vectors, last frame, etc. DLSS is more or less just the spiritual successor to TAA with machine learning sprinkled in. Integration with the game engine is needed because the non-color metadata needs to be provided to the DLSS and how each engine computes those things is a bit different.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Just to reiterate on this point: Pretty much every Vulkan game on Windows forgoes using Vulkan Swapchains in favor of presenting from compute and using native DXGI Swapchains. If you are shipping a production quality game or application, you really want to use the platforms native APIs to get the full capabilities.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Privacy.com allows you to use completely made up billing information - transactions won't get rejected if the name/address is a mismatch. You can just feed a fake name and address into each site, even if they wanted to, how would they identify you? Of course, this likely works best if you use an email aliasing service that hides your real email completely, and a VPN to obscure your physical IP address.
rand_flip_bit
·3 năm trước·discuss
Looks like you missed the point.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
As another commenter pointed out, this is obsolete C, however: this is just not how modern compilers work. at all. Compilation is performed in phases, you have syntax analysis, semantic analysis, and then optimization and codegen. It’s trivial for a compiler to handle this code, heck C++ compilers (which your C compiler is under the hood) already do this for struct/classes (allowing member functions to be called before being declared). Pretty much every other language supports this too, but universally and not just in classes. We’ve come a long way since the 60’s.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Kagi already does this, performing the same search multiple time’s doesn’t count against you (from my testing), so they must be caching, or your browser does, not sure.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Using an adblock isn’t enough as the ads are embedded into the results, and very subtlety called out. If your query even remotely resembles something related to shopping (in the eyes of Google) you will get spammed with localized ads.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
This is such a bad take
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·3 năm trước·discuss
I mean yeah, credit where credit is due Kagi lets you turn all these things off and customize how results are produced and displayed like no other.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
100% the data you input to the ChatGPT 4 prompt window is being used to train ChatGPT 5, there is a reason a lot of companies are placing bans on it and telling employees to never enter sensitive data.

I sincerely hope that LLMs won’t play a role in search, I don’t need a search engine trying to infer what I “meant” to type, Google and DDG started doing that and pushed me to Kagi as a result. Just take the words I type verbatim and search them in your index, don’t assume this is my first time using the internet.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Ughh, please don’t. The last thing I want in my search engine is AI, especially for a “privacy focused” one like Kagi. Paying to have all my search queries get routed through ChatGPT (and effectively used as training data) is absolutely not what I want. I suspect it’s too late though, Kagi has already drank the AI koolaid.