> Basic stealth addresses can be implemented fairly quickly today, and could be a significant boost to practical user privacy on Ethereum. They do require some work on the wallet side to support them
So how easy is it realistically? I hope it's not going to un-ergonomic like PGP where novices are sometimes seeing to be pasting their private key into e-mails and sending things in plaintext which should have been ciphertext, or otherwise leaking info.
I imagine you have to be really careful not to mess things up here.
The 'Best viewed with Internet Explorer'[0] GIF triggers severe nostalgia.
IE was the dominant browser at the time, and these propaganda buttons just reinforced the idea that IE was the only browser you should be using. Still see the odd site saying 'Works best in Chrome' as if Chrome was the new IE.
Personally though, if your site is one of those annoying SPA (Single Page Apps) and doesn't work in Lynx[1], you're doing it wrong IMHO.
Nearly tempted to put a button on my sites saying: 'Best viewed in Lynx'.
I have a Glinet[0] router that has Tor functionality and 'torifies' your connection, so even if there's some JS 0day that executes trying to decloak me, the adversary just gets a Tor IP instead of my home connection IP.
Note: I connect to Tor from my torified Glinet router which is doing Tor-over-Tor which is considered 'dangerous'[1] but I do it anyway.
This might be overkill for most, and I'm not doing anything illegal (I mostly browse clearnet sites instead of hidden services anyways).
Revisit old notes and take action on them. Be a bit more adventurous online, try out new services, websites, tools, no-code solutions like Zapier etc
Be more active on Twitter. I know it's a strange place to hang out on now, and my timing is probably wrong, but I want to leverage it and gain some new friends and learn a thing or two.
Stop doomscrolling. I'm a news junkie, and need to stop reading so many gloomy headlines. I want to pay attention to what interests me. I will still glance at world news just to get a feel for where we're at and what's going on, but I will not binge on news like I used to.
> Neeva is 100% ad-free and never sells or shares members' data with any third party. Neeva's Free Basic membership is completely free and full-featured, allowing members to search both the web and connected personal accounts like Gmail or Dropbox (subject to certain usage limits), set news and shopping preferences, and search from multiple devices.
> To earn money, Neeva offers a Premium membership tier where some members choose to pay a monthly fee and receive best-in-class privacy-protecting tools, as well as other exclusive insider benefits.
Looks like the $$$ they get from premium subscriptions finances their 'free' offering, but as with all services with this model I am skeptical of anything 'free' since it could be powering their AI and later down the line that will be potentially abused or weaponized.
Certified ailurophile[0] here. I've found the gentle hum of purring very soothing, almost like having a hot chocolate on a cold day, or chicken soup. It's very comforting, and I'm lead to believe the specific frequency of the hum is in line with nature and The Universe itself. It has the same frequency of the Omm mantra which is apparently the frequency our bodies emit when we're in full health and homeostasis or in a meditative trance.
> Uncertainty does not mean things will get worse. It only means we know less and have less control.
People naturally loath feeling out of control. Sometimes control is an illusion, other times it has a solid foundation and is not a mirage. The trick is to recognize real control and see some value in that. We cod ourselves when control is an illusion.
Every computer science problem eventually ends with The Unicode Problem and its various agendas. Personally I avoid Unicode in my editor and use ASCII at all times. If I have to deal with Unicode, I escape it into the relevant ASCII equivalent and normalize things like emojis to ASCII. This avoids various headaches down the line, since Unicode is not cross-compatible across devices and having everything in ASCII is a saner way to approach that.
How much would you have to pay for Cloudfront if you, say, got multiple blogposts featured on HN's frontpage quite regularly? Presuming you're not serving that many images or other assets?
I wouldn't say it's obsolete. It still lives on, just the hype cycle has dipped to a trough. I prefer 'classless CSS' frameworks though. You just drop a CSS file into a HTML document and everything's already styled without having to write very much code or learn the 'lingo' of Bootstrap to get things done.
Stop tracking people with telemetry. You don’t need to know how many users you have. People strip FF of telemetry anyways. Look at LibreWolf and learn.
Clean up the FF addons repository. So many addons are plain malware and invading peoples privacy surreptitiously.
Get rid of Pocket. Nobody uses it and it was forced on users.
Stop piggybacking on handouts from Google. There are other ways to source revenue. Make FF donationware if you must. I would happily send you £5.00 per month if it means I and others can continue to use FF.
I use both free and non-free software all the time. I have a gaming PC with Windows and a laptop with Trisquel on it for my daily driver. Call me a hypocrite if you must but you can get the best of both worlds if you allow for that and aren’t so zealous for ‘the one true way’.
Not gonna lie, I get nights where I don’t sleep at all and my mind ‘glows’ with thoughts and the thoughts are intrusive, almost an imposter on my mind. This is a good time to write and take notes. Missing a night’s sleep is detrimental to the next day where all the things that would normally excite me are boring as hell. All I can do is exist during the day and I feel slightly drunk and can’t do anything that requires good dexterity. It’s horrible. Then I make up the sleep debt by falling asleep on that day, and the feeling of rejuvenation is tremendous and I can function. I’ve talked to my doctor about those nights where my mind ‘glows’ with activity and I was diagnosed with mild psychosis. Luckily it’s treatable with meds, so there is that.
So how easy is it realistically? I hope it's not going to un-ergonomic like PGP where novices are sometimes seeing to be pasting their private key into e-mails and sending things in plaintext which should have been ciphertext, or otherwise leaking info.
I imagine you have to be really careful not to mess things up here.