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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas / New Year Steam Game Giveaway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, thank you for such a generous offer and help making this community better.

  I’ve got quite a backlog, so I’m good on games this year - but really thank you for doing this! It’s a fantastic idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy Snap -

  That is exactly what I’ve been looking… and it would explain why I couldn’t find a plugin.

  Thank you for sharing this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … because I can’t find the tab I opened 2 days ago, so it’s faster open it again… which just creates a negative feedback loop of having too many tabs and not able to find anything.

  Case and point: I’m in IT and we use github. Some code requires reviews (which needs “more time” to complete), then often I’m looking at other 3rd party repos’ for documentation/examples/etc. Some might be useful, some are related to my current problem. Oh, I get a ping - I need to finish that PR review: “which tab is it? They ALL say github!” … and I’m too impatient to hover over them. So, it’s faster to just type the URL in and go.

  I loved browser plugin, Vimperator. It was fantastic, I could (at anytime) type “:b <pattern>” and it would search through my open tabs. But I’ve tried a bunch of the “successor”, but universally they seem to get “stuck” when it comes to inputting text - either into text fields (like on a normal email form) or as input into the browser extension.

  Recently, I found an extension that would group tabs based on your rules (so, I could separate the company github tabs from the OSS). It’s far from perfect… but it’s endurable.

  … but what I really wish for is a Firefox plugin that’ll allow me to type parts of the tabs domain or title and it’ll filter the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Infection | VR Games Showcase Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing!

  Based on the trailer alone… this looks like Doom VR but with a Starfleet skin.

  Couldn’t they have modeled it after No Man Sky or something where you actually need to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you think this technology would be abused?

  If the device included full audio and video surveillance - I’d totally agree. However, the device does not include video (and it would be a real hard sell to include that).

  If all parties are aware that monitoring will occur (maybe include a sign in the door), I’d argue that minors are aware of what this means.

  Perhaps, it would mean that students “finish up” faster, rather than loitering and vaping (or bullying, etc)… and if that’s the case, I guess the device has fulfilled it’s purpose.

  The article did mention how a hacked device could be used to “play sounds” or trigger false calls for “help”, or gunshots. But I’d argue this would be the modern day equivalent of falsely pulling the fire alarm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An interesting article and tbh, I’d actually support the device (… and I’m usually very privacy focused).

  According to the article the purpose of the microphone is to listen for certain keywords (ie: “help”, “call 911”, gunshots, etc) and to detect when people are vaping, etc.

  I mean, I would never install one in my home, due to privacy and security concerns. But if you’re in a public place, like a school such features make sense.

  If you’re being bullied or need help, having a facility member “hanging out” in the schools public bathroom would be weird, creepy, and more of an invasion of privacy than a mic in a smoke detector.

  That said, students and facility should be aware of what this device is doing and why. However, this article does a very good job of summarizing that.

  Yes, the devices security is rubbish, but was patched. It’s not the first IoT device to do that and it won’t be the last (unfortunately).

  Thanks for sharing the article OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was another thread (which I cannot find atm), which said that the author cannot make an Android port, because due to the nature of android (or Google?) the android app would not get the same level of privacy as in the iOS version.