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Comment Re:Say after me (Score 1) 19

Firefox also uses the Chrome extension API. Not that it matters, as Linkedin just checks the content injected into the site:

Here’s why: some extensions have static resources (images, JavaScript) available to inject into our web pages. We can detect the presence of these extensions by checking if that static resource URL exists,

The only way to defend against this is to disable scripts entirely.

Comment Less Windows users (Score 1) 49

Part of the jump at least appears to be explained by Valve correcting again the Steam China numbers. Month over month they report a 31.85% drop to the Simplified Chinese language use and English use increasing by 16.82% to 39.09%. Other languages also showed gains amid the massive decline in Simplified Chinese use.

The fact that there is a massive drop in Chinese users seems to imply that it's not that there are more Linux users on Steam, but that the number of people using Windows has decreased.

Comment Evil bit (Score 1) 193

Maybe the evil bit wasn't such a bad idea. How about instead of unreliable and privacy invading age checks, put an extra field in TCP so that websites can signal that they have adult content and the user can then decide to block them at the router or OS level. That would still leak some information that SSL normally wouldn't, but not much.

Comment 100% solar (Score 1) 151

According to researchers from Ember, solar could be responsible for as much as 10% of Cuba's electricity generation.

The way things are going, solar will soon be responsible for 100% of Cuba's electricity generation. Easy to do when all other power plants stop working. The question is, what percentage of energy demand will solar be able to satisfy, and at what cost.

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