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New comment by jurf in "The Website Specification"

jurf — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:56:13 +0000

I always assumed it was because of SSO redirects

New comment by jurf in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

jurf — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:28:18 +0000

I think it’s more about layers of defense being always better than relying on a single point of failure.

IIRC those bugs could only steal data, not do remote execution. If you did not store even the encrypted passwords in memory, getting the password/key to them compromised would still keep you safe, or at least upgrade it to a timing attack.

New comment by jurf in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

jurf — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:03:03 +0000

I wonder if this show is the ”Connections” in “Technology Connections” [1]. I can’t find a reference on it but I wouldn’t be surprised.

[1] https://youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections

New comment by jurf in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

jurf — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:03:25 +0000

Yeah because Meltdown and Spectre [0] weren't a thing.

[0] https://spectreattack.com/

Google blocks sitemaps served from github.io

jurf — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:43:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/149884

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893483

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

KineStop: Car Sickness Aid

jurf — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:28:31 +0000

Article URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.kinestop&hl=en_US

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572569

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jurf in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

jurf — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:54:14 +0000

That seems like it would be hard to see, even for the person sitting right in front of it.

New comment by jurf in "Defer available in gcc and clang"

jurf — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:49:32 +0000

My university also taught best practices alongside that, everytime. I am very grateful for that.

New comment by jurf in "1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico"

jurf — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:55:14 +0000

I get a choice, at least in the EU. Admittedly you need to scroll down a bit on mobile, which is not clear at first.

New comment by jurf in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

jurf — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:13:37 +0000

Finally. It was the reason I was always reluctant to buy something from GOG.

New comment by jurf in "ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering"

jurf — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:51:57 +0000

This at the same time super cool and really disappointing, as I've been carrying around this idea in my head for maybe ten years as a cool side project and never got around to implementing it.

However, there might still be room for competition, heh. I always wanted to do this on the _entirety_ of Unicode to try getting the most possible resolution out of the image.