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@MrNarrow look at the way links are done on this page - https://practicaltypography.com/the-cowardice-of-brave.html
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The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/
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This feels like an extremely silly question to ask, but how do you achieve links that those of :
(aka a small circle after the link)
https://practicaltypography.com/
I much prefer it to underlining things...
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I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have.
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Wow, who could possibly have seen this coming? From a browser designed around peddling cryptocurrency? I am incredibly shocked.
RT @cryptonator1337@twitter.com
So when you are using the @brave@twitter.com browser and type in "binance[.]us" you end up getting redirected to "binance[.]us/en?ref=35089877" - I see what you did there mates 😂
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/1269201480105578496
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Currently disabling accounts of / notifying about 1,000 people who were re-using passwords and whose accounts were compromised by spammers
Please don't reuse passwords between different accounts and please use 2FA whenever it's available (not that people who need this advice the most are going to see it anyway)
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I just stumbled over the new https://keys.openpgp.org web interface, which lets you upload, verify, publish, and manage PGP keys to the directory with a nice user interface.
The first milestone of 100K verified keys was crossed in November: https://keys.openpgp.org/about/news#2019-11-12-celebrating-100k
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Day 42 of the #100DaysToOffload series:
You may recall from my Plank article that I have several browsers on installed. One of them is NOT Brave. This is why.
George Floyd shouldn't have been killed. It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. Now people are taking to the streets and rioting, let's talk about that.
https://write.privacytools.io/freddy/out-of-protest
This is the longest article that I have written for something outside of work. It's because this situation is so strange and I wanted to condense my thoughts into a post. I've donated $10 to the ACLU and encourage you to do so if possible.
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Docker and Electron are the most hyped new technologies of the last five years. Both are not about improving things, figuring out complexity or reducing it. Both are just compromised attempts to hide accumulated complexity from developers because it became impossible to deal with.
This is exactly why I hate using Docker.
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