So what browsers will be left if Firefox kills ad blockers. This seems to be happening to all the major browsers.
Brave has decent ad-blocking but has a shady history ...
Readit Newsletmetweakit commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3
letmetweakit commented on The Tor Project is switching to Rust itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
If Rust helps with their pains and they like Rust this seems very sensible.
That's exactly why we have different languages and tools, because they adapt differently to different projects, teams and problems.
But as soon as you get into the silly "tool X is better period" arguments, then all the nuance of choosing the right tool for the job is lost.
Why do you even bring this up, the blog post does not contain this message, they rewrote it to eliminate a class of bugs. They don’t bash C, so refrain yourself from mentioning what hypothetically could have been written…
What changed my mind to be in favor of TLS inspection at work environments was seeing what kind of highly confidential stuff employees might be copy-pasting to random websites, LLM assistants, cloud-based "desktop applications" and such against the approved use policies of each of these tools without giving it a second thought.
TLS inspection products can intercept the paste transaction before the data leaves the company network, hitting the user with a "No you didn't! Shame on you!"-banner and notify the admins how a user just tried to paste hundreds of customers' personal information and credit card details into some snooping website, or into otherwise allowed LLM chat which still is not allowed to be used with confidential information.
There can even be automations to lock the user/device out immediately if something like this is going on, be it the user or some undetected malware in the user's device attempting the intercepted action. Being able to do these kinds of very specifically targeted interceptions can prevent potentially huge disasters from happening while still allowing users more freedom in taking advantage of the huge variety of productivity tools available these days. No need to choose between completely blocking all previously unseen tools or living in fear of disastrous leaks when there are fine-grained possibilities to control what kind of information can be fed to the tools and from where.
There are plenty of organizations out there where it is completely justified to enforce such limitations and monitoring in company devices. Policies can forbid personal use entirely where it is deemed necessary and legal to do so. Of course the policies and the associated enforced monitoring needs to be clearly communicated and there needs to be carefully curated configurations to control where and how TLS is or isn't intercepted so employee privacy laws and regulations aren't breached either.
> TLS inspection products can intercept the paste transaction before the data leaves the company network, hitting the user with a "No you didn't! Shame on you!"-banner and notify the admins how a user just tried to paste hundreds of customers' personal information and credit card details into some snooping website, or into otherwise allowed LLM chat which still is not allowed to be used with confidential information."
Are there tools that do this reliably today without a whole bunch of false positives?
How do you find your typical daily battery life with it always on?
I’ve tried this in the past and had to revert as I found it made a noticeable difference in my day-to-day.
Curious to hear the experience of others.
I have the impression tailscale drains my battery on macOS and iOS, only turn it on when truly needed.
letmetweakit commented on Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know kroah.com/log/blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/voxadam
shameless self promotion: I just launched a website [1] that tracks CVEs per kernel version since 2.6.12, it makes use of the tools that Greg KH will probably talk about in his next blog posts.
letmetweakit commented on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? · Posted by u/ferguess_k
Macbook and ssh into Linux workstation.
Can I hop in here and ask: As someone who hasn't done any systems programming in a decade, what would be more interesting to learn on the side, Zig or Rust? I've been in the Python world and seeing tools like uv and ruff, makes me biased towards Rust but Zig seems to be attracting a lot of hype recently?
Edit: Thank you all for your responses!
I’d choose Rust because of the better safety guarantees and nice tooling.
letmetweakit commented on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months pcpartpicker.com/trends/p... · Posted by u/zekrioca
> The big dram houses aren’t increasing capacity, due to the risks you mention.
Except they are
> SK hynix to boost DRAM production by a huge 8x in 2026, still won't be enough for RAM shortages
> It's also not just SK hynix that is boosting DRAM production capacity, with both Samsung and Micron rapidly increasing their respective DRAM production numbers.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/109011/sk-hynix-to-boost-dram...
Is this new capacity or will some kind of other chip type suffer?
letmetweakit commented on Understanding ECDSA avidthinker.github.io/202... · Posted by u/avidthinker
They're just spooky names for simple concepts - and the article defines them on first use. If abstract algebra were a requirement, they'd skip these definitions.
Paraphrasing 'Group' from the article to see if I've understood it:
A set of elements G, and some operation ⊕, where
(g1 ⊕ g2) is also in G. // "Type-safety"
Some g0 exists such that (gn ⊕ g0) == (g0 ⊕ gn) == gn // "Zero"
For every g, there's some inverse gi such that (g ⊕ gi) == (gi ⊕ g) == g0 // "Cancelling-out"
a ⊕ (b ⊕ c) == (a ⊕ b) ⊕ c // "Associative"
If (a ⊕ b) == (b ⊕ a) then the group is also "abelian/commutative"They're spooky names for simple concepts, with extremely deep consequences and hard theory, don't be fooled.