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lol768 commented on Consent-O-Matic   github.com/cavi-au/Consen... · Posted by u/throawayonthe
benjojo12 · a month ago
I think in the last 12 months of using that unlock list I've only counted less than five times where sites have broken with that list enabled, I don't have to even disable the entire list. You just disable u-block for that specific site
lol768 · a month ago
I've found it to happen much more frequently than that, unfortunately. Usually it's because the modal is two DOM elements - a backdrop, that fades out the rest of the content and sits on top of it/prevents interaction; and the actual consent modal. Websites then use various mechanisms to prevent scrolling. uBlock is often only removing the actual dialog, so you end up with a page you can't scroll up or down and can't interact with.

If you're going to turn the filters on, it's worth being aware of this because it's far from flawless.

lol768 commented on GitHub Incident   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/aggrrrh
bakje · a month ago
Perhaps the gemini-cli bot arguing with itself is taking its toll

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

lol768 · a month ago
Jeez, what a mess. Some of those issues have over 5000 events on them.

I really hope that didn't send emails out to people.

lol768 commented on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline   arstechnica.com/cars/2026... · Posted by u/rbanffy
runeblaze · a month ago
I think radioactive is a strong word here… I have talked to a lot of people in tech
lol768 · a month ago
I don't. YouGov's data suggests 77% of the UK populace has a negative view of the brand. Musk has destroyed its credibility.
lol768 commented on Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics   github.com/tixl3d/tixl... · Posted by u/nateb2022
lol768 · a month ago
This looks very cool, some immediate thoughts though:

- "TiXL is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics" - pedantry, but software is an uncountable noun. You cannot have a software.

- It wasn't immediately clear to me from the homepage that it's Windows-only. Appreciate it appears to behave under WINE, but it'd be good to make clearer.

lol768 commented on HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden   mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@... · Posted by u/_____k
worble · a month ago
They've all started cracking down, in the past year the Barclays and Lloyds app have broken on my phone.

TSB still works for now, but even for a bank they're technologically incompetent so I'm going to just assume they're behind the curve rather than willingly not using SafetyNet.

The only one I would bank on still working in the future is Monzo, since, like you say, they detect it and just give you scary warning and let you continue.

lol768 · a month ago
Barclays have always played silly games with this stuff, they used to fund a whole team whose job it was to waste time on security theatre (this was nearly ten years ago).
lol768 commented on HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden   mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@... · Posted by u/_____k
lol768 · a month ago
Plenty of UK banks that don't require this, and whose apps will also work on a rooted device. Monzo will display a warning that sets out the fact there's an increased risk, and then lets you be an adult and choose to continue to use the app if that's what you want to do.

The best part is that the Current Account Switching Service makes it very easy to make the jump from a legacy bank like HSBC.

lol768 commented on Libpng 1.6.51: Four buffer overflow vulnerabilities fixed   openwall.com/lists/oss-se... · Posted by u/ledoge
kevincox · 3 months ago
> All vulnerabilities require user interaction (processing a malicious PNG file)

What world is the author living in where PNGs aren't very frequently read and written with no user interaction. The web obviously displays PNGs with no prompt, sites can generate PNGs with canvas trivially and with no explicit permission. PNGs are also often displayed in notifications and may come from untrustworthy sources.

This feels like an irresponsible downplay of the severity.

lol768 · 3 months ago
I thought this initially too, but there's a comment on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2001758#c5 that suggests a belief it doesn't affect Firefox at all. So I don't know if the surface for these is particularly obscure such that browsers are insulated?
lol768 commented on Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths   futurefonts.com/hex/shop-... · Posted by u/tobr
thelogicguy · 3 months ago
This is consistent with photo licensing, which is often scaled based on the potential number of viewers for both print and digital.
lol768 · 3 months ago
> This is consistent with photo licensing

On the contrary, I would say this is increasingly unusual nowadays. There are print restrictions on e.g. iStock content, but there's no attempt to "ration" the number of visitors that see a stock photo at a specific price point.

It's something that's generally put me off from licensing paid fonts - despite the work that has gone into them, because you're almost signing a blank cheque and it's not easy to know how many visitors are scraping content for LLMs.

lol768 commented on Europe's cookie nightmare is crumbling. EC wants preference at browser level   theverge.com/news/823788/... · Posted by u/nopakos
thrance · 3 months ago
In the meantime, if you're browsing the web with uBlock Origin, you should definitely enable cookie list filters in Dashboard > Filter lists > Cookie Notices. Haven't seen a banner in ages.
lol768 · 3 months ago
This occasionally causes breakage though; because many cookie notices open up modal dialogs and disable scrolling.
lol768 commented on GitHub: Git operation failures   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp
lol768 · 3 months ago
> We are seeing failures for some git http operations and are investigating

It's not just HTTPS, I can't push via SSH either.

I'm not convinced it's just "some" operations either; every single one I've tried fails.

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