balajics's comments

On: Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted

[balajics]

!The data not being in a "~/.app/app.dat" file, etc.

It is possible to do this now in chromium based browsers. Refer https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file...

On: How Firefox Got Fast Again

[balajics]

Though not a adblocker, Privacy Badger[0] works well as adblocker for me

[0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

On: How Firefox Got Fast Again

[balajics]

Using 57 for few days, speed improvements are impressive.

But two things which is going to stop me from complete switch.

1. There is no native websocket inspector. websocket-monitor[0] add-on which supported websocket inspection is not compatible with quantum. Really wish they speed up native support development[1]

2. Double tap zoom really makes it easy to find UI issues. Really wish it get implemented in firefox too.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/websocket-mon...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508

[edit] corrected link

On: How Firefox Got Fast Again

[balajics]

Using 57 for few days, speed improvements are impressive.

But two things which is going to stop me from complete switch. 1. There is no native websocket inspector. websocket-monitor[0] add-on which supported websocket inspection is not compatible with quantum. Really wish they speed up native support development[1] 2. Double tap zoom really makes it easy to find UI issues. Really wish it get implemented in firefox too.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/websocket-mon... [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508

On: KeePassXC 2.2.0 released with YubiKey and TOTP support

[balajics]

For 1) Download favicon option is there inside "icon" menu of a keepass entry. https://keepassxc.org/images/screenshots/macos/screen_003.pn...

I wish there was a way to download and associate favicon of all entries in one-click.

On: A change to the sell-by dates on food

[balajics]

I have read that water bottle contains expiry date, it is not for the water but to the plastic bottle which will start leaching chemicals after the expiry. I guess it is the same case here.

On: KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX

[balajics]

Is there any enhancements in UI? I dont find any screenshot posted in the repo

[arviewer → balajics]

I don't see a difference. But this is just a starting point I guess.

On: A Prettier JavaScript Formatter

[balajics]

How is it different from jsbeautifier[1] other than enforcing its own style rules? [1] https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify

[Noseshine → balajics]

Looking at both github repos, jsbeautifier looks more complicated (as a project), and I don't think it uses the AST or at least I did not see anything that looked like it would create one. Looking at some of the code I saw `string.replace(...)` so it seems to be string-manipulation. It also is for HTML and CSS too it seems, while the project discussed here is just JS, so more targeted, and the approach to go through the AST seems intriguing to me.

PS: This seems to be the code for the JS beautifier in jsbeautifier: https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify/blob/master/js/l...

On: TcpKali – Fast multi-core TCP and WebSockets load generator

[balajics]

Surprised to see the name and image in the site. If you're wondering about the name and the image there, "Kali" is the Hindu goddess and the image depicts her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali

[fosco → balajics]

Yes, I initially thought this was a part of the pen-testing linux distribution[0] also named Kali.

[0] https://www.kali.org/

[tyfon → fosco]

My association with this name is the IPX over Internet app that was around in the 90s to play things like Doom over the internet. Strange :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_%28software%29

On: The Web Authentication Arms Race – A Tale of Two Security Experts

[balajics]

[offtopic] How many of you noticed that hovering on the left color band shows post list? clever UI/ bad design :/