Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden

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  • go

    The Go programming language

  • Google's fingers are going deeper than just "web standards." Filippo Valsorda, the Go lead for security, was one of the authors of TLS 1.3.

    He has refused to allow for configuration of TLS 1.3 ciphers in Go: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29349

    Thanks to this decision: if a particular cipher is found to be weak or vulnerable, people using Go won't be able to immediately disable it. Instead, they'll be forced to wait for a release or patch, and possibly have to backport it to the version they're running in production.

    Another scenario, as pointed out in that ticket: sometimes other vendors don't properly implement ciphers on their end, and there's an incompatibility. Prior to TLS 1.3, one could just disable that particular cipher, perhaps even just for a particular connecting client.

    His response was, paraphrasing: "TLS 1.3 is amazing and awesome and will not have the same problems prior TLS versions had. It needs to Just Work, if there's a security issue we'll issue a patch, and if you can't apply it in a timely fashion you're incompetent." He seems unaware that not everyone uses Google's "just roll it out to a few hundred nodes and keep an eye on them" approach to SRE, or that major organizations don't have time to wait for a patch - they need a quick switch flip until the patch is out and can pass their normal validation before moving to production.

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    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Quantum-Nox-Firefox-Dark-Full-Theme

    Discontinued A customizable full dark theme for Firefox. You can also add extra functions using the CSS and JS files here apart from the theme.

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  • Check out an even better option (in my opinion): multi-row tabs

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    Iceraven Browser

  • yeah right, I use iceraven which has a lot of extensions than firefox, including i dont care about cookies, check it in fdroid...https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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