Update (): It’s been eight years since I ran into this problem. Yesterday, Ars Technica published an article that finally answered what happen to me all those years ago. At the time I ran into this issue, Microsoft was testing a then-new-and-still-obscure Windows feature called Secure Time Seeding (STS). STS …
Update (): The Webmention.app service has been discontinued. There is currently no other good free alternatives.
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Update (): Coil has discontinued its automatic browser-based monthly micro-payment subscription service. I have no doubt its poor transparency regarding where your money went contributed to the service’s demise.
Update (): Both Coil and Flattr has discontinued their automatic browser-based monthly micro-payment subscription services.
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Update (): An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that OpenZFS and ZFS supported reflink internally, but didn’t expose any syscalls for it. These file systems do not support reflinks. Thanks to Richard Yao of the OpenZFS project for the correction.
Update (): Added the new XDG_STATE_HOME directory as introduced in the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.8.
Update (): Updated with a statement from TeamViewer. The company has decided to remove the font in a future release.
Update (): The Font Enumeration API, newly added to Chromium browsers (like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) has reintroduced font fingerprinting. However, the new API requires a per-domain permission prompt, so it’s not as leaky as the old Flash Player based method.
Update (): Added details for detecting the new Firefox Translations (Bergamot) extension.
Update (): I just learned that WebPositive, the web browser in Haiku OS, stopped announcing support for Deflate in August 2014. It’ll still attempt to decode Deflate responses, however. It’s the first (and only) web browser to drop Deflate.
