Ironic because it constantly screws up escaping on macOS. I have a feeling when it says Bash it’s actually using zsh (default on modern macOS) and it doesn’t even realize it.
My area in Los Angeles used to have several rail lines nearby along with pedestrian tunnels (called “sub-ways” at the time) all over the place. I like looking at old photos from those times and marvel at how much more pedestrian friendly it all used to be.
This drives me crazy living in the Los Angeles area too, but I’ve discovered it comes from Mexico. For example, Taquería “Los Hermanos” would be a taquería (taco shop) called The Brothers.
Honestly it doesn’t bother me so much while traveling in Mexico and seeing it in Spanish but it definitely looks totally wrong in English.
The entire point is that if it’s unique it can be considered a fingerprint — in fact the entire reason it’s called “fingerprint” is that in theory it’s unique like a real fingerprint.
If it’s common then it’s unreliable as a fingerprint because it’s no longer unique. Therefore whether it’s unique or not is the entire point and relevant to the topic.
I imagine it’s somewhere between what both of you are saying.
I imagine “randomized” means a random common “fingerprint” (with parameters like user agent, language, etc) rather than just a unique set of randomized parameters (say, time zone in US but language set to Farsi which would be unique to an extent).
From their domain that I’ve already blocked with DNS? Or are you talking about first-party scripts calling Google (which I’ve also seen though much more rare)?
Right, that’s why I mentioned all the blocking at the DNS and browser extension level — most fingerprinting is being done by third-parties — I generally don’t see first parties fingerprinting but if they do it’s likely a website I chose to be on rather than some shady <script> from God knows where.
I’m mostly into it for the strong typing, self-documenting nature of it. In my own GraphQL APIs I’ve done a pretty great job of avoiding common pitfalls.
I’m a Ruby on Rails developer currently developing a service that’s basically ripped out of another Ruby on Rails app and the legacy data is just crazy bad — a lot of it has to do with poor validation but it’s understandably easy to get to that point in a dynamic language like Ruby if you’re not careful.
I also manage a REST JSON:API and it’s just so bulky and horrible to deal with. The tooling is barely there and it’s way overly complicated compared to GraphQL — the concept of “only query what you need” is fantastic.
I’ve studied Spanish (I’m basically fluent), a bit of Japanese on my own in high school along with a bunch of random false starts in other languages like German (and a stint learning Esperanto).
It wasn’t until my 30’s when I started learning Mandarin that my brain was like “holy shit, this is different!”
I tend to prefer Asian languages because they make more sense to me — all the conjugating and irregularities in European languages just make me crazy.
My thinking is that most of the fingerprinting is happening by third parties, and where it’s the website operators themselves I’m not super concerned about being fingerprinted.
I’ve been blocking Facebook for years but I have to say as a developer I’m absolutely in love with GraphQL. I really can’t stand having to continue development on REST APIs (though I’m equally obsessed with Conditional GET Requests as of late).
I’m pretty sure the meme is a joke.