I have been using https://mynoise.net/ to focus during my work.

I use it all the time, my favourite is the white rain: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteRainNoiseGenerator.ph...

You can configure it and even calibrate it to your headphones.

I contributed $, which gets me access to the "make your own" feature where you can combine their collection of stems any way you like. Now I have the problem where I can easily spend an hour playing with MyNoise to make the best mix for the work I should be doing.

On a lighter note and for humor read webshit weekly at http://n-gate.com/

Looking at your profile saying you're a "fifteen-year-old homeschooler", this seems similar to a school project. Can you provide more context behind the motivation and process for the project? Technologies used? How you learned them? What difficulties you faced?

Each programming language is suitable for solving certain type of problems. So when I see a catch-all statement like "All Programming Languages are Wrong", it seems to me the author is implying that "None of the programming languages solve my (or this specific type of) problem."

> It does not reflect the realities of modern hardware, where computation is almost free, memory size is almost unlimited ...

Well, no, this certainly doesn't apply to all problems!

> ... because they seem to be in love with the idea of "object" or "abstract data type." ...

Again, there are many different paradigms of programming, OOP being one of them with its own pros and cons.

I believe its mainly inertia and "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality.

> Avast was collecting the browsing data of its customers who had installed the company's browser plugin, which is designed to warn users of suspicious websites.

I have never really felt the need of antivirus plugins. Firefox's built in features (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...) has always been good enough in my experience.

And you can also help flagging those pages or malicious files by either submitting a phishing report[1] or uploading a potentially malicious file[2]

[1]: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?t...

[2]: https://www.virustotal.com/

I doubt anyone's installing the Avast chrome extension voluntarily. It's mostly just people forgetting to uncheck a box when installing some software.

No, Chrome and Firefox nowadays don’t allow extensions to be automatically installed and enabled. Any extensions running were specifically enabled by the user at some point.

I know this because I helped someone install McAfee antivirus a few days ago. Both Chrome and Firefox showed a small, non-modal popover on the next launch saying that an extension had tried to install itself. The popover contained two buttons, one for enabling the extension and one for keeping it disabled (Chrome) or uninstalling it (Firefox). If you never clicked inside the popover (as many alert-blind users might do), the extension would stay disabled.

Try opening with javascript disabled.

Discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823701

LGPL: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/master/LICENSE

Link to actual article: https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3003691/develope...