On Whatsapp web you can now log in with your phone number via a 2fac text, no camera required.

That's good to know, but you still need a smartphone to handle the connection. Having a dumb phone wouldn't work, if I properly understand how this works.

Just checked his LinkedIn and yes, literally lol

Oh wow, I didn’t even snoop, just a guess.

As a self taught programmer who never got farther than algebra, this looks awesome to me and I may be that small target audience haha.

What happened in the last 6mo to change your mind?

probably the explosion of GPT and all things AI related, esp. their influence on online activities

If it becomes this easy to block traffic couldn't malicious applications really mess up a user by spamming out reject packets for common IP?

I think it would have to be something like "Block traffic from <offending IP> intended for <my IP>. <TTL>. <Cryptographic signature verifying that I control my IP>."

The intermediate routers can send back a confirmation code, and you must send a new reject packet with this code to confirm the ban.

Not sure how new this is but very cool that users can host a node simply by toggling an iframe or installing a browser extension. I wonder if these methods have much lower bandwidth limitations than the CLI version

Not OP but I also attended a part time Lambda School cohort around 5 years ago and the YC association was huge for me.

Have you checked out Vivaldi? Incredibly customizable UI over Chromium, if you do make the switch from FF.

I like Vivaldi and was seriously considering a switch away from Chrome as I'm a past Opera fan ... but it's still "just another" Chromium-based browser likely to be affected by the upcoming Manifest v3 changes that will limit adblocking browser extensions.

I'm running more and more with Firefox these days and trialing AdGuard Home, Blocky, Technitium in parallel in anticipation of having to recommend solutions to friends and family if the Chrome-o'verse dissolves into a ad strewn zombie landscape post full Mv3 rollout.

( okay, a little over dramatic there )

both Vivaldi and Brave claim to keep supporting MV2 extensions

Good to know, I'll keep an eye on that.

As someone in the " ~60, programming since 12, former usenet pre WWW " bracket I'm troubled(?) | perturbed by the convergance toward an all Chromium browser engine aspects here, Mv3 is but a single example of what can occur when there's a borg dominated domain.

I think about creating this project every time I'm on a Delta flight, great to see someone actually did it.