Daniel Aleksandersen

Why is the UK government going after individual apps with its request for access to messages? Not to give anyone ideas, but it should pursue the various software keyboard app vendors instead. These apps are in a position to capture everything you type into any app. #TotalSurveillance #Privacy #UKGov #InvestigatoryPowersAct #SnoopersCharter Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-02-14

Anyone else seeing lots of delivery errors in @signalapp today? Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-02-14

Reading bug reports from our users sometimes be like … Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-02-14

I don’t normally share unfinished work on #VivaldiBrowser but I desperately wanted to share this little improvement … . Unblurred favicons on fractional scaling resolutions! 🥳 Coming soon to our favorite #smallTech browser. Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-01-29

Every couple of years, I’m reminded of the usefulness of the GNU Time project’s time command. It’s a distinct program, unlike the shell’s built-in time function. It measures a process’ run-time and also peak memory usage, interrupts, and more. https://www.gnu.org/software/time/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2025-01-15

Every couple of years, I’m reminded of the usefulness of the GNU Time project’s time command. It’s a distinct program, unlike the shell’s built-in time function. It measures a process’ run-time and also peak memory usage, interrupts, and more. https://www.gnu.org/software/time/ Posted on Bluesky on 2025-01-15

Minor update (6) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 6.8

This update includes a security fix from Chromium upstream to resolve “CVE-2024-7965: Heap Corruption in V8”.

Autofill Settings – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3405.3

You can now manage your saved autofill credit cards and addresses in Settings: Privacy.

‘Do-Not-Track’ privacy setting gets legal backing in Germany

Legislators are finally paying attention to concerns about how our digital data is tracked, collected, and stored. Find out what this game-changing ruling means and how it could affect us.

Sync privacy incident affecting our Snapshot test users

A privacy incident affected our Snapshot test users in versions 6.4.3160.25 through 6.4.3160.30 for desktop.

Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

Microsoft announces vague changes to the default web browser setting for Windows Insider. Nothing but wishful thinking. Still force-opens web links in Edge.

The trouble with decommissioning a used FIDO security key

You can’t throw out your worn-out USB security keys when you can’t recall what locks they’re for. Physical security tokens come with their own problems.