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Looks like https://monkeytype.com/ is driven by monkeytype ;)




I never comment here but I cannot resist a typing challenge! My result: https://i.imgur.com/imWDBWR.png


nice, man! I think I can reach 156WPM, just gotta get in that focused mindset haha


Dangerously fast


Click on the leaderboard and prepare to be dismayed. 255 WPM @ 99% accuracy doesn't seem real. A cursory YouTube search shows the best typers maxing out around 210...


Very nice! I got 141 on another test I did as well, but I didn't take a pic, so it didn't happen. Another day, another day haha.


Nice


Very popular in the mechanical keyboard community


We already deployed chrome in the enterise to run our Chrome packaged app. Too bad Google EOLed packaged apps....


ServiceWorker/Progressive Web Apps is the way to go. Works in any* browser.

* Any modern and recent browser, so no Safari support, at least until summer '17.


Please explain the downvotes. Parent talked about "Chrome Packaged Apps" which are vendor-specific. Instead, I pointed to the cross-browser solution that is recommended by Google and works today.


As far as I understood, it's not using triangulation. It's using machine learning to classify wifi fingerprints.


To map the area. And then it uses signal strength to determine relative location.


No, you don't need beacons here. It works using "fingerprints" (and machine learning) of nearby APs.


Right. Bluetooth beacons are a piece of hardware you would have to buy. Basically this tries to accomplish the same thing with just software. Here there is no hardware other than the server (which is provided) and a client computer (which you probably already own).


They claim a typical accuracy of 10 square feet (< 1 square meter) which would be really really good. Even systems with beacons are not better.


Don't take my word for it, you should try it out!

It really depends on how many routers are in your area. For places in cities, there are tons and tons of routers so its very easy to get pretty good resolution. For places more remote, you might not see many routers and then you would be for more limited in your resolution.


Assuming you wanted to very precisely map a small area (50mx50m or so) to the maximum resolution possible, and you had a budget sufficient to buy and place 20 or so wifi routers, what sort of resolution could you get?

I'm looking at this for gaming applications. Don't need milimeter accuracy but +- 30cm would be good.


Well, since this turns wifi APs into beacons, it's not surprising to see comparable results.


There is an native U2F implementation for Android by yubico: https://github.com/Yubico/android-u2f-demo. Also take a look at this webinar https://www.yubico.com/2015/10/u2f-webinar-from-concept-to-i.... The client data part is what you have to send to the authenticator.


The client-side code and the standard are fairly trivial to implement — thanks to Yubico as well — but the problem lies in designing and standardising an extension to the existing mail protocols, and getting that accepted as a common feature for e-mail providers (such as Google and Microsoft) and a common feature in MTAs and MDAs.


AFAIK yes. The spec defines the high-level API you use withing the browser.


Why do you think PayPal is involved when you do a U2F login?


I was suprised that when signing in to my Goole account on my Android device with Chrome Beta, the Google Authenticator App pops up to do U2F with my YubiKey NEO via NFC. That was really seamless!

Does anybody know, if it would be possible to use this within a WebView in a native app?


I don't get it. The Google Authenticator pops up and you do U2F with that? Google Authenticator is a app for TOTP. What am I not understanding?


Apparently Google Authenticator supports OATH-TOTP which allows the yubikey to respond to challenges [0].

The yubikey page is light on details, but confirms that you can use a yubikey with Google Authenticator for U2F [1].

[0] http://binaryelysium.com/blog/2011/12/13/a-reluctant-relatio...

[1] https://www.yubico.com/applications/fido/


That is strange.

I use the 'Yubico Authenticator' (like Google Authenticator but you have to connect to the Yubikey via NFC for it to reveal your login codes) if I need OATH-TOTP, this has nothing to do with U2F.

However the docs in your second link does indicate that their is some new interoperation between Google Authenticator and U2F. It seams that they use Google Authenticator as a stopgap until browser support the system directly. Pretty strange. This in turn has nothing to do with U2F.

I can not test this stuff very well because I use a Yubikey NEO that is to old for the U2F NFC and a Yubikey 4 that has no NFC. I really hope release a Yubikey 4 with NFC soon.


I'm not sure -- I don't have an easy way to test. But if you do, https://u2fdemo.appspot.com/ is a great little demo app for finding out if u2f works.


I just tested exactly this with this sample app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webviewbro.... But it isn't working. I think the FIDO API is not implemented in the WebView right now.


Germany too.


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