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> I’d rather go into a real shop anyway

You’re assuming that scams don’t make their way into regular distributors as they try to cut corners and maintain competitiveness.

You already see established brands lower the quality of their products after the first round of reviews online. If found out, they just blame manufacturing. Sorry.

You vastly overestimate the possibility that this news makes it into the mind of fliers and that they actually understand the consequences.

Government says it’s ok, so it must be ok. That’s all people think.

Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:11AM (#37032117)
That’s what you get when you fire the last actual mappers and just leave developers to keep it running. Google thrives on data quantity, not on quality.
More constructive comments please. What does this mean?
If you don’t have a spoon you probably should get one. I don’t think you can cook without at least 1 utensil, unless you want to stir with your fingers.
Fried rice (literally “nasi goreng”) is common across east Asia and varies by local taste. I agree it’s easy to make, I just add whatever sauce, veggies and meat I have and it’s great every time.

Speaking of nasi goreng, the one from the Aceh region of Indonesia is my favorite.

Re:Just Normal Web Things on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:45PM (#37017394)
Article mode isn't perfect and not compatible with non-articles. Markdown forces content to be just content.

> would have to be restricted not to include any html tags

The point of this would be to deliver pure content, so "any tag" would definitely not be allowed. My user agent would decide what to render and how.

This specific attack could also be easily mitigated by dictating your passwords instead.
Re:Just Normal Web Things on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:56PM (#37015758)
I really wish we could have browser “Accept: text/markdown” for raw documents, but that boat sailed the moment we got CSS.
Re:Just Normal Web Things on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:54PM (#37015731)
Finally I read my sentiment online. We don't need clicks nor pointer events, we need high-level “visit” event.
Re:Just Normal Web Things on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:51PM (#37015717)
Same boat. My blood pressure increased just reading your comment. The web is run by a bunch of amateurs who don’t know the single core concept of the web: links.
Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:09AM (#37012164)
> Which is more attractive, and by how much? What is the scale?

No scale, yet we have plenty of beauty contests, so I'd start there for an answer. Humans are regularly compared to others. We have different tastes but, socially, "beauty" is intended as an average.

Art studies could also point you in the direction of "objective beauty"

Re:Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:29AM (#37009827)
> it's not offensively bad either

In your opinion. W3fools only pulled an “it’s ok now bro, don’t sue us” update. Anytime I give it a go, I’m still presented with inaccurate and harmfully incomplete results.

Want to learn from a “for dummies” website? Be my guest. But my hate is fully justified.

Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny on Friday August 04, 2023 @01:18PM (#37002925)
That’s why I said “good looking” and “physical attraction” rather than generically “beautiful”. No doubt people can be “beautiful in person” but still “objectively ugly”
Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:24AM (#36997060)
I don’t think many 80-year-olds are objectively good looking. It's not fair to judge the people who stay together for love and not for physical attraction past a certain age.

> that tells random strangers they are ugly

I don't go around telling people my lover's weaknesses, but that's how statistics are made.

Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team on Thursday August 03, 2023 @03:00PM (#36990208)
You’re missing the point. Just because you can “pirate it” and not have the FBI at your doorstep it doesn’t mean Apple is faultless.

Also Browserstack is still using Apple devices and you have to pay for them.

These are all unnecessary justifications for the new IE

Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:39AM (#36985061)
The difference is that Microsoft did not sell computers and did not sue anyone trying to run their OS on non-Microsoft hardware.

Safari can only be run on Apple machines manufactured by Apple.

Re:Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups on Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:45AM (#36983543)
To be fair, you’re often punished for clicking No (it takes longer, may cause a reload), so you’d need a very good reason to not click Yes.
Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team on Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:39AM (#36983497)
IE was different things to different people.

For developers, IE was the browser for which you had spend hours debugging issues. Sounds like Safari to me. Considering you have to buy a whole device to use Safari, I’d argue it’s worse than IE was.

(Sent from my Safari browser)

Re:Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:07PM (#36965070)
Dear user, No.

Unfortunately these patterns work great so they will never stop. As more dark patterns are “discovered”, we’ll see the web becoming more of a dump.

You see it every day, successful websites and socials become successful thanks to these pattern, not in spite of them.

Re:Evading JavaScript Anti-Debugging Techniques on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:48PM (#36964917)
I don’t think that works with eval code because it doesn’t have a file:0:0 address
Re:Emacs Is My New Window Manager on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:26PM (#36964708)
It’s crazy to me, after I stopped being a teenager, to spend almost any time customizing my computer to this point. I used to tweak every screw but when I started working I did the bare minimum to get by and be productive.

Shoehorning things into what they don’t want to be is something I only do behind compensation.

Re:Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:32AM (#36954109)
Happy to see neither one works on Safari. One says "no sites visited" and the other "both sites visited" even in incognito.
It mentions 2 petabytes of data per month, plus compute for a trillion requests per month. It sounds like all kinds of optimizations were made so probably it can’t be much cheaper. My guess is that the “tens of thousands” is calculated on CF Workers prices though.
Re:The way airlines are central banks on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:08PM (#36944767)
A day doesn’t go by without someone claiming a company is a bank.

Apple is a bank, Starbucks is a bank, my hospital is a bank, my cat prints money.

> What is the advantage to the customer here?

I currently have 5 eSIMs installed on my phone and I can switch at anytime without having to find/carry the SIM cards.

Also in theory if I lose my phone I can just download them again. In practice this might not be as smooth though.

If you change phone more often than you change SIM, you’re right that eSIMs provide zero advantage to you.

> it quite often can take 24-48 hours for your physical SIM to activate

In my world, I land in an airport, purchase a SIM card and it works before I leave the airport (or the operator’s desk). It’s often that way with eSIMs purchased via Airalo.

The delay could appear when your transferring your number, but even then you can still use a temporary number until the old one overrides it.

Re:The Oldest and Most Expensive Rum in the World on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:30PM (#36898138)
To be fair, all the interactions were sanitized with 40% alcohol.
Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:06AM (#36891814)
This is a “Dropbox is just a pretty rsync”-level comment
Re:Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:18AM (#36891424)
> > Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn.

> More people needs to understand this.

I sounds more like neither one of you has had that choice. Most people, given the chance, would rather add a zero to their savings rather than “doing the right thing for society”

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