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Discord moved from discordapp.com to discord.com
Yeah I do torrent sometimes (if the streaming sites have too low bitrate) but mostly I just use whatever FMHY links to.
Last time I installed Debian it gave me a list of DEs and I could pick as many as I wanted to, no default. Did something change?
IIRC Thunderbird is a separate project now, not part of Mozilla, no?
Chrome did it first, and (at least on Windows) the system print dialog sucks anyway.
Re:See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS on Friday May 12, 2023 @05:43AM (#35913973)
Most text formats are easier to parse but in incorrect ways.
Re:So this guy is now S3. All of S3 on Friday May 05, 2023 @12:56AM (#35825355)
But no browsers support 3rd-party plugins anymore. (I think the Chromium PDF viewer might be a plugin internally though?)
Re:JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:05PM (#35809030)
tbf there's been a working import map polyfill for a long time now
Re:JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:03PM (#35809011)
I don't think you can use SRI with imports?
Re:JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:57PM (#35808959)
i did more or less the same thing but running in the browser https://easrng.github.io/modbundler/

you give it an import map and a list of urls and it either bundles + minifies to a single .js file or rewrites the paths and saves everything as a .zip

Re:Serverless voice chat with Vicuna-13B on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:38PM (#35702907)
In Chrome that's using Google's servers to transcribe the audio (last I checked) and it doesn't work on Firefox.
I agree with most of this post, but "Apple requires a Mac. It would be trivial to release an app builder that ran on the phone, but they don't. Apple even outright forbids such apps, or any kind of interpreted environment." isn't actually correct. They have a first-party app called Swift Playgrounds that lets you write apps on iPads, and other interpreters are allowed (Pythonista, Scriptable, iSH)

But yeah, native GUI dev is a mess. I wrote webapps all the time when I was in school though. Programming on a phone is kinda a pain because of the small keyboard and lack of browser devtools but it's definitely doable.

ehh i do dev on my phone sometimes (Termux and sometimes in-browser editors) and it's an ok experience imo
Re:Avoiding HTTP/3 (for a while) as a pragmatic default on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:08PM (#35417292)
oops yeah, typo :facepalm:
Re:Avoiding HTTP/3 (for a while) as a pragmatic default on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:02AM (#35409675)
Why not stcp like webrtc does (iirc)?
Snap! has already been mentioned, but another scratch mod that has more extensions available (and is faster and has more options) is Turbowarp (https://turbowarp.org/)
i tried turning off my adblocker and yeahhhh the ads-to-content ratio is a bit out of control https://i.imgur.com/Dre5HJw.jpeg
> draconian content blockers

most school content blockers were pretty easily bypassed in my experience. i was in school relatively recently, my highschool had fortinet which sucked (sni blocking + blocks a bunch of protocols), but tor still got through if i used a bridge. i probably could've used a vpn but tor was easier. before highschool there wasn't anything more than dns filtering (and briefly http host blocking but not sni blocking) which was bypassed by approximately everyone (who wanted to bypass it). most people used random vpn apps, i changed dns, both worked fine.

Re:Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected? on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @06:23AM (#35259034)
That's kinda dystopic...
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @06:16AM (#35258983)
I barely bookmark anything. I mostly remember domains and search for stuff and use autocomplete from history. Sometimes if I search the same thing over and over I'll bookmark it.
Re:Windows Snipping Tool is vulnerable to Acropalypse too on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:27PM (#35250365)
Keep in mind this only applies if you took the screenshot, saved, cropped it, and then saved again to the same file.
Doesn't work on Firefox.
I can't repro, how are you getting it to call toString?
Re:A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us on Monday March 20, 2023 @04:51PM (#35238501)
native gui dev sucks, and the web does a way better job of sandboxing than native things do.
oh yeah i don't edit paths by hand, just stuff like cleaning up groups, removing unused css, changing colors, etc. when i do need to edit paths i use https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/
idk i export SVGs from inkscape and edit them by hand pretty frequently, it's not that hard.
tf are you on, paths and clipping are essential.
Re:We Ditched REST and Went with GraphQL: Here’s Why on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:29AM (#35216317)
you don't need a monorepo, you just need to be able to import the types, they don't need to be in the same package.

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