News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

hippish

Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @08:48AM (#22474372)
I'm curious, how would fiddling with navigation impede text extraction? The site renders perfectly fine without javascript, and the markup looks straight forward enough
Depends on how you're browsing. The legacy fallback does not replace it, eg when you have js disabled
Re:WebGL Fluid Simulation on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:46AM (#19968964)
It depends on google analytics and will break unless ga() is defined. Most adblockers spoof it for you, but if you're only blocking requests to trackers the javascript will fail. (eg pi-hole, uMatrix)
Re:New logo on Thursday January 17, 2019 @07:17AM (#18930170)
I guess it might work with the app. Running slack as a pinned tab in my browser however, it's close to invisible https://imgur.com/a/VgL2fMu
Checkout Musicmap[0], very extensive with history and playlists for each genre. Bit on the heavy side on cpu usage but by far the best one I've found so far.

[0]https://musicmap.info/

Re:Road safety tips from Sweden on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:16AM (#16828527)
Yeah, that ought to skew the results a bit. Looks like the top countries remain the same though https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/transport/road-safety-annual-...
Re:Google Gravity experiment on Monday October 14, 2013 @11:04AM (#6547624)