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Where's the mute button on this thing?
Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:10PM (#38587144)
> most people overestimate how funny they are

Please don't do personal attacks: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Firefox Keeps Getting Faster on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:02PM (#38587055)
Speedometer performance has improved; it's almost as fast as Chrome was last year! Chrome is still 13% faster.

JetStream performance is still miserable though; 50% slower than Chrome.

Worst of all Firefox doesn't support PWAs, so I'll be using Brave until it does.

Re:The cult of the Hindu cowboy on Saturday December 09, 2023 @11:47AM (#38583366)
Rule 34
Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:40PM (#38560042)
Do what? Have a sens of humor?
Re:The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:36PM (#38559989)
We have those in the US; it's called Old Country Buffet https://youtu.be/net7t1HjQxY?si=W4lZ0ru3QYbFs7SO
Re:Making noisy SVGs on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:24PM (#38559867)
The examples are practically invisible in dark mode. The author should use rasterized screenshots with white backgrounds, or a media query with a brighter color.
OA mentions bringing E2EE to web clients
This makes the most sense to me.
What about WebPush on Firefox? That uses Mozilla's servers right? At least on Android? Could the govt be doing the same to Mozilla?
Re:Firefox on the Brink? on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:28AM (#38532100)
Web Developers shouldn't need to "support" particular browsers at all, that's what standards are for. Nobody should be "supporting" any non-standard functionality at all.
I'd pay $100 just to get my family to install Signal
Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:13PM (#38479188)
> but not reserving a car without proof.

and that's why you're a beta, not an Alpha

Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:11PM (#38479144)
Probably the same platform with different bodies. Might end up being vaporware, but I'm voting for the design language.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:05PM (#38479057)
No thanks, I'm reserving an Alpha Wolf https://www.alphamotorinc.com/vehiclereservation
Re:PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @08:21AM (#38445403)
Perhaps a fork is in order!?
Re:Demystifying Web Push Notifications on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:29AM (#38432043)
What solution is there here? No one would suggest that letting every site set up a long-lived network connection would be a good idea. So you need a central trustworthy connection. If you don't trust the company that makes your browser/OS then why are you using it?
Re:Demystifying Web Push Notifications on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:22AM (#38431979)
No one uses them because they don't work
Re:Demystifying Web Push Notifications on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:17AM (#38431941)
> you should be able to just schedule a web notification locally. But you can't, you can only subscribe to a server.

This isn't entirely true; WebPush is server only, but the Notification API can be used locally. You could schedule a timeout that causes a notification, as long as the page stays open, and to do it while the page is closed you could use a ServiceWorker. Potentially a ServiceWorker may or may not stay active depending on the user's battery settings, but native notifications too can also be disabled by the user.

Re:AnyTracker: Track any number on any website on Sunday November 26, 2023 @09:37AM (#38421894)
Until the path changes...
Re:Why We're Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @07:47PM (#37591571)
I've owned a few EufyCams and a couple doorbell cams. They work pretty well; the motion sensing is a little too sensitive for an urban area, but they'd be perfect for suburban/rural areas. They can detect people, cars, and animals. The newest base station can be upgraded with a SATA HDD/SSD.

There was a security kerfuffle last year because motion notifications sent to your phone contained video previews which were then stored insecurely. They fixed that, and it's a feature you can disable. It's not nearly as bad as what has happened to Nest/Wyze cams where attackers can gain access to live video and even talk through the speakers.

Re:Why We're Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @07:42PM (#37591531)
Just don't turn on mobile notification previews.
Re:Htmx Tailwind Alternative: Inline Scoped CSS on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:16PM (#37437280)
this is just shadowDOM with extra steps
Re:A Proto-Pizza Emerges from a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @08:49AM (#36505643)
> the position of fruits and other products of the fields, on sacrificial breads

So you're saying pineapple is in fact a pizza topping!

What if I don't respect the person giving the advice, and I don't care about the product?
Re:Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:26AM (#35829646)
If native apps had ideas worth stealing the web would have by now.
Re:Why do bees die when they sting you? on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:22AM (#34137405)
I agree, no notes.
Re:As unions decline, inequality rises on Saturday December 17, 2022 @12:20PM (#34029858)
> prices are largely based on supply and demand

Then we'd better unionize before AI starts doing all the easy stuff

You'd rather we bomb them instead?
Props for building a PWA, but why do I have to copy paste a url into it when the Share Target API would allow me to send the URL directly to you app using the browser's share feature?

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