kirion25
Re:Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com
on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:58AM (#19225845)
More information on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/atc0av/apples_apple_...
US Cities Are Becoming More Dangerous for Cyclists and Pedestrians
Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @02:20PM (#19201891)
> With a decent file manager and an hour or so
An hour? You've made my case. It takes at most a couple of minutes for importing hundreds of books in Calibre. Metadata retrieval is automatic (from the file itself and/or online). Everything happens in a few clicks.
Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:37AM (#19198492)
With a file manager, you'll probably only be able to find a book from its author, and title. If you have a small collection, this is fine.
When your collection grows though, issues start to show up. Being able to sort, and find a book based on other information becomes much more useful: date of publication, genre, custom tags, etc... While you could always integrate these in your filename/directory structure, with the help of symlinks, it's very cumbersome to manage and use.
What's the real price of getting rid of plastic packaging?
Re:Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ...
on Sunday February 17, 2019 @11:28PM (#19188651)
You seem to have forgotten the extremely agressive marketing from Google. At some point, practically all major free software was bundled with Chrome, which installed by default. It was almost similar to malware in its persistence, and adopted many dark patterns just for the opportunity to get on your PC.
Golem effect
Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine
on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:11PM (#19174761)
A mirror of the archive still exists: https://dmoztools.net/
Re:Space Colony Art from the 1970s
on Sunday February 10, 2019 @04:44PM (#19130242)
For more, you can check the artists websites.
Don Davis: http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/allyours.html
Rick Guidice: http://rickguidice.com/nasaart.html
Roy Scarfo: http://www.royscarfo.com/
Anchorite
Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in t...
on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:41PM (#19117912)
Check this Ask HN, for more examples of this:
Understanding China's AI Strategy
Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
Re:Roger McNamee says the 'like' button was 'beginning of the end'
on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:44PM (#19099698)
I think it has more to do with how thoughtless downvoting/upvoting can be in some implementations. But this isn't inherent to the upvote system. Requiring a comment for each vote to explain the user's position, for example, can curb this tendency.
Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU
Re:Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Invasive Rats
on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:23PM (#19081698)
There are strict drone regulations in Ecuador and specifically in the Galapagos. They are banned except for scientific use.
https://www.galapagos.org/travel/travel/planning-a-trip/trav...
Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
on Monday February 04, 2019 @04:32PM (#19080844)
Chrome was one of the last to actually implement this feature. It took 8 years (!), and Animation Policy (part of the accessibilityFeatures api) still doesn't work that great, and is only available via extensions.
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/accessibilityFeatures#prop...
Re:Why Captchas have gotten so difficult
on Sunday February 03, 2019 @06:12PM (#19072835)
The older captcha with words was for the digitization of books. It helped in the Google Books, and Internet Archive projects notably.
https://cogdogblog.com/2013/12/recaptcha-all-the-books/
The current one helps in identifying and navigating streets, useful for maps and autonomous driving.
https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha...
You'll notice that recaptcha always has a direct effect on current projects of Google/Alphabet: Google Books, Google Maps, Waymo.
Re:Limiting JavaScript?
on Sunday February 03, 2019 @02:02PM (#19071453)
It's actually the opposite, Opera (Presto) was stricter in its adherence to standards. It was the first/second (depending on OS) to pass the acid 2 tests, and constantly was among the top scorers.
That said, there were often compatibility problems on various websites, because they favored IE (which wasn't standards compliant), and rarely if ever tested on Opera.
Re:Limiting JavaScript?
on Saturday February 02, 2019 @10:17PM (#19067593)
I tend to agree on all your points. But when a site I need to browse does require JS, simply "turning it on" is, in my opinion, much too lax. You really need more granularity in managing javascript than the binary enable/disable feature available on browsers: namely javascript blocking extensions (noscript, umatrix, etc...). Being able to block
3rd party javascript is invaluable, for example.
Re:Dotfile madness
on Saturday February 02, 2019 @02:00PM (#19064908)
Quite a few applications still have their config path hardcoded.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory_supp...
Re:New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking
on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:33PM (#19060133)
> use Youtube either in private window, and/or download content with youtube-dl
You can play youtube directly in major video players (mpv, vlc), at least on linux. Although, afaik, they use youtube-dl in the background.
Re:Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:29PM (#19058208)
I agree with the gp that consecutive full reboots definitely shouldn't be necessary. That Windows forces your hand on when to reboot just worsens the case.
The state of Windows update is terrible to me. Say what you will about Linux, but updating on most distros is a breeze compared to Windows.
Re:Five Corrections to The New York Times
on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:53PM (#19047572)
There's a related one, though not from psychology: Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy.
"Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true--except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."
Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclea...
on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:40PM (#19008677)
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/6-things-know-about-nucle...
$30.6 billion requested in 2019 for the Department of Energy, which includes more than $757 million for the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE).
Re:Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime
on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:14PM (#18983675)
It's weird how no one disputes the term quality in the title. Why is technology-based playtime not considered "quality"? Doesn't it demonstrate a biased view of the issue?
Don't get me wrong, I also think there might be a problem in how kids grow up nowadays. But in my opinion, it lies more in the variety of entertainment offered to youth, rather than mobile phones/internet/video games being bad.
Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:07PM (#18975593)
For native vertical tabs, you can also check Vivaldi.
I have a hard time understanding why, with widescreen so common nowadays, it isn't a standard native feature in all browsers.
Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:24PM (#18974395)
It's still very suspicious though that such changes happen right after Google implemented their own native adblocker. If tomorrow 3rd party adblockers stop working, Google can now point out that people can rely on their own solution.
Paranoid? Probably. But Google's revenues are from ads, so this kind of attitude is very much warranted in this case.
Re:Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton
on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @11:29AM (#18969443)
This has been my experience as well. Quite a few old games have become buggy or simply unplayable under recent Windows versions, but play fine under Wine. The most common symptom is the game becoming extremely slow on more modern DirectX iterations, which can ironically often be solved by using Wine DLLs.