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Re:A font that humans can read but AI cannot on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:07PM (#48874226)
I threw it at Fable with the prompt "What does the message say?" and it also figured out without issue. Thought process is interesting https://imgur.com/a/GToXs6W
Elon is a unique-enough identifier whereas Jeff and Bill aren’t
Re:WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:20PM (#25796660)
> No amount of turd polishing with unlimited money and PR talent was able to make people to like him

I don't rule it out. Gates managed to pull it off when I didn't think it was possible

> I can choose to drop Google any second

> failed to produce any viable alternative to Google

These two statements seem to be in conflict

They instead extended it for 77 days due to COVID-19. Basically punting for now
Re:Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (2010) [pdf] on Saturday November 02, 2019 @07:58PM (#21430990)
It's an avenue for social coordination. The benefit of having a hive mind is that you get to have a hive.
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His wiki[1] says "Women portrayed in the book have gone on record to defend Taibbi, stating that none of the sexual harassment portrayed in the book ever happened."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi

[2] https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/12/the-destructi...

Re:The Kik Bot Platform on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @07:12PM (#11435334)
Reflects more on him than Apple
Are his quoted 1.4bn Android devices all outside of China? If not then the numbers for mobile and desktop come out pretty similar:

    1.3bn non-China Android users = 1.4bn Android users - 0.386bn China Android users [1]
    1.28 searches/user/day = 50bn searches / (1.3bn users * 30 days)
That 1.28 for mobile is pretty close to the 1.23 quoted for desktop

[1] https://www.techinasia.com/china-386-million-active-android-...

Re:Ad Blocking, Ad Networks, and Your IP Address on Saturday September 19, 2015 @06:43PM (#10245792)
> "don't watch my video unless you pay $5"

This is an explicit agreement between the customer and content provider. YouTube, Google search, etc don't have any explicit agreement with users in this regard -- the ads just show up.

The TOS says it, your understanding of their business model conveys it, but at the end of the day they just shove the ads in there without directly claiming to their customers, "you must see ads and be tracked to get free content".

I think usage would change dramatically if they actually claimed this when a user first uses their service.

Re:Apple TV – A World Without Webviews – BPXL Craft on Sunday September 13, 2015 @07:36PM (#10213130)
For anyone who has ever navigated websites on a "smart TV", thanks goodness. If Apple can deliver on apps bringing all the functionality and content I want, I'd much prefer the native apps interfacing effectively with the device's remote
Re:Google Hangouts on Monday August 17, 2015 @07:59PM (#10076869)
Re:MacDown: Open-source Markdown editor for OS X on Thursday June 26, 2014 @12:43AM (#7948172)
Kinda surprised by the rise in markdown editors whose selling point is the live preview mode. I always felt that the best feature of markdown was that the raw text made it somewhat obvious how it should be rendered. If a preview mode is need I almost want to jump straight to a WYSIWYG editor
Re:App.js: Mobile webapps made easy on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:33PM (#7805296)
Like the others said, this is written by Kik Interactive (http://kik.com/) which is well-funded.

The idea is that Kik's browser has the PhoneGap-like utilities that you described built-in, while this is a library for building the UI of an application. http://dev.kik.com/

Re:App.js: Mobile webapps made easy on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:13PM (#7805198)
It'll continue I work in webview with panning (bounce) turned off. In fact that's usually the most optimal experience
Re:App.js: Mobile webapps made easy on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:11PM (#7805184)
Thanks for the feedback!

* Fixed the scrolling issue. Ios safari doesn't let you disable the bounce so there is a workaround now.

* Ios back gesture works fine... Except in mobile safari, again because there is no way to disable apples back gesture. This would work best in phonegap or Kik where you can control these kinds of things

* Will fix subject bug in demo soon..

Re:App.js: Mobile webapps made easy on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @10:12AM (#7804565)
It's actually just using the browsers scrolling mechanism. Android 4+, iOS 5+ ship with touch-scrolling that you can enable on an element so it's as close to native scrolling as you can get.

Just add this CSS:

    overflow: scroll;
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
Re:Some of the Best HTML5 Games from 2013 on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @10:23PM (#7028552)
Looks like the Zynga app is using Kik for distribution: http://cards.kik.com/
Re:New Google logo on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @09:36PM (#6402929)
For reference, the current logo being served is hosted here: https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo4w.png
Microsoft and Apple are engaging in similar behaviours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Compa...

Re:Stop developing for the 90% use case on Saturday May 11, 2013 @10:21PM (#5692863)
According to Yahoo 99% of visitors have JavaScript enabled.

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/many-users-javascript-d...

Re:Digg banned from Google? on Friday March 22, 2013 @01:03AM (#5421463)
You are totally right. Disregard everything I said.
Re:Digg banned from Google? on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:06PM (#5408590)
Their robots.txt file clearly asks to not be crawled at all.

  User-agent: *
  Disallow:
http://digg.com/robots.txt
Re:300 million users strong, Opera moves to WebKit on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @04:39AM (#5212228)
You still have "to pray the developers left" you a method to get the data in either case as native apps are simply the client-side of an application (just like a web apps).

The "openness" of the web is mostly referring to the technology stack (open source rendering engines), the standards, and the freedom of distribution. All of those points are not fully "open" and that's what I think they're referring to when they say that "the web may not be fully open".

Re:The CSS Trashman on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @02:36AM (#5132836)
Totally killed all of my media queries..

http://jairaj.org http://www.csstrashman.com/styles/495

From what I can tell there is nothing stopping anyone from making a decent YouTube app with their public API.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_p...

What exactly is missing that they want?

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