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Re:Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:45PM (#49972758)
Reducing egress bandwidth, if you have automated clients that don't support JS you save precious bytes from being served by not embedding the SVG, which at example.com scale may be worth it
Re:Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy? on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:29PM (#42012923)
At home Pihole, on mobile Firefox + uBlock Origin
Re:SQLite: Defense Against the Dark Arts on Sunday October 06, 2024 @05:34PM (#41760524)
Depending, the way I read the post, the SQLite protections just prevent crashes or malfunction, but don't prevent things like SQL injection and your app should handle that
I'm going to miss adapter by macroplant the day it stops working
Re:I Have Deleted Systemd on Sunday March 24, 2024 @12:12PM (#39808064)
from a LiveUSB one can probably chroot into the borked system and re/install the deleted files without manually copying
Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:46PM (#38564817)
Nope that's a business model in Mexico too
Re:The Free Software Foundation is dying on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:28AM (#35525659)
From the same forum post:

> To be able to boot Linux on such PCs you need to either disable secure boot in the BIOS or you need to enable the "Allow Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA" option in the Security section of the BIOS.

it's not like they're blocking completely the ability to install Linux, anyone installing Linux should be able to follow those steps. Don't get me wrong I'm no Lenovo/MS fan but spreading FUD is not the way

edit: formatting

Re:Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @09:16AM (#35245678)
FF mobile gives be different IDs each time I run a new private session on both the JS an non-js demos (I run w/o JS usually AND have enabled the resistFingerprint setting)
The temporary containers Addon has helped me with this, you can assign/exclude patterns or subdomais besides the unusual redirect dance when doing some SAML auth on a new app it works fine
thanks for the source
Re:Ask HN: Where can one learn about boring web development? on Saturday November 12, 2022 @02:34PM (#33576247)
The MDN is a great resource, its examples are good and simple
if you have libredirect extension installed you can also make use of multiple instances of scribe if one's down
Of course the display representation on the tool is indeed a graph, but some people might wonder how one can represent a multi-parent node in a JSON tree or have some cyclic structure, which of course is not possible and cause confusion
I think the author means Diagram instead of graph as data structure
Re:Ask HN: Do you browse the web with JavaScript disabled? on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:11PM (#32966562)
I'll echo other comments, cater your users first, don't worry about HN (unless this demographic is your userbase ofc). That said, I do block JS on mobile (FF+UBo or Bromite for the sites requiring chrome) and on desktop I go even further by using temporary containers As a web dev I've seen first hand (and being guilty sometimes) of the exessive tracking + unneeded JS bloat
it has more services, ProxyTok for tiktok and Scribe.rip for Medium instances at least in my case are useful

edit: formatting

Re:Hacking the PS4 / PS5 Through the PS2 Emulator on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:22PM (#32859204)
a nitpick, North America includes Mexico in those charts and as a mexican I can attest a lot of piracy went on in the PS2 / Xbox consoles back in the day
Re:http://pn./ on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:52PM (#32805536)
it doesn't work for me. FF nightly android (if it matters: JS disabled and HTTPS mode enabled)
Re:Ask HN: Are Linux HowTos dead? Why? on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:56PM (#32454164)
Second ArchWik it's quite good and not tied to archlinux
I wish people stopped defining their products as _Uber, but in $DOMAIN_ tbh it rubs many people the wrong way, a couple of examples: Am I as a developer going to get the same mistreatment uber riders get? Is this platform running on red numbers and betting to become a monopoly in the long run so they can be profitable once users are locked in and they set a higher price?

Having said that, the idea behind it is cool, and applying that to open source contributions would be great

Re:Ask HN: Good private email host with IMAP? on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @10:05AM (#32070148)
Migadu is in Switzerland, I've been a customer for a few years and had pretty much no issues (The only one I remember was a delivery issue I had once), they support IMAP/SMTP/POP and although their Web isn't the most modern out there it looks OK for 2022
Re:Crimes with Go Generics on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:05AM (#31153922)
I'm not well versed in golang generics (at $WORK we use go, but not generics yet) but if you want type switches you'll need interface{} to do that https://go.dev/play/p/1Tn2O_7vCTQ

Which of course defeats the point of using generics

_edit: clarify that my attempt is a bad practice_

Re:The end of the nice GTK button on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:03PM (#30797599)
that has been the case in gnome since the 2.x days

edit: #dyac

Re:Zotero 6 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:23PM (#30714921)
Does anyone have some good learning resources for Zotero?
Re:Can you get pwned with CSS? on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @03:37PM (#30532753)
yep, it seems I was mistaken, rendering links to SVG/Canvas wouldn't work
Re:Can you get pwned with CSS? on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:15PM (#30508415)
if one's feeling determined and creative there's the possibility to render the link to a canvas and get pixel colors
Re:Show HN: Check if your website violates GDPR on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:03AM (#30500550)
I agree on those, one of the few things I'd consider hard to replace is CDN
Re:Show HN: Check if your website violates GDPR on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:19AM (#30500040)
it seems https://www.violating-gdpr.com/ violates GDPR itself by using vercel
Re:Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags? on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:55AM (#30115354)
We use them not as an A/B testing tool as I saw it suggested in a comment but more like a way to have controlled rollouts of features. As our team uses trunk based development we don't have a "development" branch so everything goes to master (we have a staging env and manual judgement prior to production deployment tho)
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