Andrex

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by Andrex 1y ago
Exactly. Pandora's box was wide open by that point. XHTML would have been a good idea at the start of the web, but not ~2000 during/after the dotcom boom. And if you can't mix existing web content with XHTML stuff it defeats
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by Andrex 1y ago
You're buying a license. (Was hard not to use scare quotes here.)
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Just saw it at #1! Congrats and thank you!
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One of the first things I do on family computers is set PDFs to open in Chrome. (If I have time and the authority I also remove Acrobat.) It's saved me a lot of hassle.
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by Andrex 1y ago
That is amazing!! I will check that out whenever it's done. Thank you for your work! Dumb question: why not flip through the pages, take screenshots, then use OCR? Maybe some kind of jank Amazon DRMalike?
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by Andrex 1y ago
TBH I've come around on it and I kinda prefer the Fischer Price phone UIs over the sites with random smatterings of 7px microfont, .ASPX pages redirecting eighteen times, and functions hidden two levels deep in floating overflow navs (
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by Andrex 1y ago
> It's really hard to describe why it's inevitable (there are a lot of factors). I think there's a lot of small factors, but of those the biggest on (IMO) is the fallacy that throwing people at a problem gets it done faste
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by Andrex 1y ago
For the first time ever I ran into a web app blocking Desktop Mode on Chrome for Android somehow. (ChowNow) I've seen sites detect it but issue a warning, but this was a full functionality-block. I was literally using it fine one day,
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by Andrex 1y ago
Just a small data point/anecdote: I think the calls to install native apps are actually decreasing now. I don't get spammed for that nearly as much as 2014-2018 or so. Even banks seem to be getting comfortable with making mobile o
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If that's the goal I think they succeeded, I could barely browse it on my old laptop.
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Google Photos is an odd example to use, since it hasn't been enshittified (yet) beyond some questionable UI redesigns. I agree self hosting your photos is the way to go, though.
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by Andrex 1y ago
They got me by the balls with Kindle. Someone(/me if I had enough time) should make some kind of LLM scraper extension for Amazon's Web Reader. Run it on your own ebooks while you're signed in and you get the EPUBs. Maybe thi
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by Andrex 1y ago
Throw away the DMCA and you throw away all safe harbors for websites, and then the internet is truly screwed. There's no way the current congress would ever accept such a thing again -- Section 230 has been weaponized against it alre
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by Andrex 1y ago
34M. I live with my mom who's had it for a few years. It sucks. It's so easy to forget who they were before the disease. This is them now and it's hard as hell. Simple things that take 1-step for us take 50+ steps for her. Sh
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by Andrex 1y ago
Google was always terrified by the fact that they had no moat in Search. This was clear from interviews and articles at the time. That's why they decided to roll up the ad market instead, and once they had the advertisers Search became
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> "Pee pee poo poo aaaaaaaaaaa peeeeee peeeeee poop poop poop." Attach your name to this publicly, and you're a clown. I don't know why the world started listening to clowns and taking them seriously, when their perso
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by Andrex 1y ago
For multiplayer games, I'm not sure that would be a detriment to the experience in any way. Procedural generation is a known quantity in gaming, with well-explored pros and cons.
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> Maybe we will even get a good closure for Lost (2004)! Whether it's text or super-advanced VR holograms, if it's fan fiction it's fan fiction. Which can be interesting and compelling, but that will never be as exciting a
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by Andrex 1y ago
Interesting idea, online gaming becoming the de facto new societal community meeting space.
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If you double tap to skip 10 seconds during an ad read, it should appear as a button in the bottom right. It does not pop up proactively. It's algorithmically-based on which parts of the video get skipped most often by viewers.
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by Andrex 1y ago
I think it's less ominous than that. Skip Ahead is only for Premium subscribers. The logic probably being native-ads/sponsorships are in fact ads, and Premium users are paying for an ad-free experience.
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by Andrex 1y ago
Thank you! That's interesting. What about UTF-7? That seemed like a bad idea even at the time.
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by Andrex 1y ago
Oh that's easy, just download this extra piece of software which removes the album for you. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29208540
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by Andrex 1y ago
The Big Dig, for all the digs it rightfully got for taking forever and costing a shitton, actually does the job it's supposed to (mostly). I'm generally pleasantly surprised how few problems it had when I lived there. I didn'
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by Andrex 1y ago
Maybe this is unpopular, but what if 5/10-year long contracts started getting traction? I guess you'd need to trust the company, which is hard to come by.
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What are the perceived benefits of UTF-16 and 32 and why did they come about? I could ask Gemini but HN seems more knowledgeable.
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> so the ideal language for AI coding is the most abstract and expressive language that will get you there ...JavaScript? (half joking)
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> I reported my findings to the maintainers of the vulnerable open-source tool. They quickly fixed the default configuration, although they can’t fix the existing deployments. Anyone wanna guess which open source tool this was? I'm
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Not the OP but I'll back him up, and I'll edit this comment when I come across them. They're pretty common. If the domain of knowledge is niche and the page is absolutely huge, that's a good sign to start looking for edi
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Entrenched technologies take a while to un-trench; there's a lead lag on that kind of thing. It starts with the kids saying I hate Windows. Then the adults. Then finally the grandmas. Windows will be evaporating marketshare for decades

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