Cyberdog

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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> Under what circumstances would one use this over a condom? I personally find sex without condoms much more pleasurable and I suspect I'm not alone. I would be open to using an effective and affordable form of male birth control in
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Browser extensions are written in JavaScript. :) Also, as I asked in another thread: Do extensions have access to HTTP headers?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I agree that this is needed, and there have been various attempts to implement this sort of thing (including from Berners-Lee himself). But that's not the problem this project is trying to solve.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> actually commonmark has enough problems (already pointed out by others - see [1] and indirectly the flourishing of sub versions) and in good substance is unambiguous, it seems to me that they are not known by the author given the choic
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Did I? How so? Please be specific. Was it that it doesn't support tables?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
How about a system where documents are formed by using regular expressions to extract desired words and passages from a corpus such as the works of Shakespeare?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> You are (implicitly) asking people to conform to your design, though. Or would you continue working on it even if you were the sole user? When you put it that way… certainly these sorts of projects are more rewarding and validating if
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> I think adding the ability to access KyuWeb from the normal web is actually the wrong move. I think we need to make these things completely distinct and let the winner come out naturally. I think that forcing people to download and use
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> I meant in relation to the "original web" creator. Okay, my mistake. I do think simplicity was a goal for Sir Tim, though. Check out this old Usenet post introducing the "WorldWideWeb" (emphasis mine): https:&#x2
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> First, congratulations to the KyuWeb team on making something and getting it to launch. No team, just me, and I don't consider this to have "launched" yet. A true launch will involve at least one working server and one w
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> I think common mark is really the worst form of markdown How so? > And tables are optional? That does not sound great for many Text documents to be honest. I would rather argue, forcing browsers to not only implement tables but sort
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Markdown supports images. My primary intention with KyuWeb is documents for screens, and creating documents with all the layout flexibility available in modern HTML/CSS is not a goal.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I'm fond of KyuWeb but not quite stuck on it if something better struck me. I don't think anything that looks like version numbers would be it, though. What would we call the second iteration of One Point One Web (should there be
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
If I ever decide against Markdown, some sort of strictly-defined subset of HTML would probably be my second choice. As someone who's been building web sites since 1996, though, I find HTML unpleasant to use for writing prose, and less
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I am the author of the document. KyuWeb is intended to be incredibly simple.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Hello. I'm the author of this document. It looks like someone posted this to HN without my knowledge after a discussion on IRC yesterday. I was intending to post it myself, but probably not until I had some working software for it - I&
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> - the reason of the technical choices (commonmark!?) Three reasons: It's pleasant to write; it's readable even when partially or completely "unrendered;" and it's limited in its capabilities while still meeting
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I haven't done any browser extension development. Is it possible for browser extensions to be able to read HTTP headers? Is that consistent across all browsers?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I already live in this world. I do some work for other people for a few hours a day, and in exchange I have housing, food, clothing, healthcare, etc. Oh, were these things supposed to materialize for me for free with no effort on my part? W
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
What compulsion? The desire to be made for life?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Agreed. It's so powerful but always so complex and confusing and there's just way too many footguns like this. "Gas" is one of those concepts where I have to relearn what it is every time I read about it but never can re
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I didn't mind 'em. I don't get why they were so hated. Maybe I don't use mice the right way.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
This mouse topped MacRumors' recent article Apple's Most Questionable Design Decisions in Recent Memory: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/01/23/apple-questionable-desi... Just wait until you see how t
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
To play the devil's advocate… one of the uses of youtube-dl is to grab a video so it can be watched on lower-spec machines that might not be able to handle playing a YouTube video in a web browser. Such machines might also be stuck on
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
You'll want to surround the pasted URL with quotes, or else the question mark in all non-shortened YouTube video URLs will confuse the shell. Also, I suggest adding `-f mp4` to avoid getting a video in Google's proprietary video f
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I know, right? This looks even funkiner than probably intended on my vertically-mounted monitor.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> did I unintentionally use some metacharacter in this part of the string which I meant to be “fixed”? When in doubt, just throw a backslash in front of it, which always means "the next character is to be interpreted literally,&quot
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> Have you not heard of Hello Fresh/Blue Apron/all their competitors? Bored of the limited number of things I know how to cook well, I tried one called Dinnerly for a few months. I eventually gave up on it because even at their
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Please at least eat some form of green vegetable. Steamed brussels sprouts with maybe some salt or a bagged salad without dressing if you don't want to significantly add calories. I don't think an all-potato diet is going to do yo
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I got an 8GB Mac mini. I was broke at the time but needed a replacement in a hurry, and even though my two previous machines had 16GB, 8GB should be fine for web dev work, right? Yeah, I regret it. I like to have YouTube videos on in the ba

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