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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
True, but my terminal, web browser, phone, and text editor don't render base64-encoded images in-line, nor is base64 encoding part of the Unicode spec. Emojis behave much more like text than like images.
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
I would argue that emojis would fit within a technical definition of "text". They fit inside the text/* mimetype.
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
This increasingly happens to me. It won’t make me switch to Chrome but it’s an extremely worrying sign. I remember the New Yorker subscription page was totally broken in Firefox, and have had issues with login for my credit card
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
A good UX is great for a single app, but standards compliance is great for the entire software ecosystem.
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
I believe that there is such a thing as good, responsible engineering practices, such as supporting open standards, that companies ought to to irrespective of "target audience". I'm not saying using IMAP is a better user expe
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
> That’s all super fair, but they also argue this direction allows them to innovate as well. That's true, but I would argue, perhaps somewhat conservatively, that email is an area where we don't want or need much innovation. Em
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
HEY looked interesting until I found out they don't support IMAP. When I think about the problems with email, I don't think primarily about the interface, but about the fact that the open standards on which it is based are increas
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
Imperfect and stable+standardized is preferable to unstable+unstandardized, in my opinion.
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
This is what firefox does
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Show HN: Gourami – Intentionally small ActivityPub microblogging service in Rust(github.com)
4 points by alexwennerberg 6y ago|0 comments
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
Implementing a lightweight Activitypub social network in Rust. Put together an alpha instance with some of my friends on it. https://github.com/alexwennerberg/gourami
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by alexwennerberg 7y ago
Because trans people exist, and this isn't really up for debate, it's accepted by all mainstream medical and psychological associations and is demonstrated in practice by the lived experiences of millions of trans people.
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by alexwennerberg 7y ago
Singular they/them is not esoteric -- it is recognized by most major style guides, including the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Chicago Manual of Style, among others.
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by alexwennerberg 7y ago
I don't know the situation at hand well enough to say whether the policy was fairly enforced, but the policy itself is not unreasonable. If, for example, someone had the same stylistic practices as the OP and also wrote hateful things
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by alexwennerberg 7y ago
I don't find it to be unreasonable. If a trans person clearly states that her pronouns are "she/her" and you twist your sentences around to avoid using pronouns at all, that could certainly give the impression that you d
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by alexwennerberg 7y ago
> The problem with these "many many ways" are that those that tend to work better also tend to be user hostile (subscriptions for things that have no reason to be provided as a service instead of as a product), make the users t
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by alexwennerberg 7y ago
Very cool! Without sign up, how do you deal with spam?
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by alexwennerberg 7y ago
Anecdotal, but I have Google Fi and I receive about 5 to 10 spam calls a day.
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by alexwennerberg 7y ago
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I use GIMP occasionally and find the UI horrendously confusing. Every time I use it I have a web browser tab open with "How to [X] in GIMP".
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Liberating My Neopets Data Through a GDPR Data Retrieval Request(alexwennerberg.com)
3 points by alexwennerberg 7y ago|1 comments