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by contriban 5y ago
Correct. And the cool part is that it loads the file straight from disk. However it offers no Stylish-like UI
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by contriban 5y ago
Keep in mind that Safari has enough restrictions that uBlock Origin developers decided to stop supporting it, so ad-blocking is pretty poor there.
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by contriban 5y ago
I don’t get your comment. You just confirmed that, indeed, you need a specific computer to publish Safari extension, which isn’t the case for Firefox and Chrome extensions. It is a limitation and it’s completely unnecessary for the end us
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by contriban 5y ago
I agree with the general sentiment, but if you used Facebook and YouTube you know they respond immediately on tap, even if the view hasn’t completely loaded. They are SPA-style pages. Unfortunately they are the exception as there are a lot
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by contriban 5y ago
Yes but icons tend to be downloaded in groups so you can x10 that value. At 160 KB it starts to look like a prime target for optimization.
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A Brief History of Browser Extensibility(medium.com)
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by contriban 5y ago
Indeed but that costs more. I got 12 months at $1/month as a promotional offer. If it lets me, I might restart it (even if I don’t read much at all)
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by contriban 5y ago
Indeed, I was planning to find a California VPN to avoid the chat/call, but really it took maybe 2 minutes of idle chat to deal with it. Even my low bar for BS wasn’t that triggered. honestly I was more hopefully that they’d renew th
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by contriban 5y ago
What I've been doing is stop saying anything remotely controversial or specifically related to people or society and definitely I don't interact with tweets by socially-aggressive people. For everything else, I just use throwaways
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by contriban 5y ago
They are upside down down there, so it was a reasonable feature.
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by contriban 5y ago
From what I understand, the cable has to advertise the supported power output, it’s not like a raw power outlet that will start a fire if you use a random thin cable. A 5W USB cable will probably never receive 240W, even by mistake.
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by contriban 5y ago
So basically you’re asking for a node_modules for games!
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by contriban 5y ago
I think that there’s a general understanding that cameras don’t match 100% what the eye sees. That’s different from a white golden gate.
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by contriban 5y ago
That doesn’t sound realistic. Sketchy companies probably are not in your country, so good luck with those lawsuits. Second, listing your name in a list of “people with black hair” when it’s easily verifiable you have black hair isn’t a vali
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by contriban 5y ago
I don’t think they’re a huge amount of people, at least currently. It looks like about 30% of Americans between 25 and 50 have never been married. That means at least 70% of that group has been married, more will marry in their lifetimes,
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by contriban 5y ago
> notoriously unreliable email service The things I read on this forum
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by contriban 5y ago
Common doesn’t mean that most people made it. In a world where you can die for a cut, a hunter doesn’t last to be 70 very easily. This is one of those counter-myths that I’ve been seeing too often lately. The comment about dying early made
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by contriban 5y ago
By placing the right elements at the right place, you can have native input and text selection, but that’s not just WebGL anymore; That’s a regular (but transparent) webpage with a WebGL background that mimics your input. It takes quite a b
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by contriban 5y ago
You have a point in that this should not have lasted this long if the world was able to lock down completely until 0 cases for 8 weeks. Other than that, what do you think would have happened if life continued unperturbed in early 2020? Do y
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by contriban 5y ago
For the latter questions, WebGL is rendered as an opaque bitmap in the browser (canvas element) so it amounts to an unselectable image as far as the user is concerned: It's all pixels and no text.
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by contriban 5y ago
Use Licecap. It creates super-lightweight GIFs if there’s not much movement.
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by contriban 5y ago
If you tweet that at @natfriedman or find the product manager, they’ll add it soon. They just added file uploads to the file editor so they might also add it to the wiki (if they haven’t already)
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by contriban 5y ago
I’m sure HN users are aware that there are ways to share files online. File upload exists on the form but it has been arbitrarily limited.
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by contriban 5y ago
It doesn’t. WhatsApp is an app on your phone. That’s it. It can’t be anything else anywhere else, it’s how it’s been designed.
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by contriban 5y ago
I mean, if you’re backing your phone up, you’re basically giving them free reign over your life. Of course there’s location data, and there’s every conversation you’ve ever had on there too. It’s a matter of expectations: You’re handing you
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by contriban 5y ago
Are you looking at Facebook with glasses from 2010? Because one would expect a almost-trillion-dollar company to work on more than a single-focus product. Why would a search engine (1997) make glasses (2013)?
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by contriban 5y ago
It takes effort to screw up a single word while copy-pasting it from a Google search result page.
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by contriban 5y ago
Email development is pretty niche and its own category of expertise. CSS straight up doesn’t apply there the way it’s used regularly (via selectors)
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by contriban 5y ago
I don’t remember which one exactly but Brave lags a lot if you open a video, scroll down, and open another video, in quick succession. It starts locking up for half a second or more once you reach the tenth video on YouTube. This is an iPho
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by contriban 5y ago
The stores should finally label “free” apps for what they are: adware, subscription-based, time-limited demo, … I dream of returning to a free category that is actually free, or with a reasonable amount of advertising. Apple, which so much

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