danShumway

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by danShumway 3y ago
That could be a longer conversation, but I think there's a subset of community-run projects that would be desperate for volunteers even if they were proprietary. In general most non-exploitative volunteer spaces are clamoring for volun
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> That's not success, and certainly not a "big success" which is the author's self-reflection. Again, the author is not obligated in any way to align themselves to your definition of success. And them disagreeing with
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Video calls are a big missing feature, that's one of the only reasons I have an alternative installed alongside it. From what I've heard, the devs have said that the reason why native audio/video calls aren't planned l
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> No, I'm doubling down on challenging the author to be more audacious: You've edited your comment since it was originally posted, but as a reminder, this is what I was responding to: > If those communities and apps already
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> When I read your assessment of their previous strategy "doing free UX enhancements for commercial companies" while the person is against commerce, I do not walk away with a sense that they have reconciled for themselves what
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Fluffychat
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This is silly, of course there is. There's observably a larger market for 3rd-party Mastodon and Matrix clients than there is for a Nebula filtering tool. Also, are you seriously going to argue this? Are you seriously going to double d
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by danShumway 3y ago
> If those communities and apps already respect their users, then do they need this author? What difference would they make? What? Does software development just go away if you respect your users? Do people not want 3rd-party Mastodon or
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by danShumway 3y ago
> Being "against" something is a valid goal in life, but then you really have to be very strategic about it. Being "for something" and pouring your energy into making something that people want or need seems more prod
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by danShumway 3y ago
I wrote about this issue back in 2018 regarding specifically Chrome, and Firefox's settings are derivative of Chrome's: https://danshumway.com/blog/chrome-autoplay/ At the time, there was a lot of noise
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by danShumway 3y ago
I put some of my family members on Ubuntu, it worked about as well as Windows ever did, but was hard to keep up-to-date, and every change I made to get them more recent software was a complication for future support. The end result was that
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by danShumway 3y ago
Yep, that was my thought, but there might be complications I haven't thought of. This is me guessing without having tried anything. > couldn't get it to render in a way I was happy with I might be repeating something you alread
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by danShumway 3y ago
Nice! I love seeing stuff like this on HN. Using a solid border for the cursor instead of having it in the text content is a nice touch; because it's separated out you could probably use another animation to get it blinking, too.
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You shouldn't actually build your entire website in CSS -- it's going to be inaccessible no matter what because CSS isn't really for content. But it's cool to see what's possible, mostly because learning how to over
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by danShumway 3y ago
:shrug: I'm one person on the Internet, so if using the LLM makes it work better for more of your users, go with that. I do think data filtering and visualization is an important value add, Pytrace looks cool, but it doesn't look
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by danShumway 3y ago
> To achieve this, we first instrument the test using sys.settrace (or, on versions of python >3.12, the far better sys.monitoring!) to keep a history of all the functions that were called, along with the calling line numbers. We then
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I assume you mean condemns that behavior.
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I'm not sure "fall back on the existing method" is really an explanation though. It's like saying, "stick shift is easy to explain, whenever you're confused just switch back to standard." Passkeys are mean
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This might be being reconsidered; I don't have the full details but I've seen some talk about attestation being expanded to handle roaming keys as well. I think that's a mistake -- I think there are a lot of security and UX c
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But if you can't accept credit cards for some reason, no one would tell you to close up your business instead of accepting debit cards. "This specific category has a high risk of chargebacks, so it's using a less convenient&#
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> “Should Gumroad hire a lobbyist?” he asked in an email to TechCrunch. Yes? I'm a little confused as to why platforms that feature adult material wouldn't be lobbying around payment processing requirements and regulations. I d
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Is this intended to be a password replacement or not? Because attestation requirements for roaming keys are incompatible with a password replacement. > Being able to zero-effort cleartext a passkey strips it of the HSM-lite properties th
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by danShumway 3y ago
I'm not trying to do callout posts or anything here, I know that the people involved are genuinely trying to do their best. I'm grateful that Bitwarden is involved with passkeys. But, for all of that gratitude, I still have to say
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I don't think that Tim meant it that way, but I do think it's an indication that attestation can be used that way. I think it's somewhat missing the point to say that Tim is being mean; Tim could be entirely supportive and th
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> Passkeys aren't a standard or protocol This is a silly distinction to make. Passkeys are the standard word that most ordinary people use when talking about this specification. And this changes nothing about the fact that the con
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Looking forward to watching it if/when it's posted online. That being said, a tech conference "where are we" video recording is a far cry away from an Open standardization process. The lack of real details on this has be
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> I've changed the title back to my original text to stay on the record here that this is a really bad idea and I strongly recommend you temporarily disable this feature or at a minimum require file protection/encryption. >
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KeePassXC Issue: [Passkeys] should never be exported in clear text(github.com)
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Would anyone who's calling for iPhone sideloading be upset about Xbox sideloading? I wouldn't. By all means, let's regulate both Microsoft and Apple. The more the merrier. I don't think I've ever looked at a video g
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> Having a choice of marketplaces… imagine if Mozilla gave you that! It sort of does, it's just not something devs take advantage of or that exists in an official way. If you don't want to be listed in the addon store, you can

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