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by darekkay 6y ago
Or you just buy a 5$ wrench: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by darekkay 6y ago
For almost 10k people, it's more than just their email: > While the majority of the data breach concerned email addresses, we regret to inform you that you are part of the approximately 9,500 customers whose detailed personal inform
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by darekkay 6y ago
With the new GitHub profile README feature, GitHub Actions gained a lot of traction. I'm using it to automatically display my latest blog post [1]. [1] https://darekkay.com/blog/github-profile-readme/
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by darekkay 6y ago
There is a popular GitHub repository for similar debugging stories: https://github.com/danluu/debugging-stories
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by darekkay 6y ago
Static Marks [1], a tool I have written. [1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
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by darekkay 6y ago
The "Start Survey" button is only visible on mobile. On desktop, I was not able to start it. (something might be blocked by uBlock)
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by darekkay 6y ago
Yes, I've deleted my Airbnb account a few months ago and had to go through their confirmation process. I've never booked anything, I've never provided any ID etc., and yet I had to provide a copy of my ID to prove that I&#x27
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by darekkay 6y ago
> I think it is about scale. If you stand up a public forum and you have 100 users, do your moderation choices actually sway a large percentage of public opinion? Consider instead a social media platform with a billion users and its mode
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by darekkay 6y ago
Most of us don't use GitHub to actually edit code, either. E.g., some projects are using their GitHub repo as the homepage, so I sometimes end up on GitHub on my mobile phone, too.
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by darekkay 6y ago
"Accessibility" has a special meaning in design/development. It's as you've said "The new GitHub website is less performant" because you cannot access the data as fast as before. It's confusing, and t
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by darekkay 6y ago
Related submissions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19883876 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21890027 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22813168 - https://new
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by darekkay 6y ago
Just keep in mind that Bootstrap ist not fully accessible by default on purpose [1]. I really hope this changes in v5, because accessibility shouldn't be opt-in. [1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/getting
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by darekkay 6y ago
> accessible I agree with all the points except that one. The last time I've checked [1] it was "above avarage" but definitely not fully accessible. [1] https://darekkay.com/blog/accessible-ui-framewor
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by darekkay 6y ago
There's also an EasyList filter list just for cookie notifications: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist-cookie.t...
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by darekkay 6y ago
> Is there a good chance of real content getting removed, on occasion, or do they work quite good? Yes, I sometimes get some real content removed. If something looks strange, I temporarly deactivate uBlock. Last time it was a GDPR checkb
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by darekkay 6y ago
I'd like to point out that this solution is inaccessible to users with impaired vision. That's probably okay for you (because only you are interested in the data), but this makes the solution insufficient for any public usage.
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by darekkay 6y ago
> There is clearly a market: pinboard.io, lots of positive feedback for raindrop.io, and I see bookmarking tool threads on HN very frequently. > Often, people ask me "why should I use this instead of x product?" I don't
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by darekkay 6y ago
The classic "do as I say and not as I do". That said, the YouTube widget is actually quite accessible compared to most other video players [1]. [1] https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2020/03/16/why-vi
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by darekkay 6y ago
From my experience, it is often not an active choice to break the guidelines. It's rather the lack of knowledge/experience or ignorance - or a mix of both ("What is this accessibility thing? Do we need it?"). For contras
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by darekkay 6y ago
I usually rephrase the same point as: "Automatic testing is able to tell you if a page is inaccessible . However, it cannot tell you if a page is accessible ."
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by darekkay 6y ago
The only thing I can imagine are screen reader-only labels (although you're usually achieving this with a special "sr-only" or "visually-hidden" utility class that doesn't touch the font size)
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by darekkay 6y ago
If you're looking for a self-hosted bookmarking tool, here's my shameless plug: https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
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by darekkay 6y ago
Similar HN Posts from the past: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22813168 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21890027 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19883876 * https:&#x2
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by darekkay 6y ago
Interesting, I've switched from Google Analytics to GoAccess ~5 years ago. I let both analytics run for a month and compared the results. The relative numbers were very similar (so I get the same information about what blog posts are
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by darekkay 6y ago
> My prediction is that Slack will be replaced quite quickly by the first tool that really nails remote messaging and coordination Doist, the remote-only company behind Todoist, created Twist [1] to address this issue. [1] https:/&
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by darekkay 6y ago
I've deleted a lot of accounts in the last few weeks, and Airbnb was the only one requiring an ID prove. I agree, it is indeed part of GDPR for them to ensure I have the right to delete my account. My only issue is that my ID does not
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by darekkay 6y ago
> This is not lawful under both the GDPR and the CCPA. INAL, but from my understanding that's exactly what GDPR itself suggests to do: > The controller should use all reasonable measures to verify the identity of a data subjec
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by darekkay 6y ago
>> Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify Same issue as I'm currently having with Airbnb. Though I have never ever provided any ID before, nor did I ever
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by darekkay 6y ago
Because an 11-year-old answer was just deleted by the SO "not an answer" hammer, here are the links from the SO post you mentioned: - http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2007/11/26/ultimate-xss-css-inje...
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by darekkay 6y ago
Check out a Hitori. It's kind of an "inverse Sudoku". More difficult puzzles always get to a point where you have to guess the state of a certain field and then backtrack if you were wrong.

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