davisr

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by davisr 10mo ago
No one should need JS to see the soups when that could be handled perfectly fine with CSS. I wish restaurants would just make their homepage a PDF of the menu.
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by davisr 11mo ago
You can use CSS for interactive-esque things like that. Use JS for all I care, just don't make it mandatory. You /could/ refresh the page with new values. You /could/ paginate your flow. You won't, because you&
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by davisr 11mo ago
Yeah... or...... maybe they should just build websites the proper way the first time around, returning plain HTML, perhaps with some JS extras. Any user-entered input needs to be validated again on the backend anyway, so client-side JS is o
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by davisr 11mo ago
> I’m curious. Do Google Maps, YouTube, etc even work with JS off? I use KDE Marble (OpenStreetMap) and Invidious. They work fine. > Original intent is borderline irrelevant. What matters is how it is actually used and what value it b
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by davisr 11mo ago
Did I say abandon? No. I said it should not be required. JavaScript should be supplementary to a page, but not necessary to view it. This was its original intent. > JS is what has allowed websites to replace desktop apps in many cases. H
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by davisr 11mo ago
I'm hearing you say, "don't waste your breath because change is not possible." And there you have your self-fulfilling prophecy. To quote someone who lived before me: don't accept the things you cannot change. Chang
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by davisr 11mo ago
I block JS, too. And so does about 1-2% of all Web users. JavaScript should NOT be REQUIRED to view a website. It makes web browsing more insecure and less private, makes page load times slower, and wastes energy.
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by davisr 11mo ago
Only took 1 second for me.
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by davisr 11mo ago
> I have to admit you're the first person I've ever talked to who would be happy to let others commercially exploit the fruits of their labor without any sort of compensation, while actively trying to make a living from that la
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by davisr 11mo ago
And the very freedom they got with free software let them change it to suit their fit, which would have been impossible with proprietary or otherwise restricted software.
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by davisr 11mo ago
> That's the entire point of copyright. And the entire point of copy/left/ is to make the code a public good, a commodity. Everyone owns the code I write, and everyone is entitled to make a business from it. If they have b
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by davisr 11mo ago
You can pay me $12 for it.
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by davisr 11mo ago
So what? That sounds like competition, which is healthy in a free market. And it's not a service, it's a copy. Customers are explicitly allowed to resell it, and they have. And I still earn enough cash to continue developing it. A
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by davisr 11mo ago
I charge for copies of free software I wrote, an AGPLv3+ desktop application, and earn about $2k MRR from it. Most people don't care about your choice of license, they just want software that conveniently solves their problem(s). If th
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by davisr 1y ago
How do you believe their reporting differs from reality? They're writing about rising authoritarianism and those who submit to it, which is a fact of the world happening today. They use the term "toady" in its literal definit
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by davisr 1y ago
Please, do explain to everyone what you think is biased about it, and why.
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by davisr 1y ago
If you think this kind of reporting is cool, you should donate to https://fair.org . Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) has been exposing two-faced news for decades. They are worthy of your attention.
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by davisr 1y ago
Antitrust regulation now!
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by davisr 1y ago
Is possible, and easy if one accelerates at 1 G for half the trip, then decelerates at 1 G for half the trip. Conventional nuclear fission AND fusion rocket engines, like NERVA, already exist and are flight-certified. 1 light year could be
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by davisr 1y ago
While that provides a plausible origin story, it doesn't stand to reason why the 2.4 GHz carrier frequency has been sustained for so long. For toy or prototype purposes, sure, the FCC could say "put them next to the microwave oven
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by davisr 1y ago
And the FCC just so happened to approve the spectrum of frequencies that human bodies absorb, turning each Wi-Fi hotspot into surveillance spotlight, and each handheld device into a unique beacon. With everything we know about NSA's in
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by davisr 1y ago
Quit being a lazy bum and use a search engine to answer your questions.
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USPS 'covert operations program' monitors Americans' social media (2021)(yahoo.com)
59 points by davisr 1y ago|14 comments
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by davisr 1y ago
This leak was originally [1] posted to /r/RemarkableTablet and received 400+ upvotes and 200+ comments, but the mods removed the post with conflicting reasoning [2]. A different sub, /r/reMarkable, has re-posted the leak
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New reMarkable "Paper Pro Move" leaked to Reddit ahead of Sep 3 launch(old.reddit.com)
4 points by davisr 1y ago|2 comments
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by davisr 1y ago
I first met Bill over video-chat during 2020 and we got to know each other a bit. He later sent me a gift that changed my life. We hadn't talked for the past couple years, but I know he experienced "death" before and was as p
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by davisr 1y ago
http://www.catb.org/~esr/hdcp-master.txt
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by davisr 1y ago
You weren't forced to do anything. You submitted to peer pressure, and that was a decision that, along with millions of others making that same decision, led to the current state. The very state that you're now complaining about.
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by davisr 1y ago
Shameful, especially here in Wisconsin where the minimum wage is still set to $7.25/hour. And even more shameful the tactics used by gig-companies like Uber and DoorDash to depress their own liabilities, and worker wages, even further
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by davisr 1y ago
At FSF, someone would call every month thinking they had been "hacked" and that FSF was responsible because they found "evidence left behind" (the GPL).

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