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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Took me a bit to realize that this is the same font as "Inter UI" (which I installed right at the end of 2018). It was apparently renamed to just Inter in February this year. The changelog provided on Github gives some interesting
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Well if the referrer header matches the shared url it's just bloat in the request headers, and if it doesn't it's possibly leaking details it shouldn't, like perhaps a token in a query parameter. Twitter, Facebook, etc d
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Note that by not setting rel="noopener noreferrer" on the links you let the linked sites control the opener window (and of course see a detailed referrer header). https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/256-targetblan
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
On that last note about alpha compositing I really wish there was a way to opt into correct alpha composting on the web. Colors deserve more love!
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Small enough POST bodies could still be worth logging to detect issues. Of course because of things like this it generally isn't a good idea, but there's still instances where it could be important to log POST bodies to eg. unders
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
You could potentially keep searching upwards for a parentNode that has role="article". While Twitter could change their markup significantly they sorta have to support screen readers so aria attributes will poke through here and t
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
This looks like an incredibly forward thinking move. Connecting South America to Africa will provide the opportunity for a wast array of new inter-continental online businesses, focused on countries that today aren't seen as "onli
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
On the topic of generating QR codes with JavaScript, I have a project that requires generating QR codes and the various libraries I could find all seemed to be rather... poor. A lot of them were simply made for another era of JavaScript, wh
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
I feel like both Google and Apple has just want QR codes to go away. Some of their apps use QR codes for very specific purposes, like setups, but neither of them provide a generic QR code scanning app. The Twitter app on Android actually ha
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
This just seems to be a creative product page of a company specializing in hidden doors? The prices they list are very discouraging but it's basically just their rates and it seems this company is targeting rich eccentrics.
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
While it's true that the browser won't have to download the content again, it will have to re-instantiate various resources (eg execute all JavaScript over again..., restart gifs). If implemented correctly, JavaScript navigation s
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
The only study I could find on the topic seems to support that syntax highlighting makes it easier to read and understand code regardless of programming experience. Calling it "training wheels" seems to be a completely useless bra
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
It is absolutely the job of the server to determine the source and validity of a request. Web browsers, for better or for worse, fundamentally allow websites to make requests to other sites. "Rogue" websites can "trick"
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Unrelated to the primary content and purpose of this post but this was actually a pretty interesting use of an image map. Sadly the polygons don't seem to align that greatly with the image, nor does it seem like mobile Chrome applies t
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
The downloads folder is a perfect target actually. Lots of documents end up downloaded as pdfs, I certainly have enough documents to dox me. Anyone who does their e-mailing through a browser will most likely have a bunch of exciting attachm
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
From the descriptions of the work in this article it sounds like Facebook is actively choosing to have the same moderator re-moderate the same content over and over. At that point it almost seems like intentional malice from Facebook rather
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Facebook is in charge of demanding that these people to re-watch the same gore videos over and over. I'd wager that the vast majority of gore videos uploaded to Facebook can be identified from a few couple keyframes. They shouldn'
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
is-odd's behavior is also extremely odd. It depends on "is-number" (why would this need a dependency to begin with?), which checks in the most bizarre way imaginable if the input number or string(??) is finite. is-number, and
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
I suppose this is slightly off-topic, but what security does a VPN actually offer when connecting to a https site? Surely browsers should show a NOT SECURE warning if connecting to a https site while on an unsecured wifi was actually insecu
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
I'm looking at the labels and quickly realizing that I don't have a clue when I first started reading Hacker News. I kept going back and forth finding stories that I remember reading and important stories that I completely missed.
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
I'd personally say it's a bit gratuitous to say that Apple designed the connector, but their contribution was clearly significant, even if the politics of the matter mean that we'll never truly know if Apple spearheaded the d
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Got a source on that? I'm genuinely interested to hear about it.
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Each item on the list deserves a little blurb on why GDPR "forced" it's removal from the EU market. Examples: Unroll.me's entire business model was made illegal in the EU. Hitman: Absolution faced problems in taking ow
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Brave's "Basic Attention Token" was described as replacing ads on websites with ads from Brave's own ad network[0], which I recall is a common practice among adware to go unnoticed on an infected user's machine. The
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
Huawei being a Chinese company are perfectly content with spying on you without Google trying to interfere. Be prepared in a few years when certain network requests just fail, like trying to send a comment mentioning 996.icu.
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
This article was a surprisingly difficult read. It felt like every other word was a brand name, and the underlying confusing naming scheme surely didn't help. On top of that the author flip-flops between the issues of Nest going away (
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
No web browser is going to disable JavaScript by default and Google is one of the worst offenders when it comes to User-Agent sniffing (you can experiment with this on your own by setting a custom User-Agent and attempting to use various Go
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
It's honestly quite depressing to imagine just how much money is left on the table regarding manga. The demand for translations has lead to massive amounts of illegal sharing of digital/digitalized copies and there's even som
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
All electronic transactions handle the SEK cent (1/100 SEK aka öre) though there are no longer any valid SEK cent coins. The 50 cent coin was taken out of circulation September 30th 2010 and nowadays all remaining cent coins are consid
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by daxterspeed 7y ago
I realized that I misunderstood this comment (I assumed same fortnight meant "same fortnight number in a year" - when it should be same 14 day span) but I thought it was worth calculating this example anyway. The oldest person ali

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