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by dbtx 7y ago
Again, resources. My workstation is still waiting to get torn down to have the smoke scrubbed out; my desk is torn down and cleaned already but still waiting for me to have a new place to put it. My room didn't burn but there's no
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by dbtx 7y ago
They shouldn't be sending me to the Play Store ITFP. I can't use Play because I've got no GApps in my phone, so I can't try their app unless I find a copy "somewhere" and convince myself it hasn't been poi
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by dbtx 7y ago
Why did I hope that app.adjust.com was somewhere that I could get the .apk without having anything to do with the Play Store?
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by dbtx 7y ago
> it feels like Google's entire strategy behind reCaptcha is to make it harder to protect your privacy For the irony, I'm still logged into GMail and it still works perfectly, as basic HTML, even with google.com forbidden to ru
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by dbtx 7y ago
> an increasingly rapid arms race for engaging design For us, the arms race is that other one about getting code to execute on people's machines, including the virtual ones, versus preventing that. The mere existence of good code th
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by dbtx 7y ago
This. on the side, > banner or overlay that darkens the page Sometimes with ABP or UBO you can right-click and blow out that <div> which their JS would have cheerfully made invisible. Also, sometimes FF's "reader view&quo
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by dbtx 7y ago
> [not] block javascript and instead block trackers and ads That sounds like it would be great if it were even possible. What about the million times that someone relies on ajax.googleapis.com and forces me to either allow it or walk awa
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by dbtx 7y ago
> but the purpose of the article (get hands on with synths) is eliminated without JS. If there is nothing to read, there is no way to know there is any app, let alone decide that I want it to run. > why should web applications (beyond
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by dbtx 7y ago
One of those linked articles hit HN 5 years ago and almost nobody cared. I use NoScript since 2005, and I'm watching more and more things break, and it's "unpleasant" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by dbtx 7y ago
Web pages that don't show anything without JS are broken. Ones that show only a message about enabling JS are worse. It seems JS;DR was already a thing long before I felt the need for it yesterday, when I simply missed that article abo
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by dbtx 7y ago
To be fair, that wasn't Yelp-- it was a Yelp salesperson who was fired the next day. (edit: OK what difference does it make, but anyway "at least" they didn't stand by that person or their mistake) The "threatening
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by dbtx 7y ago
FWIW, I had to edit 'groups'... d'oh!
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by dbtx 7y ago
That grocers' apostrophe isn't in the group's real name.
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by dbtx 7y ago
3D positioning was added to 1.0, described in RP-049 dated 2009-07-23. The parameters' MSB is 61 (0x3D, nice) It bears some resemblance to OpenAL source parameters which is little surprise as Creative seems to have written it. Some obv