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by defanor 2y ago
Being nitpicky, and since the article itself focuses on things not inflicted on users, here are a few things it still inflicts on users: - Changing line-height. - Changing fonts (or trying to, if it is allowed in a web browser). - Changing
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by defanor 2y ago
I guess that Cambodian lion is rather like the Chinese lions, which "are intended to reflect the emotion of the animal as opposed to the reality of the lion" [1], falling into the bucket with intentionally unrealistic (non-lifelik
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by defanor 2y ago
Sounds like a fun fact, but were those drawn by people who can draw cows and humans, and aim to draw realistically? Middle Ages were quite a dip in art generally, AFAICT, with humans often not looking realistic, either.
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by defanor 2y ago
Do you mean that cryptocurrency submissions were penalized that way? I recall them being about as annoying and similarly filling the front page with uninformative submissions, but have not heard of such penalties. Same as with other subject
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by defanor 2y ago
And if you have JS disabled by default, it redirects to a page on a different domain name, so you cannot easily allow it in noscrpt just for that website, even if you want to. I gave up on that though; judging by the title, the article is g
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by defanor 2y ago
I do store and update backups of public information regularly, since losing access to much of the Internet completely is not such a remote possibility here; many resources are blocked already, both proxying services and protocols are being
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by defanor 2y ago
And I am okay with YouTube when a video makes sense, but in this case they have basically crammed a short article into a video, making it more awkward to read: slides with texts and diagrams, with some background music, and only a video dem
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by defanor 2y ago
Last year, I went for an explicitly useless project of this kind, which would probably qualify as an "elaborate ASCII art generator": ray tracing into ASCII graphics, in Emacs Lisp [1]. Afterwards, after (or during?) AoC 2023, ins
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by defanor 2y ago
> Your motion through the x dimension in space, for example, is completely independent of your motion through the other two (y and z) spatial dimensions. If one considers motion at (or near) the speed of light, that speed would have to b
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by defanor 2y ago
Neither does soft wrap play nicely with preformatted texts (e.g., ASCII graphics, including diagrams and ornaments such as titles centered with spaces, as well as formatted code). And the support for soft-wrapping in tools varies: it may be
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by defanor 2y ago
Not directly related to the article's message (though may count as collaborative "sanding"), but related to its UI: the page has texts centered (margin-left: auto, margin-right: auto, short lines), but paragraphs with embedde
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by defanor 2y ago
Without JS, it does not show any content at all, but once you disable CSS as well, the contents show up.
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by defanor 2y ago
Indeed, both are mentioned in the "programming" section, which I have either misread or skimmed over. Edit: The options in the same paragraph are for different languages though (I saw those), but nevertheless it also mentions that
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by defanor 2y ago
Strange to see an overview of network protocols in the guide, and a web server in the SDK: they are very generic, do not seem like any of that should be specific to ESP8266. Edit: Removed two points of the comment that were wrong (as mentio
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by defanor 3y ago
I guess you are considering the case where a single signer transfers commits over SSH to a single verifier, with both putting the same meaning into the act of transfer as people normally would into a signature. But git is a distributed VCS,
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by defanor 3y ago
And when font selection by a web page is disallowed altogether, it is rendered with my preferred font, but with a reduced font-weight, slightly increased font-size, and increased line-height. The low weight in particular, combined with it p
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by defanor 3y ago
I do not manage a mailing list, since the one I have set is not active, but I found Mailman 3 to be too resource-hungry, so went with much more lightweight mlmmj for mailing list management, and MHonArc for archiving. At least the initial s
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by defanor 3y ago
If one is not willing to get up, they can just sleep through the alarm, stash the phone (or other alarm device) somewhere, or turn it off (not restart); I doubt software can help much with those. I think the most efficient strategy is to de
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by defanor 3y ago
There are nice little headings in the video. But sometimes there are larger (multi-line, with paddings) headings, or simply broken ones (e.g., custom fonts with icons that don't load), and such headings are more annoying than useful to
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Jangouts: Videoconferencing Based on WebRTC and Janus Gateway(github.com)
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by defanor 3y ago
I thought the non-evil phase of Google is commonly viewed to be considerably earlier, sometime before Gmail (2004). While the article mentions 2010 as still being in it. I wonder whether by 2040 somebody will lament the good old Google of 2
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by defanor 3y ago
That aspect could be leaner, indeed, although all those processes put together can easily consume fewer resources than a single bloated program or a web page, especially if they do not include a particularly large DE. The systems I have in
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by defanor 3y ago
While I generally agree with the article, the "reality check" project seems somewhat forced: there are many widely used projects that are fairly lean. Many of the GNU projects are like that, not to mention explicitly minimalistic
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by defanor 3y ago
Took me about a minute to identify it is a yo-yo (without reading any of the discussions), and they point out there that the official ball has a yo-yo for Y, so I am quite convinced that it is supposed to be a yo-yo as well. Just not drawn
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by defanor 3y ago
> This is very different from where we’re at today, where there’s one format: HTML The part of the proposal it comments listed "pure ASCII", and surely we have plaintext files on the web as well. And all kinds of images, sound,
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by defanor 3y ago
I would like to rant about yet another website (book, article) on typography or accessibility worsening the typography and accessibility with their tweaks, and advising the reader to do the same. The fixed font size and increased line heigh
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by defanor 3y ago
> Is this “because I can” or does XMPP fill a niche in modern text chat? Not only text chat, but also audio/video calls, file transfer. And not sure if it is exactly a "niche", but it is a standard for a federated IM, quit
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by defanor 3y ago
Looks good. A couple more things I find useful to set with Prosody are: - The firewall module to blacklist spammers; that can be done with a system-wide firewall as well, but it is nicer for diagnostics to serve proper errors, not just to d
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by defanor 3y ago
> I'd like to be a purist about email, but I just can't bring myself to care, because as long as my correspondent is a corporate whore, why shouldn't I be too? A copy of the email is going to end up on their servers anyway
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by defanor 3y ago
"My mistake that seemed to potentially cost up to $500M, but then it turned out fine" would be more accurate. While a more appropriate title would be something akin to "learning from mistakes" or "a Mars rover testi

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