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by extra88 5y ago
Good point. It could be a short-term cache only only adds networks to longer-term storage if their relative location doesn't change over a period. Or, what I already wrote, they store it but with "hotspot," based on some heur
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by extra88 5y ago
> we have to assume they do No we don't. > collecting data from people's networks using their Google Maps wifi-sniffing vehicles That was an error due to misconfiguration, failing to discard the data beyond that which identi
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by extra88 5y ago
I expect that if an SSID is not associated with a stable location, it's not even stored in the db because it doesn't serve the purpose of being a landmark (or stores it but with "hotspot," based on some heuristic, and th
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by extra88 5y ago
> Nobody expects that I can show up directly at their house, if they just say their SSID or simply send me a screenshot of their Android home screen. (It's not relevant to the discussion but Android home screens show the name of the
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by extra88 5y ago
Your router is publicly broadcasting its SSID ("Pretty fly for a WiFi" or whatever). Google Street View cars, Android devices, etc. have noticed the SSID in their vicinity and submitted the SSID with an approximate location to dat
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by extra88 5y ago
I thought this was posted because it was a change but the Wayback Machine's information indicates it's been the case since at least 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170308160950/https://issue
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by extra88 5y ago
You misunderstand me; one will not use container queries to load images responsively, responsive image standards will be changed in ways that are informed by how container queries are implemented.
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by extra88 5y ago
> If I have a container with width: 10em, and then in there an image with width: 50%. I want to just e.g. specify 3 alternative images with widths 200px, 400px, 800px. Basically, you want container queries, something long desired. It’s a
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by extra88 5y ago
> Selecting by standardized test scores would result in a substantially less socially elite student body than the current system. A more Asian one. Stopping that is why there’s a movement to get rid of the SATs. Except the most elite sch
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by extra88 5y ago
Money is fungible, employees are not. Whether others at Mozilla may be tasked with implementing this API or Mozilla (or someone else) contracts Igalia to do it, the employees responsible for and qualified to work on UI are still going to ge
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by extra88 5y ago
Do you really think the people who implemented UI changes are the same people who could implement an end-to-end encryption API?
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by extra88 5y ago
That's what it says after you use the [-] to collapse a comment and it has a single reply. It also counts replies to replies (and so on).
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by extra88 5y ago
>> Web developers have been starting projects with "reset" stylesheets for decades. > Yes, and this is an unfortunate hack. It would be nice to remove the necessity to remove the need for these and remove the maintenance
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by extra88 5y ago
Theirs does sound like a good plan (won't find that in every state) but they're also relatively poor and receiving a large subsidy to cover most of the monthly premium.
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by extra88 5y ago
These gig job workers are classified as contractors, not employees (except where a judge or a local law says they must be employees). I don't know how, or if, workers' comp applies to contractors, I suspect it doesn't apply a
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by extra88 5y ago
> If a car smashed into me and I couldn't code, my company wouldn't pay me either? Mine would (not a company, a university). For the first two weeks, I'd use accrued Sick Time then switch to their Short-Term Disability tha
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by extra88 5y ago
> I wish there was a way to tell the browser to add more default styles to my document. Non-Chrome browsers still have modifiable user stylesheets (though I think only Safari for Mac still has a GUI option to do it) but more realisticall
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by extra88 5y ago
Not if you use Safari's feature to always load pages on a domain in Reader mode or add a Firefox extension that does the same. Gizmodo articles should load in Reader mode but don't, I assume they're doing that intentionally.
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by extra88 5y ago
Adding an ARIA role only adds the role, you'd then have to add more to name the element (in place of the missing <label>), to put the element in the tab order, and JavaScript event listeners to handle keyboard input correctly. Do
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by extra88 5y ago
That doesn't sound worse than not naming the inputs or coding the buttons for keyboard interaction, things inexperienced developers will do if they're not educated in the basics of semantic HTML (even those who do use inputs too o
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by extra88 5y ago
> most websites are now blacklisting almost all datacentre IPs including Amazon, Azure, etc “Most” sounds like an exaggeration. Wouldn’t this also create problems for virtual desktop services like Amazon Workspaces? > It almost makes
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by extra88 5y ago
Using semantic HTML in web authoring is not the same as the concept of the “semantic web” [0]. The article makes it clear what it is about and it’s not about the goals of the semantic web. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by extra88 5y ago
> In short, if there is a semantic element that matches your need, use it. Yes! This is known as The First Rule of ARIA.
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by extra88 5y ago
Privacy and security are not the same thing. Also, an app can follow all the privacy and security guidelines and still use dark patterns to mislead and get something from you that you wouldn’t otherwise give up or outright defraud you. I’m
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by extra88 5y ago
While most screen reader users have some vision, screen reader software is mostly not affected by styling changes so they will still say "link" when there is one. People with various kinds of low vision (or color blindness) who do
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by extra88 5y ago
On the web, links are underlined by default, a clear, non-color way to visually convey they're links. It has become way too common for sites to remove that styling, maybe showing the underline when the cursor is hovered (useless on mo
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by extra88 5y ago
Screen readers can read what's generated by JavaScript just fine but yes, this is a BS way to deliver a blog article. The article content is even in the page, as Markdown in an inline script block, not where a user could read it if som
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by extra88 5y ago
Does OBS have a virtual camera for Mac now? For a long time it didn't.
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by extra88 5y ago
Zoom has been the best for me. I haven't used Jitsi Meet, I've heard it can be good but an interviewee is rarely the one to pick the call medium. > Teams doesn't really work on Firefox Don't use the browser version of
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by extra88 5y ago
A browser's built-in Reader Mode (Safari, Mac and mobile, Firefox, Edge's Immserive Reader, Chrome has one behind a feature flag) can be very helpful when they work. A better solution is probably one of the browser extensions, lik

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