itsajoke

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by itsajoke 6y ago
Although like many I probably would prefer a traditional cursor, I appreciate that people are exploring the possibilities of the space. I hate change for its own sake. But there are so many choices that go into graphical user interface desi
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by itsajoke 6y ago
I know these consent warnings are generally considered an annoyance, as well as dangerous due to consent fatigue. Not to mention the little hacks I've seen POCs of where clicking the consent button allows for lots of nasty things since
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by itsajoke 6y ago
This was interesting enough that I subscribed to Smithsonian Magazine. Thanks for the recommendation!
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by itsajoke 6y ago
I once worked at a place where a minor piece of cloud infra got exploited. All the attacker did was run a monero miner on it.
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by itsajoke 6y ago
Well, that was mildly annoying. I finally got through and it threw up a bunch of nonsensical alert boxes and then redirected me to a rickroll.
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by itsajoke 6y ago
The performance on my phone makes me sad. PixiJS can barely hit 30 fps and the others do worse than that. FWIW, I have a Pixel 2 phone and I'm using Firefox.
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by itsajoke 6y ago
I think I sussed out the secret sauce from that Benq website. They're using the experimental getCoalescedEvents [1] function to uncollapse the mouse events! [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web&#x
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by itsajoke 6y ago
I did a little research into this. This website [1] mentions something I'd never heard of before. That some browsers "collapse" real mouse events into fewer "fake" events that tie the event poll rate to your monit
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by itsajoke 6y ago
I love this, but it suffers from an issue I've observed in my own attempts to make mouse-based drawing tools in the browser with JavaScript. If you move your mouse too quickly, the low polling rate of events becomes evident because ra
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by itsajoke 6y ago
This is fantastic! I love it! I only wish there was a website that helped me to locate hot reloadable structs in my area.
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by itsajoke 6y ago
I wish it could work in reverse. I want my lighting to control my toothbrush.
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by itsajoke 6y ago
As I read this, all I could think of was Facebook circa 2009 and Farmville. Be very careful what you wish for.
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by itsajoke 6y ago
As long as a language can still run, it's not dead. It might just be napping. Anecdote: when I saw that Python 2.x was reaching end of support, the contrarian in me thought, "finally it'll be stable enough to use"
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by itsajoke 6y ago
They forgot to mention Windows and MacOS.