jackewiehose

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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> The precise rules for function names are murky; mostly it seems like whatever Bash can parse unambiguously is allowed > What is this useful for? I think it makes sense because bash function invocation is the same as calling an exter
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> It seems like the colon is too ambiguous (is used as a protocol delimiter, delimiter for user/pass, delimiter for port). and because that was still too boring they came up with ipv6
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> That’s a personal opinion Yes of course, what are you expecting here? Do you think the UI designers of Firefox or Windows make their decisions based only on scientifically approved facts? They probably have "UI scientists" w
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
I'm always open to self-induced change. There was a time I tried every window manager on X11 and it was fun but now I have found my place and I'd like to stay there. When the UI-change is just for the worse and it disrupts me in
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
I wish they would bring back simple directory bookmarks instead of these "smart" links that detect when I rename the target directory (so annoying!) and that you can't even give a display name. After upgrade to Win10 I sudde
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
Whenever I hear of a new UI design for software I use, I'm terrified. I seriously can't remember a case when that was good news. From Win95 to Gnome to KDE - they never became better. Just more colorful and more resource hungry.
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
And there's only one call to StrAppend() which is easily verified as safe.
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> Besides — if your private extension isn't malware, why not just upload it Because it's private. Because I don't want to register and maintain a Mozilla account. Because I can't trust my current network environment.
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> Google's new extension interfaces are reasonable though. They really are more secure. I want extensions to have as little access as possible. Maybe then just don't install the extension -> voila, zero access given! Of cou
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> If this wasn't Mozilla ... They already disabled (private) extension support on the Windows build (you have to upload your extension to Mozilla servers) and they completely disabled extension support on Firefox mobile (no, that s
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> isn’t process creation more reasonable with WSL? In my experience WSL is overall much slower than cygwin.
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
I also can't use magit because of this. I thought the poor performance came mostly from my big repository with lots of binary files but now I 'git-filter-repo'ed the .git-directory from 2-3 GB (packed) down to 150 MB and mag
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
Tip for web designers: Either have infinity-scrolling OR a page footer at the bottom, not both.
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
yes, I guess someone has just been very pedantic. Normally "Kaiserslauten" should be understood too.
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> super picky about pronunciation No I don't think so, we have to deal with a lot of annoying dialects ;-) In that example it's not the pronunciation, "Kaiserslauten" is just wrong. It's like saying "New Yok
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by jackewiehose 5y ago
> And all of that gets lost if I close a tab or even restart my browser to upgrade. Or when you just visit a link and then press the back-button. I remember 20 years ago you would press the back-button and your previous page was IMMEDIAT
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
> you can do fun things like disable the Wake Lock API How? Is there a hidden about:config?
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
Level? Sorry I don't know midi at all. I sent you the file (it also plays very slow). In this case I don't even need the missing notes. That would just be more complicated :)
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
Great, I'd appreciate that setting very much. And also thanks for the midi files. I missed visiting the gitlab link, do you mean there should be a direct link to the midi-directory? I can't find that.
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
This inspired me to hook up the piano I once bought but then never touched. Two questions: 1) Can you make it more sensitive to slow keypresses? I have to press quite fast / with force to get the keypress recognized (for comparison pi
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
Yes, I remember the meme was already a thing when that episode came out.
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
And what about fingerprinting? What is this good for if you can be tracked so easily anyway? At least cookies give you some control. The alternative seems worse.
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
Argh - I kept on reading because I didn't get the memo that activex isn't a thing anymore... HN should have a mandatory date-field for submissions. Not the first time I fell for that.
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
Does this make much of a difference? My impression was that we already lost against fingerprinting and browser vendors keep adding more and more feature crap which makes it only worse.
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
I just had to reinstall Firefox Mobile (clearing all settings) and then I wasn't able to zoom on a lot of websites. Fortunately FF has an option for that but I wonder why there needs to be such an option. Why would a website-maker de
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
It's still a much bigger hassle to implement HTTPS than just HTTP.
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
> When browsers will only display sites that are authorized by corporations we're eventually going to be in big trouble Likewise they removed support for unsigned add-ons. So you can't just write a small private add-on withou
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
> try running `python3 http.server 8080` on a safe directory on your laptop, and see if you can easily access a file from it from your mobile Works without a problem (I just tried python -m SimpleHTTPServer). You just have to type out th
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
> Firefox itself could run a free Certificate Authority if it ever came to that how would that be any better?
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by jackewiehose 6y ago
I would love to play random EXE files from the internet but I don't think that's the way to go. Open source would be more trustworthy.

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