jraph

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1. 3841.▲
   by jraph 7y ago

   Ah ah, no need to go to the extra length of sharing your Wi-Fi for that, your friends' phones already know where they are by scanning nearby WiFi access points, cellular towers and using GPS.
2. 3842.▲
   by jraph 7y ago

   I'm using uBlock Origin with JavaScript blocked by default. But your message is what I get on the Google Earth link, even with JavaScript enabled.
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   by jraph 7y ago

   No, Google Maps is actually a case where JavaScript makes sense. But this message reminded me of many seemingly static pages that are actually blank if you don't enable JavaScript, without even any hint that you should enable JavaScrip
4. 3844.▲
   by jraph 7y ago

   Firefox Mobile renders it well for me, are you sure that the comment is not rendered as it should be (with garbage from line 1 overflowing over line 2)?
5. 3845.▲
   by jraph 7y ago

   Ah, I referred to the third line, "𝔻𝕠𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜? ", as the "second one" in my message, without mention for line 2, which renders correctly, fortunately. But thanks for the heads up.
6. 3846.▲
   by jraph 7y ago

   "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." Ah ah! Quite incredibly and sadly spot on.
7. 3847.▲
   by jraph 7y ago

   When two bad names collide in funny ways, creating a "No, this cannot possibly be true" moment.
8. 3848.▲
   by jraph 7y ago

   I don't get why plain text would be more accessible than a well-formed HTML email. A screen reader could say "this is a title", "this is a list item". In plain text, what do you get? "dash bla bla"? Though
9. 3849.▲
   by jraph 7y ago

   Email clients block remote images by default. If an email client does not, it's a bug.
10. 3850.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    I don't want to parse Markdown when I read emails. (and I don't have common sense either)
11. 3851.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    That's what the LaTeX It! Thunderbird add-on [1] does I think. Good extension by the way. Not sure it will work with Thunderbird 68, I didn't check. [1] https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/ad
12. 3852.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    The first one does not work great in a terminal. The words are readable but I don't get the full experience. The second one, pretty good.
13. 3853.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    Oh, yeah, absolutely. I can see a corporation / organization pay for Windows XP security updates. Regular people, not so much.
14. 3854.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    Making people pay for security would be bad. A solution to this is having an upstream kernel (like mainline Linux) work on the phone, and having fairly standard hardware in the phone with in-kernel drivers and free / standard libraries
15. 3855.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    I also propose a semantic <ad> HTML tag, which would behave like <section>, to represent parts of a document that are an ad. With an optional do-not-block attribute.
16. 3856.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    Don't hope. Don't guess. Use apps from F-Droid. There is still a risk at the app level but it is much lower. On iOS, there is no such thing so you can't do that. At the phone level, there are still opaque binary blobs, so don
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    by jraph 7y ago

    It seems he is using a Thinkpad T400s computer with Libreboot [1] endorsed by the FSF. [1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
18. 3858.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    My first thought seeing this title: "Why, no. Next!" My second thought: the voice of Linus Torvalds at DebConf 14 saying "Hum… No! Hum… that was quick." [1] Though this is only speaking about a recursively defined regula
19. 3859.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    If I understood correctly, you may be able to do that using pexpect and the interact method. import struct, fcntl, termios, signal, sys def sigwinch_passthrough (sig, data): s = struct.pack("HHHH", 0, 0, 0, 0)
20. 3860.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    Someone using a rust implementation of telnet listening to port 25 to answer incoming requests.
21. 3861.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    One day, my grand parents told me a secret to access Medium without hassle. I can't tell you in details since it's a secret but it really works, believe me. It's incredible. It has something to do with herbs, mindfulness and
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    by jraph 7y ago

    Interesting video of Linus Torvalds' stance on the GPLv3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU (edit: this is actually cited in a comment on the linked page, but I'm leaving the link here so HNer who won&#x
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    by jraph 7y ago

    Yes, sorry, I meant compared to.
24. 3864.▲
    by jraph 7y ago

    A software update notice cannot be considered as an ad, can it?
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    by jraph 7y ago

    I think that it would have been even funnier to say that 99% of developers and 99% of drivers are better than the median, but I only figured this thanks to your parent's comment.
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    by jraph 7y ago

    I used a variety of GNU/Linux distros: Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch, Slackware, Frugalware, Fedora and more recently openSUSE Tumbleweed. Honestly, I don't understand what makes Arch so special. I have mostly learned things on Ubuntu
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    by jraph 7y ago

    Good illustration of TIL by the way. "TIL Today I Learned"
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    by jraph 7y ago

    Yeah I'm fed up with unwarranted mentions of Brave. Indeed they are always "aggressive, misleading, promotional", and nothing close to informational. The article was supposed to be about Apple and Webkit, and Brave is just of
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    by jraph 7y ago

    > Take all the money spent on ineffective things like paper recycling and disallowing plastic bags, and put it towards the technologies that can really help, like cheaper solar power, cheaper wind power, cheaper batteries, and carbon seq
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    by jraph 7y ago

    Maybe some/many would use more if they weren't capped?