jraph

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   by jraph 1y ago

   I would not want my email client to be relying on such brittle and incorrect heuristics. A better workaround would be to keep deleted emails around for some time so users have the option to restore them if the bug triggers. But this has dra
2. 782.▲
   by jraph 1y ago

   Well, I do think the thundebird team should investigate and fix this. But it is almost impossible to fix a bug you can't reproduce and have no clue why it might be happening.
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   by jraph 1y ago

   I disagree with them, I find selling free software to be a pretty solid and ethical way of funding free software, but why would they not have the right to have an opinion on this? I certainly have strong opinions about many software vendors
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   by jraph 1y ago

   > the problem is which flavours Whatever distro which is pre-installed on the computer you buy, or whatever your geek acquaintance picks, or whatever you pick as a geek yourself (any mainstream distro will do). > for how long The life
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   by jraph 1y ago

   > Even better, you can just tap the Super key, type a letter or two of the program, and press enter. Most DEs do that today, including KDE, Cinnamon, Xfce (at least in some config), and Windows itself (although that last one does to much
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   by jraph 1y ago

   You could have discovered that story yesterday :-)
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   by jraph 1y ago

   Interesting! So how do you pronounce comfortable there?
8. 788.▲
   by jraph 1y ago

   Indeed!
9. 789.▲
   by jraph 1y ago

   Still here, patiently hoping and waiting for this to calm down. Etymology of "patiently" relevant.
10. 790.▲
    by jraph 1y ago

    Spanish seems quite decent in both of these aspects.
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    by jraph 1y ago

    > it probably has more exceptions and weirdness than english. Pronunciation-wise, I doubt it. All your examples have English counterparts. Consider eleven (the vowel sounds for the same letter), psychology (silent p), wind / rewind,
12. 792.▲
    by jraph 1y ago

    Wouldn't just sharing bookmarks be more usable / efficient than forcing a time when they are played (and might not match others timezone or schedules - say I want to follow someone at the other side of the planet because I like th
13. 793.▲
    by jraph 1y ago

    > the legal apocalypse over data provenance takes hold I wouldn't hold my breath on this unfortunately, I'm more hoping on things happening on the cash-burning thing side.
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    by jraph 1y ago

    > Honestly, it's because of the "can you do a ton of unpaid work to support my niche, non-commercial application" attitude of the OP, which I find to be extremely distasteful. I understood their "Can you" as &quo
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    by jraph 1y ago

    I did, I quoted stuff from it, but you are not helping. You should quote the things relevant to the point your are making. Especially when you notice people are not picking up. You also keep saying that gdpr is not EPD, but your link is sho
16. 796.▲
    by jraph 1y ago

    > There are non-tracking cookies that get swept up in the EPD’s consent requirements Still not sure where you and nightpool got this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726#44434685
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    by jraph 1y ago

    I'm not sure what you mean but our ancestor comment describes this clearly. A language preference cookie is not tracking. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726#44431268
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    by jraph 1y ago

    I answered that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726#44434685
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    by jraph 1y ago

    functional cookies would be strictly necessary cookies, wouldn't they?
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    by jraph 1y ago

    The way I read this proves you wrong: > Cookie compliance [heading] > To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must: > Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except
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    by jraph 1y ago

    Are you sure? That's new to me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive says > The Directive provision applicable to cookies is Article 5(3). Recital 25 of the Preamble recognises the importance and
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    by jraph 1y ago

    > The law requires consent before using a cookie to store even a mundane option that was just directly modified by a user Nope. That's exactly why the evil cookie modals are not on the GDPR but only on the sites that want to track y
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    by jraph 1y ago

    You can enable lists that block various things, you'll find this in the settings :-)
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    by jraph 1y ago

    > It pains me every time a “well behaved” website pops up a cookie consent banner for the billionth time after I already consented because the browser wiped all the persistent user identifiers available to it. Do yourself a favor and ena
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    by jraph 1y ago

    uBlock Origin has lists that block most of these modals
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    by jraph 1y ago

    I guess Xee is the most promising option then :-) But indeed not ready yet.
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    by jraph 1y ago

    I'm not advocating complicated, I'm advocating lightweight. We should not be importing libraries left and right for our convenience to the detriment of the user. If you are going to use many features of jQuery, then it makes sense
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    by jraph 1y ago

    - Browsers are XSLT (1.0) processors. - Xee: https://github.com/Paligo/xee - xrust: https://docs.rs/xrust/latest/xrust/xslt/ - XJSLT (compiles XSLT to JS): https://github
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    by jraph 1y ago

    jQuery's scope is broad¹. It has at least: - a plugin system - its custom selector parser (because it had it before querySelector and is not totally compatible with it) - its abstraction to iron out browser differences (old IE vs stand
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    by jraph 1y ago

    I agree that DOM lists not being real arrays is a pita. I can understand why for getElementBy* methods which return live lists, but it's less clear for those methods returning fixed lists. But to me, these are minor inconveniences and