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by lol768 6y ago
Addendum: wtf, this change (or a change that happened prior to the final dump from Kuma) appears to have lost almost the entirety of one of the articles I have contributed. Compare: https://web.archive.org/web/20200113
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by lol768 6y ago
I hope they keep an eye on contribution statistics post this change. I've said it before, but I think this move was a mistake. They've thrown away the benefits of a incredible wiki-based platform (where changes were pretty much i
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by lol768 6y ago
> Maybe one day these things will be standard Many of these things already are standard for EU data subjects.
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by lol768 6y ago
> If I pay I want: No ads, no tracking, full access to my own data in sane export formats, schemas, no data mining, no data selling, no "sharing data with our partners", encryption options, no dumb hoops, no dark patterns, the
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by lol768 6y ago
Which languages do you mix and match that something like IntelliJ IDEA can't support?
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by lol768 6y ago
Eeek, vector icons (which would work perfectly fine as SVGs) rasterized into 1500px+ width PNG files!
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by lol768 6y ago
Take a look at the referenced URL, you'll see the returned content is something like this a:1:{i:0;a:23:{s:2:"id";i:466939644;s:5:"title";s:17:"Cognifirm intro 3";s:11:"description";s:0:&qu
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by lol768 6y ago
> those have to be rewritten from scratch if someone wants them for FF also. What? Why are they not standard WebExtensions?
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by lol768 6y ago
Yet another "oops" to add to the pile https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871246510264320
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by lol768 6y ago
Cloud SSH has been broken for months https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/57957 - no movement despite reporting it via the official channels too. This is one of the first features a new GCE user is li
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by lol768 6y ago
https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/measurements/28334941/#!probes is showing you that, for a v4 connection to twitter.com, probe 6745 is getting back a TLS cert which does not match the cert provided to the majori
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by lol768 6y ago
> So what’s the point? If you don’t trust the certificate you won’t be able to browse the internet at all. If all the major browser vendors do this it makes Kazakhstan's position quite difficult.
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by lol768 6y ago
There's a bug open on BugZilla to get this new CA added to OneCRL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1680927
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by lol768 6y ago
Worker's rights _are_ rights of the utmost importance. I'm curious as to how your perspective on these worker's rights and EU regulations generally has arisen ... is your primary experience of employment one based on working
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by lol768 6y ago
It's been this way in the UK for a long time, though it's set at £1.20 no-questions-asked via the basic PAYE portal and any amount you want to claim over the £6/week threshold on the self-assessment if you can evidence it (wi
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by lol768 6y ago
Nuffield will do you a private antibody test for about £60.
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by lol768 6y ago
n=2,741 for the 90% efficacy dosing regime (involving a lower dose) n=8,895 for the 62% efficacy variant
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by lol768 6y ago
Mozilla provided feedback on the text fragments spec: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194#is...
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by lol768 6y ago
Even in cases where you're using a private GP service and theoretically not costing the NHS anything at all; there's no tax rebate. To be clear though, I'm fine with this - the NHS is for everyone and it should be funded for
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by lol768 6y ago
Having private medical insurance does not affect your liability to pay NI like everyone else. In fact it increases your tax costs, because private insurance provided by e.g. an employer is treated as a BIK.
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by lol768 6y ago
It's not implemented correctly: function t() { b().then(function (e) { n.search('borders', e) }) } o.$watch('map.borders', t, !0), triggers a pushState instead of a r
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by lol768 6y ago
Seems like an entirely reasonable response. > I haven't seen a reach out from you so far but my apologies if I missed it. Sounds like the GitHub issue OP didn't try to contact the engineer directly first.. might've been an
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by lol768 6y ago
> This is because lazy/incompetent web developers make their sites in Chrome and don’t bother testing other browsers. This has not been my experience at all.. I use Firefox on a day to day basis and generally build applications whic
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by lol768 6y ago
What're you implying? That non-trivial amounts are never actually fined? TIM were fined 2780% of the CEO's base salary recently.
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by lol768 6y ago
£20M and £18.4M are still reasonably sizeable amounts - and given the pandemic has likely impacted BA & Marriott's profits substantially already, I think some sort of adjustment was likely the fair thing to do. H&M have been fi
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by lol768 6y ago
> and yet, it isn't our place as software developers to just assume we are smarter and know more than everyone else in the entire world 100x this - and Hacker News is really guilty of doing this. How about we focus on making underst
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by lol768 6y ago
> Have us testify before technologically illiterate politicians and fine us 1% of what we pay our CEO? Slack operates in the EU and has paying customers in the EU. It also likes to take advantage of anti-competition regulations when conv
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by lol768 6y ago
Yeah, reading dang's wording again brought back memories of that thread and all the events back then - and my general disbelief at the result. This year in particular has been weird for me for passage-of-time; it feels simultaneously l
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by lol768 6y ago
This had polluted my browser history to the point I couldn't even see HN after a few minutes of expanding bullets and playing about with it :( Why are people so tempted to do this?
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by lol768 6y ago
Yeah, it would be nicer if it used MathML (via Mathjax or other means).

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