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by m0dest 6y ago
This is ironically what’s become popular for service-specific usernames (“on twitter @dan” and “on instagram @danny”). It’s arguably more useful than the email notation because prefixing with the @ is a clear sign that a username is coming
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by m0dest 6y ago
Space bar handling in media players is a particularly hard problem because space bar is also the key that users expect to trigger the currently focused button. Some users rely entirely on keyboard focus. So it starts to intersect with some
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by m0dest 6y ago
A blog post announcing version 1.0 is a good opportunity for a one-liner to explain what the heck your project is :) Just in case your audience happens to be expanding instead of contracting...
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by m0dest 6y ago
Bot detection seems like one of the more defensible uses of fingerprinting, and it might become a casualty in this war. If automated bot detection becomes impractical, the consequences are pretty negative for users: frequent captchas, log
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by m0dest 6y ago
I've really loved Reddit's new design. It's very clean and focused. I found their old design to be cluttered and give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content. I frankly wasn't really interested in Re
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by m0dest 6y ago
The combination of video streaming, bring-your-own-hardware, and closed source is just really difficult to get right. For every customer who has a good experience, there are three others who have some kind of persistent issue. There&#x27
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by m0dest 6y ago
The actual title of the article is "UniFi-Video Products End of Life Announcement". That's very different from this headline. Ubiquiti is very much still in the video business. They're just deprecating the previous ge
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by m0dest 6y ago
Note that they were bought by Akamai last year. I wouldn't count on the Krypton apps staying around, at least not in their current incarnation. A fork could survive, though.
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by m0dest 6y ago
HEIC (HEVC-based image) and AVIF (AV1-based image) both support a lossless mode that does efficient compression of blurs and gradients, without losing any visual fidelity. They're good candidates for screenshots in the future. Lossle
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by m0dest 6y ago
Part of it is about quality. These new formats now support 10+ bit color depth (which is critical for modern displays and for HDR) and full 4:4:4 chroma subsampling (to preserve pixel-level as needed). Many apps/services are currentl
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by m0dest 6y ago
BPG came before HEIF. It was a great proof of concept, but there’s little reason for it to exist now. BPG was an impressive one-man spec; HEIF is based on input from OS developers, camera makers, IC designers, display manufacturers, etc. HE
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by m0dest 6y ago
Only native apps that explicitly opt-in to HEIC support.
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by m0dest 6y ago
When Google was working on the first Chromebook, they decided to give away some prototype Chromebooks to developers for free. There was a web form to request one. A small portion of the requests were granted. But they also took a more targe
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by m0dest 7y ago
One aspect of "lightness" is transfer & disk: initial download duration, storage size per app (often over 100 MB for apps with embedded Chromium), and the size of each app update which often needs to update the embedded Chromi
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by m0dest 7y ago
For better or for worse, WebRTC is very opinionated about codecs and transports. Those might be great choices for some scenarios, but no developer wants their whole business to be constrained it.
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by m0dest 7y ago
Exactly this.
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by m0dest 7y ago
I worked on the design and rollout of multiple sign in providers on a popular app. There are best practices that avoid these issues (users forgetting which service they used), but they are rarely implemented. The trick is to be very forgiv
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by m0dest 7y ago
Short term, I suspect that it’s going to be more relevant for porting functionality to iPadOS and/or allowing that functionality to be shared between Mac and iPad (in Catalyst apps).
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by m0dest 7y ago
Great point. I’ll have to dream up another dystopian fate for SSH.
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by m0dest 7y ago
It’d probably be some new PKI on top of SSH where your private key would be held in escrow by an identity provider. e.g. Your username is your email address, and your email provider retains your key pair. It’d probably be portrayed as an im
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by m0dest 7y ago
Exactly. If you’re telling them that you’ve already made a decision not to convert to a paid user, then your trial evaluation is already complete. If you’d like to string them along until the last minute, that’s your prerogative, but don’t
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by m0dest 7y ago
Unless I’m missing something, RFC7710 doesn’t offer anything to address this “tiered” captive portal scenario; it just provides a less vendor-dependent protocol for the captive portal checks that are already being performed by the OS.
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by m0dest 7y ago
If you’re using a mainstream OS that automatically detects standard captive portals, the main reason why you’ll need this is for “tiered” captive portals like the ones offered on some airplanes. Those tiered captive portals have unique requ
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by m0dest 7y ago
I’ve used http://www.fake.com for years just because it worked. If that London-based artificial plant company ever goes out of business, I don’t know what I’ll do! ;)
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by m0dest 7y ago
I think you just reinvented Airbnb Plus https://www.airbnb.com/plus
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In Chrome, Google Assistant screen-scrapes and automates Fandango.com(androidpolice.com)
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by m0dest 7y ago
I get where you're coming from. I was around then too. :) Then this happened: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=sticky%2... The popular usage of "sticky headers" had the opposite me
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by m0dest 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Some folks are still using JavaScript for this, and it's unnecessary. One nit: This isn't a "sticky" footer, and that's a good thing. I'd just call this a "bottom footer" f
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by m0dest 7y ago
Mods, please fix the post title. The idea of a backdoor is speculation that is not substantiated by the article. "will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police" So far, all the article is saying is that ci
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by m0dest 7y ago
Agree. The title of this post is dangerously deceptive and should be changed. The linked source does not claim or substantiate any backdoor. >"will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police" So far, all t

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