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by mjgs 6y ago
So the only way to not have consent forms is to browse from outside the UK & EU? It’s getting more and more difficult to have a good experience browsing the web. That worries me.
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by mjgs 6y ago
I don’t know, seems to me that most of the sites I see them in are US sites that say they have to get consent because of GDPR. When you browse from outside the UK, the sites don’t have the consent forms.
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by mjgs 6y ago
I’ve been wondering about whether it should be something implemented in the browser too. Instinctively I feel that better browser tools would be beneficial, but it’s an odd problem that we are trying to solve. I am not even sure we understa
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by mjgs 6y ago
I have over the years developed a similar template. It’s got usage, arg parsing, etc. One thing I find incredibly useful, which doesn’t appear in the minimal template presented here (unless I’ve missed it), is the ability to run the program
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by mjgs 6y ago
Sort of related, does anyone know if all the consent form popups will stop once the UK leaves the EU?
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by mjgs 6y ago
Great article and some really interesting comments in this thread. I wrote a piece just a few days ago talking about the same topic, although it was aimed at earlier stage developers, so there is less detail, but the overall message is simi
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by mjgs 6y ago
SEEKING WORK, South East Asia (UTC+7), remote work OK Very flexible with working hours, can accommodate most timezones. Willing to relocate: Yes Hi I’m Mark, a developer originally from the UK. I specialise in devops/system tools, wor
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by mjgs 6y ago
It’s intersecting to get an idea of how to quickly do logging from within a code editor. My linkblog uses a web app, with a bookmarklet frontend, so it’s easy to post when browsing the web from inside the browser. But for a bug log it makes
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by mjgs 6y ago
Thanks for the elaboration, your description of vim and emacs as paleolithic editors made me smile. I was introduced to vim a long time ago at a previous company, and so I went that route rather than emacs. I’m moderately good at vim now, b
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by mjgs 6y ago
That sounds kind of cool, though I’m not very familiar with emacs so it looks a bit strange to me. Does it essentially create the emacs equivalent of an html form, that you fill out and it then adds what you added to preconfigured text file
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by mjgs 6y ago
I could see this being a useful habit but if it’s just using vim and text files, it would be very tedious. I think you would need a tool to easily add, view and search to make it practical. Generally I like the idea of creating personal log
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by mjgs 6y ago
Genius workflow implementation. I want this on my website! There was a post last week about creating an uptime monitor using Issues and Actions: https://github.com/upptime/upptime It’s great to see a second example tha
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by mjgs 6y ago
Location: Currently South East Asia (UTC+7), very flexible with working hours, can accommodate most timezones Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Hi I’m Mark, a developer originally from the UK. I specialise in devops/system tools, w
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by mjgs 6y ago
Structuring your newsletter into seasons sounds a bit strange at first but the author does make quite a compelling argument. I guess my newsletter technically would be right in the middle of season 1 right now. Likely the season 1 finale is
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by mjgs 6y ago
It’s fun to read about this. I get the sense that they knew they were on a new frontier and excitedly building new things, just because it was cool. Reminds me of early web2.0, and the recent javascript cambrian explosion. It’s cool to real
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by mjgs 6y ago
Really enjoyed the interview, thanks for making it. I’ll for sure be including a link to it in one of my upcoming newsletters.
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by mjgs 6y ago
It’s surprising to me that sites which depend on users seeing their content to make money, would add something that blocks the user from seeing the site. It makes no sense. If there isn’t a legal requirement, why would they risk impacting t
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by mjgs 6y ago
Does anyone know if all the GDPR type laws in EU and US are causing Japanese website makers to add consent forms on their websites? That’s probably the worst usability problem with the current web, it used to be popups, now it’s constant in
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by mjgs 6y ago
I totally focused in on the same bit. I reckon Wordpress has an earlyish web utopian vibe, or I guess technically it’s the parent company Automattic.
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by mjgs 6y ago
As a human I feel that having morality is very important, but moving all that stuff aside for a second, the only thing in the end that really matters is whether we will cause our own extinction. Nature took a very long time to get us to whe
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by mjgs 6y ago
Materials Science is super mind blowing, but a lot of the stuff published is so difficult to read, with complicated equations, unpronounceable elements. So it’s good to read an article that explains why these discoveries are important, by k
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by mjgs 6y ago
In many ways I echo your sentiment. One thing I can’t stop thinking about though is how utterly hopeless we are at creating good regulations. The regulations seem to have good intentions but end up doing more harm than good, often ending up
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by mjgs 6y ago
Haha yeah perhaps it is. I like the idea of having something that is super robust, when you’re listening to podcasts it’s all audio anyway, as long as there is a way to select what your listening to, it doesn’t matter that much. Back in the
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by mjgs 6y ago
I feel like there should be a specialist sturdy podcast listening device, small form factor, with super long battery life, WiFi, web interface, phono jack, maybe also ethernet port. It would have a pod catcher running in it, and a basic scr
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by mjgs 6y ago
I don’t know about intellij but I did use Webstorm for a few years, nice UI, but eventually it just slowed down to a crawl and was unusable. The support team kept saying to wait for the next release, which never fixed the issue. Very bad ex
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by mjgs 6y ago
Hasn’t this already been addressed in this post (1st Oct)? GitHub Actions: Deprecating set-env and add-path commands https://github.blog/changelog/2020-10-01-github-actions-depr...
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by mjgs 6y ago
I think we’re getting pretty close to understanding the root cause. Tools that you run in actions can trigger the stdout commands (setting env variables and a few others) via printing to the console. To do some damage though they need a few
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by mjgs 6y ago
Right so that enables a potential hacker to set an env variable, which has to in a later step get picked up by another cli tool that uses the env variable in such a way that the contents of the env variable gets executed as code. So interpr
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by mjgs 6y ago
Yeah the way token permissions are implemented totally baffles me every time. I never know if I’m creating a token for read or write or both.
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by mjgs 6y ago
I can confirm that the scheduled actions definitely don’t always run on time. Sometimes up to 10 mins late. According to support this happens because the system gets overloaded sometimes. I had some content slip through into my main site a

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