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by nathcd 8y ago
It looks like the "What is your most impressive accomplishment?" question on the application has a max length of 60 characters. I can understand it needing to be short, but that seems really short. I'm having a tough time t
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by nathcd 8y ago
> That’s the scalability issue of Blockchain. Fully decentralization cannot afford scalability, just as we cannot afford referendum on every polical proposal. What you're talking about here is decentralized consensus, which is very
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Congress' latest move to extend copyright protection is misguided(wired.com)
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by nathcd 9y ago
Something maybe of interest to HNers to keep an eye on: I noticed that the creator of the Carp language tweeted about getting Carp ready for the Lisp Game Jam. https://twitter.com/e_svedang/statuses/977569718101069
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by nathcd 9y ago
This is one of the reasons I really like uMatrix. In addition to giving really fine-grained controls over what you load (by type of asset, by domain given current domain), it gives you really great visibility into what a webpage is doing, a
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by nathcd 9y ago
My concern isn't about any current AP clients; it's that we'd be cutting off a whole dearth of potential future AP clients by making it the general expectation that all viable AP clients support WebRTC, and thus the task of b
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by nathcd 9y ago
> and anyway provides a fallback to direct streaming (HTTP), so that any browser can interact. Ah, that's awesome. That definitely assuages my fears somewhat. > [ActivityPub] In no way it defines how you access media. ActivityStr
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by nathcd 9y ago
This is the part that I find somewhat unfortunate about Peertube. This means that only ActivityPub clients that support WebRTC will be able to access Peertube media. Right now, I think this basically means just modern web browsers. It bothe
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by nathcd 9y ago
Re: Netflix -- will this feature have control over media embedded via EME?
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by nathcd 9y ago
This is a pretty uncharitable description of copyleft. There are those of us who don't want our code to be used in proprietary software. When you say "licences that actually enable software to be written" or "_useful_ li
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by nathcd 9y ago
If you're cool with paid[0] or self-hosted[1], I've heard Newsblur is nice. [0] https://newsblur.com/ [1] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
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by nathcd 9y ago
I quite like Hover. I moved from Namecheap awhile back because of the old Namecheap UI. Only found out later that Hover is owned by Tucows, who also owns Ting, which coincidentally is my data provider of choice, and whom I also love.
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by nathcd 9y ago
I have a tangential question for anyone who might know more about tab stuff than me. Awhile ago, I looked into making Firefox not do any tab management. Basically, always have one tab per window, middle click always opens a new window, norm
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by nathcd 9y ago
I do exactly that with a /links.html page. Unfortunately it requires js because it's just pulling in my latest shares from Pinboard. (But the link to that page gets added to the navigation with js, so non-js user agents don't
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by nathcd 9y ago
This comment seems unrelated to the one it's replying to. Did you mean to respond to a different comment or at the top level maybe?
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by nathcd 9y ago
No need for Mozilla to make server software for this; Thunderbird/Lightning do CalDav and CardDav just fine, right? Seems that cs702's problem isn't with Thunderbird, it's with Google supporting CalDav and CardDav for sy
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by nathcd 9y ago
I'm excited about notty [1], but I'm bummed the repo hasn't seen much action in awhile. I think the maintainer is on the Rust core team now. Some of its goals from the readme: - Full support for rich text formatting, includin
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by nathcd 9y ago
Agreed. Blockchains have yet to power anything of practical value. They're arguably technically interesting, and may be useful in the long term, but the hype is pathetic and embarrassing.
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by nathcd 9y ago
Yeah, you're right. Like @enkiv2 said, it's really about control. If the user controls ordering and filtering, any old order is fine. I think the reason plain old reverse-chronological seems notable is because most people who use
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by nathcd 9y ago
> unadulterated reverse-chronological order This is a wonderful phrase. It's hilarious and strange what we've come to value in a feed. What else might we now be taking for granted that ad companies are going to fuck up?
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by nathcd 9y ago
FWIW, I agree with you, but > But let's pretend your point were valid: would it remain valid with WebASM? Yes (pretending GP's point were valid), because WASM has a text format[1], which is how "View Source" on the we
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by nathcd 9y ago
Hmmm, that's a possibility I haven't considered. I suppose because I'm having trouble imagining what that in-between space looks like. If an ad is targeted at a user, doesn't that necessarily mean they were tracked to so
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by nathcd 9y ago
> Yes, it's one thing for serial content like a podcast or talk show, it's another for more artistic endeavors where it would lesson the artistic credibility to have an ad ingrained into the video. > It's also not a sui
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by nathcd 9y ago
Also, there's no reason creators couldn't use "dumb ads" where they read ad copy during their videos, and sell the spots themselves. Seems to be the main revenue source in the podcast world. It feels weird to be an advoc
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by nathcd 9y ago
For uBlock Origin users, you can inject this style by going go the UBO dashboard, navigating to the "My Filters" tab, and adding this line: github.com##relative-time::before:style(content: attr(title); margin-right: 0.5em;)
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by nathcd 9y ago
This seems really cool! I know it's been mentioned before that there are no plans to rewrite SpiderMonkey in Rust, but this sort of feels like a tiny first step in that direction? Almost reminds me of early on in Servo's history:
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by nathcd 9y ago
You can also access it from https://i.reddit.com/ . The problem is there are so many inter-reddit links throughout comments, sidebars, wikis, and submitted links that you usually end up getting booted into the newer interfac
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by nathcd 9y ago
Here's another tool for getting rid of sticky headers for uBlock Origin users: https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
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by nathcd 9y ago
Is Orbital the desktop for Redox, or are there plans for a modular DE/WM system where other desktops can be slotted in and selected from the login screen, or wherever? If it is going to be modular, are there any plans for compatibili
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by nathcd 9y ago
Maybe Google Search is punishing search scores for YouTube videos because of ads, but since most online videos exist only on YouTube, those results generally still rank highly regardless of the penalty?

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