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by rollcat 3y ago
> I think too many techies are, much like yourself, contributing to the problem by refusing to move away from Chrome [...] Contrary to your assumptions, I've been quite vocal against the Chrome/Blink monoculture for a while. Un
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by rollcat 3y ago
Wagtail is absolutely fantastic for content-heavy websites, like blogs, journals, catalogues, archives, venues (event schedules), also everything that deals with loosely-structured data. It's much less useful as a general purpose CRUD
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by rollcat 3y ago
It's in no way worse than running a single browser extension with overly broad privileges. If this method of adblocking gains more traction (quite possible, as Google keeps moving to damage in-browser ad blockers), I expect the impleme
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by rollcat 3y ago
It's absolutely fantastic, how gracefully ext2/3/4 stood the test of time, for something designed in early 90s by people who hadn't had 30+ years of kernel hacking in their pockets (yet). While I generally prefer ZFS, ex
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by rollcat 3y ago
> 6 years later, the Django side needed minimal changes and is up and running (I jumped all the way from 1.11 to 5.0 beta). I've been using Django since before 1.0, and the upgrade story has been nothing short of fantastic for somet
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by rollcat 3y ago
I think symlinks (or hard links, doesn't matter) are the actual problem here. It is actually completely OK for your code to make certain assumptions about how it's going to be invoked, and otherwise break (loudly, and in an obviou
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by rollcat 3y ago
> The best I can think of is not to let people see the penalizing behavior, but having an open standard might actually help it improve rather than keeping it as a hidden secret that slowly gets discovered by independent malicious parties
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by rollcat 3y ago
I actually do like it that HN doesn't have reply notifications. I don't feel compelled to read/reply to every message, there's zero sense of urgency, and this is perfect for something you do in your free/idle time.
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by rollcat 3y ago
> What's stopping some influential websites from blocking Google IPs or even Chrome browsers Block Chrome? You can just save money and shut down. You're advocating isolationism. That aint gonna be a popular move.
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by rollcat 3y ago
It's funny, because OpenBSD is the system that's the most happy to force a change on a program (usually for very good reasons, like disallowing W|X memory). I'd love to see Hare try it though.
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by rollcat 3y ago
MFA via push notifications is vulnerable to the "keep spamming them until they tap allow" attack. You can make the user type a code (like Apple does), but that's it for convenience.
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by rollcat 3y ago
> [...] replace html and js with something more strict, lighter, secure and safe by design, that would prevent the use of targeted ads like it's possible in HTML. You can't do that and still have a useful system. You'd hav
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by rollcat 3y ago
I can share my perspective (downhill longboarding rather than climbing, surprisingly lots of parallels, while on average most likely less fatal it definitely can get you killed or wheelchaired). There are exactly zero people who do these ki
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by rollcat 3y ago
You don't need CSS either! <meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark" />
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by rollcat 3y ago
The problem is you are asked to move your DNS SOA/NS to CloudFlare, they won't let you just slap a CNAME/A+AAAA, and that could be disruptive to your setup - there's no single standard for managing DNS programmatically,
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by rollcat 3y ago
True, but this is literally the only mention of the words "UX", "UI" or "design" in the FAQ/docs; meanwhile they write at length about the various technical challenges and choices. This is inconsistent w
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by rollcat 3y ago
Agree, it's right in the FAQ: > I don't code but this looks awesome! Can I still help? > Absolutely! There will be art, documentation, testing, UX and UI work, [...]. I read this and immediately think the project sees UX as
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by rollcat 3y ago
You don't advertise WIP software as "built with finesse"; and even if you do, you must at the very least put said finesse into the choice of screenshots you present.
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by rollcat 3y ago
It's nice that more people in the FOSS community take note of macOS's design and (historically, at least) attention to detail. However, this project (judging by the screenshots, which is how everyone is going to judge you if you c
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by rollcat 3y ago
I absolutely loved reading Lem as a kid. I really enjoyed the short novel "Automatthew's Friend" - it was written decades earlier, but the circumstances were something I could imagine happening in my lifetime (a helpful, robo
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by rollcat 3y ago
Oh my gosh, that /opt/local rant was prophetic. This is how I set my $PATH, note this code is portable between several Linux distros (including NixOS), macOS, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and amd64/arm64... < https://github
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by rollcat 3y ago
Correct, but with 1GB available I'd be much more tempted to run Haiku ;)
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by rollcat 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/350/
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by rollcat 3y ago
Right buddy, you can't tease us like this and go
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by rollcat 3y ago
"Just rewrite it in Rust" is a bit meme-y, but what I wanted to highlight is how you can look at ZFS itself for inspiration. ZFS has checksums to detect bit rot; maybe you want a language with better support for contracts / s
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by rollcat 3y ago
You're at odds with the desire (necessity, actually) to have precise low-level control, not just of the in-memory layout of the data structures, but also of the performance characteristics of your code (e.g. no unnecessary pointer-chas
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by rollcat 3y ago
While this is ridiculously cool, I think the project missed an opportunity by tying itself so tightly to x86 assembly. A system that is usable with 8MB of RAM? Hell yeah. Except you're not going to find a lot of PC hardware this under-
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by rollcat 3y ago
Note the (2004). Some things were removed/added/changed (/initrd, /sys, several things in /usr). Check < https://linux.die.net/man/7/hier > for an up-to-date resource.
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by rollcat 3y ago
The story went something like, the guys building UNIX got a second hard drive, so they moved the home directories (/usr) to it. As the system grew, they started dropping more binaries into /usr/bin (while trying to keep &#x2F
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by rollcat 3y ago
Is there a consensus on how much CTR you're giving up with context-based (as opposed to tracking-based) ad selection? Are we talking 1% or are we talking 50%? (What if tracking-based ads are actually less effective, as in: "I&#x

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