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by semolino 11mo ago
Most devices have a built-in ambient light sensor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_light_sensor
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by semolino 11mo ago
That would be awesome — I have found myself wishing for a similar CSS-only solution. In the meantime, I've resorted to measuring the translation distance in JS, and multiplying that by the average duration I want the element to spend i
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by semolino 1y ago
The commenter you replied to was implying that the EU does not respect the privacy/freedom of mobile device users.
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by semolino 1y ago
abs() exists with cross-browser support: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/abs There are also other non-custom math functions like round() which can be very useful.
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by semolino 1y ago
Maybe this is a clue toward understanding my recent inexplicable obsession with shipping containers.
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by semolino 1y ago
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig... This write-up demonstrates that OpenType contextual alternates are pretty powerful, but not as much as regular expressions.
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by semolino 1y ago
I implemented this very technique last year after getting some crypto spam on the guestbook of my personal website. It works like a charm.
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by semolino 2y ago
The best I can think of is hosting a static site on the Netlify free tier, i.e. example.netlify.app. Nothing to renew or maintain.
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by semolino 2y ago
What site are you referring to?
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by semolino 2y ago
I've been blocking Googlebot-Extended in my robots.txt, which they say doesn't impact inclusion/ranking in search: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/... I'm curio
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by semolino 2y ago
Very nice; you should submit it to this collection of web desktops: https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
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by semolino 2y ago
This is what The Comics Journal does. Any occasional whining / coverage of uninteresting material is usually just about mainstream comics from the Big Two, where a definite golden age has long been defined, and the era vulgaris is a fo
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by semolino 2y ago
Mac OS ROM hack to generate fully circular windows: https://web.archive.org/web/20201209143138/https://macgui.co...
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by semolino 2y ago
Yes, certainly, but Google only needs to appear that they are complying with GDPR. Their incentive is still to collect as much information as possible for their advertising partners. There are many loopholes for a company to use and sell
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by semolino 2y ago
One can only assume that GOOG is still collecting/inferring device location whenever possible, and putting the pieces together on the back end to paint a broader picture of the user. Removing the user-facing feature that shows all this
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by semolino 2y ago
I'll introduce this at my next soirée and report back on how it takes. Denfensiveness from guests will only implore me further.
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by semolino 2y ago
Cool to see krystalgamer here on HN. I found them a few years ago through the (then super tiny) SM2000 modding scene on youtube. It was my first 3D game, and I still have dreams about the graphics. Their work on the resource unpacker utilit
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by semolino 2y ago
It fingerprinted you based on <canvas> profiling. Your browser updated during the restart. (Hope I'm wrong)
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by semolino 3y ago
The ideal model IMO would be P2P micropayments (hopefully a web standard implemented as a browser API), where the payment processor middleman is cut out, so small transactions become viable. Patreon allowing you to bundle and only be charge
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by semolino 3y ago
My guess was that feDisplacementMap was used for the ink-gain effect on the About page (try highlighting the text!), but I was delighted to see that it's a combination of CSS blur(), contrast(), and brightness() filters against a tiled
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by semolino 3y ago
Relevant to your comment (and not the film) is John Oswald's super-collage of many, many live recordings of Dark Star: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayfolded
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by semolino 3y ago
For those who have it, Win10 LTSC 1809 is in extended support until 2029: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/rel...
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by semolino 3y ago
You're right… your reply made me realize that was a bad habit carried over from a pixel art website. I need to remit control of my site's base font size. Taking this line off my other projects.
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by semolino 3y ago
I use: html {font-size: 16px;} ...and then use ems throughout the rest of the CSS in increments of 0.0625 as "virtual pixels." This, in practice, keeps everything proportional, scaling properly if the user zooms. Only rarel
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by semolino 3y ago
> "By integrating Wolfram Alpha’s extensive knowledge base and robust algorithms into Kagi’s search platform..." https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-wolfram
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by semolino 3y ago
Here's a good example: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oqQwWRalcA0 It's different than a "cootie catcher."
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by semolino 3y ago
More web desktops: https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops Note that most of these are aesthetic / non-CRUD.
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by semolino 3y ago
Thanks for linking this site, I needed to stock up on supplements. Any unbiased search engines you'd recommend?
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by semolino 3y ago
HTTP 418 Short and stout…
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by semolino 3y ago
During my college years, I shocklingly managed to consume two of those (on separate occasions), mainly in an attempt to show off. Easily the worst I've ever felt after eating anything. Symbolically, though, maybe it helped me get close

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