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by skymt 7y ago
MDN has a page documenting differences in API support between major WebExtension browsers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
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by skymt 7y ago
In fairness to Google, it's not absurd in principle. Mozilla has dealt with this problem for years: when an extension slows the browser down, the user is more likely to blame the browser than the extension. But in this specific case of
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by skymt 7y ago
The stated reason for removing blocking from WebRequest is to improve performance, not privacy. If an extension can block a request, Chrome needs to wait for the extension before performing the request. See the WebRequest section in the des
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by skymt 7y ago
> Over several days this spring, BuzzFeed News met with Twitter’s leadership and watched as twttr’s team worked on its first big push: helping people better understand what’s being said in often chaotic conversations. The team thinks tha
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by skymt 7y ago
No worries. I really was sincere with my original question of whether I was missing useful potential applications. Building richer cross-site interactions into web standards and browser interfaces is an intriguing idea. A more dynamic model
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Animation isn't the point of the portal element, it's to allow cross-site navigation to an embedded page without reloading.
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It's true that I could be lacking imagination. Because to me the portal proposal reads like it's simply moving the implementation of Google's AMP carousel into the browser in order to solve the address-bar problem. Your sugge
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by skymt 7y ago
Am I reading this wrong, or is Google pushing a fairly complex element with substantial security considerations into HTML exclusively to solve their UX problems with AMP and the pre-load search carousel? Like this seems like it would be a f
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by skymt 7y ago
The release notes for version 11 include a list of potentially incompatible changes: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/release-11.html#id-1.11.6...
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by skymt 8y ago
If there's a severe security issue, Debian will quickly push an update containing a backported version of the fix, assuming you have the debian-security repository enabled (which you should). Just because the version number on the pack
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by skymt 8y ago
The Guardian isn't a blog, and this story isn't blogspam. The linked Guardian story provides a lot of useful context about Amazon's counterfeiting problem that isn't included in Amazon's marketing post.
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by skymt 8y ago
My money's on total ignorance of copyright law. In a world where people post videos with disclaimers of "no copyright intended," I can believe that someone could think that a work they don't own can made open source by s
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by skymt 8y ago
China has party-authorized Christian churches with exactly your goal in mind. This crackdown is on unauthorized churches. For an example of how they frame it in propaganda: http://en.people.cn/n/2014/0807/c908
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by skymt 8y ago
Yes, a giant table filled with hundreds of rows like "network.auth.subresource-img-cross-origin-http-auth-allow default boolean false" is in fact arcane.
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by skymt 8y ago
That doesn't seem like it would solve anything, unless I'm missing something substantial. Which specific browser engine it uses isn't as important for resource consumption as the fact that it's spinning up an entire brow
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by skymt 8y ago
Deleting "chronic pain" posts makes sense if Tumblr is trying to eliminate drug-related posts with as much cleverness and grace as the porn purge. (Chronic is uncommon slang for marijuana.)
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by skymt 8y ago
Honest question: how well-lit is the area you use your computer in, and have you tried turning down your monitor's brightness? I'm as baffled by the popularity of dark themes as you are with light themes, but I'm sitting in a
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by skymt 8y ago
Yes, there are programmatic ad networks for podcasts. For example: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/08/acast-programmatic-ads/
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by skymt 8y ago
> I suspect one reason for $600 devices, other than Google itself trying to reposition Chromebooks as more upmarket, is because $600 Windows laptops are still are a mess of preloaded bullshit put there by the vendor. Microsoft has tried
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by skymt 8y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding your post, the concept of a "voting receipt" would enable vote buying. The inability to prove how you voted after the fact is a deliberate feature of voting systems.
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by skymt 8y ago
The 2000 presidential election was a big driver. No one wanted to spend November of an election year hearing about "chads" ever again, so the Help America Vote Act was passed. Among other things it provided federal funding for sta
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by skymt 8y ago
In addition to the point others made about vulnerabilities, you should know that Thunderbird currently split the calendaring features into an add-on called Lightning that is included but disabled by default. If you don't want a calenda
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by skymt 8y ago
Have you talked to your lawyer about that? Fair use is a lot more limited than many people believe, and marketing for a design agency certainly strikes me as commercial use.
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by skymt 8y ago
Do you have any specific complaints about the design of the linked page? Because you seem to be assuming that the properties of Brutalist architecture that you hate would necessarily be inherited by a web design style named after it. I see
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by skymt 8y ago
SDL identifiers start with a letter or underscore, and a key must be a valid identifier.
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by skymt 8y ago
Work on modernizing AutoHotkey's syntax has been ongoing for years, and the v2 alpha makes huge (backwards-incompatible) steps to make the syntax simpler and more consistent. https://autohotkey.com/v2/v2-changes.ht
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by skymt 8y ago
Ah, and NXT has a Metal backend! Very cool. It's important to note that NXT isn't necessarily a replacement for ANGLE. It's an experimental replacement for WebGL as a whole, with a different API. There still needs to be a way
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by skymt 8y ago
There's precedent: Chrome and Firefox both implement WebGL on Windows with ANGLE, which translates OpenGL to Direct3D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANGLE_(software)
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by skymt 8y ago
Every major ad-blocking browser extension blocks based on URL patterns and CSS selectors. Requests that match URL patterns on the blacklist are dropped, which is at least as fast and saves at least as much bandwidth as blocking at the DNS l
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by skymt 8y ago
Military-industrial complex is an older and more precise term.

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