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by swalladge 7y ago
Yep I think you've hit it. I've removed the custom font-weight so things should display normally with the user defined browser fonts as expected now.
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by swalladge 7y ago
I hear you. Thanks for the feedback. I'm planning on toning down the color scheme a lot now. I'll post further updates on the issue that you or someone else has raised on github: https://github.com/swalladge/s
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by swalladge 7y ago
What's the best programming language? Best text editor? Best car? Best book? There is no absolute best, otherwise everyone would use that and we'd only have one left to choose from. There may be a best for your specific use case
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by swalladge 7y ago
HA well there you go. This shouldn't have to exist.
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by swalladge 7y ago
This. I like many of the things that Nim is doing, but I refuse to take it seriously if it's going to make basic things like tag search and grepping difficult. inb4 a Nim linter is written to force a consistent naming style throughout
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by swalladge 7y ago
This is really nice! It reminds me of a similar site I played on ages back that supported online play for several different card games - it had a similar minimal, clean design. (Wish I could find it again.) I agree, often I look for a card
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Are We Wayland Yet?(swalladge.net)
2 points by swalladge 7y ago|0 comments
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by swalladge 7y ago
The idea is that it gives a standard for semantic markup that can be read as plain text. Lists, highlighted text , block quotes, etc. that is all plain text but easily parsed by humans.
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by swalladge 7y ago
Yeah that's true, if you wanted a private server a la mattermost/riot/slack, it wouldn't be ideal. However, I feel it's a decent tradeoff at present for what it's aiming for.
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by swalladge 7y ago
Interesting. Yeah I've set up a synapse server and maintained a small instance for a while in the past. I didn't find it overly difficult, and I hear they've made usability improvements since then. I didn't try anything
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by swalladge 7y ago
Yeah wow that too. :O > I would like to see a neutral platform be chosen to be honest. Exactly, and if one of the FLOSS options are chosen, Mozilla could self-host and not need to rely on any third party.
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by swalladge 7y ago
That's why we have lightweight markup syntaxes like markdown.
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by swalladge 7y ago
It's great to see 3/4 of the options are open source! Whatever happens, I really hope the community get behind the open source options and don't let more things get eaten up by commercial silos cough slack cough. I'm par
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by swalladge 7y ago
The conclusion to this article is really powerful. The distinction being made is important - important to understand from both a user's and a developer's perspective. Too often on both sides the line is blurred and discussions aro
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by swalladge 7y ago
Let's replace javascript with ecmascript6 here. The recent ecmascript specs are really nice for functional programming. Javascript in all its backwards compatible glory doesn't have much niceness in the way of FP.
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by swalladge 7y ago
"javascript is bad" == upvotes because it resonates with so many people
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by swalladge 7y ago
The sad thing is that we all chose to be content with a prototype built in 10 days rather than being patient and taking the time to develop a carefully designed solution. It's only now that it's something we are forced to use an
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by swalladge 7y ago
> Sblack works exactly like a browser with small tweaks. Looks like it just wraps the website in this case. Yes there are clients that use the API. Slack offers a http rest-like api as well as a websockets realtime api. For example, wee-
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by swalladge 7y ago
Something I'm curious about - if GPG uses such old/not-recommended encryption standards, is it still secure in the sense that if I gpg encryption something and post it online, a three letter agency will be still unable to decrypt
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by swalladge 7y ago
I know right - they are all recommending Signal, Wire, WhatsApp, etc., but these aren't alternatives. They are all centralized, controlled by a single entity even if the underlying protocols are open. And you're right, they are in
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by swalladge 7y ago
Yes, my experience with PayPal has involved inconsistent UIs, bad UX, locked funds, and incompetent customer service. I only use paypal where absolutely necessary, such as for selling on ebay.
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by swalladge 7y ago
People need to be made aware that "purchasing" something with DRM means that you aren't purchasing the item, you're only purchasing a revokable license to access the item though software controlled by the vendor. In a wa
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by swalladge 7y ago
You can't. On all stock roms the google play services is installed, which gives google full administrator access to the device with no way to disable it. Google has been known to abuse that privilege for things like location tracking w
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by swalladge 7y ago
It's all too hard and usage never hit critical mass. Eg. why didn't you sign this post with your PGP key? Hopefully it will become more mainstream one day. Perhaps the increase of faked images/video/etc. and the interest
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De-Googled Android Experience(swalladge.net)
68 points by swalladge 7y ago|11 comments
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Show HN: Configurable command line pastebin client in rust(github.com)
3 points by swalladge 7y ago|0 comments
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by swalladge 7y ago
It should fail 'locked'. continue to allow installed addons to work, notify the user of issue, disable any updates without explicit request by the user.
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by swalladge 7y ago
Exactly. If me/firefox has verified the signature (or approved the download) when downloading or updating the addon, that should be all that's necessary. Why does firefox have to check signatures constantly?
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by swalladge 7y ago
> I was expecting a brick on wrist, but this surprised me! Agreed, I can't believe how thin and professional it is! This has to be the most mind blowing thing I've seen for a long time. :O
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by swalladge 7y ago
I wonder how much work it would be to extend the IRC protocol and popular implementations to include some sort of persistence. It's such a shame that a simple, open, accessible protocol for communication is being lost simply because of

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