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961.
by toastal 4y ago
I appreciate that the Hacker News title is “90s” correcting the author’s typo of “90's” (though more pedantically I suppose “’90s” could be preferred)
962.
by toastal 4y ago
Dense and doesn't respect the user's default font size so it always appears way too small.
963.
by toastal 4y ago
Unfortunately it hasn't been extended to differentiate dark from black. On my OLED screens I want #000 black, not some tinted gray—which actually looks very muddy and unnatural on my displays (which are never overly bright so the contr
964.
by toastal 4y ago
While I understand that approach EF going Discord-forward, it's one that's prevented me from joining many circles now as I've pledged to take my data privacy more seriously and proprietary apps aren't it. I hope you offe
965.
by toastal 4y ago
Gray interiors are also optimal for making a neutral space for doing color-sensitive work like photo editing because surrounding colors can taint your perception. My office space is mostly gray with a lot of wood and small accents in earth
966.
by toastal 4y ago
Same reason why Facebook still pervades here in Thailand. Facebook offers 'free' internet access to their site. The have discounted 'social' bundles for data plans (providers necessarily have to snoop your traffic to see
967.
by toastal 4y ago
Eh. Translations don't cover like any languages in Asia so it's not even been worth the bytes to download to me.
968.
by toastal 4y ago
It's great to see Fx capabilities optimized for instead of trying to reach a common denominator. Firefox's forks offer some of the best privacy options (Tor, LibreWolf) too for the uBlock audience. Hopefully this can help shepherd
969.
by toastal 4y ago
But be warned that Indiana politics can be a huge turn-off
970.
by toastal 4y ago
How is that first issue a blocker for you? It arguably makes the plafond worse to have more gamification and social features. Anyways, GitLab vs. GitHub is a myopic lens for the quote I posted. All proprietary software choices have conseque
971.
by toastal 4y ago
This is why SourceHut provides an IRC bouncer with its paid subscription because they are committed to the usability of IRC.
972.
by toastal 4y ago
It's locked behind a proprietary service/account owned by a publicly-traded corporation, Microsoft, with shareholder value obligations. The other options listed in siblings can be self-hosted, are all open source, and some don&#x2
973.
by toastal 4y ago
The kind that requires another proprietary account behind a nonfree service to get access to.
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by toastal 4y ago
> Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority. — Matt Lee https:&#x
975.
by toastal 4y ago
Probably for teams that fight for honor and need an armored defense bonus to withstand medium to heavy attacks
976.
by toastal 4y ago
Please don't use checkbook hacks for menu. When a lot of work can go into trying to make them accessible, it will be a lot easier and cleaner doing straight JavaScript. As it stands, you're missing a lot of ARIA for these componen
977.
by toastal 4y ago
That's super cool to know about! My only education experience is in the US though.
978.
by toastal 4y ago
Pretty much. Along with GIMP, Inkscape, Hugin, darktable, RAWTherapee, as far as raster graphics go, I’m happy with the free and libre landscape that doesn't involve jumping through those hoops and supporting Adobe. What I'd like
979.
by toastal 4y ago
> The PR review UI on GitHub unfortunately totally ignores commit messages, which means that we cannot comment on them Not just on the reading side, but it's irksome how hidden the commit messages are in the Microsoft GitHub UI as a
980.
by toastal 4y ago
Looks like I got lucky too. I went to check my account and my number needed to be reactivated. I used a free service to "verify my number" (because I don't have a US number, and would prefer not to hand it to Google anyhow) t
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by toastal 4y ago
Which won't work for many regions, and Google Voice numbers are blocked from a LOT of services—including PayPal which, lol, requires you to be authenticated to talk with support about issues of authentication (needless to say, I'v
982.
by toastal 4y ago
Putting everything 'behind Cloudflare' isn't a panacea. By merely living outside the West, I'm getting Geo blocked from 'normal' news sites and constantly having to solve hCAPTCHAs to solve riddles for some AI
983.
by toastal 4y ago
But GitHub doesn't offer its source code. Did you mean to say just "source code"?
984.
by toastal 4y ago
There's also color management which is not yet supported in Wayland if you need monitor calibration or to do any print work.
985.
by toastal 4y ago
Similarly, I have a digital audio player from Shanling and the device running the Linux kernel driving the device, the only supported formats for the microSD were FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT. When I mailed about it, they said most users don&#x27
986.
by toastal 4y ago
I'd be happy if they just left it here. You can only nest pseudo-classes and pseudo-selectors, and everything else either use your own tool to generate the CSS or just not not nest.
987.
by toastal 4y ago
I really appreciate knowing some devs are out there defending us from the banking app madness. I'd encourage you, given your position, to write a blog post about why device ownership is important and your experiences on how others shou
988.
by toastal 4y ago
Wildly different experience in that I'm back to writing plain CSS on many simple to medium complexity projects because these tools aren't providing me enough value for the complexity and dependencies they bring. I've not writ
989.
by toastal 4y ago
Folks undervalue how much `:is()` and `:where()` can eliminate nesting and works in most browsers right now.
990.
by toastal 4y ago
While missing the Matrix, Wire, and IRC options?

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