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by ttepasse 3y ago
Back in 2012 the EU’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party* published an rather readable opinion about the different cookie consent exemptions. Yes, first party analytics are not essential. The WP29 even proposed to exempt them in a hyp
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> Why even download? A major part apart from building a queue by getting behind is the ability of the file manager to sort, to classify, to filter, to move into folders, to search, etc. Far better than the youtube web interface, which on
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The viewport value for the meta element was never a part of HTML 5. Apple first invented it for the iPhone 1, published it in 2007, and other manufacturers of mobile browser then copied it. https://developer.apple.com/librar
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Annotea was an W3C experiment for Web Annotations. Had an RDF/XML data model and used XPointer for locating the annotated part of the resource. You could also have self hosted servers for your annotations. Only really implemented in Am
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On the other hand the United States has a lot of overseas colonies which are nearer to the equator. Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, a lot of atolls in the pacific, Guam. Even Hawaii is more southern. I assume shipping to th
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I too doubt the posh etymology: If you’re sailing around the cape by definition you will have crossed the equator twice, meaning your calculation of the sun positions will change. Acronyms pronounces as words seem more a modern 20th century
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> I remember working with it in Quinn on Mac OS X like 10 or 15 years ago. God, I still miss Quinn. For years after its official demise I still had a copy, which I kept playing, until the 32bitocalypse made that impossible.
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kottke.org is a 25 year old blog which links to interesting stuff on the internet. You’re criticising it for something it does not do.
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Social media giant Pinboard. People are warned not to compete with Pinboard but they still make 3rd party clients which seem to work. On your point: In my opinion 3rd party clients expand services, are a new place of innovation and a place
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Back in the 80s Steve Jobs cited this fact in an interview and used it for one of my favourite metaphors: A computer is a bicycle for our minds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c
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Apple passwords deserve an app(cabel.com)
1260 points by ttepasse 4y ago|402 comments
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Some weeks ago someone here linked to https://sh.reddit.com That seems to be a new new web reddit, build on web components via lit and it seems rather performant in contrast to whatever stuff reddit is using now. I’m no convince
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I do love the POV setup, but I tend to close his videos 30 seconds early: He closes the videos by tasting the meal, understandably, but that means that the (for me disgusting) chewing noises are extremely amplified on accord of the chewing
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Hetzner in Germany seems to use hydropower: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/umweltschutz/
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Ah, no, I simply forgot. See chrismorgan’s comment adjacent.
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> 4. Using CSS for laying out a TUI app makes no sense (unless you are a web developer and have Stockholm syndrome from using it for web apps?) Fun fact: CSS had, since CSS 2.0, the media type ‘tty’, for use in media queries targeting te
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Mandelson was nominated by the Government of the United Kingdom to be EU Commissioner, as part of the first Barroso Commission. Presumably the nominating HM Government is not accountable to the British Public.
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The main page works for me, but I get that error also in the official Catalyst Mac app for some actions. And even greater: That error also returns for t.co short links, e.g. every external link posted on Twitter.
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Digital Market Act Workshop in Brussels(carlschwan.eu)
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I clicked the „Don’t need a refund“ button. I was a happy Tweetbot user for over ten years. Since the API shutdown I tried using the official Twitter app (Catalyst for Mac) and its user experience compared to 3rd party apps is abysmal. Hard
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Here highlighted in a nice letter to the editor: https://twitter.com/arusbridger/status/1399300205925834753
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I remembered that Tim Berners-Lee did write about a similar idea back in 2000 – introducing a date coded domain hierarchy: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/PersistentDomains.html
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> Too bad its first letter collides with Desktop, Downloads and Documents, all of which cannot be removed. For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in: chflags hidden ~/
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As the poster of one of those comments I was rather irritated by the adjusted datestamp and doubted my own memory. Has there ever been discussion for the HN software to enable more metadata for moved comments, like "10 days (older thre
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The 3rd south pole station is designed for hydraulically jacking up those pillars and installing height: https://www.southpolestation.com/foundationdesign.html https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports&#
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That was why I thought that for the reason to work the entity has already have to have registered both (or more) domain names and both domains must, possible in DNS records, indicate their respective equivalence. So no automatic translation
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Some years ago I had the weird idea of localized domain names. Some mechanism like rel=canonical, that would indicate first that two domain names in different scripts are the same and second indicates the preferred displayed domain name acc
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The transition in case is from IDNA 2003 processing to IDNA 2008 processing. The internet was and is rather late in adopting the latter. Just ten years ago it wasn’t a sure thing that it would be adopted in the WhatWG spec and in browsers:
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The ß is not really mixed script: It’s a (mostly) normal character in the german language which itself is based on latin script. It’s part of common words in the language and part of personal names, including mine. I’d rather like having th
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Mac OS’ default filesystems, HFS+ and APFS, historically have been case-insensitive, although case-sensitive variants exist. In the Unicode database the uppercase variant of ‘ß’ is recorded as upper('ß') → 'SS', accordin

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