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by uuoc 10y ago
You can, but you should not run the UI script code on the same non-reentrant JS engine that executes scripts delivered from the internet at large. By doing so (running both the UI code and scripts from the internet on the same non-reent
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by uuoc 10y ago
This should come as no surprise. It has always been an epic architectural mistake to use the same single non-reentrant Javascript engine to both render the UI and run JS for webpages in Firefox. This change will finally undo that huge mis
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by uuoc 10y ago
tl;dr: Ex. micro-softie laments all the ways ms failed in the mobile space, while completely overlooking the elephant in the room: MS, in the mobile space, did not have an already entrenched monopoly upon which to leverage other market shar
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by uuoc 10y ago
The owner of the blog post can now add a fifth reason to their collection of "fuck-ups": Placing a webpage that contains text and some images into a web-framework that requires javascript running locally in order to render said te
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by uuoc 10y ago
While I can't offer any advice re. Citi ATMs, your experience has taught you a very valuable life lesson, albeit the hard way. This next part is something that should have been blindly obvious to you, and after this will be: NEVER E
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by uuoc 10y ago
I use this book-marklet to fix pages that decide to use a small font weight, that results in this hard to read text: javascript:(function(){var%20all=document.getElementsByTagName("*");for%20(var%20i=0,max=all.length;i<max;i++)
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by uuoc 10y ago
And now you understand that you are not google's customer. You are their product, and they only tolerate you for as long as they can sell your attention to their advertisers for a profit. Next time, host it yourself, on hardware you o
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by uuoc 10y ago
Moral of this story: 1) Always, always, always have backups. 2) If you do not host it yourself, on hardware you own and control, then you are at the mercy of the corporate overlord that does own and control the hardware you are borrowing.
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by uuoc 10y ago
There is a certain irony on a site about keyboard accessibility having this in their style-sheet: "font-weight: 300;" with the result that it produces significantly reduced readability of the site (and thereby reduces the "
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by uuoc 10y ago
Actually, that attitude is exactly what one receives from the systemd crew. They, and only they, know what you want, when you want it, and they always know better than you do. That's why the systemd crew generates such great hatred.
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by uuoc 10y ago
And yet, socket activation is nothing new: inetd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd xinetd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinetd Used in the "olden" days to allow a single server to se
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by uuoc 10y ago
US banks make the same promises too. But which would you trust more when something goes wrong and your "card number" racks up thousands of stolen purchases: 1) credit card dispute/chargeback process that is mandated by law 2)
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by uuoc 10y ago
>The article has neither a link to its text nor an identifying number, This is so very typical of "old-school" news organizations that do not "get" the internet, nor do they understand the power of connections (HTML l
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by uuoc 10y ago
And now you understand what Richard M. Stallman means when he refers to "freedom" in relation to software. This software was not free, and does not respect your freedoms.
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by uuoc 11y ago
One large driver: NIH syndrome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
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by uuoc 11y ago
It is a overt threat of lawyers attacking if he does not comply. Nothing "amiable" about it. It is a threat, pure and simple.
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by uuoc 11y ago
The second Bob Stratton response (the one implying that lawyers will rain fire and brimstone down on Azer if he does not comply) was so far from a "polite request" that it implies something is wrong with Mike Roberts understanding
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by uuoc 11y ago
The solution here is trivial: Don't use gmail.... Run your own mail-server, then your limits on email will be how much disk storage space you wish to purchase. Email as designed is peer-to-peer technology. In fact, it was the first pe
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by uuoc 11y ago
If you continue to use MS Windows, then you are getting just what you deserve. Your only solution, given the fact that MS now believes they _own_ you, is to wipe MS Windows from your computers and install a different operating system.
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by uuoc 11y ago
Your site _requires_ javascript to view the pricing plans, even though the plan data is already present in the HTML (turning off css styling makes all the pricing visible). This is a bad design. You already have the data in the HTML, the b
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by uuoc 11y ago
Just open up developer tools, use the "find element" tool to find the header, then delete nodes until the header disappears. Now there's no header at all.
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by uuoc 11y ago
> However, effective community leadership/stewardship is part of the job description for someone like Poettering. If this is true, then this is exactly _why_ the criticism should be directed towards Redhat. Because in his arrogant
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by uuoc 11y ago
> Disclaimer: I work at Red Hat. The problem you seem to miss is that his arrogant antics _do_ reflect on Redhat, and reflect badly on Redhat. I for one will _never_ use anything from Redhat, nor pay Redhat any money for anything as lon
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by uuoc 11y ago
Hear hear, until Redhat begins to feel some heat from Poettering's (and Seivers and the rest of these fools), these fools will just continue on their arrogant bull in a china factory path they are presently on. Start informing Redhat t
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by uuoc 11y ago
> Less window management hassle. Actually, no, you still have to perform the "find the window" function and the "bring the window to the top" function, for both maximized as well as non-maximized windows. And once an
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by uuoc 11y ago
You know, not running your browser maximized on your widescreen monitor would solve that problem, for every site you visit, with no CSS required.
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by uuoc 11y ago
I suspect it is schadenfreude. For what it is worth, I ALWAYS flag every "X is down" post I see appear in the new list. If there were more flagging of them, the posters would get the message and quit posting them.
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by uuoc 11y ago
> Anyway, some plastic/bottles have aluminum caps, and those I might leave on vs. tossing in the bin detached. I figure it wouldn't matter, aluminum is recyclable too. Yes, aluminum is recyclable, but not when attached to a p
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by uuoc 12y ago
It shows a lack of attention to detail, a lack of viewing the full picture of all your potential users, and a lack of consideration for those with accessibility issues. Therefore, if the simple landing page has all of those lacks, it stands
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by uuoc 12y ago
> how do you live with javascript disabled nowadays Noscript ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ ). 2,159,875 users according to that page. Javascript is off by default until I

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