victorvscn

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by victorvscn 4y ago
I don't think things are nearly as clear-cut. Personally, I like things to be near the extremes, I use OLED screens, and then I deal with it by changing my brightness. I prefer having contrast which I can easily control with brightness
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by victorvscn 4y ago
Edit: it's a subscription. No, thanks. I much prefer the crowdsourcing model, which allows the entire world to have it (and contribute to it), and not only those who can pay such prices (that are quite expensive in most of the world, i
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by victorvscn 4y ago
This is 100% why I use Dark Reader. Even on my phone, right now, I'm using Kiwi. It has a "night mode" (which, by the way should not be the way to call a dark mode—I, and many others, use it all day). But I still use Dark Re
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by victorvscn 4y ago
I think it's about the websites you visit. If you only use "tech-y" or smaller niche websites you don't come across them. But if you visit websites like from the big news media or even niche websites that are not in Engl
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by victorvscn 4y ago
You're right that it's annoying. I use Edge, and I think it syncs extensions now, so I haven't really had to set it up for a while, though. I think the best one to install and forget is Tracking Token Stripper ( https:/&
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by victorvscn 4y ago
I think you've gone overboard and you're wrong about so much, but I agree that it should be easier to use your own themes. I mean, I hope you've heard of Stylish, Dark Reader and Tampermonkey. They help tremendously. But it&#
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by victorvscn 4y ago
Only on XHTML, actually.
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by victorvscn 4y ago
Whatever the hell happened to XHTML? Stop being lazy.
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by victorvscn 4y ago
Not tangential. It's pretty important, because although they're obviously symbolic, there have been huge changes to how websites work. Web 2.0 had a lot of user customization, for example. Web 3.0 has much less, though dark modes
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by victorvscn 4y ago
By the way, you're completely right about password managers. E2E + 2FA and you're done. I wonder what their solution for "single point of failure" is, because there isn't a single one that's not flawed.
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by victorvscn 4y ago
You know, there's an article about 2022 UI design trends on Medium and web 1.0 aesthetics coming back is one of them. https://medium.com/codeart-mk/ux-ui-trends-2022-31023ae36fa
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by victorvscn 4y ago
You should know there are both Chrome extensions and Tampermonkey scripts for that.
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by victorvscn 5y ago
>I certainly understand how scandalous this looks to crowds like Hacker News. I don't. I'm with the Microsoft employee who was pissed at how people think it's edgy to diss on Microsoft. What were the chances that Microsoft
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by victorvscn 5y ago
I feel like the only people with an attitude against Microsoft these days are teenagers trying to look edgy and critical thinking or pretending they are insiders. I don't work for Microsoft.
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by victorvscn 5y ago
I'm not even an engineer but I have some HR training as a Psychologist and this resonates with me.