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by wackget 6mo ago
The author did make it unavailable. Nobody forced him to. He's kneecapping his own content and intentionally excluding UK users unnecessarily. Some random developer blog is absolutely not the target of the Online Safety Act. The OSA ap
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by wackget 6mo ago
> "There are zero reasons to limit yourself to 1GB of RAM" > Immediately proposes alternative which is literally 4x the cost.
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by wackget 6mo ago
Cool but maybe consider a different name? If I want to recommend this tool in a few weeks' time there is approximately 0% chance I'm remembering it's called something like "Charcuterie", despite the clever bit of wo
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by wackget 6mo ago
Lots of nice tweaks, but the most important is missing: the ability to move the collapse comment buttons (`[-]`) to the left of commenters' usernames. Doing this makes the collapse buttons all aligned with each other, making them far e
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by wackget 6mo ago
Website development should not require any build steps whatsoever and I will die on that hill.
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by wackget 6mo ago
The most obvious question, I know, but... why not just use plain Bash?
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by wackget 6mo ago
FYI the documentation seems to be outdated. On the Cookie Banner Reduction page[1] the section titled "Turn Cookie Banner Reduction on or off" talks about settings which don't exist (at least in the latest portable version 6.
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by wackget 6mo ago
I understand it's not your area, but can you please politely tell your colleagues that the clickbait-type teaser questions from the latest model are absolutely infuriating and are quickly leading to me abandon the platform entirely? I
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by wackget 7mo ago
Yeah that's great and all, but can I get something which will let me delete iPhone contacts in bulk? It's 2026 and you have to delete contacts one at a time, or press and slide to select a group of them until you reach one you don
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by wackget 7mo ago
I admire your effort to increase user privacy but it's very difficult to argue that allowing a piece of proprietary closed-source software to make fundamental changes to your operating system is a good idea. For starters, it doesn&#x27
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by wackget 7mo ago
Kafka at number 3? Meh. It was incredibly dull and tiresome IMHO. I understand it's supposed to be written like a fever dream but to what end? It was simply tedious and difficult to follow. Then again I also hated the episode of The So
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by wackget 7mo ago
These are great. Please consider adding a visible <textarea> with the CSS instead of relying on "click to copy" buttons. For security reasons, some users/browsers disable access to the clipboard which means there's
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by wackget 7mo ago
How many users does this website have? It must be relatively tiny. Why the hell is this anywhere near AWS, or Terraform, or any other PaaS nonsense? I'd wager this thing could be run off a $5 VPS with 30 minutes of setup.
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by wackget 7mo ago
* US price: $599 * UK price: £599 I don't like swearing on here, but fuck that. The "real" USD-GBP exchange rate price should be £448. Apple are basically taking £150 extra on top for UK consumers.
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by wackget 7mo ago
Price difference?
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by wackget 7mo ago
These prefs - and many others - can be placed in a user.js file: https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox
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by wackget 7mo ago
I'm deeply saddened that they didn't add a 3.5mm audio/headphone jack. There was a community poll and I believe a headphone jack was the second-most requested feature after a MicroSD slot. I appreciate they have to draw a lin
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by wackget 7mo ago
> Me, and 99% of HN readers, will gladly pull the trigger to release a missile from a drone if we are paid even just US$1,000,000/year. I sincerely doubt that's true. I hope it's not. $1m is a lot of money, but I find it h
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by wackget 7mo ago
No, because many apps refuse to run on third-party distros due to misguided notions of them being insecure. It's easy to say "just don't use those apps" but in reality, people are rightly unwilling to put up with any fri
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by wackget 7mo ago
Strange, because I always remember Flickr having horrible UX. You could never just open an image file directly; if you tried, Flickr would always redirect you to a page which obscured the image behind an invisible layer which obscured point
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by wackget 7mo ago
Twitter is a garbage fire, after all.
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by wackget 7mo ago
You must be joking. The Supernova UI redesign is an unmitigated disaster. They unnecessarily butchered the look and feel of Thunderbird to the point where people are switching to forks.
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by wackget 8mo ago
"The only subprocessors used to verify your identity are"... some of the biggest data mining companies on the planet. Excellent.
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by wackget 8mo ago
You just described literally all modern web development.
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by wackget 8mo ago
Yeah that's great and all but my 2nd gen iPad Air from 2017 doesn't get updates past iPadOS 15 (current version: 26). As a result most useful apps flatly refuse to run on it, and my iPad is now a paperweight which yearns for the l
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by wackget 8mo ago
I am so grateful to the author for writing this article. For years I've been fighting a series of small battles with my peers who seem hell-bent on "upgrading" our e-commerce websites by rewriting them in React or another mod
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by wackget 8mo ago
Very interesting that DigitalOcean is by far the largest source. Other (more responsible) VPS providers, e.g. Linode, actively block machines from which they detect a lot of abuse traffic. Wonder why DO doesn't do the same.
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by wackget 8mo ago
It's like they tried their hardest to add as much vocal fry [1] as possible. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL2GezneU
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by wackget 8mo ago
I think some people here on Hacker News are semi-deluded free market fundamentalists who believe they're going to be future billionaires, so they naturally gravitate towards protecting the rights of big business to do whatever it wants
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by wackget 8mo ago
Yeah, it is shocking. And that's why it needed to be legislated. Companies prove time and time again that they will take the easiest route to minimise losses and maximise profits, even if that means destroying the environment or wastin

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