worble

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by worble 7y ago
> As a result every single page/app has to carry around the whole world just to be barely useable. So pages before this javascript bloat became commonly accepted were unusable? Maybe at some point web developers have to accept that
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by worble 7y ago
I've never used this personally, but it is a preference option? https://serverfault.com/questions/722563/how-to-make-firefox... Or am I totally misunderstanding this and that's something totally differen
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by worble 7y ago
>libra-bux Personally I'm fond of zucc-bux
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by worble 7y ago
If the WSL is the only reason windows is a decent development workstation, then why not just use Linux in the first place? What unique factor is Windows offering here?
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by worble 7y ago
>Humble Bundle, in particular Funny you should mention that, I actually wrote an email to support asking them to have frickin mercy with the google captchas. The response was as you expect "we do this for safety and protection, yada
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by worble 7y ago
If you buy the game, do you actually own it though? Or do you lose it when Stadia shuts down? If I'm going to pay full price for a game, then I want to be able to play it 10 or 20 years from now.
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by worble 7y ago
>It's much faster than the backlash against Microsoft back in the day Fool me once, shame on you...
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by worble 7y ago
You have no idea how often I've shouted at my monitor that I would rather pay the site hoster a one-time fee than use google captcha ever again, and I really wish more sites offered this. Say what you want about the site, but 4chans pa
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by worble 7y ago
How strange, this is the first I've heard of this. I've never had to touch source maps config in my webpack and it's always shown fine in Firefox. Is it just specific circumstances/specific code patterns that have source
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by worble 7y ago
You realise the reason why it's so effective is that it's psychological manipulation right? Telling people to just "stop rewarding" it is almost the same as telling abused partners to "just leave the relationship&qu
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by worble 7y ago
Most of those have functioning websites you know? All you'd need is a half decent browser.
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by worble 7y ago
If you're using Firefox, and don't trust them not to collect data you don't want them to, then some "study mechanism" on/off switch isn't going to stop them. If you don't trust them at least a little
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by worble 7y ago
There's a couple of options of Android; you could use the DDG browser[0] or the Privacy Browser[1] (which I know sounds dodgy but seems legit). They don't have 'adblock' exactly but I think they implement a lot of the sa
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by worble 7y ago
I mean, dropping support doesn't mean it definitely won't work, just that it isn't taken into consideration when developing new features / bug fixing.
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by worble 7y ago
I don't know much about the OS and designs, but is that similar to how Redox is approaching it with "everything is a url"[0]? [0] https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/urls_schemes_resources....
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by worble 7y ago
I like to think Elm is the most influential web framework that no-one uses.
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“Games as a service” is fraud(youtube.com)
7 points by worble 7y ago|2 comments
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by worble 8y ago
>For the last 6 months my mind has been preoccupied by this. I can't stop memories coming in on how I would just laze in the afternoon, enjoying the breeze. Even recalling the boredom is a "good" memory. I would read a lot
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by worble 8y ago
Really? The epub support was the only good feature of Edge.
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by worble 8y ago
I've not come across a single website that has banned me access to it based on the EU GDPR (except maybe I think some news site that was linked on here once?) Care to share some examples?
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by worble 8y ago
I'd argue the complete opposite: every company and their mother is online these days, and nearly always they're a) doing something that's been done before and b) are nowhere near the amount of throughput that would require so
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by worble 8y ago
>and these forks claiming that Mozilla is this monstrous organization looking to invade your privacy Do they claim that? I felt like most of the forks were made in good feeling, appreciating the work that Mozilla has done, but customisin
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by worble 8y ago
Didn't you know? The internet is srs buziness.
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by worble 8y ago
>The nice UX makes it easy for everyone to use Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but am I the only one who finds the UX to be atrocious? Everything seems to a nondescript icon that rarely represents what it's supposed to do, nearl
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by worble 8y ago
>Thank god that you can't plug in an SD card into an iPhone. Disallowing that was one of the smartest decisions by Apple. Thank god people can't expand their own storage and instead have to pay inordinate amounts for internal s
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by worble 8y ago
Exactly this, it's slightly annoying to see the claim scenes are "slow" or "not what they used to be". They use the technology that it makes the most sense to use, weighing up encoding speeds, tooling, quality at th
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by worble 8y ago
And if Microsoft didn't treat its customers like sacks of exploitable data and idiots who need Candy Crush forced on them, then maybe people would've been more inclined to upgrade. The fault is with them, not the users; by activel
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by worble 8y ago
"Not supporting" and "Deliberately blocking user agents" are two completely different things though.
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by worble 8y ago
Huh, can't believe I hadn't seen this before. I suppose the main problem with all of these systems is that the creator ultimately has to sign up to them in first place, and unfortunately all these smaller sites just don't hav
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by worble 8y ago
This seems really great, I was thinking of doing something like this recently as well, although I was thinking more along lines of: - I have a set amount of money I wish to give each month (say £200) - Given I have setup x amount of people

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