A_norny_mousse
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- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 1 day ago:
From what I’m seeing around me kids are often allowed to interact with a tablet before a phone.
- Comment on Do you recognize this PC case? 4 days ago:
Looks a lot like mine which is the oldest remaining part of my PC. There’s no branding whatsoever on it.
- Comment on He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him. Meet influencer Benny Johnson. 4 days ago:
😭 Should be extremely infuriating, but you just can’t keep that up 24/7/365.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 6 days ago:
In your words I hear that as a web dev, you rely 100% on javascript.
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 6 days ago:
We go the extra mile. It will makes us look good. Therefore we only announce it on corporate social media.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 1 week ago:
It’s not about using js or not, it’s about failing gracefully. An empty page instead of a simple written article is not acceptable.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 1 week ago:
The only non-heated comment.
You mean people replying to you? I wouldn’t call those heated, rather derisive. Just like your own original comment. You come across as presumptuous and pretending to be more knowledgeable than you really are.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 1 week ago:
Why is it “impossible to do them reliably” - without js presumably?
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 1 week ago:
Obfuscation, OK.
Look, I’m willing to have a conversation with you, but you need to address my points first, that is if you want one too.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 1 week ago:
Fuck yeah!
Bookmarked for future use. CSS has developed a lot since I started getting aquainted with it.
I didn’t read it completely, is browser coverage addressed in the article?
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 1 week ago:
If your motivation is to see old html pages, with minimal style
Huh? i just want to see a web page. Usually a news article, i.e. text with few styling elements. In other words, HTML.
For most use cases JS is not required.well it’s impossible to do them reliably
Huh again? Why?
If you are worried about closed-source js.
Huh? Isn’t it always open, i.e. one can read the script the browser loads if one is so inclined? No, that’s not the point at all. JS increases the likelihood of data mining, by ordes of magnitude. And most addons that block js also block 3rd party requests generally.
Use as much js as you like (most third party stuff is not really up to the web dev anyhow), but the page must always fail gracefully for those who do not like it, or browse the web in some archaic way. An empty page is not an option.
Please also read some of the other (top level) comments here.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sounds like there’s some justification going on, likely to cover up uncomfortable feelings. Good luck with uncovering. Judging by my own efforts, it’ll be a long journey.
Obviously you should also talk to your dad.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How’s your mom? What’s her view on these things? Asking her would be my first step to solving this ethical conundrum.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 1 week ago:
Yes.
Most people don’t even know what we’re talking about; to them it’s like saying “the sheer amount of websites that are unusable without HTML”. But I use uBlock Origin in expert mode and block js by default; this allows me to click on slightly* fishy links without endangering my setup or immediately handing my data over to some 3rd party.
So I’m happy to see news websites that do not require js at all for a legible experience, and enraged that others even hide the fucking plain text of the article behind a script. Even looking at the source code does not reveal it. And I’m not talking about paywalls.
* real fishy links go into the Tor browser, if I really want to see what’s behind them.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 weeks ago:
The bible verses are new to me
Didn’t even see that. And it’s coded so you actually have to pick up your cipher book! Or maybe it’s a dogwhistle and every christofascist worth their salt knows what it stands for.
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 2 weeks ago:
I agree: website owners cannot tell people how to read their sites.
But they only re-opened the case; nothing happened yet.
And considering how the very similar youtube-dl DMCA takedown failed so utterly, I don’t think this will go anywhere either.
But yeah, companies will try again and again.
There’s also an important point not addressed in the above comment: Springer is specifically sueing Adblock Plus (and not the way more popular uBO) who have a commercial model where companies can pay them to let their ads through, and some other fishy practices.
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 2 weeks ago:
Of course torrentfreak would use the most outrageous & clickbaity title possible. It’s not so bad though.
Discussed in another post:I speak German legalese (don’t ask) so I went to the actual source and read up on the decision.
The way I read it, the higher court simply stated that the Appeals court didn’t consider the impact of source code to byte code transformation in their ruling, meaning they had not provided references justifying the fact they had ignored the transformation. Their contention is that there might be protected software in the byte code, and if the ad blocker modified the byte code (either directly or by modifying the source), then that would constitute a modification of code and hence run afoul of copyright protections as derivative work.
Sounds more like, “Appeals court has to do their homework” than “ad blockers illegal.”
The ruling is a little painful to read, because as usual the courts are not particularly good at technical issues or controversies, so don’t quote me on the exact details. In particular, they use the word Vervielfältigung a lot, which means (mass) copy, which is definitely not happening here. The way it reads, Springer simply made the case that a particular section of the ruling didn’t have any reasoning or citations attached and demanded them, which I guess is fair. More billable hours for the lawyers! @
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 2 weeks ago:
Of course torrentfreak would use the most outrageous & clickbaity title possible. It’s not so bad though.
Discussed in another post:I speak German legalese (don’t ask) so I went to the actual source and read up on the decision.
The way I read it, the higher court simply stated that the Appeals court didn’t consider the impact of source code to byte code transformation in their ruling, meaning they had not provided references justifying the fact they had ignored the transformation. Their contention is that there might be protected software in the byte code, and if the ad blocker modified the byte code (either directly or by modifying the source), then that would constitute a modification of code and hence run afoul of copyright protections as derivative work.
Sounds more like, “Appeals court has to do their homework” than “ad blockers illegal.”
The ruling is a little painful to read, because as usual the courts are not particularly good at technical issues or controversies, so don’t quote me on the exact details. In particular, they use the word Vervielfältigung a lot, which means (mass) copy, which is definitely not happening here. The way it reads, Springer simply made the case that a particular section of the ruling didn’t have any reasoning or citations attached and demanded them, which I guess is fair. More billable hours for the lawyers! @
- Comment on Cry cry 2 weeks ago:
And it’s just a few years ago that I complained that most people don’t know the difference between a search bar and the URL bar anymore. I.e. they are incapable of entering web addresses directly.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 3 weeks ago:
German car industry has one foot in the grave.
I wonder if that is true though. Sure, they lobby that way when they want government subsidies.
They might be slightly late to the e-car game (but the above article applies to e-cars only anyhow).
But all that largely applies to most car industries across the globe. Except those under totalitarian control because they can react faster to big changes.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 3 weeks ago:
Cory Doctorow nailed it once again.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 3 weeks ago:
The manufacturers fee for speeding is higher than the fine the police gives you.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 3 weeks ago:
Basically every car manufacturer pulls shit like this these days; good luck avoiding all of them.
If it’s specific to a certain model, that would be good info.
That said VW obviously sucks for pulling the stunt mentioned in the article.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nobody said Disneyland, or fiberglass, or tourist trap, except you.
is the closest thing to a real life fairytale castle that exists - because, as you said, that’s specifically the look the king wanted
How wrong you are. Real fairytales are folklore, developed over centuries. Neuschwanstein isn’t. It is to real castles what HC Andersen’s tales are to real folktales.
Es wurde als romantisches Ideal einer Ritterburg entworfen. Anders als „echte“ Burgen, deren Gebäudebestände meist das Ergebnis mehrerer Bautätigkeiten sind, wurde Neuschwanstein als gewollt asymmetrischer Bau in einem Zug geplant und in Abschnitten errichtet. Für eine Burg typische Merkmale wurden zitiert; echte Verteidigungsanlagen – das wichtigste Merkmal eines mittelalterlichen Adelssitzes – wurden nicht gebaut.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
First of all it’s Grünwald. There’s a difference. It’s effectively a suburb of München. Which is the capital of Bayern, which is said to be very different from the rest of Deutschland.
Please make an effort to speak German, even if it’s only Guten Tag and Danke. Don’t expect people to know English.
That said, try all sorts of nice dark bread, preferably whole grain. Any bakery (often integrated in supermarkets) will do. Butter is not salted by default.
Being that far south, the mountains - the beginning of the Alps - are really nice.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, you make good points. I was thinking about basically room dried berries, not in an oven, not in the sun.
Modern sauerkraut is often pasturized so that’s pretty useless for vitamin C.
Not where I live!
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 3 weeks ago:
Sauerkraut!
And lots of other fermented products. Possiblities are endless, chances of success are high.
I was also thinking dried fruit/berries, but I’m not sure how well that preserves vitamin C.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 3 weeks ago:
Someone make the Lolcats programming language for a laugh.
Rabbit hole! There’s a whole genre of esoteric languages; Malbolge was mentioned by Sherlock Holmes even (not the original one of course).
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 3 weeks ago:
I reject the premise, and I doubly reject the conclusion.
- Comment on Trying to buy some sata power cable for a lenovo sff pc, the seller did not clarify what size 3 weeks ago:
You mean sth like this?
In my machine it’s part of the PSU cable salad; probably “adapted” to the main trunk with something like above.
