Government jobs attract all the wrong people.
Besides vendor tricks, I'd like to see a showcase or article about the evolution of page layout patterns over time. That is, the underlying techniques, not the aesthetics; tables, fixed image sizes, float/clear, flex,…
Strange that this short article mostly focuses on the absence of shame in politics and business, which seems to have been a constant for many times my lifetime. And we should blame social media for this, too? If the…
Call me cynical, but I've long stopped taking the time to report minor edge case bugs if I can't also provide a solution or patch, as such reports more often than not get ignored or sit open in a bugtracker forever. I…
The COVID library wasn't even the first time they had book lending on the Archive. I remember at least a couple of different prior borrowing mechanisms. But besides books, JS/WASM emulators were added a long time ago to…
I like the theory of the IA enough that I have a reoccurring donation, but I've thought a few times about e-mailing them to cancel (they have to halt your monthly donation charges manually). There's plenty of issues I…
A problem there is needing to temporarily delete the entire domain just to update the zone. I don't manage the DNS for anything remotely critical, but the zonefile workflow nevertheless felt deeply incorrect (though I…
When I last tried deSEC, the service was reliable and well worth the price of admission, but the web UI and API were both quite rough, and propagation tended to be quite slow. It was annoying to do an ACME DNS01…
I'm sorry that you have to be around Germans, Austrians, Italians, Spaniards, and—worst of all—the French. Nobody should ever go through that.
>people are also demonstrably not that discriminating at what they spend their attention on now matter how unsatisfying the experience was, once it's spent it's gone I've refunded more games than I've kept on Steam over…
I suppose there might be a way to sign up for the alternative billing scheme: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... but make sure to "pay the relevant Play service fee, starting October 1,…
I would prefer that people post their own works to their own websites, but that's a pipe dream. As far as X is concerned, I would prefer that it behave more like 2010 Twitter and less like 2020 Twitter. I'm ambivalent…
It's both funny and sad that despite several malicious actions like this, despite wasting a ton of Twitter's social capital and despite years of broken promises (e.g., dealing with bots, bringing back free speech,…
The current state of things makes the problem seem worse than it is, but it is not a simple problem. Should a page about "L'acteur Gérard Philipe" be found by a search for "gerard", through collation? How about the…
I suppose someone could have done [class^="btn-"], [class*=" btn-"] which would have equally thrown you off, but I do agree that encouraging this is unfortunate.
The new (to me) Amazon Haul storefront is (to me) hilarious. I was stunned when I first saw it: https://www.amazon.com/haul/store I didn't dig very deep to compare prices, but it appears to compete with…
Thought this was going to be Wordle for how to download something correctly using wget.
If you can get replaced over something so minor, it means there's dozens of capable bootlickers lined up and ready to do it as soon as you're gone, so yes, there is a webdev problem.
"No." If every webdev who would say no can be trivially replaced by webdevs who won't say no, then yes, it is webdevs.
The EU said "you have to ask for permission before forcefully sodomizing your users", and webdevs thought "let's ask for permission" rather than "let's not forcefully sodomize our users". Of course, the law could have…
I'd pay a few dollars a month to use a service without ads and without surveillance. Services don't offer this and creators are staying on those services, so fuck them.
Sweet, can I mint these as NFTs? I don't know how to multiply 43252003274489856000 by 50 USD but I think it could make me a lot of money, and I like money.
Talking about this like there's an "attack" feels very melodramatic. It seems to me like the non-constructive messages are either shitposts or just curious probes (testing whether certain codepoints make it through,…
Setting R² to various large values like 50, 500 and 5000 then moving the slider around seems to give a decent and simple visual representation of what's happening.
The conceptual level breaks down in places where an open shop is illegal or disincentivized, which I suspect is the case in California where the Wikimedia Foundation is based. Europe usually has open shops, not closed…
Government jobs attract all the wrong people.
Besides vendor tricks, I'd like to see a showcase or article about the evolution of page layout patterns over time. That is, the underlying techniques, not the aesthetics; tables, fixed image sizes, float/clear, flex,…
Strange that this short article mostly focuses on the absence of shame in politics and business, which seems to have been a constant for many times my lifetime. And we should blame social media for this, too? If the…
Call me cynical, but I've long stopped taking the time to report minor edge case bugs if I can't also provide a solution or patch, as such reports more often than not get ignored or sit open in a bugtracker forever. I…
The COVID library wasn't even the first time they had book lending on the Archive. I remember at least a couple of different prior borrowing mechanisms. But besides books, JS/WASM emulators were added a long time ago to…
I like the theory of the IA enough that I have a reoccurring donation, but I've thought a few times about e-mailing them to cancel (they have to halt your monthly donation charges manually). There's plenty of issues I…
A problem there is needing to temporarily delete the entire domain just to update the zone. I don't manage the DNS for anything remotely critical, but the zonefile workflow nevertheless felt deeply incorrect (though I…
When I last tried deSEC, the service was reliable and well worth the price of admission, but the web UI and API were both quite rough, and propagation tended to be quite slow. It was annoying to do an ACME DNS01…
I'm sorry that you have to be around Germans, Austrians, Italians, Spaniards, and—worst of all—the French. Nobody should ever go through that.
>people are also demonstrably not that discriminating at what they spend their attention on now matter how unsatisfying the experience was, once it's spent it's gone I've refunded more games than I've kept on Steam over…
I suppose there might be a way to sign up for the alternative billing scheme: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... but make sure to "pay the relevant Play service fee, starting October 1,…
I would prefer that people post their own works to their own websites, but that's a pipe dream. As far as X is concerned, I would prefer that it behave more like 2010 Twitter and less like 2020 Twitter. I'm ambivalent…
It's both funny and sad that despite several malicious actions like this, despite wasting a ton of Twitter's social capital and despite years of broken promises (e.g., dealing with bots, bringing back free speech,…
The current state of things makes the problem seem worse than it is, but it is not a simple problem. Should a page about "L'acteur Gérard Philipe" be found by a search for "gerard", through collation? How about the…
I suppose someone could have done [class^="btn-"], [class*=" btn-"] which would have equally thrown you off, but I do agree that encouraging this is unfortunate.
The new (to me) Amazon Haul storefront is (to me) hilarious. I was stunned when I first saw it: https://www.amazon.com/haul/store I didn't dig very deep to compare prices, but it appears to compete with…
Thought this was going to be Wordle for how to download something correctly using wget.
If you can get replaced over something so minor, it means there's dozens of capable bootlickers lined up and ready to do it as soon as you're gone, so yes, there is a webdev problem.
"No." If every webdev who would say no can be trivially replaced by webdevs who won't say no, then yes, it is webdevs.
The EU said "you have to ask for permission before forcefully sodomizing your users", and webdevs thought "let's ask for permission" rather than "let's not forcefully sodomize our users". Of course, the law could have…
I'd pay a few dollars a month to use a service without ads and without surveillance. Services don't offer this and creators are staying on those services, so fuck them.
Sweet, can I mint these as NFTs? I don't know how to multiply 43252003274489856000 by 50 USD but I think it could make me a lot of money, and I like money.
Talking about this like there's an "attack" feels very melodramatic. It seems to me like the non-constructive messages are either shitposts or just curious probes (testing whether certain codepoints make it through,…
Setting R² to various large values like 50, 500 and 5000 then moving the slider around seems to give a decent and simple visual representation of what's happening.
The conceptual level breaks down in places where an open shop is illegal or disincentivized, which I suspect is the case in California where the Wikimedia Foundation is based. Europe usually has open shops, not closed…