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I like this part of the Ubuntu code of conduct:

> Step down considerately

> When somebody leaves or disengages from the project, we ask that they do so in a way that minimises disruption to the project. They should tell people they are leaving and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick up where they left off.

I don't think a maintainer owes anybody free labour, but I do think a good maintainer will hand over the keys to someone else when the needs of the community require it.

Don't forget https://news.ycombinator.com/best

Firefox 59 is the first Firefox release to support SameSite cookie attribute, joining Chrome.

> Same-site cookies ("First-Party-Only" or "First-Party") allow servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain.

I like this one!

I was curious, and I did a search for "deleted:1 user:me" to see if any of my posts had been deleted, and six had, almost all of them I had deleted myself. For context I have posted around 200 posts on Stack Overflow.

Being able to see deleted posts is indeed an eye-opener, and I also wish more people had this ability, but for a different reason. It makes you aware of the amount of very low quality posts that get posted to Stack Overflow, not to mention spam.

I like everything about plain text emails except for hard wrapping, which looks awful on screens that are too small or too wide.

This is why I like Ubuntu Unity's notifications:

- you can't click on them

- if you hover them with the mouse, they go transparent

- if you do try to click, the click will pass-through to the GUI element underneath.

They never ever get in the way. And you can find them again if you miss one. I like 'em.

It looks like you can configure it to pick one monitor or the other. It would be better for it to record all monitors, since the whole point of this app is to enable retroactive screen recording, and so I would like to choose the monitor after the recording is done.

I miss the command-line interface of Bazaar, and the fact that you can undo reverting any changes to a file. The equivalent in Git (`git checkout -- filename`) is impossible to undo. I'm still going to use Git, it's a really great tool once you climb the learning curve.

I'm always on the look-out for software that supports right-to-left languages (and Arabic specifically). Sadly, this doesn't. The final rendered video doesn't render Arabic properly. Looks cool, though, thanks for sharing!

When Facebook autoplays a video, doesn't it also automatically enable the SRT subtitles?

> I couldn’t understand why users who were making a thousand dollars in ad revenue each month, didn’t upgrade their accounts, after all it only costs $25. Turns out, a lot of these users were living in countries where they couldn’t have a Visa card or PayPal account, and just couldn’t pay me even if they wanted to.

I was highly interested when the author said he moved to Morocco to lower living costs. I was hoping he would have insights in how to overcome problems like this. I find it fascinating that these users are somehow receiving money online, but can't pay for things online.

It's true that the most well-known languages are likely to attract the most criticism by virtue of being so well-known. It's true that Javascript and its ecosystem has improved. However, it's also true that there remains some warts to Javascript (for instance, modules are not there yet). It's not fair at all to say "all of these concerns are not concerns" just because you have grown to appreciate all the advantages that Javascript offers. That's being silly, sillysaurus3.

pipenv[1] and other GitHub repos have a little badge in the REAMDE.md entitled "say thanks", which takes you to a simple form [2] where you can say thanks. I thought it was a cool idea.

[1] - https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv [2] - https://saythanks.io

I just had a look at your projects, and pass-rotate looks really interesting!

With Gmail's web interface, it's more complicated than that. Images are loaded by default, but only through a proxy: Google's servers go fetch the image for you and then serve you the image. They only do this once you open the email. So you do leak whether you opened the email, but not your IP address, browser headers, etc. Here's a blog post from 2013 about it: https://blog.filippo.io/how-the-new-gmail-image-proxy-works-...

Yes, people who promote a language are biased. But so are people who resist that language: they tend to have existing investments in their favourite languages, and have inertia in moving to a new language. I personally haven't decided to learn Rust yet, but I still appreciate being kept up-to-date on the landscape of programming languages, and I want to know about the cool new languages as well as the solid old ones.

The article doesn't make it clear what this support looks like. If it's optional and complicated, people are not going to use it. And if it's different than what ProtonMail uses internally, all the promises about security might not apply.

What are the security guarantees when emailing someone who does not use ProtonMail? If there is an encrypted mode, can this mode be turned off? This is critically important, and yet most of these email providers who talk up their security fail to bring it up. This article is the same.

I'm not sure it's true that they'll adjust to feedback. Chrome has already shipped a similar feature, and it has identical problems, IIRC. I think it's quite likely Mozilla will just ship whatever is closest to Chrome's behaviour, regardless of user feedback.

I have a very similar script that lets me write notes to a file with today's filestamp. I use it to keep track of what I've done on which days.

The topic of prostitution seems to come up regularly on HN for some reason, and in general the comments defend the use of prostitutes and argue for its legalisation. It is refreshing to see a small break in this pattern.

Creative Commons advise users against using CC0 for code. CC0 also got caught in a technicality, causing it to never get approved or disapproved as an open source license by the OSI.

> Check out License Zero. It helps open source software stay free for use and modification for non-commercial purposes, while commercial users can be required to pay after a trial period.

I would delete the words "open source" from this sentence. License Zero is not an open source license, as open source licenses cannot discriminate against commercial uses. See the Open Source Definition by the OSI.

Fastmail give you free aliases.

The article talks about a compromise that the EFF proposed and saw rejected.

Using a .editorconfig file solves this problem in many text editors. http://editorconfig.org

I'm not sure that gp is criticising people for that.

Well said. You should write a blog post or something on this topic.

Thanks ofek, seemingly small things like this make a huge difference.

The README.rst documents the `egg` subcommand like this:

> Creates a new Python project. Think of an "egg" as a new idea.

How does this differ from the egg distribution format [1] introduced by setuptools, which wheel aims to replace? If it's completely different, couldn't a distinct term be used? Python packaging is confusing enough as it is!

[1] - https://packaging.python.org/glossary/#term-egg