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You're replying to someone talking about contactless card payments, and you're talking about mobile payments. They are not the same thing.

HN is terrible to use on touchscreens (smartphones, tablets, certain laptops) and I wouldn't be surprised if more than 5% of HN's target audience are negatively affected by it. And I doubt that many people use 39 inch monitors, certainly not 95% of the target audience.

You say that you choose ZFS if you don't want to worry about data loss. My experience is the opposite of yours. The only time I experienced filesystem corruption (other than hardware failure) was when I upgraded to Ubuntu 21.10 on a ZFS installation. Ubuntu 21.10 released with a known bug in the ZFS implementation that caused filesystem corruption. I was disappointed to say the least.

It's not about URL detection (which would wrap this URL in an <a> object). It's just about the way forward slashes are treated in a right-to-left context.

Trailing slashes are terrible in right-to-left contexts. The trailing slash suddenly teleports to the beginning of the URL visually. Take this example:

  <div dir="rtl">
    http://example.com/example/
  </div>

This displays as if it were the string:

  /http://example.com/example

It's awful. Much better if everything was configured to leave off the trailing slash.

Drag and Drop is fiddly on touch screens and even on touchpads.

This blog post prompted to look for ways to display a friendly error message to the user, explaining the issue and that upgrading the browser may help. This is what I found: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70671657

I would also like to display a friendly error message to the user if I resource fails to load because of a 404 or because of network issues. This is the only solution I found: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64243346/247696

Of course, I don't think this is the whole solution. But it's something we can do without waiting for browsers to get updated.

HN has been recently debating what expectations we have of open source developers, in the light of a developer releasing bizarre updates to two particular packages on NPM, 'colors' and 'faker'. I think we all have expectations that go beyond the mere terms of the license. Ubuntu's code of conduct makes some of these expectations explicit, and I thought it would be interesting to discuss.

This is my favourite 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.

Here are the links in clickable form:

Demo: http://unalerted.com/demo-s.png

English version: http://unalerted.com/adhd-cards.pdf

Japanese version: http://unalerted.com/adhd-cards-jp.pdf

Here are the release notes for Ubuntu 21.10: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/21...

Search for "ZFS". You'll find this part under "Known Issues":

> The version of the ZFS driver included in the 5.13.0-19 kernel contains a bug that can result in filesystem corruption. Users of ZFS are advised to wait until the first Stable Release Update of the kernel in 21.10 before upgrading.

ZFS is currently broken in Ubuntu 21.10 and causes filesystem corruption. See the known issues section in the release notes.

ZFS is currently broken in Ubuntu 21.10, as mentioned in the release notes. Don't install or upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10 if you're using ZFS, or you may experience filesystem corruption.

If you use ZFS, note that Ubuntu 21.10 has a known issue which causes filesystem corruption. From the release notes:

> The version of the ZFS driver included in the 5.13.0-19 kernel contains a bug that can result in filesystem corruption. Users of ZFS are advised to wait until the first Stable Release Update of the kernel in 21.10 before upgrading.

For those using ZFS, don't install or upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10. It contains a known issue that causes filesystem corruption if using ZFS.

See the release notes and search for "ZFS": https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/21...

If you use ZFS, please don't install or upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10. It contains a known issue (mentioned in the release notes) that causes filesystem corruption if using ZFS.

See the release notes and search for "ZFS": https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/21...

Chafa is an open source project that lets you visualize images on the command-line by converting them to Unicode characters ("ASCII art") with colours. It's available in many Linux distros, as well as Homebrew for macOS. What a find!

  $ chafa example_image.jpg

https://hpjansson.org/chafa/

That licence is neither open source, nor free/libre software. Almost all licenses that are open source are also free/libre, and vice versa. Exceptions are very rare, because of how similar the definitions of open source software and free/libre software are in practise.

(By the way, the only widely accepted definition of open source software is the one published by the OSI, and the only widely accepted definition of free/libre software is the one published by the FSF, so those are the definitions we use.)

NTFS actually does support permissions, it's Windows that doesn't. NTFS also supports symbolic links and hard links.

LeechBlock NG and uBlock Origin work great on Firefox for Android.

That's quite different! Thank you for pointing that out.

Please don't make Indie Hackers invite-only. The Indie Hackers website is surely for people who need to find an online network of like-minded people, especially for those who struggle to find it elsewhere. They might not be part of a startup accelerator, they might not be good at networking, but joining the website might be the first step for them to join the community. It would be a shame to require that people be part of the community before they can be part of the community, if you see what I mean.

Don't get me wrong, having a hurdle to sign up is a good idea. You will get more invested members that way, and less spam. But you can choose different hurdles that don't exclude people who aren't well-networked. For example, you could require every new user to fill out their profile with detailed answers to questions, before allowing them to post on the forums.

Likewise, I really doubt that all the African countries marked as iPhone really are "iPhone territory".

The key sentence is this article is:

> Published by Electronics Hub, [these maps] are based on a qualitative analysis of almost 350,000 tweets worldwide that presented positive, neutral, and negative attitudes toward Android and/or Apple."

It's a jump in logic to conclude general consumer preferences as the article does:

> Now the results are in: worldwide, consumers clearly prefer one side — and it's not Steve Jobs'.

I don't think Twitter users are good representatives of general consumer preferences, especially in countries where Twitter is not widely popular. And that's just for starters.

This bug report is at risk of turning into a bike shed flamewar and I don't think it needs more attention from the masses. Please don't upvote.

To me, the bigger surprise is that these ads on YouTube promote that Brave blocks YouTube ads.

On Spotify, there is some music that is only available in some countries. But it's a small fraction of the music, probably less than 0.1%. When switching countries, those songs will be kept in your playlists even if unplayable, IIRC.

Spotify's innovation and differentiator is that it offers music legally for free. Yes, they have a paid plan, but it's the free plan that is the bigger competition to piracy.

I don't think that Arabic users all require that all the controls be flipped. It's mainly the text that needs to be right-to-left, plus a couple of other things.

Counter-intuitively, it may well be easier to implement mirroring all the controls than it would be to implement mirroring only where it is really needed.

That's awful. :(

1000^n is used by:

- hard drive and storage manufacturers

- measurements of network speeds (1Mbps is 1000000 bits per second)

- online storage providers (Dropbox's paid plan for 2TB is 2000GB for instance)

- macOS and iOS

- Ubuntu (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy )

- most modern GNOME applications and most GUI applications on desktop Linux

- hard drive manufacturers have been sued over this, and US courts have agreed with hard drive manufacturers that 1 GB = 1000 MB

- the International System of Units (SI) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) both use the decimal definitions (1 kB = 1000 B)

The last major hold-outs are Microsoft Windows and old command-line applications that want to preserve backwards compatibility with any script that might parse their output.

Personally, I don't find the XiB units confusing, as they are the only units with a consistent unambiguous definition. The XB units are much more confusing because you can't be sure whether the 1000^n definition is intended or not.

That's incorrect. GMT is always the same as UTC for all intents and purposes (setting aside things like leap seconds). British Summer Time is GMT+01 (which is the same as UTC+01). The time zone in England is Europe/London, which uses GMT in the winter, and GMT+01 in the summer.