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ReverseCold··on Scrollbar Blindness
This seems to be getting downvotes, so here’s my source: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united...
ReverseCold··on Scrollbar Blindness
iOS has the majority market share in the US (~60% nationwide).

You’re completely right that this doesn’t hold true for other countries, and that ignoring Android is not the play, though.

ReverseCold··on I tried to use WordPress with GitHub Pages
> For example, I tried and failed multiple times to add a <meta> tag to the head of my index.html file. This theoretically should have been a very simple change.

The thing “they don’t tell you” about static site generators is that you should vendor your site theme. Don’t expect to both get upstream updates and make HTML level changes.

ReverseCold··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
Right, but there’s no non-security-vulnerability way to jailbreak. If jailbreaking was as easy as `adb oem unlock`, no one would need to use any security issues to jailbreak.
ReverseCold··on Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip
"If you want half the world's hackers to audit your code, put it in an Apple product. If you want all the world's hackers to audit your code, put it in a Nintendo product."
ReverseCold··on Google offers refunds after smart glasses stop working
I don’t think this is a US thing, it’s just a google thing. The normal thing to expect is what you’ve explained.
ReverseCold··on Ask HN: Popular publishing app that doesn't copyright my writing?
In another comment you wrote: "what I like about Substack and Medium is how easy it is for people to subscribe and discover. Their "distribution" is great."

These license conditions allow them to make that discoverability possible. It's probably just legal language to make sure that they can do that.

ReverseCold··on Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust
Looked up the author's dotfiles repo[1], looks like it's Iosevka.

[1]: https://github.com/NerdyPepper/dotfiles/

ReverseCold··on New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads
> I can just not use iCloud

Many third party apps that have a sync feature only work with iCloud, so a lot of people are forced to use it.

ReverseCold··on 'It's hard to find maintainers': Linus Torvalds ponders Linux's future
(Serious reply to joking question...)

No, the bootloader is locked.

ReverseCold··on OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
Razer Ripsaw HD - it's apparently equivalent to an Elgato HD60S, but most importantly it's actually in stock :)
ReverseCold··on OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera
Oh no... I just got a capture card to use with my A7 III :(

Will give this a shot, luckily I'm still in the return window.

E: Works great! Make sure to enable "PC Control" in settings for other Sony cameras. I had it set to USB Mass Storage (which is maybe the default?)

ReverseCold··on The Day AppGet Died
Reminds me of this scene from Silicon Valley (HBO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc
ReverseCold··on Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API
Reminds me of the EFNet (eris free net)/A-net (anarchy net) split.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet

ReverseCold··on Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images
Some tests require symbols (like greek letters), which aren’t easy to type by default. Also, people have been practicing all year by handwriting responses (since we didn’t know it would be online, obviously) - so a handwritten option is accommodating that.
ReverseCold··on Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen, must go back to Iraq
And the indus river valley civilization! They had a pretty advanced irrigation system.
ReverseCold··on UC Berkeley hosted a virtual graduation on Minecraft
> Where is the lasting contribution of this? How can others reuse these students' work?

The Minecraft format is well understood, and you're free to convert worlds to whatever other format you want.

It's like making a PDF in Adobe Reader. Yes, it's proprietary (was?)- but it's so well understood it might as well not be.

Also, Minecraft is both easy to use and familiar. If we used something else, this project would probably never have gotten as big as it did. I think that's more important.

ReverseCold··on UC Berkeley hosted a virtual graduation on Minecraft
Important note: this was an unofficial, student-run (but still university affiliated-ish) "graduation".

The "real" graduation is indefinitely postponed.

ReverseCold··on Pinephone first steps
^^ Well deserved self-promotion too. Quite a few of the mainline Linux patches for pinephone are written by megi, and iirc they were also one of the first to get calling working.

You can see all of their pinephone related work here: http://xnux.eu/devices/pine64-pinephone.html

ReverseCold··on Ask HN: What is wrong with Google Chrome?
HN is Google's end user tech support forum ;)
ReverseCold··on Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps in C
I think it's pretty clear that OP meant that you can trigger that Java from C, not that you never need to access Java.

The part of the Android operating system that handles permissions is written in Java, so obviously to use it you would need to use Java.

ReverseCold··on Mobile Benchmark Cheating as a Service
> game-optimized drivers

These generally actually make the games you're playing have somewhat better performance (via game-specific hacks). Applying tweaks to a mobile phone benchmark, but then not applying those same tweaks to other apps is just misrepresentation of actual performance.

ReverseCold··on Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https#...
ReverseCold··on Scroll: Ad-free subscription for news sites
If blendle makes a chrome/ff extension that redirects you from the website to blendle it'd be perfect. Right now I have to go to the app and search for the article I want, and then the article doesn't show up in search, and then I give up.
ReverseCold··on Twitter is suspending pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
That's why Bloomberg discloses the sponsored posts on Instagram as: (yes this was really sponsored by @mikebloomberg) in the description.

The entire message is often ironic, so other nonsponsored people are also using (yes this was really sponsored by @mikebloomberg) in their posts to make fun of Bloomberg, so although everyone is disclosing they're being paid, you don't actually know if someone is being paid or not.

ReverseCold··on BlurHash: Algorithm to generate compact representation of an image placeholder
I accidentally made a folder (in my pinephone's / folder) the other day called '', and I was about to delete it with rm -rf .

Maybe that shouldn't be allowed, but it is :P

ReverseCold··on Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
> obfuscated code is against Mozilla policy

You can submit obfuscated code as long as you also upload non-obfuscated code to Mozilla. Not sure if that separate code upload is public or not...

ReverseCold··on I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
This might be a good alternative to tools like Leechblock. Instead of blocking sites, give the "bad"/timewaste sites a bunch of random latency. It might discourage but not stop usage, which is useful when you need to use reddit or something to do research but not get distracted.
ReverseCold··on Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone
Is there a reason they can't? I'd imagine it'd have to do with NDAs and such, but the actual modified software that they wrote should be fine, right?
ReverseCold··on Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell
I initially thought it was "SourceHut gIT" not "SHell gIT"

I don't mean any offense by that - sourcehut is fine - just what popped into my head.

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