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SquareWheel··on MelonJS – a fresh and lightweight JavaScript game engine
There's a Nintendo DS emulator named melonDS. If the title didn't have a description, I would have assumed it were a JavaScript port of the emulator. That would have been cool.

This is cool too, though.

SquareWheel··on ‘Luddite’ Teens
In Paypal, for example, this is the screen I reach every time I try to log in.

https://i.imgur.com/V2WbK6C.png

There is no skip button. Even worse, every method I've tried to access customer support requires I be logged into an account.

I do have an Android device at home that may support TOPT, but a lot of websites still recklessly assume you have a mobile number available.

SquareWheel··on ‘Luddite’ Teens
Thank you for the suggestion.
SquareWheel··on ‘Luddite’ Teens
I don't carry a cellphone. The rates are atrocious in Canada, and I don't like being rung when I'm out and about.

The biggest problem is 2-factor. Many services are starting to require it, which has led me to losing access to various accounts. Looking at you, Paypal.

Otherwise, it's fine. I make a paper shopping list. I schedule meetings in advance, and show up at the expected time. Uber isn't even in my city so there's no loss there.

SquareWheel··on A neat XOR trick
Without the cool bit trick, would it be worth publishing the article at all? I found it a novel approach to explore.
SquareWheel··on Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera
Caterpillar phones have had thermal sensing for years, haven't they? What's different in this model?
SquareWheel··on Brave launches private search ads
Your information is outdated. gorhill also released a version of uBlock Origin that runs just fine on Manifest v3.
SquareWheel··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
I watched the video just recently, and almost immediately put the knowledge to use in a project. Finally the setTimeout(0)'s make sense.
SquareWheel··on Zeal OS is a modernized fork of the Temple Operating System
Blaming an internet moderator for driving someone to suicide by simply enforcing community standards is extremely callous. You're actually doing more damage with your moral judgement by trying to bring down someone else.

Now I read many of Terry's comments without ever turning on showdead. Even if he were hellbanned, it would've been a consequence of his actions regardless of the reasons behind them.

But maybe it's not even worth responding to somebody who creates a throwaway to make such statements.

SquareWheel··on Zeal OS is a modernized fork of the Temple Operating System
His work was commended, and his racist comments were downmodded and flagged. The responses were pretty proportional, all things considered.

The most awkward part was when people would talk about him as if he weren't active in the threads.

SquareWheel··on PR that converts the TypeScript repo from namespaces to modules
I suppose it depends on your use case, but I don't really consider 2x to be a significant difference. Between programming languages we often speak in orders of magnitude.

If JS is only half the speed of a compiled language like Rust, that shows remarkably optimized performance.

SquareWheel··on Project Starline expands testing through an early access program
Likely very little. But wouldn't that be true of any technology? That doesn't seem like a good metric for determining how much potential impact a technology actually has.

I do agree about technology for technology's sake, but even in cases where the application is wrong, technologies are often repurposed. Viagra was created to treat heart disease.

SquareWheel··on Project Starline expands testing through an early access program
> Have you not seen killed by google ?

Yes, we've all seen it. Honestly can we just discuss the tech for once instead of making the same comment 30 times on every Google thread?

This sort of video streaming is reminiscent of the "tele-human" teleconferencing in Silicon Valley [1]. Hopefully it works better. It would be timed well as so many companies are looking at working from home right now. Though as with anything with "Project" in the name, I wouldn't expect any actual product for at least five years, and probably more.

Salesforce makes sense as a partner. They have multiple global offices and could stress test things beyond internal dogfooding.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YOEEpWAXgU

SquareWheel··on Ask HN: Why are JavaScript dependencies so messy?
> I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this one...

Rightfully so. Your comment is utterly toxic.

SquareWheel··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
uMatrix is discontinued, so it's not being developed for MV2 or MV3.
SquareWheel··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
FUD is making a dismissive claim without actually testing it. Using the stripped down content blocking in iOS is hardly comparable.
SquareWheel··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
Have you actually tried using uBlock Origin Lite or Adguard on MV3? I've used both and they have worked flawlessly. Currently I prefer Adguard because all websites are opted-in to cosmetic styling by default.
SquareWheel··on Hyperlinks in Handwriting
I had the same thought. I remember exporting image-based webpages in Macromedia Fireworks using HTML maps. No reason they shouldn't work today, even if they carry the same problems now as they did then (image-based websites are massive).
SquareWheel··on Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023
Oof. Today's websites must be extremely slow to load without multiplexing.
SquareWheel··on 58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
Personally I find column-style layout to be more difficult on the web. Though probably just due to lack of familiarity.

As one example, the "Golf with your Friends" subreddit always throws me for a loop due to its use of columns. I have no idea how to read it!

https://old.reddit.com/r/GWYF/

Note this example will only work on a widescreen desktop browser.

SquareWheel··on Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers
Considering that Google's ad providers, analytics, and general services are so easily blockable in the new API, that reasoning doesn't hold water.
SquareWheel··on uBlock Origin Lite: Description
That limitation has nothing to do with MV3. Adguard does not suffer from this problem. Making it opt-in is a specific design consideration that gorhill took with this version of uBlock to reduce its permission scope.

I wish people were not so quick to share misinformation like this.

SquareWheel··on uBlock Origin Lite: Description
The ability to opt-sites in to cosmetic filtering seems like a big upgrade. I'm now looking forward to seeing this version used in practice.
SquareWheel··on uBlock Origin Lite: Description
The current limit is 30,000 rules, but they've talked about raising it further beyond that point.
SquareWheel··on Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3
You're correct. MV3 blockers work fine against Adsense, as expected.
SquareWheel··on DVD Bouncing Logo
I saw that but I figured it was just generating on "wall" collisions.
SquareWheel··on DVD Bouncing Logo
All it's doing is setting the logo to absolute and adjusting its position values each step. Outside of CSS redraws, it shouldn't be causing any slowdowns.
SquareWheel··on It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over
Surely there's a better recap of the issue than a two month old forum post from a user running cracked servers?
SquareWheel··on Reddit's favorite products in one place
Every one of these "X's favourite products" seems to be an affiliate link farm. This one goes slightly further than most and actually links to the references. If anybody deserves a referral fee though, it's the originator of the suggestion and not the bot scraping them.
SquareWheel··on “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
See that's just completely wrong. Google Ads are trivial to block with declarativeNetRequest. They're as plain jane simple as it gets. If any ad company will benefit, it'll be the exotic ones that are more difficult to block.
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