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aembleton

3,683 karma · joined March 26, 2014

Website at https://blerg.net/

Email: arthur at the url above

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Socials: - github.com/aembleton

Interests: Climate Tech, Cycling, Hiking, Outdoor Activities, Programming, Remote Work, Running, Technology, UI/UX Design

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aembleton··on PuTTY has a new website
If you check the source of the website that it links to [1], on line 168, we have this

<p>I'm on Mastodon as <a rel="me" href="https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham">@simontatham@hachyderm.io</a>.</p>

If you trust that website, then you can be sure that this Mastodon account is the right one.

1. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/

aembleton··on Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
Is an £800 watch sufficiently expensive enough? I've been for a walk and nothing happened.
aembleton··on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
> Kotlin became Google's C#

Are Google buying Jetbrains?

aembleton··on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
How would you prove to their data protection officer that you are the owner of that Gmail account?
aembleton··on Objects should shut up
In Hyundais this can be disabled by long pressing on the lane keep assist button on the steering wheel. Its the one with a couple of white lines and a steering wheel between them.

You might be able to do similar in the Nissan.

Of course, you have to do this every time you start the car thanks to EU and UK law.

aembleton··on Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
It does use their face
aembleton··on Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
Use *@example.com, it usually works.
aembleton··on When We Get Komooted
The owners could still sell it though
aembleton··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
You can also add this filter to uBO: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
aembleton··on A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used
How can you communicate that to anyone who displays your OpenGraph images? I always assumed that an OpenGraph image was free to be used as a link to the page, but it turns out that this is a risky assumption.
aembleton··on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience
Lovely site, and created by lovable.ai. You can even 'Remix' it here: https://lovable.dev/projects/64e17878-d0c5-49bd-a18b-39d3b93...
aembleton··on How to Firefox
Try using Orion. Its not Firefox but has uBO on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id148449...
aembleton··on How to Firefox
Yes; and not having the visual noise is pleasant.
aembleton··on Beyond Meat fights for survival
Or you take a hair cut if the majority of bond holders agree.
aembleton··on Beyond Meat fights for survival
The texture and mouth feel isn't right either.
aembleton··on My Self-Hosting Setup
Same on Firefox. Here's the diagram as a zoomable image https://codecaptured.com/blog/images/ultimate-self-hosting/d...
aembleton··on Let Me Pay for Firefox
Remove blockingWebRequest from Firefox, much like Chrome has done. Then charge $20/year for a version that allows you to use it across all of your devices.

I'd definitely pay that as its adding a lot of value.

aembleton··on Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone
Install Firefox and add Social Fixer on there.
aembleton··on Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google
That means they can just use 'AI to guess a user's age based on the data the company already has'
aembleton··on Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
I'm not a frontend developer so I'm ignorant about this stuff so that's the first I've heard of it.

Do you know how you can do this in spring? Let's say I used Thymeleaf, is there a maven target I can use to walk over a database and generate every iteration of a html website?

aembleton··on Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
> Astro needs to run on a server that can run node etc

It needs to run on your computer to generate the HTML, but you can just run npm run build then copy the contents from the dist folder to your apache server, or whether you want to host it.

At least, thats how I do it.

I haven't used PHP for about 20 years so I'm sure its changed a lot.

aembleton··on Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
PHP needs to be hosted on a server that can parse PHP. Astro generates HTML so can be hosted anywhere that can serve HTML.
aembleton··on Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
Astro will generate those HTML pages you can serve 'from bog standard Apache'.

You can then use all of those npm packages to do whatever processing on your data that you want to do to generate the content and the pages and then just serve it as HTML.

I'm a backend dev, but Astro is the first time a front end framework has made sense to me for years. It fits my mental model of how the web works - serving up HTML pages with some JS just like we did 20 years ago. Its just that I can have it connect to a DB or an API to pull the data at build time so that I can have it generate all of the pages.

aembleton··on The $25k car is going extinct?
I found this video informative about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjMyx24pxTo

He's a second hand car dealer in Stockport and has experience of selling cars in Spain and in California.

aembleton··on The $25k car is going extinct?
Its more expensive with the cost of labour in the UK to keep a car going, especially once it starts needing welding. We apply a lot of salt to the roads in the winter so after 20 years most cars will need welding work.

Second hand cars are also cheaper in the UK compared to other countries because we're right hand drive so there aren't as many markets that they can be exported to second hand.

aembleton··on The $25k car is going extinct?
Plenty of tech, but are the seats as comfortable?
aembleton··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
That can already happen because apps can get the permission to read your notifications.
aembleton··on Microsoft Edit
This is the first time I've heard of micro. More info here: https://micro-editor.github.io/
aembleton··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
It's on purpose to make the point that advertising serves a purpose.

If advertising has hammered in to me that Tesco sells food and Screwfix sells power tools then my brain has a ready made map of what those chains sell. I don't have to visit and find out for myself.

aembleton··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
> In such case I don't care what store it's, just it's proximity.

So you'd go to a hardware store for food? Surely you need to know what they sell.

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