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None taken. At all!

If you take everything to the extreme "full" honesty becomes "blunt" honesty. I do not advocate that. Pink Floyd answered that with "The Trial". Dark fiction tends to explore the extremes and to me often tends to miss the nuances. Reading such fiction can and should be thought-provoking but not be seen as a pattern.

The kind of honesty I try to advocate is a personal stance. Can you be trusted? Do your viewpoints falter under pressure? Are you able to change them openly? So it all basicly ties into a sense of morality. A bit of a dirty word in our business first world of today.

Reach for the moon and all that. ;-)

Update: I went by Glyploteket and they do actually have at least 2 paintings by him. One of them was the view of the back of the British Museum as seen in the BBC documentary with Michael Palin. The other was a rather stunning painting of a egyptian relief he saw in a museum in Paris.

Yes.

But taking such a stance will make it much harder to move the discourse forward in a positive way.

I am prone to bitterness and dystopic thinking. To combat this I try to find a positive view to move forward.

Humans and humanity is not a force of good. Greed is too foundational in our nature. Our ability to improve based on ideas is our only really redeeming feature. Both a blessing and a curse.

Agreed.

But I read your comment as complacency.

I believe the fix is to complain. How else to change human nature?

That is the best part: we can change. We can do better.

Naive? Maybe. Probably. But I would prefer idealist. Pretty much potato/potato in my world.

But I prefer my tools to come with proper instructions on the box.

The reason the "tool" works for you is that you are willing to game the system. Everything can be a hammer.

Those really looking for a casual hookup rarely are honest about it. The pond might shrink if they are (maliciously or not). This then requires a much more guarded and hard approach for those seriously looking for longterm relationships.

There is a signal value in what tool you use. Even though they might all look like a hammer to you.

People are accepting invitations on Facebook. But around here it is commonly known to only mean either an intention of attending (or just showing support even). Again Facebook the tool is not to blame. Hence I do not use that tool. No fault of the tool in itself.

So I think that the lament is not that dating apps are misused. People are "free" to do that. But what should the people who want a (for the lack of a better term) "real dating" app do?

Some thrive in this new world. But I would claim that we get more and more lonely while hiding behind our screens.

The extroverts had an easier time even before the apps. With the apps they thrive. The introverts just got an even harder time navigating this.

Dating apps are pure hell for those who "want to write the book". I do not blame the tool but I do see a real world issue.

I really love him too! One of my absolute favorites.

For people who visit Copenhagen with the same affinity there is the obvious national gallery SMK[1].

But other worthwhile visits catering to Vilhelm Hammershøi are often overlooked.

The Hirchsprung Collection[2][3] is literally in the backyard of SMK. You will likely not pass it unless you go look for it but it is only a 5 min walk away.

Even less known is the magnificent The David Collection. It is in the absolute city centre right next to Rosenborg Castle. This is a true gem with free entrance all year round. Even with all the Copenhagen travel hype I rarely see it mentioned. They are right now having a special showing of some of his works February 15, 2025 - January 4, 2026. If memory serves they also have a few as part of their regular exhibition.

If you are willing to go to the suburbs of Copenhagen then you should not miss Ordrupgaard[5]. Not as well known internationally as Louisiana but actually closer to Copenhagen and easy to reach with public transportation.

...oh - and I almost forgot Glyploteket[6]. Known for their statues and egyptian colletion but they have paintings as well. I could not find it online so I might be misremembering seeing a Hammshøi there. For people visiting Copenhagen I actually would give this museum my top recommendation of all the museums. It is a really nice place with an awe inspiring collection.

So being the fanboy that I am the (slightly) amusing part is that I live only a 5 min walk from where he lived :-)

[1] https://www.smk.dk/en/artist_profile/vilhelm-hammershoei/

[2] https://www.hirschsprung.dk/en

[3] https://www.hirschsprung.dk/samling/kunst/vilhelm-hammershoi

[4] https://www.davidmus.dk/exhibitions/vilhelm-hammershoi

[5] https://ordrupgaard.dk/udstillinger/vilhelm-hammershoei/

[6] https://www.glyptoteket.com/

You seem to be the only one mentioning this. And I think it is important to stress.

Browser engines[1] are hard to get right. But not impossible.

Google did a great job with the Blink engine. So much so that even Microsoft caved in and is using it now. So Chrome-ish might seem the better option.

So should we cry that Mozilla is imploding under years of bad leadership? Yes! They are the main driver behind Gecko engine and it will likely suffer for it over time.

The good news is that we like with chrome-ish (blink based) browsers (such as Thorium) have a number of options. Librewolf, Waterfox and Floorp are all nice and usable cross platform implementations using the Gecko engine. On your Android device you can stay on Gecko with Waterfox or IronWolf.

Gecko will not implode from one day to another even if Mozilla does. And even if Mozilla does then maybe the community can pick up the pieces. But it will be a tough job.

There is then a risk of monopoly which is never good. It is then very positive as you state that Ladybird is getting velocity[2]. They target alpha in 2026, beta in 2027 with general release in 2028. This is seriously good news which cannot be understated. We have hope! People who care should really follow Andreas updates on Youtube[3]. So while 2028 seems far away you will see that they have already gotten very far and have a good trajectory.

A few years ago when Microsoft gave up and went with Blink I was really worried as Mozilla has been in a downwards spiral for years. But Ladybird (and by extension LibWeb) gives me reason for optimism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_(web_browser) [3] https://www.youtube.com/@LadybirdBrowser/videos

I just installed Android TV[1] on my Raspberry Pi 4 just 2 days ago. This will give you the same error because it is not authorized by Google (known issue!). Apart from that everything else runs fine on the Pi. I would however not recommend it as my Pi sometimes freezes when interacting with the menus. But streaming from ie. Max for a couple of hours works without a hitch.

Because I tested casting to the Pi and got that error and then suddenly getting the same error on my official 2nd gen stick I got very paranoid and spent a couple of hours troubleshooting sigh.

If it is a botched firmware update - or simply someone at Google messing up the current signatures - it is not a good look for them.

But I guess it is again only us techies who really cares how easily they remote bricked our devices. From the reports and the sniffed network traffic I lean towards messed up keys rather than botched firmare update. All hail our digital overlords.

Made me think of what my real practical alternatives are. Unless I want to fiddle around with a browser while lounging on my couch it seems the only other real game in town is Apple TV. We have locked ourselves into the walled gardens. The powers that be never really understood that it was not fierce control but rather human nature and convenience which won the war against piracy.

[1] https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi4/LineageOS22-ATV/

Nope - nothing from Google that I can find.

I just spent 2 hours resetting and debugging my 2nd gen HDMI dongle. Blessed with having a UniFi network which can be a bit temperamental with Chromecast. For me the song and dance started with "outdated device firmware".

I just spent 2 hours resetting and debugging my 2nd gen HDMI dongle. Blessed with having a UniFi network which can be a bit temperamental with Chromecast. For me the song and dance started with "outdated device firmware".

But yes. This is the same story. I did not find that one before submitting this. Sorry!

Or consider the width of the road...

Is that not what the courts are for?

Do you want Cloudflare to act as a judge? If they find your calling out misinformation resonable you then want them to act as a legal shield for you?

I do understand and accept the need for privacy when running such a blog. But who should judge whether you got your facts wrong?

Surely it is no fun going to court. But around here I would not be afraid to go myself for a simple case. And I do mean simple: If you are damn sure what the facts are.

But then it might be the thing with judicial lineage: Objective vs subjective truth. French or British style system. In the US I would be scared senseless without representation. Is that inherited from the UK way of thinking?

Beware! The OP was originally at a good provider which got bought out by Team Internet. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364033

If you take a look at:

https://www.domaindiscount24.com/en/about-us

You will see that Team Internet owns them as well. So I would personally bve on the fence if I would consider them good or not.

I do not think so. I think if someone would have made an effort to rip off the real Dell site I would fall for it. I am just so lucky that scammer mostly prefer to go after the easier marks.

I am not sure what a better solution could be. The idea of EV certificates was good but executed poorly. Maybe a way to link certificated to business IDs.

I do however still prefer more gTLDs to minimize domain squatting.

Nah ah. Not.

While we might be able to find common ground in the statement that "safe transfer should be the default", we will differ on the definition of "safe".

Unfortunately these discussions often end up in techno-babble. Especially here on HN were we tend to enjoy rather binary viewpoints without too many shades of gray.

Try being your own devils advocate: "What if I have something to hide?".

Then deal with that. Legitimately. Reasonably. Unless you are an anarkist I assume that we can agree that we need authoraties. A legal framework. Policing.

So I 100% support Let's Encrypt and what they have done to destroy the certificate racket. That is a force of good!

But I do not think it was a healthy thing that the browsers (and Google search results) "forced" the world defacto to TLS only.

Why? Look at the list of Trusted Root Certificates in the big OS and browsers. You are telling me only good guys are listed? None here are or can be influenced by state actors?

But that is the good kind of MITM? This then hinges on your definition of "safe transport". Only the anarkist can win against the government. I am not.

It might sound like I am in the "I do not have anything to hide" camp. I am not that naive. But I am firmly in the "I prefer more scrutiny when I have something to hide". Because the measures the authorities needs to employ today are too draconian for my liking.

I preferred the risk of MITM on an ISP level to what the authoraties need to do now to stay in control. We have not eliminated MITM. Just made it harder. And we forgot to discuss legitimate reasons for MITM because "bad".

This is not a "technical" discussion on the fine details of TLS or not. But should be a discussion about the societal changes this causes. We need locks to keep the creeps out but still wants the police to gain access. The current system does not enable that in a healthy way but rather erodes trust.

Us binary people can define clear simple technical solutions. But the rest of the world is quite messy. And us bit twiddlers tend to shy away from that and then ignore the push-back to our actions.

We cannot have a sober conversation unless we depart from the "encrypt everything" is technically good and then that is set in stone. But here we are: Writing off arguments as irrelevant.

Was it not defending the sanctity of HN? Then I mis-read.

This.

Right here :-)

That is HN itself! Have a look at the source. How little Javascript it actually needs and see how well it can work without. I even like the idea behind the sparse styling and layout it use but I still think the looks could be much improved.

It is not for all as some sites are too much on the app heavy spectrum. But the current mindset among developers makes this leak everywhere. So many sites are really poorly designed. That is interesting in the context of debating minimalism and how broadly that can be defined in context of Javascript requirements.

Too few does what Travis did and try to do something minimalist. And the web suffers for it. Agree or not with his design decisions but his sentiment is laudable.

You only have a hard time to find sites which does not work without javascript because that is the lazy easy way. Good design and engineering is ignored as it is easy to quickly mock up a react site. Accessability then comes as an afterthought. And no-one cares about long term maintenance.

So sure; good luck finding a site which works well without Javascript. But that is my point: It might be the reality but should not be what we strive for. Some prefer the status quo while others prefer the fight. It might be against the windmills but nevertheless the point stands.

Doing session management is orthogonal to this. Still a fun idea, though. Even better, actually. But it introduces a new security concern. How quickly should the session time-out (or not?). But it will be good for UX.

But to explain the original idea:

Users can work in what sometimes might seem strange ways: A user can do multiple edits and choose to be perfectly fine not seeing the updates. The flow state is then simply doing the updates - then go to mail and do the approvals. In that flow it would be nice to only approve one mail which then covers all updates.

00:00 Edit A - Timer start 00:09 Edit B - Timer reset 00:18 Edit C - Timer reset 00:28 Timeout - send one mail for approval of A,B,C

The bulk update mail will then need a top link to simply approve all. And individual links below for each edit as mistakes might have been made during edits (if userfriendly :-)). A lot of work to to save a couple of mails - I know! But the things we choose to obsess over :-) It just might fit your definitio of minimalism.

People who want a fast turnaround of approvals one by one will be annoyed by this. But mail is "slow" and can be delayed anyway. People who want fewer clicks and mails will love it. Good design is then finding the optimum or choose who to champion.

Sub-optimisation. For sure!

So not important at all. And a very limited use-case. I just ran with the idea. As you succintly said elsewhere: This is like art. I will second that with a quote from The Dude: "That's just like, your opinion, man". Very true - and you should do you! I just hope I made clear what my impulsive idea was.

A little bit akin to how TN3270 works. Powerusers did crazy things working blindly ahead while awaiting the response from the mainframe.

That is a strawman.

You can disagree and think that the OP was letting the definition of "minimalism" and "brutalism" do too much heavy lifting.

But you rather imply that without javascript you cannot create a "winning" website. And ignored that the OP has a real point: Can we call a website minimalist if it requires javascript. It was not excluded that you could embellish (maybe a lot) with javascript. In the same way I would expect javascript to load async.

While I have heard your argument before it implies a really interesting design "smell". On that we might disagree. But it is there nevertheless.

Your curiosity implies that winner takes all. I agree that javascript has won. But I feel you imply that it is then ok for the victor to burn down the village. We forgot what made the web. The foundation is still html and not javascript. What I read as the "javascript attitude" makes is harder to transition away from javascript when that day comes.

Javascript is really great. Warts and all. But the "strong" proponents keeps forgetting the beauty in separation of concerns. On this point we can then have an honest disagreement.

I hope I do not come off too harsh. I genuinely wanted to address your curiosity.

I think the OPs pov is quite clear. So with your reaction I suspect we also disagree on JS0 and JSugar. That is again some bad voodoo on how to seperate concerns from people who looks at who is winning now and missing the bigger picture.

Good sir, I salute you!

Barbarians

Good bait!!!

Truly minimalist: Accept the defaults. Whatever they are. Count your bytes.

Aesthetic minimalism: A non-serif font. We may have strong opinions here on which. I shall name none to avoid firey flames ;-)

By pointing out Times New Roman by name you do not imply minimalism. Rather a passive aggressive swipe at good old Times New Roman which I find too practical and beautiful to be lumped into nu-brutalism nor aesthetical minimalism. To show good faith I will let the missing "New" slide. Gentlemen shall be given room to misspeak. Happens to the best of us.

Mupen, Boa Constructor and Molend are good examples from an otherwise meh list at https://www.fontspace.com/category/brutalist.

A drab grey could be brutalist indeed. Maybe we can be friends after all! But truly! I beg your pardon! One true scotsman and all that jazz.

Pendatry to be ignored? No, no! That is not how pendantry works! You need to watch more Tim Traveller.

But good bait, fun times!

Good idea. I get it. But I do not find it "clean" as Travis states.

Have a quick turn around time on the form. Let it be a server problem. Have a hidden field on the form set to "nojs". Let javascript set this to "js".

The server can then decide if this is a bulk edit or not. It can then decide it will batch approvals into one mail or wait a little longer.

Then you can optimize on what you find most clean and/or works best.

Have one form field for easy entry and turn around. Ten as you suggest? But what is the optimum number? 3? 20? And is it "clean" to have 20 form fields which the javascript version then will roll back into one.

So the non-javascript version will never be better. Somethings gotta give. But submitting a form can be superfast. And the page refresh will be super fast. Such is life without javascript.

And now I realize that I made an implied server optimization: Mail approval should in my mind be batched and dampened. 10 seconds might be enough.As long as new inpit is coming we can postpone approval anyway as the user is busy. Findong the correct number is the magic trick. Not too fast. Not too slow.

Interesting, really! Yes. And I should not step into a bar fight! ;-)

You are both right!

I love that you posted the link. You made it easy for me to get the point of the site as I did not want to use my mail. You effectively lowered my barrier of entry and I thank you for that.

Buuut. You did do the equivalent of just hitting "asdf" on the keyboard. I just put in "my own site". That was not clear to me up front either. I "felt" it "spammy" as well.

While disclaimers are often overused this would however had been nice. "Here you go (just dumb links to my own site)". That would actually have encouraged me even more to visit you.

Someone on the Internet was wrong. Please, no knives :-D

Your heart is the right place but your logic is upside down! :-)

The easy way to make it simple is do it as a form and then embellish it with javascript. Maybe counter intuitive but still. Let the javascript mangle the form so it does not look like a form and Bob is your uncle. By always using that pattern you easily end up with good usability and accessibility.

The same as with CSS. Make good content with nice semantic HTML. Then go crazy with super cool CSS.

But I am an old fart who hates Tailwind with a vengance. But I do acknowledge it get work done and many think it is great. So I will sulk in the corner and say that they are doing it wrong. Old man yelling at clouds.

Next: REST is great but misunderstood. I do not miss SOAP.

But know this: I love your sentiment and attitude. Nice job! Grumble ;-)

Many (most?) current TVs has either a game or PC mode which can be set on your HDMI to disable these "improvements".

I think this is primarily driven by console gamers to the benefits of PC users. Our needs align here.

If you check rtings.com they usually evaluate how good the TVs are as a monitor.

You might still have issues with local dimming etc. But that is the price of cheap. Better models works really good today.

I am using a really cheapo LG 43" 4K as a monitor. Properly adjusted it is usable. Would I like better? Yes. But it is worth the trade off. And there are only a few options for a "proper" 4K monitor at 43". I find that a little strange as it hits the sweet spot around 110ppi. I used to used dual monitors but I much prefer a (I know: comically) large screen. Only real annoyance I have is that it does not turn off automatically like a real monitor using DPMS. This means that I have to turn it on using a button. It will turn off after 15 min if there is no signal. Like in the olden days.

Not quite correct. Their dedicated servers base configuration have 1gig. But when ordering you can add 10gig as an easy option (or add later). The 1 gig is too cheap to meter with free traffic. If you choose 10gig you pay for the traffic. Those who need it might use it :-)

Around the Windows XP / 7 timeframe I used Blackbox for Windows (bb4win)[1] and was very happy with it. I used it for I think 2 or 3 years. I cannot remember if it was with Windows 7 or 10 I stopped (I skipped 8). It was painfree and nice. Now I use Windows so rarely I do not spend any time making it behave nicely.

I have not used it recently and it seems to have morphed into xoblite[2]

[1] https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.xoblite.net/docs/

Well. Point taken. You have an important core of truth to your argument about polarization.

But...

Strongly disagree.

I think that is a very unfair reading of what I wrote. I feel that you might have a bias which shows but that would be the same class of ad hominem as you have just displayed. That is why I choose to react even though it might be wise to let slepping dogs lie. We should minimize polarization but not to a degree where we cannot have civilized disagreement. You are then doing exactly what you preach not to do. Is that then FUD with FUD on top? Two wrongs make a right?

I was reacting on the implicit approval in mentioning that it had been upstreamed in the kernel. The reason for the first link. Regrets where clearly expressed.

Another HN trope is rehashing the same discussions over and over again. That was the reason for the second link. I would like to avoid yet another discussion on a topic which was put into light less than 14 days ago. Putting that more bluntly would have been impolite and polarizing. Yet here I am.

The sad part is that my point got through to you loud and clear. Sad because rather than simply dismissing as polarizing that would have been a great opener for a discussion. Especially in the context of ZFS and durability.

You wrote:

> Linus "regretted" it in the sense "it was a bit too early because bcachefs is moving at such a fast speed", and not in the sense "we got a second btrfs that eats your data for lunch".

If you allow me a little lighthearted response. The first thing which comes to mind was the "They're the same picture" meme[1] from The Office. Some like to move quickly and break things. That is a reasonable point of view. But context matters. For long term data storage I am much more conservative. So while you might disagree; to me it is the exact same picture.

Hence I very much object to what I feel is an ad hominem attack because your own worldview was not reflected suitably in my response. It is fair critique that you feel it is FUD. I do however find it warranted for a filesystem which is marked experimental. It might be the bees knees but in my mind it is not ready for mainstream use. Yet.

That is an important perspective for the OP to have. If the OP just want to play around all is good. If the OP does not mind moving quickly and break things, fine. But for production use? Not there yet. Not in my world.

Telling people to ignore my comment because you know people cannot be bothered to actually read the links? And then lecturing me that people might take the wrong spin on it? Please!

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/theyre-the-same-picture

That was a decision Linus regretted[1]. There has been some recent discussion about this here on Hacker News[2].

[1] https://linuxiac.com/torvalds-expresses-regret-over-merging-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41407768

Love this! But seems to be hugged to death.

The images load extremely slowly. This can be confusing as you do not see any spinner or indication that they are loading. But they do come if you are patient.

As you have some letters in the cache they render instantly so to the users it looks totally broken. Unless your linger on the page and the letters snaps in 20 seconds later (one by one).

An empty place holder (so you can see the space) until the letter loads would be nice. Maybe even a "Loading" placeholder text for each letter. An animated (fake) spinner would be a nice visual cue. Then swap the image when it is loaded.