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cornedor··on Adventures in Teletext Recovery
The NOS (Dutch Broadcasting Foundation) still provides Teletext via their website[1] that is still used quite a lot for its short format. There is also a public API[2]

[1]: https://nos.nl/teletekst [2]: https://teletekst-data.nos.nl/json

cornedor··on maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
Also, do not fully rely on Google Maps knowing house numbers. Looks like in some areas (in UK for example) Google used some sort of OCR to find house numbers. There are houses and Wales with random house numbers that only have a house name; Numbering ends a few houses into dead-end alley where the Street View car didn't come; Or totally wrong numbers where house number sings are hard to read.
cornedor··on App Store on iOS 14.6 sends every tap you make in the app to Apple
There are so many sites that use Hotjar.
cornedor··on Shanghai Disney shuts: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test
In the video you can hear the music is still playing. Imagine waiting at the exit four hours, listening to the same tune over and over again.
cornedor··on Solarized
Dark mode isn't necessary better for your eyes than light mode [1]. I prefer a consistent lightning more, and that is often easier done with light mode. Although, this is getting better since more and more sites and apps implement it. However, not all, this results in sometimes being surprised by a white flash after browsing through some darker sites.

1: https://www.allaboutvision.com/digital-eye-strain/is-dark-mo...

cornedor··on RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs
I have a Samsung TV but don't use the smart features. I was annoyed by the ads to because it would also change the order when switching devices. Furthermore, I found online that not accepting the privacy terms would remove all apps and ads, this indeed works great.
cornedor··on DFlex – JavaScript framework for drag and drop apps
HTML drag and drop does have a few powerful features that cannot be done otherwise. You can move an item outside your app into, for example, a native photo library app. Or even on iPhone, drag/drop an item to iMessage and send it to someone as an image or piece of text. Something that also doesn't work in DFlex is scrolling through a page while holding an item, something that also "just works" with native HTML drag and drop.
cornedor··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
Please, Adobe, please don't add Figma to Creative Cloud. It would be great to keep using it, I'm not going to change my file system to case-insensitive.
cornedor··on WebKit Features in Safari 16.0
Overscroll Behavior will make my life so much easier when I have to implement a modal that can scroll. You need stuff like body-scroll-lock [1] which will do a lot of different tricks and has to be implemented just right. Now we only need to add overscroll-behavior: contain; and we're done.

[1]: https://github.com/willmcpo/body-scroll-lock

cornedor··on Analyzing iOS 16 Lockdown Mode: Browser Features and Performance
Every third party browser you install on Android already has a differeny JIT, so all those apps probably need to implement their own rules.
cornedor··on Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?
Rollercoaster Tycoon/Transport Tycoon
cornedor··on Google Search Is Dying
You can enable Instant Answers in the settings, it is not as complete as other search engines yet, but it is improving :)
cornedor··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
In the Netherlands we have https://9292.nl/. It is awesome, I can plan a trip and it will show me how long I have to walk, whats buses/trains I have to take, and I can also buy tickets for all the different providers. Almost everyone here in NL uses it when they plan a trip, its even useful when you do this trip daily because it shows delays, maintenance and other important information.
cornedor··on GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
> Does this mean it will be a long term of conditions like apple does every time we use a website?

I guess it is the opposite. GDRP requires clear and understandable text in privacy policies.

cornedor··on Tell HN: Unable to login to HN from Firefox, a Lovecraftian tale
Do you have any add-ons that are installed on both Firefox and Nightly, but that are not enabled in private browsing?
cornedor··on Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox
We recently picked playwright for a project because we could do more with the "mouse". With playwight you can click coordinates on the page. I did not find an easy way to do this using cypress. Aside from that, playwright seems to be so much faster.
cornedor··on Crypto.com accounts had unauthorized withdrawals
Wouldn't this also allow an attacker to add his own 2FA?
cornedor··on Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal
The law was already in place, there are no changes there. It was just a question how it should have been interpreted in this case afaik.
cornedor··on The weight of the clipboard
I'm using Raycast on macOS. When I copy a password using 1Password, the copied text does not end up in Raycast's clipboard history. It might be possible that other password and clipboard managers do the same.
cornedor··on Introducing Open Web Docs
Is there currently a "modern" browser that does that?
cornedor··on “Hello, World” in zero lines of code
As long as you can trigger a block comment you can add as much as you want, for example:

  /**/-->/*
  console.log('Hello World!');
  console.log('You can add as much as you want');
  --> */
cornedor··on Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
Indeed, I know two people that went to the hospital because they thought it was covid, but in both cases it was pulmonary embolism, which has very similar symptoms. I'm not even close to a medical expert, but I wouldn't be surprised that because of less physical movement due to being home more, embolisms are more common.
cornedor··on Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
In Europe it definitely is illegal under the GDPR
cornedor··on Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content
But how certain is the future of WayBackMachine, when disaster strikes, all your links are dead. On the other hand, the original links can still be read from the url, so the original reference is not completely gone.
cornedor··on Epic direct payment on mobile
Depends, this is allowed to some degree, buit if you change functionality you have to go trough the review process. Changing the payment method definitely should go trough the review process.
cornedor··on Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?
Because the syntax alone is already so different it was a great way for me to "re-learn" programming. Even for the very short while I played with it, it really thought me to look further than the default go-to patterns I used to use.
cornedor··on How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance
> DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials reduces the CPU time of the article page from 31s to just 1.6s. All other tested extensions also bring CPU time down to at most 10s.

It doesn't even slow down the pages, the opposite is true here.

cornedor··on Google rolls out DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83
Same here, same version. I also do not have the new Safety Check described here: https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/more-intuitive-priva...
cornedor··on Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
Here are the AMS-IX stats: https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/documentation/total-stats
cornedor··on Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project
The opcode’s were documented, and tools like Haxe do compile to swf. There is a lot of information available about the scripting part, but indeed it would be a great task. However I can’t wait to compile some C++ code using FlasCC [1] and run that in a wasm player.

[1] https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/

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