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halapro··on Is my blue your blue?
They're all xanh to me.
halapro··on Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
It certainly is great to have first-party support for such a simple feature. It doesn't have to support the whole GM_ API
halapro··on Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
There's no way to enter the emoji "male adult female adult male child female child" but only "two adults two children". So it's kind of both.

It's like they realized that emojis really shouldn't need to deal with color and gender.

halapro··on Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
This thread is about Apple servers accessing the contents. Of course the OS has access to the contents of your messages, how else do you expect it to show a preview of the message? Do you want each notification to be a custom-rendered widget from the app?

If the contents are that sensitive you must disable the preview. Even then, the OS has access to the pixels in your app so it really is a moot point.

The caching issue here was evidently a bug.

halapro··on The end of responsive images
I think this is far too risky.

This doesn't help you if you want to save bandwidth, it worsens it.

It doesn't help you if you custom-crop images depending on the viewport size, because if you go that far to art direct, then you're not going to like the result of automated and unsupervised seam carving.

Just publish 3 sizes, maybe crop the smallest one if the focus area is too small. Done.

halapro··on GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
> never has written about

If you don't want to look at what people write you can't say that they haven't written about it.

> the supposed failure of design

I don’t think people complain about the internals of git itself as much as the complexity of all the operations.

If you want to read about complaints, you really don't have to look further than the myriad of git GUIs, TUIs and otherwise alternative/simplified interfaces.

halapro··on GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
How many years of experience with git do you have? How much of git do you use? I bet you use 5 commands and 10 flags at most. Take a look at git's docs
halapro··on Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
Turns out they CAN and they WILL. The character has always been special on all Apple OSes.
halapro··on Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
You can use emojis as passwords, do you think that's a good idea? They work now, there's a good chance that they won't be the same forever. See what happened to the family emojis
halapro··on You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
The best part is that this kind of popups have been introduced with OS X Lion in 2011, which only came 4 years after Vista.
halapro··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
While it's definitely surprising that the OS caches this data after the notifications have been swiped away, I always thought that notifications are an obvious hole in the whole E2E encryption setup.
halapro··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
> a European perspective on politics, culture and values

To be honest this does not sound much better. 40 years ago maybe I would have preferred EU values over the US' puritan values. Nowadays I'd just expect a different flavor of poison.

halapro··on John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
I think a lot of them just are not aware of the issues until they dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars and used the tractors for years
halapro··on Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets
It's not so simple. The game must be fair.

What if 100% of the bets you place in a slot machine go to the owner? It's the exact same thing here.

Slot machines are regulated so the game is fair and they're not simply machines where the rich steal from the poor. Such a machine would be scam by definition.

halapro··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
Density doesn't cause faster internet but it certainly facilitates it. The US has far too much lobbying to favor consumers.
halapro··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
This is the most American shit ever. Pro-consumer regulations are rejected to the point that they start regulating against their own constituents.
halapro··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
This is one of the benefits of living in Europe, which is relatively densely populated compared to places like the US.
halapro··on iNaturalist
I must say, the homepage simple style is extremely pleasing. I was always a fan of Metro UI and this perfectly matches it.
halapro··on LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
As mentioned, there's a way to expose your extension to the web even without making changes. The other way is a key called "web_accessible_resources".

All of these are opt-in by the extensions and MV3 actually force you to specify which domains can access your extension. So, again, each extension must explicitly allow the web to find it.

halapro··on Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
Back in my day people would sign you up to porn newsletters and those would not ask twice.
halapro··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Have you looked at the screenshots? The admin literally looks like WordPress.

You don't have to steal code to become liable. EmDash is an explicit direct competitor to WordPress and it copied the whole interface.

It's like Pepsi suddenly shipping red bottles with the (I can't believe it's not) Coca Cola branding.

If I did this and not CloudFlare, I would have gotten a cease and desist yesterday.

halapro··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
That situation had nothing to do with reality either. It was just some guy being upset at someone and starting a war all of the sudden. War it lost anyway.
halapro··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Wording never stopped a-holes and lawyers from being annoying. The only difference in this case is that Matt is the small fish.
halapro··on LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
There's nothing to patch, scanning is not possible.

It's either the extension's choice to become detectable ("externally_connectable" is off by default) or it makes unique changes to websites that allow for its detection.

halapro··on Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)
Instagram and Facebook support for once
halapro··on Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)
Beeper is a good solution. To bad I still have Instagram next to it and prefer it because my friends send me reels anyway
halapro··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Tell that to the guy who got upset with WP Engine. EmDash is clearly "inspired" by WordPress including in its UI, so there's definitely something to it.
halapro··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Yes definitely compare it multiple times to WordPress and nobody will think of calling their lawyers.

Is this April fools? With real products launching on this date you can't really be too sure.

halapro··on Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
To be fair cameras on every fn corner is also creepy. But cameras on uncle Ronny are creepier because they're closer and they're usually pointed at glutes.
halapro··on Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Downloaded data != memory usage

You're comparing apples to apple trees

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