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jaflo··on Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots
What API is this? I am curious as to what this API was meant to be used for.
jaflo··on RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites
You might be interested in AdNauseam, a browser extension that automates this: https://adnauseam.io/
jaflo··on Facebook Container for Firefox
Yes, it does
jaflo··on Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos
I’m curious as to what type of content you refer to as being indecent. Is this adult/risqué content? I’m unclear about the connection to strategy of bombarding the west then, I feel like there are plenty of other places to find such content.
jaflo··on Pixel 5
> And with Hold for Me, Google Assistant waits on hold for you and lets you know when someone's on the line.

This seems like a pretty cool feature. I used to be on Android and remember Google making calls on my behalf for reservations, but this feature is done on-device it seems.

jaflo··on Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition
What is the Project Touch-Captcha (두 터치) mentioned in the readme?
jaflo··on Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites
Did you have experience developing for MacOS before?
jaflo··on Don't set the language of your website based on user location
Switzerland?
jaflo··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
I also think Auth0 looks a bit sketchy. I think it’s a combination of looking different than the host app and the design looking a bit outdated.

I looked at your website on mobile and wanted to let you know that it doesn’t properly resize; the UI overflows.

jaflo··on Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
I am not sure if this will work for you, but you can move the tabs next to each other and click on a tab, press shift, then select another one and all tabs in between will be selected. Press Ctrl-W and it will close all of those tabs at once.
jaflo··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Were these PDFs? I wonder if they were human or automated clicks. Also do you recall which website?
jaflo··on AI-Powered JavaScript Completions
I was going to mention this. TabNine supports more languages, how does Kite's product differ?
jaflo··on We Chat, They Watch
Telegram allows you to chat and send messages to yourself. The search is decent and searches through the rich text description of links you sent too (so you can look for the title of a YouTube video despite having only sent the link).
jaflo··on Ask HN: Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?
I have not seen this at all. In my experience hCaptcha results in the same or equal experience that reCAPTCHA had. Anecdotally my pass rate on hCaptcha is actually higher (reCAPTCHA gets suspicious more quickly and often asks to solve more than one prompt).
jaflo··on Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
According to the notice the code in the repo included links to pirate sites, so it seems to be the case that it not only promoted copyright violations, but directly enabled them. I wonder if the takedown would still have been possible if those links would have been located outside of the repo.
jaflo··on Show HN: Summarize your time availability in seconds
1. This happens to me in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. I get an error related to something being blocked by CSP, maybe that's it?

2. I saw your other comment and yes, that fixes it!

jaflo··on Show HN: Summarize your time availability in seconds
I like this a lot (was actually thinking of building something similar)! Some feedback I have:

- When I log in with my Google account, my name is shown as undefined ("Hi, undefined!").

- It would be nice to quickly select/unselect all of my calendars (I have a lot, but only one I really need to use).

- It would be cool to select a date range and then ask it to spit out all availabilities based on my calendar without needing to manually select available times. Although I like the current opt-in way too. Just a thought, maybe no change is needed here.

jaflo··on De-Googling: My Progress
The author mentions it twice: under Contacts/Calendar "I’m thinking about using nextcloud." and under Docs "Nextcloud might fill this gap. But I don’t feel a void to fill right now."
jaflo··on How to play board games online with your friends
I was going to comment that it doesn’t work well on mobile, but it looks like that’s on their todo list: https://github.com/ekzhang/setwithfriends I wasn’t aware of this implementation, thank you for sharing!
jaflo··on How to play board games online with your friends
Thank you!
jaflo··on How to play board games online with your friends
Are there any online versions of the card games Mao, Golf, or Lucky Bastard/Karma? I’ve been considering making some sort of card game simulator that supports those because I haven’t found a good 1) website that 2) works across screen sizes and 3) enforces play order. http://playingcards.io/ is the closest I have seen.
jaflo··on How to play board games online with your friends
I tried Halma briefly and it didn’t seem to enforce rules or play order. Is that by design?
jaflo··on How to play board games online with your friends
I worked on a multiplayer version of the puzzle card game Set recently with a friend. It uses socket.io to communicate and Svelte for the front end. It’s a lot of fun to play with friends or alone: https://isaset.com/
jaflo··on Show HN: Isaset – Play the puzzle card game Set in realtime with others or alone
Hi HN! My friends like to play the card game Set with others, but because of the quarantine it is more difficult to play together, so I worked on this web version with a friend.

The game is a bit difficult to explain and best learned through trial and error. The goal is to form sets of three cards where each of the features shape, fill, number, and color are all unique or all the same. AAA and ABC are good, ABB is not. Each feature is independent from the others. I struggle explaining this quickly to others and communicating it through text, so if you have ideas on how to improve the onboarding experience, please let me know!

If you have any comments or suggestions, please share.

jaflo··on Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool
I like this! It's scoped and does exactly what it should. I didn't know about the cropping until I read this, maybe add some text explaining the feature?
jaflo··on Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed
I think it would be interesting to disable the infinite scroll and either having a button to load the next page or disable loading the next page entirely.
jaflo··on The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained
Explanation/translation for those of us that don't understand?
jaflo··on Win32 on macOS
How is Arcade related to 32-bit?
jaflo··on Milled: A search engine for email newsletters
What do you run your stack on? Also AWS?
jaflo··on Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet
Isn't most of this because of legal reasons though? You can't really leave out a lot of the language without being more vulnerable in court.
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