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kactus··on Reddit now forces you to use new.reddit.com to dismiss the cookie banner
I can confirm this worked for me. The new UI is unbearably slow to use, and I strongly dislike the most popular subreddits.
kactus··on Ask HN: Non-Reddit websites to discuss hobby related interests?
Depends on the hobby. Individually hosted forums will most likely be your best bet here, though due to Facebook and Reddit they’ve been on the downslope.
kactus··on My site was disallowed from advertising on Google when using Matomo analytics
I use CloudFlare Analytics and I had no issues running Google Ads.
kactus··on The website obesity crisis (2015)
Safari does support Webp as of Big Sur.

https://caniuse.com/webp

AVIF has a long road for support if Webp is any clue.

I love the savings from AVIF but encoding takes forever compared to Webp.

kactus··on Newsletter platforms: please support 1-click subscribe
I assume providers do this to prevent fraudulent signups - people signing up email addresses they don’t own and racking up your bill.

I wonder if there’s a legal reason too.

kactus··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021)
SEEKING WORK - UTC -5 - REMOTE

Contact: hire@luke.work

Portfolio: https://luke.work

## Background

Freelance web designer with 7 years of experience with non-profit orgs and small business.

## Seeking

Contract or full-time.

New site builds, content updates, and redesigns.

I prefer to work with static site generators (my favorite is Eleventy).

I have long worked with WordPress and seriously love taking an old slow WP site and rebuilding it for speed.

I have recently started offering Webflow services as well.

kactus··on Ask HN: What should I learn next; Rust or Elixir?
Do you have any resources for looking at job trends for a specific language?
kactus··on Ask HN: What Linux apps do you use for web development?
If you’re using the JAM stack, other than your preferred browser and text editor, you’re pretty much set.
kactus··on [dead]
I strongly believe he would have bragged about it by now if he did.
kactus··on We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon
Please elaborate.
kactus··on Ask HN: What car do you drive?
2016 Ford Transit Connect.

I wanted to be able to haul things, and I don't like trucks or SUVs.

So I drive a big box with a gigantic panoramic moonroof and more features standard for less money (leather seats, automatic wipers and headlights, blindspot detection, backup cam, etc). I got a good deal on it since the passenger version of the Connect sells worse than a Sienna or Odyssey.

kactus··on The nuclear option to opt out of tracking on iOS
How do we know this “nuclear” option actually works if app developers haven’t implemented the feature yet?
kactus··on Apple Is an Accomplice to Fraud
Link to the source article: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22385859/apple-app-store-...
kactus··on Apple Is an Accomplice to Fraud
The Windows Store on the other hand is an amazing example of what’s going on in the linked article - except on steroids.
kactus··on Web developer's guide to AVIF images
I need AVIF converters to get faster before I start using it. I added it to a project recently built on an SSG and it added about 1-5s per image to build time - which adds up on 200 images.
kactus··on iMac 24-inch
I think it may be a result of the process being different on aluminum vs plastic and resulting in lighter, more washed out looking colors.
kactus··on System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
That’s the same as stock GNOME and is terrible UX.
kactus··on System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
Wonder if the file picker will have image thumbnails.
kactus··on New leak shows off Windows 10 design update with rounded corners
IIRC, Windows had rounded corners before Mac OS did.
kactus··on NSFW Server Designation
It sounds like an Apple-directed decision. Is Reddit next?
kactus··on Microsoft Edge market share grew 13x in the past 12 months, overtaking Firefox
I dumped Chrome in favor of Edge on Windows, it’s just that much better in my opinion. Especially with the new vertical tabs feature.

On Mac I use Safari, with Edge as my Blink test browser. As far as I can tell it does not use Keystone for updates (https://chromeisbad.com)

kactus··on Whatever you tweet may be used against you
Deleting may not even be an option anymore. There’s several archival projects that save past tweets (the main one that comes to mind is archive.org).

They most likely don’t save every single tweet, however the chances are high that whatever you said and did on the internet in the past isn’t going away anytime soon.

kactus··on Addiction to Outrage (2020)
Thank you, Medium is ruining my life.
kactus··on I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
I have the same feeling. The author’s description of Twitter is accurate, though I would add that is an ad-filled wasteland.

I deleted Reddit when it was clear they wanted to commercialize everything that was good about it and introduced a terrible and slow redesign, with tons of tracking.

HN, a couple newsletters, and some RSS feeds are what I have left.

kactus··on Can Valve Save Linux Gaming in 2021?
PlayOnLinux has sadly fallen behind, Lutris is what works the best these days. And it can use Proton to run games if necessary.
kactus··on Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop
It really is. Doesn't matter which browser you use, how beefy your computer is, OS, etc., the new redesign is super slow. It speeds up a bit when you run an adblocker, but even then just going through about 15 posts and things start to stutter and chug. It's helping me stay off reddit though as a side-effect, which is one of my goals lately.
kactus··on Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
This is still the best implementation of this feature and no other browser has gotten it right, yet. Even Blink-based Opera now fails in this regard.
kactus··on What Taking On Google Taught Me About Startup Traction
This is a killer feature for me as well. Unfortunately DDG's results for other things lack compared to Google, like searching for specific technical things like "how do I do this in code" or "wtf computer why are you doing this specific thing". Google's also a lot more helpful with forum threads in their results.
kactus··on Noteslate
Would like to see this with Evernote integration.

Also that website is a good example of bad transitions. I shouldn't have to wait so long for the text to appear when I scroll.

kactus··on 8-bit GIFs of Japanese life
Are there any 8-bit games that use nice color palettes like this?
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