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That's when you immediately stop using the website and, if you care enough, write to their customer service and tell them what happened. Hit them in the wallet. They'll change eventually.

Dunno why you've been voted down; you're totally right. The method you mention is called token/cursor/keyset-based pagination.

My response would be it doesn't make any sense. There are so many reasons why blocking rooting is a stupid idea. Just some of them:

- If you're capable of rooting a device then you're capable of understanding the risks which come with doing so.

- The number of users who root their devices will always be so comparitively tiny that the increased risk of data exfil is incredibly small. Also, similarly to above, if you're technical enough to root your device then you're probably not regularly putting yourself at risk by downloading shady apps etc. anyway.

- Rather than decreasing security, rooting allows you to enhance the security of your device by installing lower-level tools and, most importantly, removing all the bloatware crap which comes on most phones. This reduces the surface area of attack.

Let's be honest and admit that the only reason to prevent users from rooting their phones is to protect companies' profits by ensuring users can't fight back against the blatant tracking, data mining, and analytics capture which is so valuable to companies.

Wow, Media Player Classic has come a long way. I knew it could play most types of videos but this is next-level compatibility.

Nothing in the article, the video, or the manufacturer's own blog post explains what this thing actually does. Seriously. This is an ephemeral marketing puff piece.

As far as I can infer, the thing's basically a smart speaker which rotates.

"The fundamentals of the web" does not include a build step or the use of a package manager.

Absolutely. I've yet to see a single example which has convinced me that React (etc.) is remotely preferable to writing separate HTML and jQuery.

Anyone else angered by the fact that these military companies have named themselves using words from Tolkien's works?

Andruil, Palantir... it makes a mockery of the things that Tolkien stood for and I hate it.

Not trying to sound like an asshole but articles like this always confuse me. "Experimenting" with no-build web apps makes it sound like web apps require build steps by default. The opposite is true.

The idea of building/compiling in web development is (and has always been) totally alien. HTML, CSS, JavaScript. None of these require a build step.

It also further confuses me when authors talk about simplifying their web tooling but instead of using the actual web languages mentioned above, they resort to using some weird framework which just introduces another learning curve and more cognitive load.

As a web developer of 20 years, you know what I build web apps with? HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

As a web developer of too many years, I just can't get my head around the need for these kinds of reactive libraries.

Re: the first example, the reactive counter.

First of all it mixes content and JavaScript which is a sore subject but personally I prefer to keep the two clearly separated.

Secondly it's a whole bunch of new syntax to achieve what can be done in fewer lines of JavaScript or jQuery and without mixing content with logic:

https://jsfiddle.net/tu1cqh8y/

As someone who recently tried to use Blender for an extremely simple task... Blender's UI is absolutely terrible and should not be used as an example of anything except how to design an unintuitive UI.

Did someone just reinvent a GET API with cursor-based pagination?

eBay's listings are no longer free. They are now extorting their pound of flesh via a so-called "Buyer Protection Fee" which forces buyers, rather than sellers, to pay extra when purchasing items from private sellers.

> Works for massive advertising company on Chrome, the browser widely known for anti-competitive practices and destroying the ecosystem of the Web.

> Surprised when company does nasty, profit-driven thing.

I'd really like to know how they did all the transition effects. They were really cool.

What did you move into?

> Firefox is no longer a developer default

Web developer here, and Chrome dev tools suck balls. I exclusively use Firefox.

This is my constant frustration with phones.

I sit behind a keyboard, mouse, monitor, and an incredibly powerful desktop operating system for 99% of the working day. These devices are pretty much the pinnacle of human-computer interaction; arguably the best tools we have for interacting with digital content with speed and efficiency.

But as soon as I want to do something involving my phone, I have to physically reach for it and immediately hamper myself with its limited UI, screen size, and ludicrously locked-down ecosystem limitations.

Smartphones have been around for decades and yet we're still nowhere close to seamless integration with the rest of our devices. The best we've got are clunky half-featured workarounds (Airdroid) or overly-complex techy solutions inaccessible to laypeople (VNC).

As another commenter said, it's all very much intentional. It's a deliberate choice on behalf of greedy phone manufacturers and greedy app developers. And it's really, really frustrating.

Really - a massive, fuck-off tablet serves as the interior controls?

I thought car manufacturers had realised that touch-screen interfaces are simply terrible for drivers, and I thought customers were largely agreed in their hatred for them.

I would like to know how many accidents are caused by modern cars' usage of screens in the interior.

So instead of building a back door they're just completely removing the option to use E2E encryption altogether, thus making everything freely available to government by default?

How is that not worse or at least equivalent to a back door?

Question for those familiar with political law: why do these powers even exist? Why is it possible for one person to unilaterally dismiss or pardon criminal charges at all?

The year is 2025. New York takes the bold, unprecedented step of storing their waste in receptacles which cannot be easily chewed through by pests. Will this wild experiment yield results? Scientists remain skeptical.

I've always wondered: is there a tool which could selectively block internet traffic on a per-domain basis via a GUI interface like the uMatrix browser extension does for websites?

https://i.imgur.com/Ae4npRh.png

Obviously you can block hostnames quite easily via a hosts file, but it would be great if there was an easy-to-use GUI which could block stuff at the router level. If possible it could even inspect URIs to selectively block requests for certain file extensions etc.

Yes, this is horrible UX design and there's absolutely no need for such inflated amounts of padding around everything.

Huge companies are the absolute worst offenders for crap like this. Seriously, have you ever tried using Facebook to manage business pages? It is unbelievably poor.

Google is by far the most hypocritical, however, because their search engine ranks pages lower for UX sins like "cumulative layout shift" while at the same time committing those sins themselves.

(Having said all that, I would not personally expect an online spreadsheet app to look great on "half a 13" screen" on first load.)

The article is paywalled. Someone please provide an alternative link and/or an archive. (Archive.is et al. are blocked)

> The Origami language syntax is relatively simple and intended for people who have some experience working with HTML and CSS. Knowledge of JavaScript isn’t required, although if you do know JavaScript you can do a lot with Origami.

So you need to learn HTML and CSS so you can use Origami to... avoid building a site with HTML and CSS?

> the old way of doing things is only a few lines more, but is much clearer

A description fit for React itself.

I think you answered your own question. It looks an awful lot like a platform designed to lure non-technical people in with the promise of a magical, frictionless website building experience, ironically achieved by adding layers of abstraction and complexity into a regular web app.

Anyone who wants a full game of this, try Ballance:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/ballance

Check out Ballance:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/ballance