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I have done web development since the 90s and I can tell you authoritatively that most of what people talk about, like those frontend frameworks, are gibberish.

Or at least, they're not worth the hype they're given. The wheel is constantly turning, and the hot new framework of today is just a re-hash of something already done years ago with a pretty facade.

You probably learned the actual fundamentals of the web, which is exactly what a good developer should do. Nowadays "frontend devs" don't know how to make the most basic functionality without React, Bootstrap, and 99 other pieces of bloat.

Frankly the stuff I look at just disgusts me on a fundamental level. Like as soon as you decide to use React, you've just mandated up to several megabytes of JavaScript simply to render your HTML. That's abhorrent.

How does that work? Can you clarify?

It's definitely obscure.

You mean the ability to install your choice of software on a device that you own is dangerous????? Someone should tell the authors of literally every other operating system ever made about this astonishing discovery!

Does anyone know of an offline photo manager with object detection search?

All I want is an app which I can point at a folder and then search for "cat" or whatever and have it show all the pictures with cats.

Seems like all the photo apps I look at are either vastly over-engineered or lack this kind of visual search/tagging.

While I agree the AI answer is unnecessary, I'm more angry about how it forces itself into the top of the page, causing the actual search results to be forced further down the page.

There's a term for this; it's called "layout shift". And guess which giant search engine company actually punishes websites which include layout shift? You're damn right, it's Google:

* https://developers.google.com/publisher-tag/guides/minimize-...

* https://web.dev/articles/cls

These big companies supposedly only hire world-class developers; the cream of the crop. And yet they can't even get the basics right. Stuff that I would have avoided in my first Geocities site when I was a kid.

Stupid hypocritical twats.

Useful for annoying your visitors?

Why on earth would they not enable the setting which honours the `prefers-reduces-motion` media flag for users who don't want stuff flying all over their screens?!

CarPlay features in the instrument cluster is already a thing in some cars: https://youtu.be/HB4CODQmYl8?t=140

Great if this works for you but honestly I don't find this "easy" at all. The writing style is annoyingly formal and already on page 2 it jumps into "draw the rest of the fucking owl" territory:

>> A very simple example will serve as illustration.

>> Let us think of xx as a quantity that can grow by a small amount so as to become x+dxx+dx, where dxdx is the small increment added by growth. The square of this is x2+2x⋅dx+(dx)2x2+2x·dx+(dx)2. The second term is not negligible because it is a first-order quantity; while the third term is of the second order of smallness, being a bit of, a bit of x2x2.

This is absolute nonsense.

Zoom is terrible for this, but it's also sometimes the fault of the meeting organiser. There's a setting in the Zoom admin panel which allows admins to enable/disable the option of joining from the browser (or there used to be, at least).

If you don't see the join from browser link even after jumping through Zoom's dark pattern hoops, ask the meeting admin to enable it.

When remote fonts are blocked, the text is rendered with Comic Sans. Not a good look.

Is there something I'm missing? A quick search of YouTube reveals tons of garage door spring replacement videos. It doesn't seem like the knowledge or parts are difficult to obtain.

Why wouldn't they allow keyboard input to type the words? Nobody has time to select each individual letter with the up/down arrows. I get it's an emulated game but there must be a way to hook keyboard input.

Just checked out Love and Lemons. Sorry but I can't say it impressed me at all. The vast majority of the page is blogspam garbage. Nobody needs a ten-paragraph introduction and an explanation of why you're using cocoa powder and vanilla in a brownie recipe.

Interestingly the first result for "brownie recipe" for me is BBC Food which is about as close to no-BS as you'll find.

> you will still need a phone number to sign up for Signal

Guess I'm not signing up for Signal then.

Seriously though - this has always bothered me. They build the "most private" communications service ever, yet require one of the most identifying pieces of your information in order to use it.

If I didn't know any better I would swear it was a surveillance honeypot.

Website doesn't like it if you block third-party content (using uMatrix). It loads and then disappears a few seconds later.

I could have sworn I saw a documentary where they talked about having legal issues with some of the music, because some of it (e.g. "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountains") was not public domain.

There's a little bit written about it on Wikipedia but I wish I could find the documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)#Developm...

It's the former.

I use an old version of iTunes on Windows and haven't found anything better, for the following reasons:

1. It has a taskbar player, which is a tiny strip of media controls which sits in your taskbar. AFAIK the only other player to offer this is Windows Media Player.

2. It has the best-looking (for me) GUI with the column browser etc.

3. You can use parental controls to disable all the crap like the store/videos/radio/etc. to make a very minimalist player.

The only problem I have with it is that older versions don't sync correctly with modern devices (iPod, iPhone, etc.) but there are workarounds for this using a virtual machine: https://www.tersetechtips.com/how-to-keep-using-an-old-versi...

What parts of it do you find boring, specifically?

I have one point which I really feel exemplifies the entire Netflix experience: before you sign up, they do not give you a list of what's available to watch.

Seriously, check out their website. It's basically a landing page which says "give us your money". The prices aren't even displayed.

There is no list of shows, save for a few measly screenshots of featured/well-known titles. There is a search box which lets you search for titles, but nothing like a catalogue of offerings, which is the absolute bare minimum I'd expect to see before purchasing a service.

I really cannot fathom why anyone would willingly give their hard-earned money to a company which doesn't even tell you what you're getting in exchange.

It was obvious to me that Apple doesn't care about developers the moment I learned that they charge a $99 per year fee to open a developer account.

I refuse to pay a company so that I can contribute value to their ecosystem.

Doesn't help if you want to send data to the server with every request (i.e. cookies).

I can't believe a Cookie Store API has not been officially implemented yet.

How can it be 2024 and we're still having to parse a huge ugly string to get a cookie by name?

The regular homepage is super laggy for me.

It also doesn't explain what the product actually is.

For example, I clicked on "TV shows" and it says:

> Just search for your favorites > You type in the name of the TV show you want to watch, and we'll do the heavy lifting. With over one million episodes at your fingertips, we've got you covered.

So... is this app a media streaming service? Does it host all this content or does it require me to pay for it? Is it legal? How does this help me learn languages - will it provide subtitles? Spoken audio dubbing? Are these AI-generated or does it fetch from existing translation resources?

If it's AI-generated I cannot possibly see how it'll be accurate.

Way too many questions.

Their online store is pretty bad. The page just says "6 pack" without specifying any weights or bag sizes. The image carousel also didn't stop when I clicked on a thumbnail to read more.

Oh and the pasta is grotesquely overpriced.

1. Cookie banners allow for informed consent. I like to see which companies are abusing my data, and take the extra couple of clicks to stop them from doing that.

2. USB-C cables are ludicrously cheap and massively preferable to needing to hunt for the Apple-specific proprietary cable. Not sure why you had to explain the purchase of a $2 cable to your wife.

3. Freedom of choice means you are free to continue using the walled garden, should you wish, but others are also free to explore alternatives which is currently impossible.

I have no idea how inflation works - what happens if you're an average Turkish person who had, say, 1000 lira in their bank account 10 years ago?

If that 1000 lira used to be able to buy you 100 meals at 10 lira each, and now the same meal costs 100 lira, have you effectively just become 10x poorer over the past 10 years?

Does the government or your bank offer you higher savings interest on that lira as inflation rises?

How much data is Gizmodo harvesting from you when you read this article?

uBlock Origin shows 16 domains connected; most of them loading JavaScript. The real number is probably far higher when no ad-blocker is used.