Based on the sources you linked, summer interns only worked on the guitar tuner and metronome functionality. I see no indication in the second blog post you linked that the same interns (or interns at all for that matter) had anything to do with the development of the color picker, encoders, etc.
As I mature as a web developer, I become increasingly fond of simple, functional, and minimal JavaScript sites like nearlyfreespeech.net[1]. It always loads quickly, it’s easy to find what you’re looking for, and I find the simplistic styling of the site visually appealing.
I assume you mean JavaScript, which has no relationship to Java.
Unfortunately it is necessary depending on what you need the page to do. It's badly overused, it's abused by AdTech, and it's often unnecessary, but it is part of the web and some things just can't be done without it.
Forms are a good example. They're one of the core features of websites, and they're much more useful with JavaScript (live validation, dynamic show/hide of certain fields, saving progress, etc.)
yes i did mean javascript, and its not all gloom, after all linux can interpret ascii text as executable code if you let it, those were fun times when that was a prevalent issue.
interactive/reactive pages are good things when you want them.
one of the most useful things for me working on a plaintext basis is winlink
I’ve tried using sites like Nitter and Teddit but always give up due to the sporadically crippling performance issues. I’ve tried using different instances but any improvements seemed to be temporary. My guess is that most of the performance issues are from Twitter/Reddit. Is this true or am I just having back luck with the instances I choose?
In addition to this suggestion, another viable route is to self-host those applications you rely on and don't expose them to the world (so as to reduce load/attack surface). Using a VPN can allow you to access the applications privately/remotely.
e.g. I self-host the applications I rely on such as Teddit, Nitter, Bibliogram and Cloudtube and then use Wireguard to always remain connected to the network they are accessible on. I have also implemented identity-aware SSO[1] so I can expose those applications remotely to specific individuals.
Which is what I figured is the point, since it's libre. On the other hand doesn't that defeat the purpose of the privacy thing? If every request for ~one user's worth of traffic is coming from one proxy you can sort of identify one person that way.
> On the other hand doesn't that defeat the purpose of the privacy thing?
It depends - a lot of the privacy invasions go beyond just the IP address and also include browser fingerprints and on-page activity collected by malicious Javascript - these third-party frontends defeat that.
But is that really the main use case? Do people often go to McDonald's to order just one item?
If I wanted a Diet Coke, I'm more likely to go to a convenience store. The operation would be simpler: I pick up exactly the item I want from the shelf, pay for it, and leave. I don't need to wait on anybody to bring me anything. Especially for something as generic as a Diet Coke.
If I am at McDonald's, I'm expecting to order McDonald's food. As a designer, I wouldn't optimize for the case of somebody ordering just one item that they could get elsewhere.
That doesn't excuse arbitrary up-selling and obfuscated interfaces, but it doesn't surprise me that ordering a single item (especially a non-food item) isn't as fast as it could be.
I don't see how that's possible. The Airtag pings the Find My network periodically anyways, sending battery life along with that data cannot possibly be that detrimental to battery life.
> cannot possibly be that detrimental to battery life
Know anything about batteries? There are other ways of determining remaining battery capacity, but most popularly it is determined by testing voltage, which itself can be split into two methods: testing voltage under load and testing voltage not under load. Testing voltage under load takes energy. Testing voltage not under load will also take energy (if the tester is built in to the device, which it is) but not as much, though testing not under load is not nearly as reliably accurate as testing voltage under load.
So, in fact, not only possibly, but definitely, checking battery life is always detrimental to battery life because it takes power to check voltage under load to produce battery life data, and that power comes from the battery's remaining capacity.
Then poll the battery at a lower frequency. Make it a cronjob that only updates every week, or a method that gets called after broadcasting device position. If Apple really wanted to empower their users, they would have added this as a low-power mode switch in the Airtag settings, but... nope.
I get where you're coming from, but Airtags have worked perfectly fine in the wild thus far. Obviously the battery testing isn't that detrimental, and since Apple hasn't made an official statement confirming that's the case, I think I have to chalk this up to apologism. Apple took away another feature, and the community can't help but find excuses. This is the whole "we need the notch for our 1080p webcam" hustle all over again...
It's ok, but obviously not. I was merely correcting your mistake, perhaps pedantically, and really that's all. I was not, in fact, giving you license to build a straw man factory.
Unlike movies, the content on screen recordings usually remains roughly the same for minutes before switching scene. So it can achieve significantly higher compression ratio even at high fps
Another interesting thing is then when you go to the channel page of the uploader's video, they're subscribed to an account named iluomo, and if you go to that account's channels page, it keeps loading the channel itself over and over again
That channel iluomo is the 40th channel ever to be created on youtube if you believe the about page.
However the channel was created on Apr 30, 2005 which could track for the 40th channel.
I suspect this 666 and 69 channel redirect, and yop/iluomo, are legacy site exploits/easter eggs from the actual original developers of Youtube.
yop/iluomo also had various other easter eggs through the years, like this one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TimeworksSubmissions/comments/oidgv...
Anyone else got anything interesting to add about this?
edit:exploit is a better word for this, as easter egg implies something else entirely
In these kinds of situations, I prefer to just dispute the transaction through my bank, get a temporary credit for the full amount (with Capital One at least), and let my bank investigate it. Most of the time this will be the end of it but in some cases you will need to provide additional documents/info to settle the dispute.
