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Comment Re:DOOM = Hello World (Score 2) 43

On a microcontroller stuffed into the shell of a pregnancy test.

and to clarify what I'm doing here:
This is a replacement display AND a replacement microcontroller. I'm not using any of the original tester other than the shell.

— foone (@Foone) September 6, 2020

https://x.com/Foone/status/130... (tweet since deleted, quote easily found

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Comment Re:perl less used than prolog? (Score 1) 40

It's a measure of search engine activity.

More accuratly, results returned for +" programming", not searches. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-in...

Not even amount of code.

It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

But even if it did, it can't reflect all the private code out there.

Comment Re:wow that's regarded (Score 1) 82

If on a desktop browser, get a redirector extension: https://einaregilsson.com/redi... and use something like this:

  • Pattern: https?://(?:www\.)?youtube.com/shorts/([^/]*) (regex)
  • Rediirect to: https://youtube.com/watch?v=$1

The desktop version still uses lazy-loading, but there's more reasons to dislike the Shorts UI.

Comment Re:Ok.... (Score 3, Insightful) 136

Oh, that's all, is it.

Yep, you're right 1 hour max /s.

Browsers are the most insecure attack surface of any aspect of modern computers. Apple's s/w is built using standard engineering decision-making - can we rely on X being there ? Why yes we can, so we can delegate this function to that system framework which we've tested is all secure.

Except that all breaks down when someone installs a 3rd party browser. Now the security model of the system depends on the security model of the installed browser, and that's just not acceptable. It may be the user's fault that they installed but you can guarantee that Apple will be holding the can at the end of any argument over why their nudes are now all over the internet.

Comment Re:New iOS Safari has a couple good things (Score 1) 26

I have been using a web browser (since Mosaic / Arena) for over 30 years. Never in that time have I wanted the URL bar (and by extension the tabs bar since they're intimately linked) to be any other place than right there at the top of the window in plain view. The URL-bar/swipe-control is a heinous change that ruins literal decades of muscle memory and expectation.

It is not a "good thing", from my perspective.

For similar reasons, I loathe tab groups as well. I like the way tabs worked *anyway*. I have yet to see a single use-case (for me, and how I use them) that works as well as leaving the frigging things alone and letting me manage them as I see fit.

And yes, hiding UI is bloody annoying. I still haven't managed to work out how to use the phone in portrait mode properly yet. Instead of instant availability and instant access to what I actually want to do, I now have to study the damn thing and figure out how the hell I'm supposed to do

This Safari redesign is the first time I'm genuinely thinking of ditching Safari. It's that bad.

Comment Re: No! (Score 1) 134

And where do the standards come from? Moses is long time gone. The C in W3C doesn't stand for a Council of sages atop a mountain, detached from worldly interests.

Anyway you were complaining about standards changing. What happens when they don't change? Would you be reading this in HTML 1.0x (whatever was first published), or would this page be âoeBest viewed with Chromeâ?

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