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[–] mark 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah companies try to be fancy with these JavaScript heavy applications using React when sites work perfectly fine without all that stuff.

[–] mark 82 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Right, and what's even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they're bots posing as people.

That's arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.

But they'll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.

"Our bad bots good, your good bots bad". What a crazy world we live in.

[–] mark 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah my car is about 13 years old. Still has CD player. Will drive it until I die.

[–] mark 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm I was gonna suggest Mastodon. I always thought it allowed long-form writing similar to blog posts.

[–] mark 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not interested in the short-video concept. But I like the name, though. Short, sweet, doesn't sound too "techy", not too complicated to pronounce or spell.

[–] mark 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Didn't someone create this same thing a few weeks ago? 🤔

[–] mark 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For anyone who cares, you can get this same behavior of a normal line break by holding shift while pressing enter as well.

[–] mark 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok you've peaked my curiosity.

but with large potential consequences.

What are some of the consequences you see?

 

Brave used to have an option to disable autoplaying of videos on web pages. But now the option is removed. I found discussions on Brave forums from users asking about it, but no one from the Brave team responds. (see this, this, and this).

I really don't want to believe Brave is intentionally being silent about this, but it's kinda obvious.

Anyone know anything about it?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by mark to c/[email protected]
 

And it applies across your entire SL account. Seems very easy to hit, given that people use SL to curb influxes of inbound email spam.

If you go over the limit, they start throttling your emails (delivering them late).

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Say Goodbye to Contact Form Spam (omrilotan.medium.com)
submitted 10 months ago by mark to c/webdev
 

Came across this interesting article. But what do you all think?

 

HUGE win for EU and for Developers with apps in Apple's App store! 🚀

 

This makes me 😭

UPDATE: Thanks @[email protected] for this update: The issue has now been commented on and was closed by the maintainer, where they explained why those blocks would be nonsense. But it appears the OP wants to still talk with maintainer privately about it.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mark to c/linux
 

I personally wouldn't touch Discord with a 10 foot pole but figured any privacy-focused people who use it may want to know this.

 

I noticed that every time I visit the site, I have to log in. I remember not having to do this a few days ago. I was assuming a cookie was being set for a timeframe until I explicitly log out. I can't remember if there was a "remember me" button. I'm using Firefox and tried disabling my extensions, but that didn't seem to help.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mark to c/[email protected]
 

Anyone know why sh.reddit.com exists? Is it something they plan to use in future? ATM, it just looks justlike reddit.com with a few small style differences.

 

I'm a dev and I was browsing Mozilla's careers page and came across this. I find a privacy respecting company being interested in building an AI powered recommendation engine a little odd. Wouldn't they need to sift through the very data we want private in order for a recommendation engine to be good? Curious of what others think.

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