minebreaker

That's exactly me. I mean, people told me the exact same things when TROS came out. It was horrible.

Yes, I have X4. It has amazing hardware, but the activation thing is such a shame. I really wish it were illegal.

And the proprietary video format. I want an open source converter but chances are unlikely.

I strongly disagree with a lot of claims here.

>> if it isn’t there, it’s probably for a good reason. > which isn’t really true anymore. For most websites, the majority — not just the plurality, but the majority — of visitors arrive by following a link inside an email or an app

I don't think the statement is factually backed up. At least I hate native apps.

> Even so, my custom query string is, in my calculation, an expression of digital etiquette: rather than dump a load of anonymous traffic on your doorstep, I reveal who’s linking, so a website or online shop operator can trace it back and get in touch, if wanted or needed

Anonymity considered harmful these days?

> a wave of new subscriptions and weren’t sure if they were legitimate; a brief email correspondence assured them that yes,

It's not legitimate unless it's signed (and if anybody gives a shit to verify it).

> Note that a handful of sites do choke on unexpected query strings, including YouTube (!),

This is a good habit IMHO.

Anyway, I'm thankful to the original post because it was a good reminder to re-review my browser settings.

Honestly I don't understand why the EU focused on the stupid cookie law instead of referers which are clearly privacy-violating.

If you use Firefox I recommend you make sure `network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy` set to 1.

I just checked the Backblaze app and found that .iso was on the exclusion list. Just in case anyone here is as dumb as I...

> The fact that the people running r/progamming don't know not to wait until April 2 to publish this tells me that they don't have real-world experience in shipping software in a business environment.

I can't tell this is a joke or not. Do people really care? Or maybe the U.S. thing? At least in my country nobody cares....

This is why we shouldn't use passkey. The authorities (not only the US) are clearly aiming to lock down the hardware we can use. Remember, passkey has a function to restrict the freedom to choose the authenticator we want to use.

> Steve Yegge's recent credulous foray into promoting a crypto coin

I didn't notice that. Can you give me a source?

Call me crazy, but I love JSS. "Separate styles with components" never made sense to me. Styled components are much better.

When our team decides to hire a new programmer, each team member always writes a short letter, which tells the applicant why we want to hire them. How well they did in the interview, why they'd be a good fit for our team, etc, etc. I'm not naive enough to believe this is a genuine attempt but a some human engineering of persuasion, but I liked this tradition. At least it has some heart warming vibe.

Until I noticed that my coworkers were using LLMs to write these letters.

I lost hope in humanity.

No, I don't do SNS. I created it to show it to the police. Looks like "I don't have any social media" is considered to be suspicious and you are "hiding" something. At least that's true in the US. I don't know about Iran though.