I used to have an old dot matrix printer with my PC in the 90s from my dad. Of course it was also possible to put in "normal" paper as the top unit was removable and print with ttf fonts. My mom liked the printing of the dot matrix printer much more though than the inkjet I later had. (Not sure though if it was an MX-80 or a later model/edition)
Readit Newsblablabla123 commented on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network? · Posted by u/mbix77
Have you double-checked whether the IP isn't shared among multiple website domains? That's quite a classic with IP based filtering with hosters like GCP...
blablabla123 commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo
Breaking the fundamental promise of the HTML spec is a big deal.
The discussions don't address that. That surprises me, because these seem to be the people in charge of the spec.
The promise is, "This is HTML. Count on it."
Now it would be just, "This is HTML for now. Don't count on it staying that way, though."
Not saying it should never be done, but it's a big deal.
They are removing XSLT just for being a long-tail technology. The same argument would apply to other long-tail web technologies.
So what they're really proposing is to cut off the web's long tail.
(Just want to note: The list of long-tail web technologies will continue to grow over time... we can expect it to grow roughly in proportion to the rate at which web technologies were added around 20 years in the past. Meaning we can expect an explosion of long-tail web technologies soon enough. We might want to think carefully about whether the people currently running the web value the web's long tail the way we would like.)
> They are removing XSLT just for being a long-tail technology. The same argument would apply to other long-tail web technologies.
That's a concise way to put it. IMHO this is also the main problem of the standard.
However I think XSLT isn't only long tail but also a curiosity with just academic value. I've being doing some experimentation and prototyping with XSLT while it was still considered alive. So even if you see some value in it, the problems are endless:
* XSLT is cumbersome to write and read
* XML is clunky, XSLT even more so
* yes there's SLAX, which is okay-ish but it becomes clear very fast that it's indeed just Syntax sugar
* there's XSLT 2.0 but there's no software support
* nobody uses it, there's no network effect in usage
I think a few years ago I stumbled upon a CMS that uses it and once I accidentally stumbled upon a Website that uses XSLT transformation for styling. That's all XSLT I ever saw in the wild being actually used.
All in all XSLT is a useless part of the way to large long tail preventing virtually everyone from writing spec compliant web browser engines.
> The promise is, "This is HTML. Count on it."
I think after HTML4 and XHTML people saw that a fully rigid standard isn't viable, so they made HTML5 a living standard with a plethora of working groups. Therefore the times where this was ever supposed to be true are long over anyway.
So indeed the correct way forward would be to remove more parts of a long tail that's hardly in use and stopping innovation. And instead maybe keeping a short list of features that allow writing modern websites.
(Also nobody is stopping anyone from using XSLT as primary language that compiles to HTML5/ES5/CSS)
Respone from Perpelexity to Tech Crunch...
>Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer dismissed Cloudflare’s blog post as a “sales pitch,” adding in an email to TechCrunch that the screenshots in the post “show that no content was accessed.” In a follow-up email, Dwyer claimed the bot named in the Cloudflare blog “isn’t even ours.”
Yeah this is funny. The CDNs basically started more than a decade ago pushing vast amounts of data through the networks. Their complaint even if valid feels like hypocrisy.
Either way, the CDNs profit big time from the AI scraping hype and the current copyright anarchy in the US
blablabla123 commented on Cucumber lets you write automated tests in plain language cucumber.io/... · Posted by u/nateb2022
I posted this comment in 2013 [1] and I stand by it 12 years later:
Cucumber tries to solve the problem of turning customer requirements into 'real code'. In exchange for that worthwhile benefit, it asks you to implement the most terrible, reg-ex based spaghetti code imaginable.
The problem is that it doesn't solve the original problem AT ALL. And then you are left with terrible reg-ex driven spaghetti code. Like the Jamie Zawinski saying, "now you have two problems".
The lesson here is that software development processes have to pass the 'human nature' test.
The software industry has largely abandoned waterfall development because it just doesn't work well in practice. It doesn't work because people don't know perfectly what they want before they build it. Agile processes usually are much more efficient because they are more closely aligned to how humans solve problems in the real world.
Cucumber suffers from the same issue of being disconnected with reality. In theory, you can find a customer who can give you perfectly written use cases and you can cut-and-paste those into your cukes. In practice, that never, ever works. So let's all stop wasting our time pretending it was a good idea now that it has been shown to not work.
Nobody is going to read these test cases any way, except when troubleshooting or adding new code. But that is never any of the stakeholders
It's quite funny that now with AI-based no/low code the same thing is attempted again. Even if the regexes might disappear, it's even more text, with even less structure (assuming anyone checked those prompts into git in the first place)
blablabla123 commented on Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption borgbackup.org/... · Posted by u/rubyn00bie
I once met the Borg author at a conference, pretty chill guy. He said that when people file bugs because of data corruption, it's because his tool found the underlying disk to be broken. Sounds quite reliable although I'm mostly fine with tar...
blablabla123 commented on Google can now read your WhatsApp messages neowin.net/guides/google-... · Posted by u/bundie
> Google is positioning Gemini not just as an app, but as a OS level feature
Eeewww.
We need a mobile OS competitor.
I am seriously considering a move to Fairphone with /e/os.
GrapheneOS would be a possibility, but I don't trust Google to make decent hardware, so not super excited to get a Pixel phone.
I definitely had to tweak the settings a lot for the battery to not get warm on my Pixel. But after a week I managed and battery life is better than with comparable phones since the background bloat isn't there on Graphene.
So far there was a solution for everything, I don't do online banking on the phone though.
I wonder if LineageOS might solve this problem already though, /e/os probably would as well
blablabla123 commented on The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public honest-broker.com/p/the-f... · Posted by u/imartin2k
>Everybody wanted the Internet.
I don't think this is true. A lot of people had no interest until smartphones arrived. Doing anything on a smartphone is a miserable experience compared to using a desktop computer, but it's more convenient. "Worse but more convenient" is the same sales pitch as for AI, so I can only assume that AI will be accepted by the masses too.
As a kid I had Internet access since the early 90s. Whenever there was some actual technology to see (Internet, mobile gadgets etc.) people stood there with big eyes and forgot for a moment this was the most nerdy stuff ever
blablabla123 commented on The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public honest-broker.com/p/the-f... · Posted by u/imartin2k
I looked for the right term but force-feeding is what it is. I yesterday also changed my default search engine from Duckduckgo to Ecosia as they seem the only one left not to provide flaky AI summaries.
In fact I also tried the communication part - outside of Outlook - but people don't like superficial AI polish
”just” is a big statement here. Performance between colima and OrbStack are from different planets.
Apple just released their own runtime so that is also worth inspecting.