Readit Newsbluenotebo0k commented on China state CCTV avoids crowd close ups at the World Cup twitter.com/billbirtles/s... · Posted by u/haunter
What is going on with China's continuing zero-covid policy? Either it's the most expensive face saving exercise the world has ever seen, or they know something about it that we don't.
Chinese vaccines are not that effective and China refuses to use other countries' vaccines.
bluenotebo0k commented on “Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure (2014) kevin.burke.dev/kevin/inv... · Posted by u/prmph
"99.9% of websites on the Internet will only let you create one account for each email address. So if you want to see if an email address has an account, try signing up for a new account with the same email address."
Yes, but signing up is a more cumbersome process and usually has a CAPTCHA attached to it, unlike logging in.
bluenotebo0k commented on I fought the PayPal and I won jessesingal.substack.com/... · Posted by u/exolymph
"I suspected it had something to do with my involvement in a certain group named after a certain slavery abolitionist."
What's the group? I clicked on the link and it points to a podcast that's over 1.5 hours long.
bluenotebo0k commented on Shortest URLs on the Internet jameswillia.ms/posts/shor... · Posted by u/jamespwilliams
You can also use Unicode ligatures to make URls which look shorter.
From that list, you could use http:// ㎝. / - that's U+339D if HN mangles it.
I wrote it up at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/buying-a-single-character-d...
Interesting. You can also have emojis in URLS apparently. (rolled up newspaper emoji).fm, for example.
Is it just me who has no idea what a "rotary encoder" does?
bluenotebo0k commented on The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2... · Posted by u/kevinak
Honestly I feel like jQuery is my "secret weapon" similar to how Lisp is Paul Graham's in Beating the Averages. It's so much more productive than vanilla JS with negligible impact on performance, especially with caching.
bluenotebo0k commented on Best Practices for Form Design (2008) [pdf] static.lukew.com/webforms... · Posted by u/Akcium
My least favorite form design "feature" is when they don't allow you to manually enter the date and you have to click a dozen times in a calendar to select the correct date.
> Your search queries and the results are encrypted
Does this just mean that it uses SSL/TLS?
> the query is not visible in the address bar.
Why would this be a privacy gain?
WRT the query not in the address bar - this is probably because then something like tuxdex.com/?terms="embarrassing search" doesn't show up in history or suggestions.
Otherwise it was neat!