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bunga-bunga commented on I would rather see my books get pirated than this   janefriedman.com/i-would-... · Posted by u/ilamont
bobboies · 2 years ago
So the trouble is these market places allowing third party vendors on there (obviously).

All you need is a system to authenticate reputable sellers. Instead of looking at the stars on a product and clicking “buy now,” folks just need so ask: do I know this seller? Is this the ACTUAL publisher selling me this book?

I’d rather go into a real shop anyway. Unless it’s buying some hard-to-find item there’s no excuse.

bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
> I’d rather go into a real shop anyway

You’re assuming that scams don’t make their way into regular distributors as they try to cut corners and maintain competitiveness.

You already see established brands lower the quality of their products after the first round of reviews online. If found out, they just blame manufacturing. Sorry.

bunga-bunga commented on Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust   aeroxplorer.com/articles/... · Posted by u/nixass
reacharavindh · 2 years ago
How in the world would any common Russian trust an airplane in this current sanctioned state in Russia and fly in one?! Are people that brainwashed to trust their leader to get on a plane that doesn’t have brakes?!
bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
You vastly overestimate the possibility that this news makes it into the mind of fliers and that they actually understand the consequences.

Government says it’s ok, so it must be ok. That’s all people think.

bunga-bunga commented on Google Maps has become an eyesore   fastcompany.com/90930810/... · Posted by u/nkurz
h1fra · 2 years ago
I understand the ads and everything else, I don't not enjoy it but I understand.

What I really don't get is the product is hiding a lot of stuff for no reason. Whenever I zoom in my neighbourhood: it doesn't display all the streets, some shops are missing even at maximum zoom, search is removing some results that should match my query, etc...

I have slowly lost trust in the products (except for navigation), it's still my main source but I usually double check with google search or apple map.

bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
That’s what you get when you fire the last actual mappers and just leave developers to keep it running. Google thrives on data quantity, not on quality.
bunga-bunga commented on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K   forbes.com/sites/paultass... · Posted by u/redbell
bitcharmer · 2 years ago
I don't think you played it at all
bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
More constructive comments please. What does this mean?
bunga-bunga commented on The Sad Bastard Cookbook   traumbooks.itch.io/the-sa... · Posted by u/throwaway154
johnaspden · 2 years ago
Christ, this is supposed to be for people with no spoons, and yet one of the recipes is: "Peanut Butter On A Spoon". Could they not be bothered to get someone to proof read it?
bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
If you don’t have a spoon you probably should get one. I don’t think you can cook without at least 1 utensil, unless you want to stir with your fingers.
bunga-bunga commented on The Sad Bastard Cookbook   traumbooks.itch.io/the-sa... · Posted by u/throwaway154
a_petrov · 2 years ago
Frying rice with canned tuna and black pepper has been my life saver as a student.

If you have a rice cooker, you can use the rice from it. If not and you don't want to clean two pots, just boil the rice in a saucepan and once ready, get it out and fry the canned tuna with some chopped onion and black pepper.

Going to Indonesia, you can find out that's a variety of their national dish (nasi goreng). A sunny side up egg on top of that is an extra bonus.

bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
Fried rice (literally “nasi goreng”) is common across east Asia and varies by local taste. I agree it’s easy to make, I just add whatever sauce, veggies and meat I have and it’s great every time.

Speaking of nasi goreng, the one from the Aceh region of Indonesia is my favorite.

bunga-bunga commented on Just normal web things   heather-buchel.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/vitplister
aerzen · 2 years ago
Why though? We could have the browser apply the styles. And even allow user preferences to affect the presentation! kinda like firefox "article mode".

But that text/markdown would have to be restricted not to include any html tags, which are allowed in the "common" md spec.

bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
Article mode isn't perfect and not compatible with non-articles. Markdown forces content to be just content.

> would have to be restricted not to include any html tags

The point of this would be to deliver pure content, so "any tag" would definitely not be allowed. My user agent would decide what to render and how.

bunga-bunga commented on New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/mikece
thedookmaster · 2 years ago
I don't use the qwerty layout, I use colemak. Likely this mitigates this for myself.
bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
This specific attack could also be easily mitigated by dictating your passwords instead.
bunga-bunga commented on Just normal web things   heather-buchel.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/vitplister
samwillis · 2 years ago
I think of this as the "appification of websites", we need to stop doing it. We need to move back to SSR and sprinkles of JS on websites.

On the other hand web apps absolutely can play a little more with the UX if it provides value to the user. But if it's in the browser, some of this really do still apply. I'm all in on web apps, its a universally accessible platform for development outside the walled gardens of app stores.

What we need to stop doing is treating every single website as an app!

If you want your page to appear in search results on a search engine, it's not a web app it's a website.

bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
I really wish we could have browser “Accept: text/markdown” for raw documents, but that boat sailed the moment we got CSS.
bunga-bunga commented on Just normal web things   heather-buchel.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/vitplister
Cyykratahk · 2 years ago
I believe most of the issues with broken link behaviour results from the lack of higher-level methods to override the default link behaviour.

An example: I don't really want to add a click event listener to a link to make it display in a modal (or whatever). Because this event is too low-level and now my listener needs to check modifier keys. What I really want is to somehow tell the browser "if the current window URL is about to change via this anchor element, call this function instead". The user is still free to open their links in new windows or tabs and my code will not be triggered for those cases.

A CSS example: I don't really want to set cursor images for every element and pseudo-class. I'm forced to list every element that uses the cursor I'm overriding. What I really want is to tell the browser "use this custom cursor image wherever you were going to use the default (hand/wait/resize/etc) cursor". My code would then be future-proofed for new elements/UI.

Sometimes I feel that certain browser APIs suffer from the XY problem.

bunga-bunga · 2 years ago
Finally I read my sentiment online. We don't need clicks nor pointer events, we need high-level “visit” event.

u/bunga-bunga

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