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Readit Newschad-autry commented on Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit reddit.com/r/RedditEng/co... · Posted by u/jovsa
chad-autry commented on Building a Magical 3D Button with Vanilla HTML/CSS joshwcomeau.com/animation... · Posted by u/joshwcomeau
Touch screen tap works, but laptop track pad 'tap' does not count as a click on the button.
Hey, this is awesome. Thanks for sharing. Happy to know I'm not the first one to think about it. While it may be a niche thing, it proves that there is actually an audience for it. Did you have a price set for it? Did you do any kind of marketing for it?
It is true I didn't market it, so possible it suffered a bit from that. Some of the 'Doesn't work on my device' comments were a bit unexpected (and unsolvable without $$$ to test on the devices), so I didn't want to spend money promoting it with issues. I was charging $3 I think, it has been awhile.
There was another seemingly popular paid ringtone app at the time, but I can't recall what it was. And a search now for 'android ringtone app' now brings up lists of 'Top X ringtone apps of 2018/2019' populated exclusively by free apps.
As a business idea I don't think it would take off. I had a somewhat related project idea to rotate ringtones.
Such an idea can be done on Android, but would have been impossible on iOS (at the time, have not looked into it since).
It was mildly popular for download on the store, but supporting issues on various phones was a hassle, and Android update occasionally changed the required APIs. Currently the project is broken and on the back-burner to get it fixed again. However, it is freely available if you want a look.
chad-autry commented on Chrome OS native development solarianprogrammer.com/20... · Posted by u/AlexeyBrin
Not mentioned, but for node.js dev termux almost gets there, but just falls short. You can't hit a node.js server running in android/termux from a full fledged local ChromeOS browser tab. It doesn't have port access. Have to go run an android browser.
Alternatively, I've been just doing browser based dev. The free GCP google cloud shell lets me edit and host so long as I have a connection. If I wanted I could still keep it in sync with git running under termux.
chad-autry commented on Ad blocking is under attack blog.adguard.com/en/ad-bl... · Posted by u/tiagobraw
I think it's worth mentioning that even if an easylist filter entry counts as "circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access" -- which I think is debatable for multiple reasons -- the DMCA takedown procedure only covers copyright infringement. It does not apply to anti-circumvention measures.
As Admiral's blog post points out, Github recommends using the same contact procedure for anti-circumvention takedown requests as for normal DMCA takedowns. But as far as I can tell, they're doing so purely on their own initiative; such a takedown request doesn't have the force of law in the same sense that a claim of copyright infringement does.
> Github recommends using the same contact procedure for anti-circumvention takedown requests as for normal DMCA takedowns
I made this mistake to, Admiral's blog post does imply it. However, they were making a DMCA take down request, based off the reasoning it was for anti-circumvention.
chad-autry commented on Ad blocking is under attack blog.adguard.com/en/ad-bl... · Posted by u/tiagobraw
It was admiral that did this:
https://blog.getadmiral.com/dmca-easylist-adblock-copyright-...
They even clearly state they used the only tool available to them, DCMA. From all the current summaries on this, DMCA does not apply to a line entry in easylist. A domain can be trademarked.
This should be added back in. And if github cannot standup to DMCA abuse, then well, easylist and all other developers should be giving a clear hard though to their continued use of the github platform.
Edit: it looks like EFF has gotten in touch with easylist. Good. https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-used-to-remove-ad-server-url-f...
From what I can tell, the DMCA does apply (sort of)
Admiral seems to be a paywall server basically. If blocking their domain gave access to paywalled content, then the DMCA seems to apply http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/circumventing-copyright-cont...
However, that defense is a bit flimsy to me since the fall back to having the paywall blocked could/should be a "Paywall blocked, please disable your addblocker to gain access to our content" msg.
Anyhow, that is immaterial because so long as they don't actually serve adds, Easylist could/would have removed the line no problem. Admiral should have just said "Our domain doesn't serve adds, we work on paid content access" and they would have been removed without all this hassle.
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chad-autry commented on Ask HN: Will you be switching back to NPM from Yarn with NPM5? · Posted by u/amk_
I attempted to switch to Yarn immediately, but actually hit one of the few issues they ended up documenting (can't remember which now). Never actually ended up switching, so no need to switch back.
chad-autry commented on Children prefer to read books on paper rather than screens theconversation.com/child... · Posted by u/GuiA
Study seems to exclude e-ink, (when grouping kindle with iPad, I assume they mean the android tablet) while many of the comments here are arguing about e-ink vs books.
I'm not surprised by the study. My 2.5 year old would much rather watch something if the tablet is available than read. Even the interactive and pictures + audio books aren't much competition.