Please test your site on a phone. 2fps while scrolling text is not ok.
Readit Newsthrowaway58670 commented on Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch byran.ee/posts/creation/... · Posted by u/Hello9999901
While this is impressive, how come you can't make your website scroll without stutter?
throwaway58670 commented on Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you rachelbythebay.com/w/2025... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I agree with most of this. If every website followed these, the web would be heaven (again)...
But why this one?
>I don't force you to use SSL/TLS to connect here. Use it if you want, but if you can't, hey, that's fine, too.
What is wrong with redirecting 80 to 443 in today's world?
Security wise, I know that something innocuous like a personal blog is not very sensitive, so encrypting that traffic is not that important. But as a matter of security policy, why not just encrypt everything? Once upon a time you might have cared about the extra CPU load from TLS, but nowadays it seems trivial. Encrypting everything arguably helps protect the secure stuff too, as it widens the attacker's search space.
These days, browser are moving towards treating HTTP as a bug and throw up annoying propaganda warnings about it. Just redirecting seems like the less annoying option.
Some old-enough browsers don't support SSL. At all.
Also, something I often see non-technical people fall victim to is that if your clock is off, the entirety of the secure web is inaccessible to you. Why should a blog (as opposed to say online banking) break for this reason?
It was a serious oversight to not have the rats take selfies against a green background.
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throwaway58670 commented on What happens to a smartphone when it gets stolen? hachyderm.io/@em0/1094947... · Posted by u/cortical-cull
Barely Sociable did an amazing video on this: https://youtu.be/3Ws3YptLmLQ
Don't want to spoil anything, but locked down phone doesn't always mean it's a brick :-)
throwaway58670 commented on Things not available when someone blocks all cookies blog.tomayac.com/2022/08/... · Posted by u/0xedb
I recently read a thread about privacy here. One point was that the one best thing you can do is disable JavaScript. So I decided to try it. I installed Brave on my phone and disabled pretty much everything, including all cookies.
My thinking was, all I do is browse HN, hn.algolia, and lobsters. Those should work, right? Well lobsters works perfectly, including collapsing comments.
HN loses the ability to collapse comments. But algolia is the worst. Not only does it require JS, being an SPA, but it refuses to work until you enable cookies! My theory is that it reads the settings (popular, 24-hour) from a cookie, and plain dies if they're not there.
On another note, and to a pleasant surprise, a lot of the web works perfectly fine, and feels a lot snappier, including even google search. And many of the annoying cookie and paywall popups never appear, since they appear to be implemented in JS.
So yes, if you haven't tried it, I recommend you do. You can always whitelist sites you trust or really need to use.
throwaway58670 commented on Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/eis
I buy every one of your arguments except "A pro-west Ukraine is an existential threat to Russia," and I think this one deserves significant pushback:
How is this not the case for Latvia and Lithuania (not to mention Estonia), which are both NATO members directly bordering Russia, and in fact separating them from their Kaliningrad exclave? On the other hand, if those countries _are_ an existential threat to Russia, then why is Russia "starting" with Ukraine?
More to the point, who gets to decide what makes for an existential threat? Doesn't "existential" mean "at risk of destruction from"? Does anybody really suppose that a Ukraine that is pro-west, or even belongs to NATO, poses a direct threat of invading/destroying Russia? This sort of language frustrates me, because it seems to carry more heat than light. To your specific hypothetical, I would not welcome a pro-Russia Mexico, but I would not consider it to be an existential threat to the US for precisely the reasons I suggest here - a pro-Russia Mexico does not mean a Mexico that is even somewhat likely to invade the US.
The pro-Russia Mexico argument is a bit off, I agree. But please don't compare the Baltic countries to a 44 million population country. We'd barely fill half of Kiev.
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