hungryfoolish

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by hungryfoolish 4y ago
It doesn't matter if that person was good at his job (which btw from whatever his peers say about him, he most definitely was) - everybody deserves a right to at least be told that they are fired and no longer working at the job.
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by hungryfoolish 5y ago
Only if you're a multi-million dollar corp. Not for the small guy, for e.g, https://blog.readthedocs.com/ad-blocker-update/
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by hungryfoolish 5y ago
Most people in the world won't live their lives this way.
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by hungryfoolish 5y ago
Which is why extensions also nowadays only served via a web store which has moderation policies and moderators which look for this kind of stuff.
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by hungryfoolish 5y ago
If you're looking at it that way, then we should apply even more scrutiny over native apps we install on our machine and not single out extensions. Also, not all extensions run on every single site. Also, some extensions actually help
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by hungryfoolish 5y ago
No, GP said to only trust these two extensions and no other extensions. While they are entitled to their opinion, IMO that is such ridiculous. There are many many extensions which provide value which don't do shady things.
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by hungryfoolish 6y ago
Also, there is nothing wrong in advertising as a concept. Advertising has existed as long as products have existed. The problem is tracking and data collection/exploitation about some very granular aspects of users. Also, even if you t
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
>And it turns out 50K rules is actually fine! No its not. Plus, if you combine Easylist with a bunch of additional filter lists, then it very easily crosses 50k.
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
>ABP is compatible with the new API and will not be affected. Thats just false. Every adblocker using webrequest will be affected, including ABP.
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
>The industry is a fundamental conflict of interest, designed to convince people in most cases to buy things that they may not need Thats a bold assumption. If I have a business then I will advertise my product in the hope that people wi
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
> We can use advertising to create a demand for plenty of things that are not useful. Who decides whats useful for not? Pretty much every company making anything thinks they are useful and they want to tell people how or why in order for
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
>Overall, I think the WHATWG structure, of being open to input from all (instead of pay-to-play), Thats not entirely fair. The WHATWG is also pay-to-play in a way - the browser makers have disproportionally higher power, even more so tha
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
Okay, so they have added more people there than the last time I looked (which was pretty much all google except for 1 mozilla person). Thanks for pointing towards that link. Still seems a pretty small group to control something so important
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
>You can comment on GitHub issues there just fine too. Yes, but (and you can disagree with me here) the W3C has much better international participation and say in standards. I know you can just file github comments, but none of the world
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
>It's not like anybody of us voted for W3C either You have more of a voice in the W3C than any other standards body (you can comment on the github issues, or join as an invited expert etc). The W3C was created by Tim Berners-Lee, if
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
>On the other hand, the W3C always was kind of a toothless tiger Not really, it was, and still is, a neutral ground for people to discuss and build consensus on what technical standards should be on the web. CSS, ARIA, WCAG and many othe
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by hungryfoolish 7y ago
No, the W3C publishes a lot of standards apart from HTML and DOM, and they would still be somehow involved here too. However, it is indeed sad that the HTML spec is now controlled by browser makers only, and the editors are mostly from just
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
Easylist would be a user created blacklist, right? Very ad blocker I know of uses that.
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
>Advertisements appear by default, but if a given site annoys you enough, you can go into your ad blocker's preferences and add it to your blacklist, and then you'll never see any ads on that site again. Thats literally what AB
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
>Companys have turned keeping those settings you want into a chore, constantly updating away the users work, pushing in a war of attrition their preferred settings - and sometimes even just outright ignoring the done settings altogether.
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
I on the other hand am fine with some ads, as long as they are not annoying or don't track me. I am willing to deal with ads which don't do that in exchange for consuming more content and supporting the sites I visit often. Which
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
As long as those ads are not annoying. I'm guessing that the ads from google and fb still need to pass the acceptable ads guidelines.
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
>Microsoft tried that, investing in easier to use GitHub tooling to allow a wide range of people to submit pull requests to update/fix bugs in the W3C HTML standard. "If you build the field of dreams, they will come...." N
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
>What good work is it doing in HTML? From my experience, it has generally done a better job of explaining things developers would want to know, especially in terms of accessibility and internationalisation. The XHTML stuff was a long tim
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
> That's 4 out of the 15 standards currently developed at the WHATWG; not so bad, given how few companies are willing to pay people to work full time on web standards. Thats actually nice to know, but specifically about HTML (which
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
It's not just copying stuff, it's adding/editing to it. Criteria for such additions/editions seems to be browser interoperability, accessibility, internationalization etc.
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
> The W3C actually does do some good work in other working groups; the CSS working groups seem to be working smoothly. The W3C is also doing work in HTML at least too. If browser makers would actually participate as editors (like they do
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
It's both true and false. W3C does copy/paste some stuff, but it also seems to add some stuff (Especially related to accessibility and internationalisation) that the whatwg hasn't historically cared for.
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
Are there any non-browser members as part of the editors or steering committee in the whatwg? To me, this is giving browser makers even more power over HTML than they have otherwise.
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by hungryfoolish 8y ago
Good luck. Telegram is owned by Russians.

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