jeff_tyrrill

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by jeff_tyrrill 6mo ago
I haven't dug into the history to see if this is really how it happened. I'd actually feel better if it wasn't true but it's the thought that occurred to me when I noticed the scroll fade effect becoming popular.
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by jeff_tyrrill 6mo ago
I feel like the scroll fade fad is misunderstanding layered on bugs, turtles all the way down. Once upon a time, developers implemented lazy loading of images, to save bandwidth. However, some developers implemented it poorly, waiting until
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by jeff_tyrrill 1y ago
There's a great reason: I'm using HTTP only as a transport layer, not a semantic layer.
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Critical Warning for External Purchases in App Store(mjtsai.com)
4 points by jeff_tyrrill 1y ago|1 comments
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by jeff_tyrrill 1y ago
They're isolated by website but the tabs are not isolated from each other, like in Safari (in private browsing). This distinction matters, if you primarily use private browsing, and have lots of tabs open from a site (say, Wikipedia,
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by jeff_tyrrill 1y ago
In Settings, on the General tab, for "Safari opens with", select either "All windows from last session" or "All non-private windows from last session".
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by jeff_tyrrill 1y ago
Two little-appreciated privacy features in Safari not mentioned in the article: Each private browsing tab has its own cookie / data bucket[1]; and Private browsing tabs and windows are preserved across restarts. (This is optional and c
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by jeff_tyrrill 1y ago
I've been using HTTrack for almost two decades to create static archives of a yearly website for an annual event. It doesn't do the job 100% but it's a start. In particular, HTTrack does not support srcset, so only the defaul
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by jeff_tyrrill 2y ago
(nitpick to the overall thread but interesting) There is at least one exception: On form 1040, you have a yes/no option to redirect $3 to the presidential election campaign fund. This does not affect the amount of your taxes; it's
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by jeff_tyrrill 2y ago
I think it's a desperate attempt to downplay the severity in any way plausible, taking advantage of the fact that credit card numbers and social security numbers have been mythologized in the American consciousness as nearly-mystical t
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by jeff_tyrrill 2y ago
Your contractor being breached means you were breached.
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by jeff_tyrrill 2y ago
100% of the energy becomes heat eventually . For a typical trip, this happens by the trip conclusion. (And also each time the car pauses, such as a stoplight.) For the trailer-on-hill example, it concludes when the trailer (eventually) is
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by jeff_tyrrill 2y ago
Based on the release of multiple emulators in the App Store in the past few days (including Delta which looks like it is here to stay), it looks like I got this wrong. My original comment made sense to me based on my reading of the rules, b
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by jeff_tyrrill 2y ago
I think mainly the ability to download additional games, and more specifically, games emulated from a different platform rather than game content written as HTML/JavaScript. I may be wrong about the bundling in terms of the collection,
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by jeff_tyrrill 2y ago
The emulator change is a minor rule change about bundling and is not what many of the reactions to the change think. What people seem to think this means: Open-ended retro game emulators like Snes9x and Dolphin are now allowed. (I don'
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by jeff_tyrrill 3y ago
Outlook is a once-great product that has been left to rot by a Microsoft with little lineage to the great company from the 90s and early 00s that created it. Outlook debuted Cached Exchange Mode in the early 00s, popularizing "offline
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by jeff_tyrrill 3y ago
> That is not what the word recall means. That is what you want it to mean. No, it is the plain dictionary meaning of "recall"[1] (see sense #7, which states the "return of (a faulty product)". Words in headlines shou
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by jeff_tyrrill 3y ago
I think the legal concept of "beneficial ownership" is the intent here: We want to know the ultimate (natural) person(s) who control the app's assets and for whose benefit the app is monetized. There is no simple rule that ca
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by jeff_tyrrill 3y ago
Both Gruber's "fake" explanation and the "computational photography" explanation are likely wrong. There's a third explanation: It's almost certainly an accidental use of panorama mode. - It's two pos
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Drone-Captured Orthomosaic Property Map(montanoso.xyz)
3 points by jeff_tyrrill 3y ago|0 comments
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by jeff_tyrrill 3y ago
There does not appear to be officially. No RSS feed is declared in the main index page metadata, and adding /feed to the URL doesn't work as it does with "newsletter" pages. However, by poking around in my browser debugg
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by jeff_tyrrill 3y ago
Which unfortunately, doesn't seem to work for Notes. I am having trouble finding any way to access an RSS feed for them. Ah well, off to write a scraper...
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by jeff_tyrrill 4y ago
> I’ve literally never heard anyone suggest that the main, or even a major, problem with the DMCA safe harbor was too many takedown notices made with reasonable, good-faith belief in their accuracy that were nonetheless wrong. I have see
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by jeff_tyrrill 4y ago
Not the parent, but one significant impediment to seeking redress for defective takedown notices is that there is only liability and attorneys fees recovery (at least under the DMCA; perhaps not under other areas of law) for knowing misrepr
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by jeff_tyrrill 4y ago
This is just a syndication of https://apnews.com/article/sesame-allergies-label-b28f8eb3dc... . Can the URL be changed to that?
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by jeff_tyrrill 4y ago
Corporations have a fiduciary duty to all shareholders, including minority shareholders - not just the majority. The issue isn't it being "illegal" for "employees of one company helping out another". It's that
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Brief of the Onion as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
81 points by jeff_tyrrill 4y ago|11 comments
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by jeff_tyrrill 4y ago
I'm mostly a software developer but I've long been interested in legal stuff on the side as long as I can remember. Not for career reasons, I just find it interesting. It's not always boring! For a nonprofit I've volunte
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by jeff_tyrrill 4y ago
This interpretation of the terms is straining it almost to the breaking point. The section you quoted says explicitly: "We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your Personal Information for their own purposes and only
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by jeff_tyrrill 5y ago
> "51%" is frequently used as shorthand for the technically correct but awkward term "50%+1". This is technically incorrect. If you have a board of 9 people, it will result in the wrong rule: It will mean that 6 votes

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