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by njsg 2y ago
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705936 for a few links on this that I put here last time I saw this happening.
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by njsg 2y ago
I suspect the problem might be some people at Cloudflare writing code for the checks who are not aware of how to make it work for most browsers, and e.g. demand/expect some header behaviour that's only seen in a small number of br
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by njsg 2y ago
A sad thing about the Github situation is that, until some months ago, it was perfectly fine for browsing directory tres and clicking to view files on the web, all that worked without javascript. Now it doesn't, except perhaps for the
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by njsg 2y ago
Some may even be just CSS. I'm still waiting for a way to toggle the CSS ones off for all websites, without breaking them. These often even look sluggish, but maybe it is a relative thing and some see the prompt movement of UI elements
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by njsg 2y ago
There are sites which load the content dynamically using javascript, there are even sites where this is done with the content already in the served HTML document, as JSON. There are sites that blank the viewport until scripts change css rul
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by njsg 2y ago
> Regardless if you feel that the web was made only for documents it has become the only truly cross platform runtime you can always expect users to have installed. That's incredibly valuable. Why would we throw that away? That&#x27
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by njsg 2y ago
IMHO you need to step back and consider that there are more views of design, you think some newer look is "more modern" and better in itself, you say "outdated past vision". But those concepts are subjective too. I like
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by njsg 2y ago
That makes me wonder, regarding AOL/Yahoo/Verizon/... what's the story behind "8 BITMIME" and their mail server's broken 8-bit handling ([0],[1])? Did they just get server software with bugs in one of the
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by njsg 2y ago
User interface design is about designing interfaces that can be used by users. You can prefer a style, you can customize it to your liking if themes are available (in this case, they are), but if you just replace the whole UI design field
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by njsg 2y ago
Now there's also Enigmail, which supports SeaMonkey again.
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by njsg 2y ago
Distro build hosts and distro package maintainers might not be a bad guess. Depends on whether getting this shipped was the final goal. It might have been just the beginning, part of some bootstrapping.
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by njsg 3y ago
Update: this has been meanwhile fixed by Cloudflare, see [1] and [2]; I can also confirm that turnstile now works here with SeaMonkey. [1] https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=249856#p249856 [2] https://com
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by njsg 3y ago
The issue is on CloudFlare's side. It is possibly related to lack of Origin: or References: in a POST request that is part of the turnstile workflow. On a previous occasion, their support staff kept telling people their browsers were u
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Cloudflare blocks legitimate browsers again; support says "suspicious activity"(forum.palemoon.org)
3 points by njsg 3y ago|2 comments
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by njsg 3y ago
I guess one must ask El Reg to write about it. I think that might have been how it got solved a couple years ago when comp.lang.c and others were affected by this [1]. Currently, at least mozilla.support.seamonkey (not a USENET group, but f
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by njsg 13y ago
Gopher by itself is actually not hard to extend, as far as people standardize on how to extend it. That is why most of the discussions on "gopher enhancement" never resulted in big changes. Several ideas must be spread across the
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by njsg 13y ago
You are criticizing gopher from the point of view of "it must have the same features as HTTP". Some of the things you call "problems" are just different ways of doing it. And if the TCP sliding window is an issue for you
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by njsg 13y ago
And you need more because... Let's be honest, you just need to know how are you going to deal with the file, not what kind of file it is. You need something along the lines of - this resource is readable text - this resource is bina
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by njsg 13y ago
Older, gopher-specific clients, can be interesting, too. Some day I should try to get gopherVR running on my machines.
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by njsg 13y ago
Stop trying to compare it to HTTP, maybe?