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by oliveremberton 8mo ago
https://www.oliveremberton.com Vibe coded in 3.5 hrs (content was older, natch), wrote a block-based, WYSIWYG block based CMS from scratch to power it.
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by oliveremberton 7y ago
Interesting refutation by IBM here: In the preprint, it is argued that their device reached “quantum supremacy” and that “a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task.” We argue t
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“The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market”(pouet.net)
2 points by oliveremberton 7y ago|0 comments
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by oliveremberton 7y ago
You can figure out the basics in about 20-60 minutes. If you use a Mac, just enable VoiceOver: https://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1121.html If you use Windows, I suggest NVDA - it's a free scree
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by oliveremberton 7y ago
Pathological myopia can't be corrected with glasses. TBH we call it "myopia" in the plugin because it's short and what we think most users would understand. Many visual disabilities cause a similar blurring effect, such
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by oliveremberton 7y ago
We wrote a free screen reader simulator for this purpose (Chrome plugin): https://silktide.com/resources/toolbar It’s not a substitute for real-world testing, but it should help you appreciate the basics without having
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by oliveremberton 7y ago
"It's for the big abusers, like Google". If the law actually said that, it would be great. You never want laws to be ambiguously applied and to presume exemption because "it wouldn't happen to me". People will
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by oliveremberton 7y ago
Author here. What’s new is the ICO has changed their guidance: they had explicitly stated analytics was acceptable in the past. The law itself hasn’t changed, but what most people thought was compliant is now unambiguously not.
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Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again(silktide.com)
13 points by oliveremberton 7y ago|23 comments
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by oliveremberton 9y ago
https://insites.com/ crawls your website in a cloud-based Chrome for both mobile and desktop, so you can check spelling, broken links, JS errors, layout etc. Or if you prefer something free and lightweight: http:/&#x2
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How to debug your brain(oliveremberton.com)
7 points by oliveremberton 12y ago|0 comments
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by oliveremberton 13y ago
Things that are popular are incendiary to those who don't like them. If an obscure artist makes some music you don't like, nobody cares. But if that artist sells a million records, you'll see an online explosion of rage. It s
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by oliveremberton 13y ago
Author here. Originally I had a lot of blather in that section, but given: 1. It's a long post 2. Most of my readers are presumably >15 yrs old 3. I honestly think most people up to age 15 have limited control over their lives I de
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by oliveremberton 13y ago
Sorry – "crossing"?
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by oliveremberton 13y ago
Thanks! I've not really posted much on HN before, although I've had a few of my posts turn up in here by themselves, and I thought it would be worth trying myself. crosses fingers
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by oliveremberton 13y ago
Thanks. I did agonise over that part at the time I wrote it. I couldn't think of a more inclusive alternative, and chose something a little comedic on purpose ('ladies man') in the hope it wouldn't be taken too serious
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Life is a game, this is your strategy guide(oliveremberton.com)
359 points by oliveremberton 13y ago|172 comments
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by oliveremberton 13y ago
Where do you live? I imagine price varies hugely depending on demand/transport distance, but 12p is about right for the UK: http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/grocery-categories/bananas_in...
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by oliveremberton 13y ago
Author of the piece here. > The entirety of humanity’s knowledge is – of course – free I was using a degree of hyperbole for the benefit of word economy. It's like when Louis CK remarked "Everything is amazing, no-one is happy&
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
It's significant because they're the regulator, and now they're changing to do what everyone else is, instead of telling everyone else to do what they've been doing.
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
How exactly am I spreading Fear, Uncertainty or Doubt here? (I wrote that article, and run Silktide). We have no problem with privacy - quite the opposite, I wish it were being taken seriously - but this law is not remotely about that. If y
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
"We, Silktide include [sic], have not only done fuck all to solve the problem" You mean apart from creating the most popular, free, open source solution for complying with the law? http://silktide.com/cookieconsent Or proposing alternativ
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
The only problem with that is it doesn't give politicians much to do except tackle real problems. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE POLITICIANS?!
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
I agree, but that's not what I'm saying! The law is not enforced in the UK at all . Accordingly those who do comply are being penalised unjustly. The ICO (body responsible for enforcing) have themselves said they probably won't prosecute
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
"advertising is a big chunk but Google have other products" 96% of Google's 2011 revenue came from ads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Advertising "commercial news still sells paper and has television slots" Magazine and newspaper sa
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
If we subscribed to this logic: "Either put the banner up or get rid of all the junk that you've plugged into your web site." then we'd still be setting cookies, but we'd be telling users about it after we did so . This is exactly what mos
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
You're right of course, but as the only solution would be for: (a) Us to remove said services (b) Our competitors to not (c) Us to suffer unjustly, while they prosper Then no. The obligation should be on the provider of those services, or t
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
I'm the founder of Silktide and they guy who wrote that page. Whilst I appreciate the law exists for a good reason, that doesn't mean the law is good. In it's current form it simply doesn't help user privacy or website owners. I'm hardly al
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by oliveremberton 14y ago
Thanks! (I'm the founder of Silktide and author of that rant). We had some constructive suggestions on what could be done instead, although these are definitely up for debate. The gist would be using a rel element like so: <a href='priv
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The EU Cookie Law - 28 Days Later [video](youtube.com)
2 points by oliveremberton 14y ago|0 comments

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