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About map/area: Some websites still use them, and really well too. The Team Fortress 2 website[0] uses them with the images at the top of the page to link each of the characters' description pages.

[0] https://teamfortress.com/

Are you the original author of the article? The article itself seems to be experiencing issues right now, but from what I recall, the author mentions "extensible roles" and "good free tier" as the features that got him to use Discord. I don't consider these features crucial enough to use non-Free Software. If you are not the original author and have other features in mind, please explain which features of Discord are "so incredibly good".

Zed Shaw's books are seriously overrated.

Discord is also proprietary software and is backed by Tencent. Read the privacy policy, it might surprise you.

Please try investing in Free, Open Source alternatives first.

No mention of Smalltalk in the comments? The "codebase" that is managed by ucm sounds very similar to Smalltalk images. I am personally delighted about this.

Seems like the site is suffering from the Slashdot effect.

I had to do a double take when I saw it.

Nonetheless, Google's core service--providing unbiased, accurate, and free access to information--remains at the heart of the company.

Hah!

It started out so great, but at the end I was left with the impression that someone was just trying to shoehorn features into C with quirkier syntax than C++. That type declaration syntax will probably haunt me in my sleep.

`my_frist_page`

Here I must praise KiCad. It is one of the best pieces of FOSS software out there. It beats almost all other (commercial or non-commercial) software in PCB design, hands down.

I have been waiting for a strongly typed mainstream high level language for a long time (TypeScript doesn't count because all type information is stripped during runtime). PHP still has a lot of cruft that prevents me from using it in my projects, but the recent updates seem like a step in the right direction. Hope that by PHP 8 the language will have deprecated more of the bad stuff.

The status page has updated to indicate that they misconfigured their firewall. Apparently their entire set of services go through a single firewall (or at least, multiple firewalls with the same config). It's worrying that they don't have a staging setup for these kinds of things.

(NOTE: I am speculating here, if they do have a staging system and this wasn't reproduced there then the last sentence doesn't apply.)

Ironically, status.gitlab.com takes upwards of a minute to load on my end. I thought it was going to time out.

I can't find it on F-Droid, hopefully they get it on there soon. The main repo doesn't seem to have the Pocket spyware in the app yet, at least.

Unfortunately, if the hardware has a lot of issues the well-integrated experience seems to quickly fall apart. I can't really speak about the desktop side of Apple products but the MacBook line of products seem to be troubled with many hardware related issues for years now.

You can probably use extended URL encoding for that, which is supported by at least body-parser [https://npmjs.com/package/body-parser]. Not sure about other PLs.

That means the algorithm's complexity is non-linear. I am suspecting the JScrush code currently but it could be somewhere else as well.

I guess you/someone could try a re-implementation.

This website has a very thorough Firefox de-bloat and anti-tracking guide: https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/firefox.html

I find that some of those options are excessive, but it's good for the privacy-minded in general. Just change the options based on your threat model.

You should take the next step and switch to GNU/Linux. :o)

Heck, companies are already starting to use CNAME records to fool ad/content blockers. I don't think what you're describing is far from becoming reality.

It's a hard to parse sentence, which is intentionally vague. It's weasel wording, basically.

Well, I posted my previous comment before seeing this. This is good news for Chromebook users, at least.

This. It also includes privacy benefits. People need to stop relying on Google.

Whatever happened to good old CUPS? Why did they have to introduce so many layers including Google's servers between the user and the printer?

The images in the article will stay a blurry mess without Javascript and will not load. Please don't do this. Use progressive images.

EDIT: Apparently they are videos, but you can still add thumbnail images to native HTML5 videos without loading 40 script files (that uMatrix reported).

I recommend using Emacs Prelude, which already auto-configures most of what I've described. You just need to enable a few modules for it and you're good to go.

This meme about Python being slow needs to end. While it's not as fast as some other interpreted languages it is not slow for any general use case unless you're doing number crunching (which is slow in any interpreted/bytecode language anyway).

Emacs + company-mode + lsp-mode + pipenv-mode (for virtualenv packages) work great for me. What was your setup and what kind of issues did you have with it?