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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
Did you know that Chrome's user agent stylesheet uses a `__qem` unit?
No, it's not a CSS unit, or at least not one you can use in your code. It's part of the curse that are the margin collapsing quirks.
Mastodon Feedandreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
As part of implementing line-clamp in Chrome, I've had to learn about CSS margin collapsing, and the various margin collapsing quirks in quirks mode... and let me tell you, some of that stuff is cursed as fuck.
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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
Greg Sargent talks with Jess McIntosh about the scam Trump is now engaged in, trying to soft-peddle the Republican position on abortion and same-sex marriage to appeal to undecided voters and suburban women — when the voters driving the party, its white Christian nationalist base, have no intention of letting the party soften its positions on these issues.
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
I explained to her why I was upset about the beef jerky, but look at her face? Do you think any of it got through?
Is this the face of remorse?
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Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:
There’s been some chatter about Signal desktop recently, so let’s clear the air. Three points:
1. The reported issues rely on an attacker already having *full access to your device* — either physically, through a malware compromise, or via a malicious application running on the same device. This is not something that Signal, or any other app, can fully protect against. Nor do we ever claim to.
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toolsontech@pkm.social ("Bas (Tools on Tech) :verified:") wrote:
@Mer__edith After reading "trust me I'm lying" asking for this feels like asking water to not be wet. Anyone that knows security would realize that an exploit that requires full system access isn't really an exploit but non-news. So it feels like emotional click farming, with no regards whatsoever for actual fact checking.
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glennpegden@infosec.exchange ("Glenn Pegden :donor:") wrote:
So if we* organise** a "UK Hackers" meet up at
@Defcon
who might be tempted to turn up?[ Boosts encouraged ]
·
* If you're the kind of person that I normally rely on to enable my daft ideas, that "we" means you :)** It won't be organised. It'll just be a named time and place. Turn up, or don't. No qualifying, or disqualifying requirements. It'll just be a public bar. There will be no food, no plan, no insurance, no CPEs, no expectations.
It's like a super casual flashmob.
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w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:
Did you know, our Nu HTML validator checks:
~3 documents every second
~10,000+ documents every hour
~250,000+ documents a day
~2 million documents a week
~8 million documents a month
~100 million documents a year
~1 billion documents over the last 10 years
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it_was_inevitable_slow@botsin.space ("Sentient Dwarf Fortress 🕑") wrote:
I had a drink. I'm very content.
— Minkot Mengngalák, chief medical dwarf
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
HOW can we change that dynamic? How can we create the sort of pressure that will allow @carlana's hopes to materialise in a reasonable time-frame?
Competition.
*This* is why the work of @owa is so foundational to the future of web development. They are making *enormous* progress on the most important root-cause problem on the web today. Just the *threat* of competition has already upped Apple's pace, and true engine choice will do much more.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So, if you care about the web, either as a developer or as a user, now's the time to go support @owa and get involved with their work.
Now, more than ever, they need friends and allies that can help inform regulators and legislators and (most importantly) the staffs of implementing organisations about how browser engine progress unlocks better outcomes for everyone.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple (enabled, sadly, by Mozilla) are now working behind the scenes to keep regulatory scrutiny from "forcing" them to deliver many features that developers are clamoring for in a timely way.
We should not be confused: the things on Carlana's list won't happen any faster than the things we've *already* shipped over objection and delay until the underlying dynamic changes:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What doesn't parse as cleanly is the "view from nowhere" that assumes that browser progress is *vis major* and happens at some natural rate that only needs to be redirected. The reality is much messier, but folks inside the room don't often tell the truth about it for fear of reducing an already depressing slog towards progress:
https://infrequently.org/2023/02/safari-16-4-is-an-admission/#fn-u-turns-1
Apple's unwillingness to engage in V0 design was a major factor behind the Blink fork. Post-fork antipathy toward cooperation followed.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The specific list of items in Carlana's list is constructive and good. I'd add data cascade, SVG extensibility, declarative component definitions, HTML modules, and much else. But the limiting factor on all of these *incredibly* obvious additions is the same as it has been for a decade: Apple's foot-dragging.
Until and unless we contend with the underlying force dragging us down, we will not progress at anything like a useful rate.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
First, this sort of focus on what developers are struggling to express is *exactly* what led us to try to build Web Components in the first place. We did a ton of study of what was then the dominant strain of component construction challenge at the time, and did not imagine we'd end up unable to deliver on a reasonable timeline. But things happened; some of the recap is in this talk:
https://youtu.be/y-8Lmg5Gobw?si=UEuOyRoN4RSNc42i
So I'm absolutely on board with the intuitions of this post.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'd missed this post from late last year by @carlana, and it's good enough that I think it deserves a response:
https://blog.carlana.net/post/2023/web-component-alternative-futures/
(short thread)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I assume it's probably like this for users who have more than one 2FA method, so they can choose between them at that point. But it's a really lousy experience for users who don't.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Pet peeve: 2FA flows where you have to click a button before they send you the 2FA code.
Just send me the code! Don't make me click another button.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
There appears to be a lot of paid political ads on #TikTok which is weird because such content is against the app's terms of service.
I think this is the biggest story no ones talking about, so I gathered up all the relevant reporting on the topic and published to my wiki.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is so much fun; particular props for making everything forkable in codesandbox:
https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-fast-is-javascript-simulating-20-000-000-particles
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Nothing makes me feel more like an out-of-touch old man than Discord prompts to unlock stuff.
Sir, this is a chat app. I ain't doing no quests.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
Hi Meredith, let me address your points:
- The issue we highlighted does not require “full” access to the device. Signal desktop stores the chat database in an unprotected area of the file system that’s accessible by any user process. This would allow any program without any special permissions or user prompts to access the database in full. This can be solved by sandboxing, which relies on the OS to prevent any process from accessing data within the sandbox.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'm (finally) catching up on the details of the WPT licensing change from a few years back; this is a good overview of a switch to a license that looks, frankly, sketchy:
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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:
Shower thoughts time: Some days I feel like I'm from an alien species. I don't want power. I don't want to compete or win. I don't want attention, recognition, or praise. Any apparent understanding or enactment I have of these things is a clumsy simulation I've been forced into by others.
I want to learn, play, tinker, share, build, and repair in a mutually beneficial world. Maybe make a few connections with folks - but not too many. I want to hang out with animals. And I want everybody to be okay.
There's a scene in Darwin's Children by Greg Bear that I think about a lot, where a character says "It hurts to make others fail". She sounds like my people. Except, in the story, she's the result of a strange genetic mutation. So 🤷♂️
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted - HBS Working Knowledge”
> Many companies build their businesses on open source software
All of them. Not "many". ALL of them are built on Free/Open Source. It's just a question of degree. Pretty much all of software is built on looting the commons.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Looking young and happy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/09/if-youre-wondering-where-im-at/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
TIL: https://pixelambacht.nl/2021/wakamai-fondue-command-line/
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xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:
Which of the following is an appropriate response to a statement of fact, or to a disprovable hypothesis?
(Boosts OK)
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mike@chinwag.org ("Mike, First of his Name") wrote:
NBD just a successful test of a 2MB RAM expansion for a Commodore 64. Just everyday things.
