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Normally this is just tangentially related and not for Hacker News but I feel this time it needs a bit of attention.

My brain melted in the first minutes trying to read this article. I honestly just couldn't. It feels like I'm reading a mentally ill extremelly schizophrenic write-up on the recent sudo vulnerabilities, makes me lose sanity.

Has anyone actually managed to read this? How is this on the front page? (Not a rethoric question).

It's just the classical socratic method applied to characters that you particularly don't identify with. Fasterthanlime's bear and why's guide have often been praised here for the same thing (the interludes break up the long, boring blocks of text that deep dives often lose readers on,) and it's trivial to use a Reading Mode or skip them for the legitimately interesting technical information within.

Unfortunately reading mode didn't remove the characters for me, it actually made them occupy the whole screen LOL (Fennec on Android if anyone is wondering). I don't have that much of a problem with the conversational format as long as it's used in an appropriate context, but this one was really intrusive and broke the flow of the text, since I'm reading mostly for entertainment I decided it wasn't worth the time.

I'll investigate fixing that. Where can I download Fennec?

Thank you xena, you can download it from FDroid here https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

You might also just download normal Firefox as the behavior is the same when it comes to rendering.

I'll do what I can. I fear the problem will boil down to not having control of CSS in reader mode (which is understandable, really) and I may need to admit how my CDN serves the sticker files to serve lower quality assets. I hope it's a simple fix. Gonna do the fix live on Twitch tomorrow: https://twitch.tv/princessxen

Fixed on stream. The CDN resizes images on the fly now.

It's actually rather simple. You read one bit of text, and then you read the next. It's a dialogue, if you've ever read a book the format should be familiar.

Disconsidering the sarcasm in your answer I should note I am familiar with the format, I was noting this one specifically was really bad and I just couldn't follow it, specially because of the figures (although that's not really the topic of my question). Just to clarify further: I was asking because I was curious if anyone thought different about it and how they decided to approach the reading.

Yes, I read it and enjoyed it. Clearly it didn't work for you, and that's okay.

>It feels like I'm reading a mentally ill extremelly schizophrenic write-up on the recent sudo vulnerabilities

It doesn't feel like it, you are. You are reading a mentally ill extremely schizophrenic write-up on the recent sudo vulnerabilities

What's the problem? It's just that the information is presented as a back and forth conversation between characters.

Do most of the websites you browse look like this?

"Unusual" isn't an insult; what's the actual problem?

It's unusual that there can't be negative feedback about a website. Different strokes.

I want to read the content, but I can't. The website is too distracting. Is that a valid problem for you, oh great oracle?

> It's unusual that there can't be negative feedback about a website.

I didn't say that there couldn't be negative disagreement. Am I allowed to disagree with you and say that it's fine?

> I want to read the content, but I can't. The website is too distracting.

You can't read the text because there are little icons off on the side? I guess you can read it in elinks; it appears to load fine there. Someone upthread also posted a uBlock-style rule to filter them out.

> Is that a valid problem for you, oh great oracle?

No, it isn't; I'm not convinced that it's that bad to begin with, and if you really care the tools are available to it yourself.

> I didn't say that there couldn't be negative disagreement.

> What's the problem? What's the actual problem?

You're not as personable as you think you are with such a confrontational attitude towards feedback on a website you support. The website is distracting to enough folks that it matters. Period.

I'm not sure I understand the weird fan crowd we have here for the site in question. This thread is rife with folks who are ecstatic to defend the author for exercising artistic license, yet incapable of understanding or receiving valid feedback on said artistic license. And these folks aren't even the author!

If you put it in public, anything is fair game.

> if you really care the tools are available to it yourself.

I cared enough to leave feedback for the author, I'm not going to go out of my way to read text peppered with distracting weeb shit. I don't expect folks to sift through my unusual interests to get to my points.

Hey, at least it's not Medium.

I think the website is excellent, and it’s a joy every time I see Xe’s posts here or anywhere. If you don’t like the way it’s presented, but you do sincerely want more information on the topic it presents, there is a vast (world wide!) web full of information. Surely you’ll have better luck finding it if you look for it rather, than spending that time trashing something that isn’t your cup of tea.

If you configure your content blocker to hide the picture element, all the furries go away.

I think (hope) this is for the other poster and others of a similar mind, but in case I flubbed saying so: I think your site and its furry content is rad, and do not personally want to see anything different.

I'll take it over another tedious medium or substack turd. need more sites like this.

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