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"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's just a guideline.

True, but we usually end up banning accounts that break the guidelines and don't adapt when asked to stop.

That is more authoritarian than what is suggested by the guidelines.

It's a matter of whether someone is using HN as intended or not (as far as we can tell). For accounts that repeatedly go against the intended use of the site, we don't have much choice but to ban them, or else the site won't survive for its purpose. We do warn them first, often quite a few times and over a long period before banning—it depends on how much history the account has here. For accounts without much history, we sometimes ban straightaway, if the violation is egregious.

That doesn't seem excessively authoritarian to me and I don't see how we could do it differently without giving up on the site's mandate, which is not an option.

I disagree.

You're certainly welcome to disagree. I'd never claim we get all of this right; but we still have to moderate the site, decide which accounts to ban and when, which comments to mod-reply to, and so on. It's better to have some principles for this than not, and it's better to explain what they are than not. Then (at least some) people (hopefully) won't be (as) surprised if they get moderated or banned.

This form of slide deck has become a staple in the security research community for some reason. I don't like it either but they're just following form.

Oh wow, it's a slide deck! In Firefox, I was only seeing a deconstructed giant canvas, scrollable in two dimensions but without slide boundaries.

In Safari and Chrome, it makes a lot more sense now. The interactive demo slide is impressive!

Update: Weirdly enough, after another refresh I now also see slides on Firefox.

> after another refresh I now also see slides on Firefox

It probably failed to load some piece of JS or CSS the first time around.

I have seen a lot of strange writeups, but this one takes the cake.

Is there a sanitized version anywhere?

It's clearly a slide deck for a conference presentation or something. So yea, it's terrible for a web page.

I don’t think it’s a presentation. It’s multi dimensional. No one’s navigating multiple dimensions while presenting.

When presenting the reveal.js interaction model is to hit space or some other navigation key.

I’m not defending it, because I legitimately think their multidimensional view is horrible for post facto sharing, especially on mobile. But it does mean that you can quickly navigate between chunks of the deck if you need to backtrack as a presenter.

That's actually not a terrible idea... depending on if people ask questions or if you have extra time while presenting, the ability to take a small detour would be pretty cool

I wish you were right heh

the post title has a cve number you can search for

here: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-3294...

If you’re not willing to go through the slides that’s really your loss isn’t it?

You can also wait, someone will probably go through the pain of reading this website and write about it in normal English.

It's a loss for both parties, no?

I can't even tell it's crappy. Just a blank screen with Javascript disabled. Sites aren't worth visiting if they don't care about usability and accessibility, and promptly get added to my shit-list of domains.

Disable CSS too and it works. It’s all progressive enhancement.

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