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> Go outside and it's more or less the same as it has always been.

not true. many more outdoor billboards and LED billboards everywhere you go. giant screens held up in the air making 'IRL' feel like one big ad without the ability to uBlock it. very trashy and hard to get away from depending on where you live.

SPA views transitions

if you like 'html looking' sites (for lack of a better description; maybe "html 1.0-ish") i set up something that automatically collects links posted to HN that capture this feel if anyone is interested https://news.coffee/pala

us patent 4647924 (1987)

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/a5/dc/27/34d036c...

the logos could have been swapped the other way around and the article would have read in exactly the same way and made the same amount of sense.

nice, the banana tapping to the bpm was a nice touch

https://peel.fm/1dd2e8a

was wondering what it looked like from a side angle and found a 3d animation of the incident from CBS news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlAuteLjnm0

liked & subscribed

very grateful to the efforts of everyone involved with Wine

so many nice subtle details

because of letter grades: A vs A+

some thumbnails of television commercials exhibiting this slightly out of focus background https://i.jollo.org/jiWn4jTj.png

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make a self-help site with ads on it that shows people how to install ublock

i think increased screen resolution (and smaller sized devices) led to a pixel art identity crisis. as you mentioned, everything today is expected to scale and fit on any sized screen. that wasn't the case when everything was explicitly designed for monitors with a resolution between 800x600 and 1024x768. the nice pixel art of windows 98 wouldn't really translate well to both a phone, a desktop computer, and a big screen TV at the same time.

except i doubt that's the entire story, because even though pixel art doesn't scale well, you could make very nice, detailed, inspired, responsive vector graphics using SVG, which would scale up or down to any size. but that probably would cost way too much money to produce, so we're now in the era where companies have brazenly embraced 'phoning it in' as an aesthetic (e.g. material icons, bootstrap, font awesome, etc.). so far, users have either put up with it, or have been tricked into embracing it too

i very much care about supporting firefox users. for example, i maintain a separate, mozilla-signed, manifest v2 version of an extension i made [0] just so firefox users can keep using it. i do so even though this compromises my own ideals about not wanting to use 2FA out of principle.

[0] https://github.com/fanfare/googleimagesrestored/releases

firefox/mozilla doesn't really make it easy (compared to chrome)

mozilla now requires "add-on signing" [0]; extensions now have to be "signed" (By mozilla) before you can permanently side-load your own private extension onto regular firefox. they also require you to use 2FA [1] when setting up a firefox.com account (which is required in order for you to upload extensions so they can be signed).

at least with chrome you can just enable 'developer mode' and drag and drop your own extensions and use it right away without having to deal with any of that.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/03/10/support-for-exten...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/03/11/two-factor-authen...

really into your site

the only bookmarks i actually revisit with regularity are webpages that have some kind of tool on them (e.g. a BPM counter, a javascript minifier, etc).

otherwise, the rest of my bookmarks end up being generated when i'm on some random site, see something interesting on the page, think wow this is really great let me bookmark it, press Ctrl+D, and then never go back to the site ever again. which isn't all that bad.. there's something nice about the feeling of just seeing all of the titles of those sites (and remembering when you found all of those URLs) when you click the bookmark menu, and all of the titles show up. it feels lived-in, like an old house with history.

at some point, i decided an even better way of capturing bookmark-able moments was instead to take screenshots of something specific on the page, and collect them somewhere else, like on a blog. i dont need to go back to the actual page via a bookmark, because the image is enough.

for example, here's where i collect curious and/or spam-like findings, in lieu of a bookmark: https://jollo.org/LNT/bb/effexor1for1dogs/

found a similar error message happening to someone else a year ago with few recourse options: https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/103488375/google-...

really love both the site and the work on the site

it should either provide a link to a crisis hotline, which is what google does, or just not reply at all, which is what SmarterChild (the aol instant messenger bot) used to do. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ASmarterChild

it's a shame substack continues to get more and more visually bloated. I remember when it first launched, thinking the site looked really clean and simple. i figured it was only a matter of time before the simplicity went away, and it became more like Medium.com (in a bad way). it seems like there is a very predictable model for how a site like this devolves:

- it starts ultra clean, posts have a title and body, maybe (reluctantly) a share link appears somewhere on the page .

- then "modern" looking custom web fonts are added, making elements on the page flicker/move around when the page opens.

- then the entire site adds a sticky header that animates as you scroll up and down.

- then the site is rewritten using some client-side rendering framework that requires javascript to run 'correctly'.

- then a popup modal is added to every single page asking you to subscribe or sign in.

(substack is currently here)

- then "reading time indicators" (e.g. "5 min read") are added to the top of every story

- then "related" stories are inter-spliced throughout the text of the story.

- then it becomes hard or impossible to even find the actual content of the story, as the entire site is engulfed in "related" content

"dark mode" is nice in theory, but the effect is completely broken as soon as anything non-dark slips through.

for instance (on windows at least) the program "OBS" uses a dark theme; in a recent version, when you open up any settings window, the window is drawn for a few milliseconds as a bright white square, before the dark window 'renders' [0]. this sudden strobe of white light, without warning, is worse than if the interface was just bright all the time (imo)

this flashing light issue has also plagued chromium off and on for over 10 years. [1]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/P9rM5A3.gif

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21798

im so glad its been useful, thank you for the kind words :)

yes certainly, this page would be good to link to: http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/lets_not_encrypt.xhtml (not my writing, but i appreciated the sentiment of it)

what a coincidence, i made 2 88x31 buttons a couple of hours ago

http://jollo.org/defcon1.gif

http://jollo.org/letsnotencrypt.gif

i would gladly solve like 5 captchas per request to archive a site if thats what it took to combat spammers. their archiving service is invaluable

link to mp4 https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1593428776674697216/pu/...

if it were me, and i didnt have access to ublock, id try adding the following to the /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 id.google.com

127.0.0.1 accounts.google.com

pretty sure that popup is being served from those domains, that might break other things elsewhere, but might be worth a shot just to see what happens