bubblesnort

idk what a tensor is, so I like it :)

This is brilliant. Thanks for the laugh.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-Novemb...

Author clearly didn't research this thoroughly.

HTML was originally based on SGML, which no one ever implemented correctly. The standard then hopped onto the XML bandwagon and more parsing hell ensued.

Remember when in old browsers you had to eliminate all whitespace between elements just so you could style a list correctly? Or traverse the DOM in JavaScript without hitting nasty textNodes? The HTML would be difficult to write AND difficult to read for those browsers.

Author goes on to ask what the rendering of an HTML fragment looks like and then pulls out a CSS rabbit trick. The real answer is "depends on the user agent".

The CSS rules for whitespace handling were added to make predictable whitespace handling easier to achieve across the entire document. Everything can be a footgun in the wrong hands.

HTML is absolutely not in the same realm as programming languages. Quoting strings brings a whole slew of new problems with them. Not in the least another round of parsing hell in the browsers. But also everywhere HTML is concatenated to create a page. Since HTML had to be forgiving, closing tags can be implied. That alone accounts for some of the differences in whitespace handling between the beginning and end of a given text. Browsers tend to do mostly the right thing in those cases.

And if the author tried to be exhaustive about whitespace behaviour in HTML, I wonder why there's also no mention of the WBR element or its corresponding unicode character.

I hope Matt can recover from all this. Maybe retire early, spend some time out in the woods.

This has already gone way too far.

Everyone can experience mania at some point in their life. Anything can happen because the brain works differently.

idk, perhaps he should see a shrink.

TV documentaries today are arguably worse. Dumbed down to "here's someone who knows science stuff" and "here's a startup that does science stuff" over and over again.

The point I was trying to make is that many "news" articles aren't really new. It's not unheard of that the publisher just wants your attention so they'll keep rehasing old stuff.

A TV documentary in 2002 said they studied 2 groups of rats. The control group had a steady supply of food and could eat whenever they want. The other group was on a diet.

After 2 years, the control group all sat in a corner of their cage being fat and lazy. The other group continued powering their ferris wheel generators and were not being lazy at all.

They hypothesized that too much food made the body more prone to free radicals and the damage was more difficult to repair in the control group. Effectively making them age faster than the diet group.

I wonder how hard it is to kill a fork bomb with 192 cores running full blast.

I had to use one of those as a student.

ACRORD32.EXE was actually cmd.exe

WINWORD.EXE was actually Mozilla

...and so on

Edit: one of those exes was regedit and every time I sat down I'd delete all the keys named Policies as a routine excersize. After that, restart explorer with one of the tricks. I don't remember the specific one but it wasn't officially documented iirc.

https://superuser.com/questions/335917/how-can-you-do-a-clea...

But... Can you run Android in an emulator in Linux in an emulator on Android?

LibrePress

Yep, I was just as surprised as you.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive...

I tought I accidentally visited GNAA.

And don't forget Ada.

If I read this correctly, they'll fertilise their daughter with frozen sperm from her deceased brother? That's like, post-mortem incest. The risk of cancer will be higher.

linksys.

linksys everywhere.

No. It creates a root filesystem that follows your choices of what should be included and tries to be as minimal and small as possible by default. Very suitable for embedded devices and lightweight virtual machines. You can have it build a kernel as well. I use the ability to create a cpio archive for an initramfs on the Linux boxes.

It got stuck in 1984.

That uses WebKitGTK, which is probably fine. QtWebengine uses blink but that's known to be insecure since Qt can't keep up with upstream (chromium).

Why not post this as a URL?

Something like this???

https://www.amazon.com/Wenqik-Cushion-Vibrator-Pressure-Acti...

That's enough wtf for me, I'll leave the Internet for a while.

Aaron Swartz should be remembered but afaik he committed suicide.

As someone with a failed attempt, I hope this doesn't set an example for others to an hero.

Context:

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...

Not really.

WordPress continues to function in airplane mode with the airplane mode plugin.

And besides, you have to start somewhere. There could be a bunch of independant plugin and theme registries just like there are with Minecraft mods and resource packs. GitHub already serves this purpose for me with WordPress.

Someone please fork WordPress to e.g. WebPublish and sed -i 's/WordPress/WebPublish/' the whole thing and let both of these companies duke it out while we can continue in peace.

Much good could come from this.

HTTP is the weird protocol here. Lots of protocols were named after the program (or vice versa).

finger, ftp, ssh, talk, telnet, tftp, maybe whois too?

Never heard of the dict command?

The author went through the trouble of figuring out the protocol but never bothered to just run dict. Okay.

You just turned off the capital_p_dangit filter!

WordPress ;)

The game I like most is a multiplayer immersive reality game in 0 bytes called frogger, where I'm the frog.

Beat that! ;)