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daveoc64··on Text-based web browsers
It's covered on MDN:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

daveoc64··on Date is out, Temporal is in
I'm really surprised at how Temporal is only just rolling out in Chrome stable.

I would have hoped it'd be ready for wider use by now.

https://caniuse.com/temporal

daveoc64··on Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
That is nearly a year old now.

There were previously supply issues with these drugs throughout Europe, but those were mostly resolved by the end of 2024.

By mid-2025, it was (and still is) possible to easily get all of the medicines for any of the approved uses, including weight loss and diabetes.

daveoc64··on I'm a developer for a major food delivery app
>What occurs if your order is placed in a bucket of other priority deliveries? Doesn't that simply become a regular order? Also, AFAIK based on some digging, the drivers are not alerted to priority orders they are simply routed for it. That could have changed though.

At least on the platforms in the UK, the only thing that priority is advertised as doing is making your driver exclusively deliver your food.

If you don't choose priority, you'll probably end up waiting for the driver to pick up/deliver other people's food along the way.

It doesn't make the restaurant prepare the food faster. It also doesn't allocate you a driver more quickly.

It just means that the driver goes straight to pick your food up, then straight to you to deliver it.

daveoc64··on James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies
I'm from the UK and had honestly not heard of the arrow.

I've checked my Toyota Yaris, and it's there!

daveoc64··on Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
Christmas has become more and more of a secular holiday over the years.

I think that's true in many western countries.

daveoc64··on Unifi Travel Router
Tailscale is free for pretty much everything you'd want to do as a home user.

It also doesn't constantly try and ram any paid offerings down your throat.

I was originally put off by how much Tailscale is evangelised here, but after trying it, I can see why it's so popular.

I have my Ubuntu server acting as a Tailscale exit node.

I can route any of my devices through it when I'm away from home (e.g. phone, tablet, laptop).

It works like a VPN in that regard.

Last year, I was on a plane and happened to sit next to an employee of Tailscale.

I told him that I thought his product was cool (and had used it throughout the flight to route my in-flight Wi-fi traffic back to the UK) but that I had no need to pay for it!

daveoc64··on Nokia N900 Necromancy
That article is full of made up slop - at least in terms of Europe.

Most of the dates stated are just plain wrong.

The UK dates are completely wrong - by 5 years in most cases.

All of the UK's 2G networks are still running, and the last won't be switched off until at least 2030.

daveoc64··on US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry
That's certainly a stance you can take, but it's not one I'd expect to see from a US administration that's repeatedly (including from the president less than 48 hours ago) got on its high horse to criticise what it perceives as a government crackdown on freedom of speech in European countries.
daveoc64··on US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry
>Besides, why would you want to come if you don’t like it here?

There's a difference between saying that you disagree with the way that a country is being run, and wanting to be violent or pursue criminal activity against that country or its people.

What you're missing is that the former should be legal in any democracy (and is in the UK), and the latter shouldn't be legal anywhere (and isn't in the UK).

You're claiming the UK lacks "freedom of speech" because it doesn't allow people to incite violence online, while saying the USA has free speech, despite it seemingly rejecting visitors for legal political speech.

I know which side of the pond I'd rather be on.

daveoc64··on No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
They do still sell all of their books - just not directly on their website.

Whenever possible, they're sold without DRM.

daveoc64··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
HBO is part of Warner Bros.
daveoc64··on Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs
>By “directs to remote” does it mean the TV remote? I feel like I’m missing something here, it’s just saying “use the smart tv’s built in app”? Directing someone to the remote seems like an overcomplicated way of indicating this?

Yes, that's what it means.

Some other streaming apps encourage using their mobile app as a remote, so I would imagine they are making it clear that the app should not be used at all here.

daveoc64··on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
I've had very good experience with Dell support in the UK.

With the on-site option, they come to your home or business next day and fit any required parts.

daveoc64··on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
Yes. The ICO investigation that resulted in Imgur blocking the UK pre-dates the Online Safety Act coming into force.

As others have mentioned, Ofcom is responsible for enforcement of the OSA - but the investigation against Imgur was carried out by the ICO.

daveoc64··on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
Switzerland is quite unusual in that regard.

I would imagine most Hacker News users live in places where recording or photography in a public place is not illegal.

Your suggestion of violence certainly isn't legal in most places!

daveoc64··on Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
Firefox uses a widget to make it work.

I've never had an issue with it, and have been using it for years. I use it for X (Twitter) so that I can avoid ads.

Looks like support for installing a PWA on Android was added in Firefox 58 back in 2018:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/progressive-web-apps-firef...

Video demo:

https://youtu.be/heSvwQgEMLM?si=5X0iky_uVDAS6eE1

Developer and user documentation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-web-apps-firefox-an...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

daveoc64··on Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
Other browsers on Android support PWA, such as Firefox.
daveoc64··on Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript
Seems pretty easy to cause problems for other people with this.

If you follow the link at the end of my comment, you'll be flagged as an LLM.

You could put this in an img tag on a forum or similar and cause mischief.

Don't follow the link below:

https://www.owl.is/stick-och-brinn/

If you do follow that link, you can just clear cookies for the site to be unblocked.

daveoc64··on Steam Machine
I can download at approximately 2.5 Gbps from Steam on my PC.

I think not having a 2.5 gigabit port at least is a poor choice.

daveoc64··on You can't cURL a Border
If you are an EU citizen (or a citizen of one of the other Schengen Area countries) then yes, you have freedom of movement and can live and work anywhere in the area without a visa.

But the article isn't talking about being an EU Citizen. It's talking about having to count how many days have been spent in the Schengen Area by a third-country national.

Citizens of certain other countries (e.g. the USA or UK) can enter the Schengen Area visa-free for tourism or limited work-related activities (for up to 90 days in a 180 day period), but are not allowed to just do whatever work they want to.

Note that the comment I replied to was talking about non-EU Citizens.

daveoc64··on You can't cURL a Border
>I had no idea travel was this difficult for people who aren't EU citizens.

Most people can't afford to travel to the Schengen Area for more than the visa-free limit of 90 days within a 180 day period.

Those that can are "digital nomads" and are almost certainly working illegally while travelling.

daveoc64··on From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey
Fast.com does an upload speed test, but it's hidden behind the "Show more info" button.
daveoc64··on GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
It's estimated that 1.5 million people are taking them in the UK, most of them privately [0].

It's really easy to get them in the UK from a variety of online and high street pharmacies, including from well-known brands like Boots, Lloyds Pharmacy, or ASDA.

[0] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c981044pgvyo

daveoc64··on Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
Free apps pay nothing, so Apple has already shown that everything other than payments can be done for free.
daveoc64··on Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"
As the Stack Overflow developer survey shows, a majority of developers use Windows:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-computer-o...

HN is atypical of the world, particularly anything outside of the USA.

daveoc64··on ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
>Instead, your software's lifecycle is entirely dependent on the OS' lifecycle. That seems worse.

It's not.

.NET updates are shipped with Windows Update, but can be installed separately.

Obviously for macOS and Linux you can't get them through Windows Update anyway.

daveoc64··on US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low
For one, having a visa comes with a high chance of being admitted to the country (although never 100%).

That is not true of schemes like ESTA or ETIAS.

daveoc64··on You can't build tcc from Nixpkgs if you are in the UK
Polling has shown it is quite popular:

https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52693-how-have-brit...

daveoc64··on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
It's just a standard helpdesk application.

You submit a ticket to Discord with the ID attached when the automated ID verification didn't work for you.

Once the ticket is dealt with, Discord could have a policy of deleting the IDs, but they don't.

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