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Apparently the basic requirement is that the device should not have a driver already claiming the interface.

More info here: https://web.dev/build-for-webusb/

I put puppeteer into a serverless function and it worked well enough for low tens of thousands of PDFs a day. It's not fast, nor efficient, but it was reliable and surprisingly cheap. It was a definite improvement over the existing solution which was a terrible proprietary black box that was occasionally returning the wrong invoice, but that is not saying much. It was an easy drop-in replacement because we were already generating invoices in HTML, so we just sent them to the new PDF service instead.

Something like this is likely much more efficient than launching a whole browser for each PDF.

You just need to be prepared to out crazy whatever you encounter. My plan, if it ever went sideways, was to pin the throttle and take my hands off the wheel. Fortunately it never came to that.

> you explained the 1000 ft view of how Flash works

I second that. I find the better someone knows a subject, the harder it is for them to provide this perspective, making it all the more impressive.

Quick search brings up it indicates Business Reply Mail

Ctrl F for chevron https://www.postgrid.ca/business-reply-mail-brm/

I think it depends a lot on how it is used. In the case of sabre, that is somebody's job. They use that interface everyday so the user needs to be able to use the interface efficiently and is willing to learn the shortcuts.

A sign up form that a given user will only use once in their lifetime is another matter. It needs to be simple lest the user abandons the process. Most users in that case are not willing to learn keyboard shortcuts, tabbing over optional fields probably makes more sense here.

I find a lot of typos in documentation and I never create a PR lest people think I am one of those people. They really do make things worse for everyone.

It reminds me of a story I just heard about the allegedly haunted plane parts from the crash of EA 401.

Obviously not the most probable explanation, but I found the story interesting.

https://mysteriesrunsolved.com/2020/07/ghosts-of-flight-401....

It's called sshlog. It's a patch that logs username/password.

https://github.com/62726164/sshlog

They do seem to have a policy of asymmetric warfare, for example turning a blind eye to the export of fentanyl. It's not exactly far fetched. See the book "Unrestricted Warfare" by 2 PLA colonels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare

I've wondered about this, too. The simple and unhelpful answer is because banks/CC companies are conservative and consider them high risk. So why is that? I've been able to find two factors: 1) associated (correctly or not) with the sex industry, which is taboo, possibly regulated or outright illegal. 2) high rate of chargebacks. Factors leading to high chargebacks could include no returns allowed and taboo/shame. Imagine an insecure partner finds a charge on a CC and the other partner claims they didn't purchase it, leading to a chargeback to support the lie.

Here is one of the better articles I found: https://instabill.com/do-adult-toys-fall-into-the-high-risk-...

I was also wondering about the /configure endpoint. There was no mention of access control.

I use mailinator, but their domains are blocked by many services. Fortunately, they don't check if the provided domain resolves to one of the blocked domains... So I created an MX record on a domain I own that points to a mailinator domain. Works like a charm.

I'm always amazed when I see the various embedded contexts I find windows out in the wild. Usually when they are glitching out and displaying a start menu or something.

I guess they are operating at a scale where the licensing hell isn't a major roadblock? I don't get it.

I bought a laptop case off Amazon with the brand name "unik" on it. I think it is supposed to read "unique" but I always see "eunuch".

I have PDFs set to open with firejail. Adds about a second to launch times, acceptable IMO.

There is no valid card to retry. From TFA:

> DoorDash “experienced a payment processing issue” that let some users “check out without an authorized form of payment for a short period of time.”

Canada has the lovely combo of low salaries and high rent

Be sure to read that contract from Rumpelstiltskin Inc. very closely before signing

As a non-brit, I found the concept of TV detector vans[0] to be pretty incredible.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van

Does anyone know the current state of WebThings? I dabbled back before Mozilla dropped it and it seemed cool, but with some rough edges. I wonder if it survived the transition to a community run project.

I also love that quote, but I believe it is "There, but for the grace of god, go I".

One of the best things that ever happened to me was becoming a member of a group that I was previously prejudiced against.

I swear 99% of them are prototype pollution or regex DOS that don't apply to how I'm using the dependency.

Maybe adware that pops a message that doesn't generate any revenue once after 15 seconds would be more accurate. But I suppose that depends on if a single non-commercial message counts as an ad.

Yours is a bad example. I on-boarded at a remote-first company (they were remote pre-COVID) a year ago and my experience was nothing like yours.

I was warmly welcomed and immediately partnered with a senior person. People were extremely helpful and if I needed help, people were always open to hopping on a call to get me unstuck. Most people respond to slack messages quickly.

The only downside is the codebase/tech stack sucks and the technical culture leaves something to be desired. But they have really nailed the remote experience.

I will never willingly go back to the office. My employer definitely gets more productivity out of me than if I were in office. It really is a win-win in my case. [Edit]:removed repetition

I worked as a projectionist in an old theatre in my teens that used 35mm film and the analog sound stripe. This was early 2000s and was very dated for the time. Projectionist used to be a trade, but by this point they gave the job to kids with minimal training for minimum wage. I loved threading the film through the projector and across the room on pulleys to the platter that wound it back up, the clickity clack when you turned it on.

One neat thing I remember: we applied these little foil bits on the edge of the film to control the house lights. They were applied at either end to dim the lights when the movie started and bring them back up at the end.

I think I still have a Star Wars Ep. III trailer on 35mm kicking around.

I VPN into my home network as a bastion host, so I'm always connecting from the same IP.

I'm using the cloud providers IP filtering to block everything but my IP on port 22. If something goes horribly wrong, I can disable it thru their web interface.

If you are entering this into the browser console, you can use $$() as shorthand for document.querySelectorAll(), with chromium-based browsers at least. As a bonus, it returns an array so you can map/filter.

Some fairly glaring typos:

- 4th paragraph, "4,876 privacy policy" should be "4,876 page privacy policy".

- 6th paragraph, "form of" should be "firm or".

I emailed them so hopefully they fix it. I tend to get hyper-focused on the typos and can't finish the article, strange as it may sound.

Old 2 stroke diesels can start running backwards eg. If you nearly stall it. Blows the air filter off and starts sucking in air thru the exhaust.