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infomax··on TV backlight compensation (2020)
I have the same idea each time I read something about backlights;

How easy would be to place a cheap LCD at the back of the main screen and mirror the same output (in horizontally inverted mode)?

Technically it might require synchronizing the frame latency differences between the two devices, but would such a hack improve the perceived quality?

infomax··on The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers
Uber seems to have weaponized senior public officials and MPs in many European countries.

This a scandal of huge proportions.

infomax··on Doom RPG Ported to PC
I remember playing Lock and Load 2 [1] in high school during that era against my classmates via Bluetooth.

It was pretty fun! Symbian has been a great OS, something I reaffirmed when I studied Tanenbaum's circus book in college.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC1xI3oGPU

infomax··on Ask HN: The middle ground for email self-hosting?
At my company we are using dockerized mailcow on a Hetzner VPS and it has taken us some time to have the IP whitelisted in all major e-mail providers.

The easiest to work with have been Microsoft and Yahoo. I still haven't found a way to whitelist our IP on centurylink.net, charter.net and att.com (please let me know if you have any ideas)

Some links that might be of help to others:

[1] https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/data.a...

[2] https://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?page=confirmation&lo...

[3] https://postmaster.google.com/u/0/dashboards#st=userReported...

[4] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/supportrequestform/8ad56...

[5] https://www.mail-tester.com/

infomax··on Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
From the link you shared it looks like they are restoring the functionality:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230382

infomax··on The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
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infomax··on My rant about React
> jQuery, Prototype, ExtJS/Sencha, Backbone.js and Angular all seemed promising, but none took enough of the pain away.

I feel the same. Coming from MooTools, Prototype, Dojo I have found that modern frameworks like Vue and Svelte make my life so much easier.

The whole JavaScript ecosystem with Node.js and npm has helped such ideas/implementations/frameworks bloom and I'm grateful for that.

infomax··on How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter
There's a great resource on the techniques the bots and the bot detectors use, beside rate limiting IP addresses (creepjs is a personal favorite). [1]

[1] https://bot.incolumitas.com/ Expand all Sources/Links under 'More Sources/Information'

infomax··on OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support
Support for Wayland is getting up there. Just five days ago the bounty to support Wayland in Barrier was funded [1]

[1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109#issuecomment...

infomax··on Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
They are all engineers in disguise.
infomax··on Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
DroidCam connected via USB on my Android smartphone makes a great 1080p webcam. The latency is minimal.

It has great linux support and works great with OBS (and its chroma key filter)

infomax··on Gmail having issues
Has anybody ever received a reply from gmail's postmaster address?

I have good experience with them fixing issues related to their spam-related flagging for messages that are coming from our self-hosted email server, but never got any specific reply.

infomax··on Why Rust Is the Future of Game Development
> [...] even if some workloads (i.e. large games) still require alternatives

Well, maybe:

Watch Dogs Legion's programming was done on a visual scripting framework like Scratch [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/WOops3301/status/1323607083913195520