Hacker News Reader

steschon WebAssembly Threads ready to try in Chrome 70

Depending on what you are doing you shouldn't dismiss Unity3D and C#.

Adding multi-threading support for WebAssembly is on the roadmap for 2019.1

steschon The Awful German Language (1880)

When you have a stomach ache from eating too much of it.

steschon What is good color? (2015)

I only know that green isn't a creative color.

steschon Do You Really Know CORS?

https://www.howtoforge.com/filtering-https-traffic-with-squi...

http://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/wsm/xtm_11/en-us/content...

steschon Do You Really Know CORS?

Had to deal with a firewall that filtered all unknown/"new" HTTP headers. This included CORS.

A PITA to find the reason why Firefox wouldn't use the Google fonts.

steschon Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital might change that

The difference is: We have labor laws.

steschon Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change

Real URL in case you don't allow JavaScript for the redirect: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-gdpr-ca...

steschon Dear Moon

I have the feeling this should be bigger. This was 03:00 localtime for me and I expected to wake up to headlines about the moon everywhere.

But even here it vanished from the front page. No trends (Germany) on Twitter or YouTube. No top news on news sites.

My "friends" on Facebook aren't talking about it. My twitter timeline only has tweets from the obvious accounts (SpaceX, Elon Musk, …) about it.

What happened?

steschon Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux

When I switched from Amiga to Linux in 1995 I thought that I will have a perfect NeXTSTEP clone within a few months. I saw pictures of GNUStep and it looked nearly ready to go.

Ha!

steschon Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction

"Dancing was especially associated with the Negro race, which occupied a very peculiar position in the world at this time. As a matter of fact the great colour distinctions of mankind were now beginning to fade. Increased aerial communication had caused the black, brown, yellow and white stocks so to mingle that everywhere there was by now a large majority of the racially indistinguishable. …"

Hmm. Strange. But I'm sure there was something in the later chapters about the later mankinds. I've only read it on paper but I see no indications that the Project Gutenberg version is different from the printed book.

Maybe I'm wrong. But it really doesn't need any more racism than in the first few chapters. The paragraph after the one I've quoted is terrible.

steschon Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction

The blacks (Africans?) kept to themselves and weren't included in the later societies ans biological changes.

steschon Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction

The book is racist and antisemitic.

In the book: African scientists were experts in breeding humans and apes. The Jews were responsible themselves for being hated. And in the long run both groups didn't make it into the next round, the next mankinds. So you can be sure all the following humans had no black or Jewish blood.

steschon Mastodon 2.5 released

Today I tried another software for the fediverse: pleroma.

So far the fediverse isn't for me. I don't want to join an existent instance. I don't want to run a large project like Mastodon.

And pleroma looked about right for me. But it's currently only for insiders. (I'm using Linux since the 1990s and have installed different news and mail servers. Maybe my patience isn't what it used to be but I don't have any plans on trying pleroma again soon.)

All the other projects are either in a very early stage or use technology I trust less than C News.

steschon Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses

Apple bought Metaio in 2015.

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

steschon From GNU social to Mastodon

What I don't understand: Why do they promote the software instead of the protocols?

News and e-mail had different server software and clients and were both used around the world.

Mastodon uses standard protocols, too.

steschon Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

Does Elm rely on node.js and npm? Or is it usable without it?

steschon Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch

One of the Tweetbot programmers is using Mastodon and invited his followers. Let's see where this is going …

steschon Amiga 600 FPGA Conversion

I programmed my first BBS on an Amiga 500 with 2 disk drives. Those were the times.

steschon Amiga 600 FPGA Conversion

Amiga Fever infects all!

steschon Django Newbie Mistakes

Please don't ever use integers for ZIP codes. In Germany there are ZIP codes (Postleitzahlen) that start with a 0.

steschon The Emerald Programming Language

This bike shed needs another color.

steschon Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript?

JavaScript itself isn't the problem. The ecosystem is the problem. There is so much bad stuff out there that I stop reading articles about hot new software when they mention npm.

steschon Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine

But it's annoying when a popular name is used for new projects. Like elm.

steschon “Drupalgeddon2” touches off arms race to mass-exploit powerful web servers

My last employer didn't understand this.

Currently they have to deal with at least 5 different CMS, 4 shopping systems, and some hand made sites with at least 4 different frameworks. 2 backend languages. And legacy code with self written frameworks in PHP 4 on at least 2 important sites.

steschon France’s government is building its own encrypted messenger service

Wasn't PGP illegal in France in the 1990s? Do they expect people to trust them?

steschon Apps of a Feather

What's the status of Gab? Is it still the Voat of Twitter? Any apps on iOS?

steschon Apps of a Feather

A hack invented by the users is a cultural phenomenon: The hashtag.

steschon Reddit 1.0 source code

Layout in code is something Flutter is doing. And Flutter will be used in the mobile OS Fuchsia.

steschon Dear Mark Zuckerberg (2012)

I wanted to give app.net my money but they didn't want it. We Germans aren't big fans of paying by card. I asked them if the offer other payment methods. A year later they offered BitCoin. No, thank you.

steschon YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including channel and sub bans

Fun fact: Had to read about the Reddit announcement in another sub because it got downvoted.

An important announcement and most people don't see it unless they read a subreddit that cares about it.