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subbz··on Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives
To everbody complaining about the huge price of $149. For a font pricing thats pretty normal.

Maybe coders aren't the usual targeting group but print media is paying plenty of cash for typo licenses.

subbz··on Ads on Apple Maps
Sad to watch Apple enshitify themselves now. Nipping it in the bud and switching away from iOS to GrapheneOS right now.
subbz··on Mozilla Advertising
Mozillas suicide. Sponsored by Google. Don't be evil.
subbz··on Inline Scope for CSS
This guy is absolutely right - the C in CSS stands for cascading.

What Tailwind is doing is rewriting the whole thing that CSS is and putting it into easy-to-write classes. This could be handy to you, yes, but unfortunately you're missing the whole point of CSS which is to have cascaded stylings.

To help you understand this a little bit better, one could have a look at why CSS was invented and where it comes from:

In the desktop publishing world (books, newspapers, etc.) this kind of cascading layout rules were used long before there was the first HTML page on the web. This should be nothing to be mixed up with regular programming. Change your view on that thing and you will understand.

It may sound harsh but Tailwind is a way to tell "I'm a programmer, I don't understand CSS and I'm not further interested into".

subbz··on VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble
It's here: http://www.vors.stargrave.org/Install.html
subbz··on Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security
Unfortunately the whole world population is addicted to ~5 sites/apps on the web who will play the game.

If Debian patches this out, you won't be able to access those sites. That's a living edge case for them.

subbz··on Cloudflare disables access to ‘pirated’ content on its IPFS gateway
True. For the IPFS case they're not recording the IP addresses for possible blackmail. But that's just an idea.
subbz··on Apple, please don’t take all of the buttons away
Aside from saving money, they're doing it also to generate sales.

In iPhone 15 the missing button will be the feature. Some years later, say in iPhone 18, the re-introduced button will be the feature.

All that happened before with Apple devices. They took away the form factor of the original iPhone SE without replacement just to bring it back with the iPhone 13 Mini. Also they took away the ports of MacBooks to end up with an USB-C port only - and now - the latest 14" MacBooks reintrudice a wide range of ports as a.. can you guess?

subbz··on nvALT 2 (2021)
I get why this is a driver. What about Obsidian[1]?

[1]: https://obsidian.md/

subbz··on Email Is Async
It's a question of the topic. Some topics need to be handled synchronously. And if you don't answer in a conversation this is legitimately perceived as "rude".
subbz··on SnappyMail – Modern, lightweight and fast web-based email client
It seems to be a problem with the 2-3px between the columns. Should be easy to fix.
subbz··on Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?
Take it as a good opportunity to ditch Instagram and Meta forever! ;)
subbz··on To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension
Everybody: Avoid Google Chrome for the sake of privacy.

Google is doing everything to track even if you opt-out. And they will continue to implement their workarounds.

Quick solution: Use Firefox.

Stop throwing data at Google. Google is evil (Google "don't be evil" for more info on that).

subbz··on Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users
Eliminating competition...
subbz··on Amiga Music Preservation
Check out modtu.be, the most advanced mod archive player around.

https://modtu.be/

subbz··on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison
It feels like the EGA is the original.
subbz··on VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
80x24 is the default terminal height. I mostly use this size on all of my projects. It has many favors: compatibility everywhere, tiny bandwidth, etc.
subbz··on Ask HN: Which email software do you use on Linux?
I use Rainloop web-mail (https://www.rainloop.net/) on a remote machine.

Integrates seamlessly great into all of my environments.

subbz··on Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode
Check out PragmataPro. Has everything a man needs.
subbz··on Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?
I'm using Firefox with uBlock Origin (+ social network blocking lists), Decentraleyes and Firefox Multi Account Containers.

I put every "big data" collector (Google, FB, etc.) in a single container using FMAC.

(And to be honest: I tried uMatrix but it was too work intensive.)

subbz··on ShadowFox – Dark Theme for Firefox
What's the advantage over the standard dark Firefox theme?
subbz··on The End of Mobile
I don't get why it'd be the "end" of mobile?
subbz··on Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
Late april fools?
subbz··on Earth’s Atmosphere Stretches Out to the Moon and Beyond
Hilarious fact!
subbz··on Show HN: An awesome portal to awesome sites
This took me to http://yeahlemons.com/ - my day is saved!
subbz··on The Baseline Costs of JavaScript Frameworks
Not true. Check out CSS media queries.
subbz··on Why No IPv6?
This scenario: I have my website on v4 and v6, v6 uplink goes off, v6 users are cut off. No monitoring. I see dropping user number of users in my analytics, being unable to determine what the problem is because the website is running fine.
subbz··on Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go
Well done!

Everybody who's interested in multiple platform emulation with a nice UI should check OpenEmu: https://openemu.org/

subbz··on Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment
What I don't get: Why is it just for React?
subbz··on Ask HN: How to go back to classic Gmail?
Update your bookmarks to: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/
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