tech-no-logical

close, the netherlands.

   this youtube video is not available in your location
   this deezer song is not available in your country
   this youtube video contains content from [x]. it is restricted from playback on certain sites.

on the first three clicks. oh well...

I'm not, I'm always zooming out on those hipster sites. So I guess both paradigms are incorrect.

the site won't even show it's content without javascript. probably because of the wordpress theme they use...

first thing I did to make it readable was hitting "ctrl -" three times. so the site kind of defeats itself in that respect.

I agree that there's an optimal number of characters per line, but it doesn't necessarily mean you need huge fonts. just make your content more narrow, or use a multi-column layout.

> [...] send Ghostery into the abyss [...]. I want the web to work like it’s intended to 99% of the time and I know how to control my privacy the remaining 1% of the time. You don’t need a plugin for that.

I want to control my privacy 99% of the time, and unfortunately I can't seem to do it without plugins. yes, it's a pity that me protecting my privacy kills your website. yes, I'd rather all these measures weren't necessary, but we're at a point where I simply don't trust any third party, disqus included.

if all this screws your revenue, please use ad-providers that don't track me. there aren't any ? well shucks, looks like I won't visit your website anymore then.

(really, I wouldn't mind ads on a website, if that didn't also mean I'm tracked everywhere. as it is now, I block almost everything, using ghostery and/or disconnect, adblock(plus) and noscript. and I have no qualms about it).

that was it. the rest of the menu gives me nothing, the random button works fine :) great stuff.

would probably be awesome (love SID tunes), but I get noting in latest firefox beta, nothing in latest chrome, nothing in latest opera, and nothing in internet explorer 11.

my guess there's something wrong.

the fancy logo on that site gives me a "SecurityError: The operation is insecure." error in latest FF beta, resulting in a black background. apart from that the site works like a charm, but it's virtually unreadable.

From twilio :

> When you use our [...] services Twilio may collect from you the following personally identifiable information: [...] and phone number. [...] Twilio may keep a cached copy of the content you serve us as a part of your use of the service for an indeterminate amount of time

although I believe your good intentions that doesn't imply I trust Twilio...

I use a 24" 1920x1200 monitor, nothing special, and it's about 50cm from my eyes. I'm in my 40s, so anything real close (< 25cm) is hard to read without reading glasses, but otherwise my eyesight is fine.

Don't know about 'hacker bias', but yes, I'm a dev that's grown up on xterms (on huge monitors), and use IDE's fullscreen at fontsizes a lot smaller than those of a medium blog (now _that_ would be a waste of screen space ;))

I see your point, but imho font sizes like OPs feel like a large print edition book held about a foot in front of my face. I guess it's mostly a matter of taste.

Yet another blogging platform for which I need to use 'ctrl -', resulting in a content-width of less than 600 pixels, which looks ridiculous on a modern monitor.

I still don't get the 'large print' trend. Yes, I've read all the so-called 'pro's', but the content still looks ridiculously sparse to me.

if you want to introduce a product, please, please supply a working demo, and not some bad video full of marketing. _especially_ if you're targeting developers.

seriously, why ? are our eyes getting worse ? have centuries of publishers gotten it wrong all this time, and should everything have been 'large print' edition from the start ?

I'm 40+ and I should probably wear glasses for reading, but I really don't 'get' the big font hype.

nice effect, but suffers from 'medium disease'. font size is 'unreadably' big, I find it very difficult to read such texts on my normal 1920x1200 24" monitor.

with regard to most people with a grain insight this article is all about stating the obvious, albeit in very big letters.

I agree nonetheless. apart from the 'give me your passwords' example, that's not what privacy is about. 'automatically cc me all your incoming and outgoing email' might be a better analogy.

funny, I'm browsing with latest opera with some plugins (notably addblock plus and disconnect) and I can read everything without logging in and without adding the ?share=1

still not using that site though.

edit : my mistake. it seems that once you've used a ?share=1 link, that changes some cookies so after that you seem to always see everything

this is the ugliest use of an attribute value I've ever seen. this needs to follow the way of the dodo, as quickly as possible.

the site also impressively shows that this leads to horrendously large font-sizes on a normal (1920x1200) monitor. it looks like medium on steroids, and makes the site scream at me like there's no tomorrow.

I don't know where this 'my-font-is-bigger-than-your-font"-trend started, but I can't wait for it to be over.

that looks very good, but navigating with the 'back' button breaks the app. tested on FF24 / opera 15.

if they're ever going to do ads, you know it'll be in a fancy 48px font screaming at you...

our minister (Ivo Opstelten) has just said that he hasn't had any complaints concerning prism.

probably because it was a secret... duh... the way our (as in netherlands and EU) politicians are responding to these issues are so laughable it makes me depressed.

pity it does nothing in opera but show the can, and I wore out my mousewheel by scrolling to slide 2 in firefox.

probably just tested in safari. preaching to their own choir I guess.

most of those would be equally silly if they had a space between the two words.

if "my space" was a brand, would they _really_ be able to forbid me to publish a book called "my space and time" based on that trademark ?

if they actually could, the world would be even sillier than previously thought. and I'd see it burn, gladly.

another reminder : if you're starting a brand, DO NOT simply throw together two generic words and expect to be able to hold on to your trademark.

this is just silly.

he initially demanded the subreddit change its name, which is technically hard to do, or so people from reddit said, which would mean the subreddit was to be deleted.

he was never to be 'stripped' of something he built, the site and the subreddit have existed side by side for years. even if he loses his trademark, his site will continue to exist, and he's free to try and monetize that to his heart's content.

also, the sob-story about php and mysql sounds a bit off since he uses Invision Powerboard to host the whole site.

... wherein mr. vizzini is the hero who personally wrested the term 'gaymer' from the evil claws of the bigoted internet. there's enogugh references from before 2003 to prove that this is a load of bs.

I can't find anything about it now (mr. vizzini has deleted his reddit account, so it's hard to pinpoint some things), but I sincerely doubt there ever was such an agreement.

as someone who follows /r/gaymers I can say that this will _never_ be accepted by that community. the cease-and-desist mr. vizzini sent was seen as a sort of declaration of war, and mr. vizzini's posts on reddit only added to that feeling.

None of the interface elements in the builders work (correctly) in Opera. I certainly hope the generated html does a better job.