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m712 | 6 years ago | on: Old CSS, New CSS

About map/area: Some websites still use them, and really well too. The Team Fortress 2 website[0] uses them with the images at the top of the page to link each of the characters' description pages.

[0]: https://teamfortress.com/

m712 | 6 years ago | on: Dark Horse Discord

Are you the original author of the article? The article itself seems to be experiencing issues right now, but from what I recall, the author mentions "extensible roles" and "good free tier" as the features that got him to use Discord. I don't consider these features crucial enough to use non-Free Software. If you are not the original author and have other features in mind, please explain which features of Discord are "so incredibly good".

m712 | 6 years ago | on: Dark Horse Discord

Discord is also proprietary software and is backed by Tencent. Read the privacy policy, it might surprise you.

Please try investing in Free, Open Source alternatives first.

m712 | 6 years ago | on: The Unison language

No mention of Smalltalk in the comments? The "codebase" that is managed by ucm sounds very similar to Smalltalk images. I am personally delighted about this.

m712 | 6 years ago | on: Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?

Here I must praise KiCad. It is one of the best pieces of FOSS software out there. It beats almost all other (commercial or non-commercial) software in PCB design, hands down.

m712 | 6 years ago | on: PHP 7.4

I have been waiting for a strongly typed mainstream high level language for a long time (TypeScript doesn't count because all type information is stripped during runtime). PHP still has a lot of cruft that prevents me from using it in my projects, but the recent updates seem like a step in the right direction. Hope that by PHP 8 the language will have deprecated more of the bad stuff.

m712 | 6 years ago | on: Gitlab was down

The status page has updated to indicate that they misconfigured their firewall. Apparently their entire set of services go through a single firewall (or at least, multiple firewalls with the same config). It's worrying that they don't have a staging setup for these kinds of things.

(NOTE: I am speculating here, if they do have a staging system and this wasn't reproduced there then the last sentence doesn't apply.)

m712 | 6 years ago | on: Gitlab was down

Ironically, status.gitlab.com takes upwards of a minute to load on my end. I thought it was going to time out.

m712 | 6 years ago | on: Firefox Preview 3.0

I can't find it on F-Droid, hopefully they get it on there soon. The main repo doesn't seem to have the Pocket spyware in the app yet, at least.

m712 | 6 years ago | on: Firefox browser will block the IAB's DigiTrust universal ID

Unfortunately, if the hardware has a lot of issues the well-integrated experience seems to quickly fall apart. I can't really speak about the desktop side of Apple products but the MacBook line of products seem to be troubled with many hardware related issues for years now.
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