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simevidas, 7 months ago to random

Gmail’s mobile website loads 100 KB of JavaScript, while the desktop site loads over 3 MB.

Once the HTML version kicks the bucket in a few months, I plan to switch to the mobile website on desktop (via UA string spoofing). I just need a basic UI to read and write mostly text messages. I don’t want a bloated web app that loads for multiple seconds. I am being serious. The loading screen genuinely annoys me.

On the web, you have to jump through hoops to get great performance.

carnage4life, 7 months ago to random

The EU’s position of fining companies if people lie on social media is bumping into the messy reality that no one knows what the truth is in the middle of a war.

If they actually follow through on fines, the only reasonable solution would be to block anyone from talking about Israel & Hamas. Even a sitting US congressperson has posted images from a different event claiming they were from Gaza over the past week.

You can’t trust any breaking news from a war zone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/14/propaganda-misinformation-israel-hamas-war-social-media/

rauschma, 7 months ago to threads

Are #Threads and #Mastodon really interoperable? I tried searching for a profile URL and a post URL (with and without the subdomain www). Neither worked.

jensimmons, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

You know how, by default, the <textarea> field stays the same size when people type sentences into the form field? The CSS Working Group is creating a new CSS property so you can style a form field (text-area and input) to grow fit its content —so you don’t have to use JavaScript to do this!

What should this property be called?

field-sizing: content;
or
form-sizing: content;

(Where content = do sizing like other elements. Or use fixed = act like you always have.)

rem, 7 months ago to random

Pop quiz (hot shot).

How many, and which, HTML elements don't require any children nodes but require an explicit closing tag?

I'll give you the first one: script.

(partly because I'm not 100% sure myself, I think I am, but not quite 100%).

fulelo, 7 months ago to TeslaMotors

#BBCNews - Regulator sues #Musk to force testimony in X probe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67024538

Meyerweb, 7 months ago to random

Decided to go with a scary account name for October.

simevidas, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

28 years after animated GIFs first appeared in a web browser, Apple becomes the first browser vendor to add an option to pause them by default, and a control to play them manually.

edit: Vivaldi has an option to never play GIFs. This prevents the user from playing GIFs at all (no manual control).

This is an operating system preference, so other browsers on Apple platforms could start honoring it, not just Safari.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/9/2.html

rem, 8 months ago to random

I'm having a brain far moment.

If you're forced to use AM and PM (which…IDK), anyway, if the time (24 hour clock) is 12:30, what time is that using a 12 hour AM/PM clock?

Is it really 0:30PM ??! That's…that's so dumb.

caludio, 8 months ago to Ukraine

I am pondering wether knowing how the drones got to #pskov is very important or not at all. Do you think there must have been some kind of support by the baltic republics, or did the drones flew undetected all the way along the russian border?

#ukraine #ukrainewar

ct_bergstrom, 8 months ago to random

So this is crazy fcuked.

Despite their denial, Gizmodo caught the College Board (who administer the SAT, etc.) sharing scores and GPAs with Facebook, TikTok, etc.

https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077

rolle, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to iPhone

I have now concluded my personal Android phone vs. iPhone study and finished my Excel about the matter. Most of the people I asked use Android or something else rather than iPhone: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/110867030805742171

Android: 12 pros, 11 cons
iPhone: 7 pros, 7cons

TL;DR: In reality when digging into it in a more detailed matter with pros and cons, it's pretty much 50/50, a tied match with these two. It's more of a personal preference. If you want to spend less money to a phone, like to control everything, develop your own things or use command line on your phone, go for Android. If you like everything easy and ready to go without any thinking, go for an iPhone.

From apps and services I personally use, 95/95 are available on Android, 81/95 on iPhone, but practically all apps that are Android-only have iPhone-only alternatives.

Android pros:

• Open source, mostly
• Generally cheaper devices
• Native Chrome/Chromium for developers, better support for PWAs
• More apps
• Freedom to customize from colors, icons to UIs and launchers
• More options in system level
• Termux: Native unix command line is something beyond awesome if you need local packages up and running on the fly
• Flag ship phones have superior hardware
• Custom apks, F-droid, 3rd party apps or develope your own without dependancy on Google Play store
• Generally updates regurarly
• Custom ROMs
• Openness, access to file system

Android cons:

• Newest Android (13) have limited even customizing the lock screens, so that's for the freedom
• Newest Android-phones don't have Custom ROMs, so you have to depend on the often bloaty manufacturer updates
• App quality is generally not that great when compared to iOS apps
• The quality of operating system varies a lot between manufacturers
• Usually contains a lot of bloat, unnecessary apps that you need to clean up right after purchasing the phone
• Google. It's an ad company, spammy trends etc. you need to get rid of
• Too much customizing to get it right. Some love this, I'm getting tired of it especially now when it's not like before, not everything can be customized.
• Rooting and customizing lowers the lifespan of the device when you notice there will be no further updates or in between of Android version changes you need full wipe again
• Official OTA updates generally exist shorter amount of years in the future when comparing to iOS updates
• The phone is slowing down over time after updates, because the software is hardly optimized for the hardware, naturally varying and depending on the model and the phone price tag
• Android 13 for example on OnePlus headed to a wrong direction with OxygenOS updates that are crippling the system. Even swiping things is slower than on PixelExperience, it's notable. - Too much varying in the quality and performance of the operating systems, it's wild

iPhone pros:

• Very well optimized sofware for the hardware, works smoothly
• Superior camera
• The UI: Everything is pretty
• Long life span of the updates
• Generally better apps when compared to Android, the quality is way better all around (good example: Mastodon apps)
• Some apps simply exist only for iPhone
• It "just works"

iPhone cons:

• Apple is controlling everything
• Barely any customization
• Everything you browse is on Safari, which sucks as a browser
• App store is the only way to install apps. If there is no app you need, you are out of luck.
• No memory card or other extensions to the phone. You buy it "as is". When you face the limits, you have to buy a new phone.
• Expensive
• No access to file system

There are probably more small nuances, but these are the most important pieces for me.

I might just buy an iPhone next, after 15 years of Android.

#Phones #iPhone #Android #Phone #Tech #SmartPhones

Bellingcat, 9 months ago to random

The ‘War Room’ is a private male-only network that costs thousands of dollars to access. Andrew Tate is the face of the operation. But as Michael Colborne reveals, there are other important figures who are not always so open about their War Room association . https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/08/10/revealing-andrew-tates-secretive-war-room-brothers/?utm_source=mstdn

caludio, 9 months ago to random

People (that is, teens) are almost out of the Instagram main feed and use mostly only dm and stories (but mostly dm). To post a picture there it's now becoming a hurdle run among the new "defaults" put in place to accommodate what is now becoming the new way of using it (just stories, dm and maybe reels). It's interesting for a lot of reasons, like how now people value more a private/intimate convo instead of the public spotlight but at this point I hope we'll see something else, sooner/later

rolle, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to opensource

Mastodon Bird UI 1.6.9-nightly is now released! :neon_skull:

For Mastodon 4.1.5 nightly version (main branch).

Changelog:

• Fix star animation for Safari by adding max-height to status bar
• Remove font-stack, let Mastodon users decide the font via settings
• Don't show blank grey URL preview cards if image not found

Live demo (single column layout only): https://mementomori.social

Source code and installation instructions: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui

#OpenSource #Mastodon #MastodonBirdUI #CSS #UI #WebDev #MastoAdmin

arstechnica, 9 months ago to random

Google’s “Web Integrity API” sounds like DRM for the web

It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ben, 9 months ago to random

The X brand feels like one of those twentysomething bachelor bedrooms. You know the ones: black sheets on the bed, minimalist furniture, unchallenging modern art, zero personality.

jaffathecake, 10 months ago to random

📝 The case against self-closing tags in HTML

At best, they're a relic from the past, and at worst, they're actively misleading.

https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-html/

djlink, 10 months ago to random

the more people visit Portugal the more I bump into visitors thinking we do weird stuff and it's funny to me.

chrisabides, 10 months ago to random

Anyone have a bluesky code? I don't expect to use it much but I have some friends over there, and I think the future is "you'll want an account everywhere" which is...what it is

malwaretech, 1 year ago to random

FYI Twitter's algorithm deranks accounts based on the number of people who have them blocked. Blocking blue checks doesn't just make your feed better, it makes everyone's feed better.