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I'm guessing this is probably why I've been unable to connect to Codeberg with my very much human-driven browser...

WhatsApp is not in any way mandatory in the UK. I say this as someone who lived in the UK and does not use and has never installed WhatsApp.

As far as I'm aware, the monitor does not transmit a URL. Windows is looking at the hardware's vendor and device IDs and using those to look up and download the "drivers" that LG h…

Can you please share the chat log for this? I would absolutely love to see this.

DiscMaster[0] is useful for this! It seems to agree with you. There's nothing I could find named imposta.exe or aryala.exe, but I did find installa.exe. [0] https://discmaster.text…

This is a dang shame, honestly. The Google Earth Pro desktop app is a good one and I still use it all the time. Of note: Google Earth on web[0] and mobile are unaffected. According…

Can you link the specific post you're referring to? It's not "above" at this point in time.

How does this compare with the F-Droid version of OsmAnd? [Edit: To answer my own question a little bit, I found a post from September 2025 that compares OsmAnd and Organic Maps (w…

I don't have any specifics, but based on experience, it feels like software giants like to patent what a lot of people would consider obvious wins (such as interruptible animations…

I assumed that issues like "tap eight times for a no-op" not working was because of software patents not allowing the developer to do the obvious thing. Is that not the case?

I get around this by pairing JavaScript allowlisting with custom CSS and userscripts. I shouldn't have to, though.

> This would result in an airplane level of whirring while it used maybe a few GB of memory and hard drive storage to boot up Windows 95. In those days, RAM was measured in megabyt…

To be fair, .md is the ccTLD for Moldova, first set up in 1994[0], ten years before Markdown was even a thing. The ccTLDs use the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, defined in 1974 …

Obligatory reminder that what the US government considers to be extremist activities includes the obvious crime of being interested in privacy and anonymity[0]. (Hence all the age …

There are three TLDs I block on my computer completely, and all of them are file extensions - .zip, .md, and .mov. (Yes, the domain "readme.md" exists. Fortunately, whoever owns it…

Similarly, Windows XP's release is closer to the release of the IBM 5150 (the first-ever IBM PC) than it is to today.

I haven't actually investigated that (and I'm not able to do so right now), so I couldn't tell you for sure. If that's the case, then yes, the forms method would be 'better'.

If it was one of the requests that would trigger a preflight normally, then yes, it would trigger a preflight. But the code as shown doesn't do that because "multipart/form-data" i…

> I guess the same trick might work with urlencoded forms, but it wouldn't work with multipart/form-data It does, though. See my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618…

> ...there are ways to produce request bodies that are valid JSON even if the browser forces you into a different format... The browser basically never forces you into a particular…

Regarding the first part, it's easier than you might think to have a false sense of security. I've seen a web application that did, in fact, check the Content-Type header to make s…

That's not quite correct. POST requests with certain Content-Type headers, such as text/plain or multipart/form-data, will still be allowed without any kind of preflight. If the we…

If your web application specifically parses data based on the Content-Type that it advertises itself to be, then yes, the webapp would hit a parse error. But there are many applica…

My understanding was that "preventing otherwise disallowed HTTP requests" was the entire point of the preflight OPTIONS request, and that CORS will do nothing if the request would …

That video was super interesting, thank you!