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demetris

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About demetris

All-around tinkerer

https://github.com/demetris

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49047301

    There is functionality to reopen the last closed window, and also a keyboard shortcut for it. IIRC, the shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+N (on Windows and Linux).

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    Comment #48781520

    F*** me! The owner of whirlpool.net.au commenting on my comment. I am replying because of the huge respect I have for the work. Yes, I am seriously asking with a straight face. Yes…

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    Comment #48775581

    What plenty of ways? How can I run a macOS virtual machine LEGALLY on my Linux or Windows machine?

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    Comment #48774703

    I think pjmlp is just being contrarian. First, the Microsoft browser these days is Edge, not IE. IE is dead. Second, if you want, or wanted in the past, to test on Internet Explore…

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    Comment #48773271

    ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # Changes to this file will not be preserved. # This file will not be recreated if removed. X-Repolib-Name: Microsoft Edge Types: deb …

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    Comment #48772500

    I know of the solutions. I use a few of them. I have multiple Playwright webkits on both Windows and Linux. I have Epiphany on Linux (not 100% same webkit). I have subscriptions fo…

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    Comment #48772295

    But does Apple really care about web developers? How do you test on Safari if you don’t have Apple devices? How difficult can it be for Apple to make barebones virtual machines wit…

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    Comment #48400372

    What chrisweekly said: Configuring webpack, mostly. :-D That’s not a dig at webpack: Those tools are super complex, and hiding complexity from the user is not easy. But it seems th…

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    Comment #48398694

    I love Vite, when I don’t forget it exists in my projects. It took things that made you feel mentally deficient and made them almost zero-config. This news does not make me happy. …

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    Comment #47919683

    That is not necessarily proof. Sometimes I am too lazy to think of a good commit message, so I have a custom command that tells the assistant to do this: Commit umstaged changes wi…

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    Comment #47171271

    Websites do care about the UA. They don’t care, at least most don’t care, about the User-Agent string . That is different. About an element that gets rendered into native menu cont…

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    Comment #47163982

    Some of the stuff we have been adding since then is GOOD though. Some examples: We now have to accommodate all types of user agents, and we do that very well. We now have complex n…

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    Comment #47129126

    But how does that work? Does Cloudflare force firewall rules for those who choose to use it for their websites? If the tool that does the crawling identifies itself properly, does …

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    Comment #47038779

    Firefox could (should?) be better in several aspects but it seems excessive to say it is pretty irrelevant. It has 4.5% market share in Europe, 9% in Germany (statcounter numbers).…

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    Comment #47033466

    I didn’t pay close attention to the domain and I thought it was the other one: https://moderncss.dev/ One of the best educational resources for modern CSS. BTW, one of the reasons …

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    Comment #47022832

    Thank you! > The folks who crawl more appear to mostly be folks who are doing grounding or RAG, and also AI companies who think that they can build a better foundational model by g…

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    Comment #47018233

    I don’t believe resips will be with us for long, at least not to the extent they are now. There is pressure and there are strong commercial interests against the whole thing. I thi…

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    Comment #46720998

    Hey, tasty_freeze! The motivation behind the benchmarks was to understand what are the options today for optimizing the types of image we use PNG for, so I used the same set of ima…

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    Comment #46718232

    Yeah. Numbers for decompression speed is one of the two things I want to add. The other is a few more images, for more variety.

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    Comment #46716685

    I published some benchmarks recently: https://op111.net/posts/2025/10/png-and-modern-formats-lossl... I compare PNG and the four modern formats, AVIF, HEIF, WebP, JPEG XL, on tasks…

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    Comment #46632059

    https://op111.net - My blog https://omnicarousel.dev - Docs and demos site for Omni Carousel, a library I wrote recently

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    Comment #46599299

    Thank you! Would a Jump to navigation link next to Skip to content make this arrangement better for screen reader users?

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    Comment #46598994

    I did that that recently for a couple of personal projects and I like it. I think I will start doing it for client sites too. https://omnicarousel.dev The main navigation menu is j…

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    Comment #46088199

    Do you know what user agent the browsers send? I tried with Windows 7 (Firefox 115) and it reports Windows 7. It seems though that it cannot distinguish between Windows 10 and Wind…

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    Comment #45937891

    Oh! That’s interesting. Thank you. My main Firefox in that setup is from the Mozilla repos, rather than the ESR version that is the default in Debian stable. So, it could very well…