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It's not a huge conspiracy, but it is worthwhile to consider what the incentives are for people from each browser vendor. In practice all the vendors probably have big backlogs of …

Yes. That is exactly how web standards work historically. If something will break 0.1% of the web it isn't done unless there are really really strong reasons to do it anyway. I per…

Former Mozilla and Google (Chrome team specifically) dev here. The way I see what you're saying is: Representatives from Chrome/Blink, Safari/Webkit, and Firefox/Gecko are all supp…

They want to punt a half-baked polyfill over the wall and remove support from the browser so they don't have to do any maintenance work, making it someone else's problem.

At the time I ran across lots of real websites using it. I successfully used it myself at least once too. Off the top of my head, Blizzard was using it to format WoW player profile…

If we really want to increase turnout, we can just make voting mandatory like other countries have. Requiring ID is a problem given that a lot of people don't have easy access (or …

I checked the original tweet to try and understand this better and what appears to have happened is that Otter kept recording after he left and the VCs stayed on the call chatting …

One potential virtuous cycle here is that accessibility trees used by tools like screen readers are also a nice potential way for a model to consume information about what's on scr…

Quoting the start of the paper: > While MCGs and LCGs have some known defects, they can be used in combination with other pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) or passed through s…

> Since the 1980s, parents have grown more and more afraid that unsupervised time will expose their kids to physical or emotional harm. In another recent Harris Poll, we asked pare…

Just to be clear you're literally repeating a conspiracy theory. The thing you described effectively does not happen. We can talk about whether it should be allowed to happen, but …

Where I live in Seattle we fund keeping the streets in good condition. I see city staff roaming around during the day from time to time wearing hi-vis, doing stuff like picking up …

I see white on dark purple at a perfectly legible size using a regular font. Did an extension you have installed block loading of an image or style sheet?

Had to buy an IPv4 address for a VPS the other day in order to clone some git repositories. Couldn't believe it. Costing their customers money when they should be able to support v…

Can't you already do this by creating a tree of invisible DOM elements with the right ARIA attributes?

> In a judgment that spanned 2000 pages, Australian Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach, ruled that Apple had a substantial degree of market power. The Judge said both Apple and G…

Typically when a human has a disorder or limitation they adapt to it by developing coping strategies or making use of tools and environmental changes to compensate. Maybe they expe…

Almost every mention I've seen of gpt-oss was a complaint that the training on synthetic datasets produced a model that's mostly good at benchmarks. Are benchmarks the great result…

Replies seem to be arguing that this wasn't a 51% attack and was something else. I don't know crypto well enough to verify their claims, though.

The country's money is his money. For example: That plane that got 'gifted' to him is getting expensive retrofits on the taxpayer's dime, and he gets to keep the plane after he lea…

Part of the complexity here is the temporary object allocation and the need to read properties out of it as you iterate. This is one of the things I tried to push back on but the s…

Depending on where you work they might not let you publish a paper about it. Certainly was the case at one game studio I worked for, very secretive.

If you're using a portable library that needs to render graphics on mac, it's probably using OpenGL to do it unless it has a platform-specific backend.

This article feels like it generalizes quite a lot about a very, very large population. I'm always wary of pieces that try to put the vast majority of people from a given territory…