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https://www.oliveremberton.com Vibe coded in 3.5 hrs (content was older, natch), wrote a block-based, WYSIWYG block based CMS from scratch to power it.

Interesting refutation by IBM here: In the preprint, it is argued that their device reached “quantum supremacy” and that “a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximate…

You can figure out the basics in about 20-60 minutes. If you use a Mac, just enable VoiceOver: https://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1121.html If you use Windows, I suggest N…

Pathological myopia can't be corrected with glasses. TBH we call it "myopia" in the plugin because it's short and what we think most users would understand. Many visual disabilitie…

We wrote a free screen reader simulator for this purpose (Chrome plugin): https://silktide.com/resources/toolbar It’s not a substitute for real-world testing, but it should help yo…

"It's for the big abusers, like Google". If the law actually said that, it would be great. You never want laws to be ambiguously applied and to presume exemption because "it wouldn…

Author here. What’s new is the ICO has changed their guidance: they had explicitly stated analytics was acceptable in the past. The law itself hasn’t changed, but what most people …

https://insites.com/ crawls your website in a cloud-based Chrome for both mobile and desktop, so you can check spelling, broken links, JS errors, layout etc. Or if you prefer somet…

Things that are popular are incendiary to those who don't like them. If an obscure artist makes some music you don't like, nobody cares. But if that artist sells a million records,…

Author here. Originally I had a lot of blather in that section, but given: 1. It's a long post 2. Most of my readers are presumably >15 yrs old 3. I honestly think most people up t…

Sorry – "crossing"?

Thanks! I've not really posted much on HN before, although I've had a few of my posts turn up in here by themselves, and I thought it would be worth trying myself. crosses fingers

Thanks. I did agonise over that part at the time I wrote it. I couldn't think of a more inclusive alternative, and chose something a little comedic on purpose ('ladies man') in the…

Where do you live? I imagine price varies hugely depending on demand/transport distance, but 12p is about right for the UK: http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/grocery-categories/banana…

Author of the piece here. > The entirety of humanity’s knowledge is – of course – free I was using a degree of hyperbole for the benefit of word economy. It's like when Louis CK re…

It's significant because they're the regulator, and now they're changing to do what everyone else is, instead of telling everyone else to do what they've been doing.

How exactly am I spreading Fear, Uncertainty or Doubt here? (I wrote that article, and run Silktide). We have no problem with privacy - quite the opposite, I wish it were being tak…

"We, Silktide include [sic], have not only done fuck all to solve the problem" You mean apart from creating the most popular, free, open source solution for complying with the law?…

The only problem with that is it doesn't give politicians much to do except tackle real problems. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE POLITICIANS?!

I agree, but that's not what I'm saying! The law is not enforced in the UK at all . Accordingly those who do comply are being penalised unjustly. The ICO (body responsible for enfo…

"advertising is a big chunk but Google have other products" 96% of Google's 2011 revenue came from ads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Advertising "commercial news still sells…