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Please see my explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22038862
One possibility is to fix it so that there is a block which contains a link to the Markdown source (or if the way it is set up makes that difficult, instructions for accessing it). I highly suggest doing this if you do not want to prerender it on the server. (I saw another comment which mentioned the Markdown file, and was able to read it from that.)
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I feel like Hacker News main purpose isn't a news aggregator anymore, it's turned in to a place to test the usability of your Web site with the kinds of people who run NoScript or browse with a terminal.
Off topic: reading back through your comments here, I was surprised to learn you're Danish. Your written English is completely native and natural: is this typical of Danish people? Can schools be that effective?
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Here's my little suggestion for all those looking for an alternative to "Smart" TVs: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=42+inch+computer+monitor
Sure... if you want to pay twice as much as the similar sized TV.[1] I actually just buy 4k TVs and use them as computer monitors instead. As long as you research to find one that has low response times (rtings.com helps with that), it works fine. 1: https://www.vizio.com/tvs/v405g9.html
I'd also like to point out that most of the sub-$400 Smart TVs on Amazon don't have any DisplayPorts, and the display is probably of a lower quality than something that's designed to be looked at from a couple of feet away rather than dozens of feet.
Bigger than 42", I'd just recommend a projector.
I haven't kept up with the state of video streaming, so for me this raises more questions than answers: - How inefficient is video streaming when you're downloading chunks of a compressed, static file over a flaky Internet connection? - Was it worse before? Would it work better with QUIC or HTTP/3?
Inefficient compared to what? Fundamentally you have to shift the same N bits per second at a reasonably uniform speed regardless of how the transfer is done. Your main enemy in this process is, as usual, middleboxes, which may be a bigger problem for the advanced protocols. This is why Apple created the bizarre but effective HLS system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
I'm wondering how much you lose by doing it the simple way?
I hate smart TVs with a burning passion. They accomplish literally the bare minimum to keep people happy and sometimes not even that. Samsung’s Tizen OS is the most genuinely frustrating experience I’ve had with a consumer device outside of printing. Advertisements on my home screen that can’t be disabled, dubious privacy, bugs that require me to reboot my TV, and of course security so bad that they recommend install…
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The URL does work. I don't say anything in the post about reading what's on the other end. What you're saying would be like if I had said in the article that I should be able to give the Roku a video format it doesn't support and expect it to work. My website should work for anyone using a browser with default settings. I never claimed it was a static HTML site. It's an interactive JavaScript application.
I feel like you’re arguing for two completely orthogonal ideas. Either you get the resource with the request or you don’t. The resource you get with your site is the same thing regardless of what the URL requested is. There is then JavaScript logic that loads more information based on the path. The content is then dynamically added to the DOM. This is how your site works, right? In this model, you never actually get…
Anyone have a recommendation for high quality 4k dumb TVs that are truly offline? I have a media center PC I plug into my TV and don't want or need any of the "apps" or "homescreens", just give me a few inputs to HDMI cables, maybe USB slot, and I'm good.
RTINGS.com is pretty awesome at being able to quickly see which TVs have the more egregious data privacy practices.
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My last TV set I bought, I specifically looked for a non-smart TV. Got it for a bit cheaper than the smart models and there's no bloat. Everything else is handled by either PS4 or laptop via hdmi. I am not sure it's even possible to find non-smart TVs anymore.
impossible indeed. however a recent kickstarter is trying to change this: https://ironcast.tv/ lets hope they can deliver.
Is this rendering Markdown to HTML on the fly in my web browser? Just render the markdown to HTML once on the server and upload it for the love of God. That being said, the article is entirely correct.
Please see my explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22038862
Irony: blank page w/o JS, fails in Outline.com.
Even worse, once the JS is whitelisted, the resulting page still can't be opened with the Firefox "Reader View" so it is unreadable for me (having the black background). JS should not be needed to show five paragraphs of text. And even with the JS the resulting HTML is still unreadable.
FF72, uBlock Origin in medium mode, no whitelisting => site renders just fine both in normal and in reader view.