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Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

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Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

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post #7

Unrelated to the article, but hijacking the history and making it impossible to navigate back is the new cancer in the internet I guess.

I'm surprised to see this from Instructables (Autodesk). If you right-click the back button you'll see that it did four redirects and you can click the 5th to get back. I highly doubt this is effective at anything.

Why do browsers even allow this behavior? The back button should automatically skip any blind redirects.

Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

#33
post #15

A few years ago, H. Moser & Cie made a mechanical watch with their superb levels of craftsmanship that kinda/sorta parodied the Apple Watch: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/moser-swiss-alp-watch-s-in...

I find this version (also from H. Moser & Cie) more appealing:

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/h-moser-cie-swiss-alp-watch-fin...

Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I seem to recall that hijacking the back button goes back to the 1990's. I suspect some of the ways in which it was done (like with naive redirects) probably don't work today, but the annoying effect has been there for eons.

I remember browsers stopped it for awhile. Maybe I’m misremembering?

I don't think you are. I think early versions of the problem happened because the website did a redirect: x.y.com/ would sand you to w.y.com/ and your browser would stupidly remember that as a user navigation. Your back button from w.y.com would take you to x.y.com, which would perpetrate the redirect. The fix for that is not to enter redirects into the back history, only user-initiated navigations.

Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

#35

This is incredible... hats off to the maker. That being said I really wish that the Chinese ETA 2824-2 clone that is the PT5000 would see more action in place of Seiko movements. It's more accurate, runs at 4Hz, and isn't too far off in terms of cost (last I checked - I could be wrong as regards bulk orders). Then again I don't know whether it can be modded to be "open heart" a la the NH38 so it might not have been a…

I was thinking that about the movement too -- or you could go for a Miyota/Citizen, the high-beat (28800) movements were around $70-80 on ebay the last time I checked.

Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

#36

This is incredible... hats off to the maker. That being said I really wish that the Chinese ETA 2824-2 clone that is the PT5000 would see more action in place of Seiko movements. It's more accurate, runs at 4Hz, and isn't too far off in terms of cost (last I checked - I could be wrong as regards bulk orders). Then again I don't know whether it can be modded to be "open heart" a la the NH38 so it might not have been a…

The Miyota 90S5 would work, it is cheap and “open heart”.

Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

#37
post #15

A few years ago, H. Moser & Cie made a mechanical watch with their superb levels of craftsmanship that kinda/sorta parodied the Apple Watch: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/moser-swiss-alp-watch-s-in...

Could you perhaps explain this paragraph?

> Alert readers will notice that Moser managed, in one paragraph, to dismiss the efforts of all three major luxury watch groups – Richemont, Swatch, and LVMH – as somewhat lacking in intestinal fortitude

Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised to see this from Instructables (Autodesk). If you right-click the back button you'll see that it did four redirects and you can click the 5th to get back. I highly doubt this is effective at anything.

Why do browsers even allow this behavior? The back button should automatically skip any blind redirects.

because Single-Page-Applications

they want the back button work with app internal state changes

Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised to see this from Instructables (Autodesk). If you right-click the back button you'll see that it did four redirects and you can click the 5th to get back. I highly doubt this is effective at anything.

Why do browsers even allow this behavior? The back button should automatically skip any blind redirects.

It's not the back button, but these two otherwise useful APIs used in a malicious way together:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/befo...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/hr...

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