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NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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Post by ezekg »

Daneel_ wrote: post #149
ezekg wrote: post #128

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Wasn't expecting so much candid feedback today. There was a Launch HN yesterday that had a 3D rubik's cube on their home page. It was literally pointless. But kind of neat. But you probably hated that as well, if I could assume. But I say that to point out that lots of companies do it, sometimes simply because we can (just look at Stripe and GitHub). I think the lava lamp effect is cool. The perf issues can and will…

I appreciate you engaging with commenters on this, it’s nice to see. From my perspective I agree with a lot of the other commenters - it’s just design for design’s sake. It’s an expensive way to add minor visual flair that heavily degrades the experience for a sizeable number of users. In terms of value provided to the user: it’s basically zero, or often worse than zero. Personally, it feels over-designed, which the…

I spent weeks on the typography and on choosing a font. Went through so many different styles. I ended up on Owners by MCKL [^0] because I personally like the ultra-wide font trend, and I liked its Text variant as well. Bummed to hear that others aren't a fan of it. Oh well, design is pretty subjective.

And it may be over-designed. It was my first foray back into design since switching careers to programming about 10 years ago. Maybe I took it a bit too far? Felt good to stretch those muscles, though. :)

[^0]: https://mckltype.com/owners/

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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Post by morgannewman »

ezekg wrote: post #58
xavxav wrote: post #49

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Unrelated, but your homepage has very bad FPS using firefox on mac due to the animation. Once I manage to scroll it works quite well.

Thanks. That shader doesn't seem to play nicely with some GPUs and I'm still working on edge cases. If possible, could you look at your console logs and email me your specs? They should be logged. Email is in bio. It should be doing automatic categorization of the GPU to determine render quality, but maybe something's still incorrect there.

+1 the website is borderline unusable on my work laptop. I have an M1 Pro in my standard MacBook Pro 2021. I am using the latest version Chrome and this animation causes a huge performance regression on my computer when it's visible.

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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Post by zelse »

jorvi wrote: post #169
franky47 wrote: post #20

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The Scunthorpe problem all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Filters like that are so trivial to bypass on a higher level too. Look at how many gamer or forum tags are “Lovecraft’s Cat”. And good luck catching those cases on a non-manual basis.

I once happened across a Github where all the repos were subtle little bits of anti-Semitic cant relating to the Holocaust. More than subverting them, they also often function as dog-whistles for fellow travelers.

(For those not getting the specific one used above, Lovecraft had a black cat and a common name for black cats at the time combined a now nigh-unprintable racial slur for black people with the word 'man'.)

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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Post by JohnFen »

hunter2_ wrote: post #165
tobiasSoftware wrote: post #158

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Fun fact. Several years ago I started getting charges from NPM, which although I am a software developer I have never used. I cancelled my credit card multiple times, but they kept appearing each month. I went to my bank, Bank of America, and they claimed that there was nothing they could do because NPM was using some sort of option they had to follow me when I got new credit cards. I don't know what kind of option t…

Ok, I'll bite. There is no way a merchant can learn a new card number other than from the cardholder, or from a thief who got it from the card/cardholder. Not from any upstanding entity. If you merely got a new expiration date, security code, etc. without also changing the card number, they could "follow" that by submitting a transaction without those extra pieces of information, at greater cost and risk to themselve…

Some banks have a service where if you use your card for ongoing regular payments and the card is replaced for any reason, the bank will allow those regular charges to continue on the new card when the service provider uses the old number.

It's very convenient if that's what you want -- it means you don't have to go to all of the ongoing services to update your card immediately. But it does mean that you can't count on changing a card to stop unwanted ongoing charges.

I recently replaced a card at my bank, and they offered this as an opt-in service (which I opted in to), but I hear that some banks make it opt-out, instead.

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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Post by richard_nixon »

ezekg wrote: post #128
lopkeny12ko wrote: post #120

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With all due respect, this is possibly the dumbest rebuttal I've heard. Why do I need a powerful GPU or even need my GPU to waste compute cycles just to view a webpage? Just get rid of it entirely. The visual flair is not adding any value. It's a performance drag, highly distracting, and serves no useful purpose whatsoever. This "trend" in modern web design is truly infuriating.

Wasn't expecting so much candid feedback today. There was a Launch HN yesterday that had a 3D rubik's cube on their home page. It was literally pointless. But kind of neat. But you probably hated that as well, if I could assume. But I say that to point out that lots of companies do it, sometimes simply because we can (just look at Stripe and GitHub). I think the lava lamp effect is cool. The perf issues can and will…

Speaking as someone that blocks javascript by default, the page doesn't look too bad!

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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Post by ilkka_es »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #120
ezekg wrote: post #58

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Thanks. That shader doesn't seem to play nicely with some GPUs and I'm still working on edge cases. If possible, could you look at your console logs and email me your specs? They should be logged. Email is in bio. It should be doing automatic categorization of the GPU to determine render quality, but maybe something's still incorrect there.

With all due respect, this is possibly the dumbest rebuttal I've heard. Why do I need a powerful GPU or even need my GPU to waste compute cycles just to view a webpage? Just get rid of it entirely. The visual flair is not adding any value. It's a performance drag, highly distracting, and serves no useful purpose whatsoever. This "trend" in modern web design is truly infuriating.

That’s just your opinion, man. I checked the site on iPhone and would say that it’s better than 80% of the sites I see. No performance issues at all. The extra wide font I don’t like however.

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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Post by nomel »

franky47 wrote: post #20
_ugfj wrote: post #15

I thought buttbuttination taught everyone how incredibly stupid this is 25-30 years or so ago already? But no. Just a few years ago I tried to enter an answer into a Hungarian Q&A site recommending to take the Algeciras-Tangier ferry and the answer was refused. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geci

The Scunthorpe problem all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Related, here's a pretty impressive attempt to detect bad words, to allow a talking banana on a Twitch live stream, without being banned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5ppf0po3k
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