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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by MSM »

1234letshaveatw wrote: post #163
thrance wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Either the democrats vote the budgets in which republicans have removed all healthcare funding and millions die of preventable diseases, or they don't and millions starve because republicans are illegally holding onto the money for food stamps. How is it on the democrats again?

You are ignoring the possibility of a CR, which would continue SNAP funding while allowing discussion on healthcare funding to continue.

Not only is SNAP already funded via emergency funds, the administration was just told to resume SNAP benefits and they are unsurprisingly doing the absolute minimum.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by oulipo2 »

sd9 wrote: post #154

This seems like a fairly reasonable UX improvement. Unless I'm missing anything, it doesn't seem like this has nefarious intent, it's just there so that when a user clicks a link, they see the content as quickly as possible. --- It's astonishing how quickly discussion disintegrates when Musk is mentioned on HN. He really is such a divisive figure, with incredibly polarised language both in support and against him. No…

How are you supposed to have a "nuanced discussion" about a guy doing literal Hitler salutes in public?

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by rootlocus »

gruez wrote: post #101
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #86

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>Cutting food stamps. How is Musk involved in the current budget debacle aside from being "republican"? It's easy to blame stuff on him when he was running DOGE, but since his falling out with trump blaming every cut on Musk is a tired and expired meme.

Actions speak to the character of a person. And some actions have long lasting consequences.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by Ajedi32 »

throwawaysoxjje wrote: post #114
1234letshaveatw wrote: post #102

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Schumer isn't engineering anything lol

Republicans control all three branches the government.

Not the Senate. That takes 60 votes to end the democrat's filibuster, which is why the last dozen attempts by republicans to pass a clean CR with no changes to the current budget failed. (The last one yesterday[1] failed with 54 in favor 44 against. Three democrats voted with the republicans in that vote, still not enough.)

[1]: https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2025-10-03-senate-again-fa...

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by tracker1 »

aldousd666 wrote: post #161

Nobody wants a damn web view. If I'm clicking off to a link, I may want to click to another app and back in and still be where it was... If it's in a webview that's gone as soon as I click out. Yes, you can open in Chrome or whatever, open in a browser, but that's a pain in the ass to do an the time. I hate web views, in all forms.

In the settings you can configure to open in the configured external browser. I recently switched phones, so had to adjust several apps for this. It's a pain and would be nice if it was a global setting to always open links in the browser.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by chairmansteve »

aldousd666 wrote: post #161

Nobody wants a damn web view. If I'm clicking off to a link, I may want to click to another app and back in and still be where it was... If it's in a webview that's gone as soon as I click out. Yes, you can open in Chrome or whatever, open in a browser, but that's a pain in the ass to do an the time. I hate web views, in all forms.

You know what to do..... ')

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by as1mov »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #184
as1mov wrote: post #142

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Here's me complaining[1] about the login walls way back in 2021, this was before the Elon takeover. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28268365 Edit: Some more posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281472

That's a completely unrelated issue. Once someone sent you a link to a tweet, you could read it.

Is it unrelated? From the parent comment:

> Come on, pre-Elon you could click on a Twitter link and read the entire thread as well as the replies, now you just get a single tweet with no context above/below.

I don't want to nitpick stupid shit like this mate. But my point was to emphasise that Twitter had been going downhill before the takeover.

(And fact that it was always a toxic cesspool regardless of who owned it, but that's a different matter altogether)

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by philipallstar »

ceejayoz wrote: post #120
CaptWillard wrote: post #108

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Please show your work.

Musk's own lawyers did the work for us. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/tech/twitter-files-lawyers/in... > “Nothing in the new materials shows any governmental actor compelling or even discussing any content-moderation action with respect to Trump” and others participating in the suit, Twitter argued. > The communications unearthed as part of the Twitter Files do not show coercion, Twitter’s lawyers wrote, “because th…

Yes - it wasn't with respect to Trump. It was silencing negative stories about Biden and his son that was the proximate issue, and the general silencing of mostly Republican voices by mostly Democrat voices (though sometimes it went the other way, it was much less frequent[0].

[0] https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/1-thread-the-twitter-fil...

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