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I hate antialiasing. I absolutely cannot stand blurry fonts. First thing I do on a Linux box is install the ambiguously licensed "mscorefonts" and disable antialiasing everywhere possible. That is explained in the font-howto that may be a bit outdated now. Verdana for the interface, Times New Roman, Courier New for monospace ... aaaaahhhhh!
Isn't freedom nice?
I switched to Safari as I've got my default browser set up to ignore all fonts (right now using Computer Modern for everything), but the display gets a bit weird -- while fonts are rendered the way they're meant to, it seems the line breaks in the code cause some whitespace in the text. https://i.imgur.com/v80wKdf.jpg
And here i was thinking HTML was a bit like LaTeX – mostly whitespace-agnostic! Just shows you what spending too long in academia will do to you.
In both Chrome and Firefox On Windows 10 at 100% zoom in the browser and 100% screen scaling this looks blurry; the pixels in the font don't line up with the pixels of my monitor unfortunately.
Here's my screenshot, 100% zoom, Debian/kwin_wayland; https://i.imgur.com/tu1V1pp.png Firefox 68esr (left) is crisp but has too tall characters(?) resulting in a gap in lowercase 'o'. Chrome 80 (right) has this problem and is blurry in addition.
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> My '90s computer had a single 1280x1024 CRT where I always had to tweak the focus and alignment to get readable text. With no GPU, scrolling in an editor was always an exercise in patience, watching the text repaint line by line. I don't intend to insult, but to me this came across to me as a kid larping as someone who used computers in the 90s. Computers have improved by hardly imaginable magnitudes, but latency a…
I happen to have an experience with Pentium at 75 MHz, where text in Borland Pascal on DOS appeared slower than I could type (long before learning touch-typing), and pressing backspace after spotting an error required some patience. Scrolling in GUIs is known to be sorta expensive: it's normally offloaded to the graphics system to be done wholesale as just a shift of the image, but if your GPU drivers suck then you'r…
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I happen to have an experience with Pentium at 75 MHz, where text in Borland Pascal on DOS appeared slower than I could type (long before learning touch-typing), and pressing backspace after spotting an error required some patience. Scrolling in GUIs is known to be sorta expensive: it's normally offloaded to the graphics system to be done wholesale as just a shift of the image, but if your GPU drivers suck then you'r…
This is bullshit because DOS applications wrote to the VGA registers directly.
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You have to run the old browsers through a local proxy you configure yourself a lot of times these days if you're really interested in surfing the web with it. I'm about to go to sleep but there's ones that forward https as http, convert webp and png to gif, strip JavaScript to prevent the browser from locking up, etc. There's a real world use for this in crazy companies where people are forced on some old browser. T…
When you wake up, I'd love to hear more about this. I've searched for https ==> http proxies before and didn't find much. I'm aware of https://github.com/tenox7/wrp but converting everything to a gif is quite a bit more destructive!
This actually doesn't looks as easy to do in 2020 as it was in 2009. I also had luck at chaining proxies that did different features as well so one would do a certain transformation and pass it off to another etc.
I've also done partial implementations just using php ... you can preg_replace most things and it more or less works.
But yes I had assumed things had gotten easier but apparently they've actually become more difficult.
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You have to run the old browsers through a local proxy you configure yourself a lot of times these days if you're really interested in surfing the web with it. I'm about to go to sleep but there's ones that forward https as http, convert webp and png to gif, strip JavaScript to prevent the browser from locking up, etc. There's a real world use for this in crazy companies where people are forced on some old browser. T…
When you wake up, I'd love to hear more about this. I've searched for https ==> http proxies before and didn't find much. I'm aware of https://github.com/tenox7/wrp but converting everything to a gif is quite a bit more destructive!
mitmdump --mode=reverse:https://news.ycombinator.com
There's also a nice (though under-documented) scripting interface, so you could probably write a script that does this for all sites in regular proxy mode. I found an example of this here, though I didn't test it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mitmproxy/IAJ0-MHVC0...
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This is bullshit because DOS applications wrote to the VGA registers directly.
You mean slow scrolling in Windows/Linux due to wrong drivers is bullshit because DOS apps wrote to VGA registers?