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Post by OinkEsFabuloso »

nl wrote: post #165
OinkEsFabuloso wrote: post #116

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Oh, that's so cool! :-) Could you please write to Whatsapp or Telegram and ask them not to delete the EXIF information from shared images on their platform? I understand that they compress images so they don't take too long to transmit and load, but I think there's a big group of their users (especially for Whatsapp) that use their platform to share family pictures. For this purpose, having the EXIF date (if it's ava…

Oh no this is a bad idea. There's a bunch of data (including location!) that is often included in EXIF.

I don't think is a bad idea at all. Just keep the timestamps if you want, and strip all the rest. But I feel that having the date attached to the image is a good idea. Is not technically complex nor bandwidth demanding and provides a very useful context to the picture.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by Hnrobert42 »

mstade wrote: post #166
levymetal wrote: post #149

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And now we’ve come full-circle as 1Password 8 requires you to save your password prior to submitting the form instead of offering to save it after submission. Which is a huge regression as it results in this exact issue all over again. https://support.1password.com/save-fill-passwords/

Sadly, 1Password seems to just get worse and worse in terms of usability with each release. The latest incarnation has so many little annoyances that makes me seriously consider switching. The one thing it's got going for it that really is kind of a killer feature for me is SSH key handling. It's super nice being able to sign your commits with Touch ID. Everything else is meh at best.

I think you can sign git commits with a yubikey [1]. I haven’t done it myself; I use Apple’s keychain for my ssh keys.

[1] https://nuculabs.dev/2018/06/30/how-to-sign-git-commits-with...

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by wingerlang »

spiderice wrote: post #110
wallfacer wrote: post #89

If any Spotify devs are here, please let me explore and add songs, artists and albums to my library without “hearting” it. I often just want to follow up later by “adding to my library,” and it feels weird to “LOVE” it before ever hearing it. I really feel pain when I hear something terrible that I’ve already “liked” and consider the impacts to my algorithm. Please distinguish between “like” and “save.” A simple “plu…

I'm confused. I thought I missed something in the article. Why are we talking about Spotify in this thread? I'm all for your suggestions, I'm just confused how we got here. Haha. What did I miss?

This post is about how someone implemented the thing the author wrote about. So this comment-author hopes someone at Spotify will implement the thing he is now writing about in his comment.

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Post by stavros »

renke1 wrote: post #143
thallavajhula wrote: post #61

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Opera was the most innovative web browser ever. They brought so many new things to the world of web browsing. Tabbed-browsing, mouse gestures, colored tabs, browser themes, in-built security integration with anti-virus software, an extensible browser - so many wonderful innovative features. It was a paid software initially, but then they made it free for everyone. I used to use it as my default browser, maybe 13-15 y…

Spatial navigation is a feature I really do miss. I don't think any other browser supports this. It made keyboard-based browsing possible without resorting to stuff like hit-a-hint. You could just hit Shift+Arrow Key (which I mapped to the home row) and select a the nearest link (or anything interactive) in that direction. I think it worked in a visual fashion so order in the DOM didn't matter at all. It behaves exac…

The Opera CTO is now building Vivaldi, which is basically Opera. It has all the features I remember (spatial navigation, mail/RSS client, gestures, split tabs, etc) and is very good.

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Post by stavros »

RockRobotRock wrote: post #205
limelight wrote: post #173

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It's truly baffling how they manage to consistently make the software worse every single release. I was a huge fan of 1Password many years ago (and have been happy to pay for it throughout), but each successive release is more confusing and less reliable.

Bitwarden is by no means perfect but I really appreciate their user engagement and excellent documentation.

How is it not perfect? I haven't noticed a flaw yet.

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Post by clarge1120 »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #54

I havnt done this in many years but for a while I was making creative content that was published online. Once in a while someone would contact me saying they liked what I did. I started doing the same. If I read an article I liked a lot I would contact the person and tell them I liked it and why. About half the time they responded with Thanks. I didnt do this with NYT writers or anything. Just people who clearly dont…

Really enjoyed the insightful view. I bet it starts a fire on the internet.

Re: Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about

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Post by rjh29 »

Kerbonut wrote: post #209
thallavajhula wrote: post #61

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Opera was the most innovative web browser ever. They brought so many new things to the world of web browsing. Tabbed-browsing, mouse gestures, colored tabs, browser themes, in-built security integration with anti-virus software, an extensible browser - so many wonderful innovative features. It was a paid software initially, but then they made it free for everyone. I used to use it as my default browser, maybe 13-15 y…

Text reflow on mobile browsers. I still miss that feature and much prefer that with desktop mode vs crappy mobile mode sites.

"Reading mode" is still very much a feature of mobile Chrome and Firefox, and almost a neccessity.

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Post by fimdomeio »

jackpirate wrote: post #151
fimdomeio wrote: post #38

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I found a bug in firefox where the two letters of the weekdays appeared as 3 letters for portuguese (pt-PT). Eventually found that it was an error in the unicode standard, so submited the proposal for change. Probably there's dozen of people involved in this... but seeing it being changed brought me great joy. I was a tiny part in changing a tiny mostly irrelevant detail that was causing a slight inconvenience to mil…

Do you happen to have a link to the proposal I can see and share with a class? I'm teaching a few lectures about some "weird" stuff this semester, and this would be a great example.

Started as a firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555275

Then moved to unicode CLDR: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13106

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