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idk why but this is the funniest sequence of youtube titles/thumbnails to me

I feel like most in-house software is tacitly released under the Hot Potato Licence.

The other day I came across a website that just didn't work in firefox, Not a webapp, just an ordinary website. Kinda unnerving, tbh.

By the way, this survey from a few months ago says 66% of "experienced advertisers" run adblock, higher than the American average of 52%.

ghostery.com/blog/privacy-repo

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More and more websites have anti-adblock measures these days, some going so far as to tell you to uninstall your ad blocker altogether. I understand the impulse, but you are basically telling your users to meaningfully reduce their security for your benefit.

touchscreen this, ai that, where can i get a laptop with a real bell for \a (␇)

crime pro tip: if u get caught running a massive fraud scheme in a particular way u probably shouldnt pull the exact same scheme on an even bigger scale again with zero changes to the plan besides who you're targeting

it fits with how tf2 makes heavy use of pretty cartoonish fonts, which are clearly vector and always look sharp, come to think of it

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@hikari A quirk on the "it's that old?" element is TF2 was groundbreaking for using SDFs. Like, it seems to have been the event that popularized SDFs, when I first got into SDFs a lot of the early stuff written about it referenced TF2 and I think a paper that was written about it

wait, sdf rendering of text 1) only requires using alpha testing, you don't even need shaders, 2) is in team fortress 2?

i had no idea it was that old or that simple to implement, damn https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf

there is a certain mindset i've encountered before, one i'll call "RFC brained"

a "we have to go by the book even if no-one else is" to software—like where you adopt a protocol no-one speaks, but there's an RFC for it, so it's more technically correct

and the "x-header" stuff just feels like more of the same

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there's a lot of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" stuff in protocols but nothing so apt as "we'll use x-foo for names"

still, this doesn't feel like one of those "programmers are bad at consequences of actions" things though, this feels more like a "technically correct" brained thing

one of those we must do the right thing even if it doesn't work moments

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