I'm reminded of something that Binding of Isaac does that I wish more games would do: If you're anywhere in the main menu (even drilled into it), if you just mash the B button/Esc key, it will keep backing out, up to and including exiting the game if you press it on the main menu. I hate games that make me click 3 times and say "are you sure??" when I just want to quit the dang program.
(and grid, which is very very similar to flexbox and uses much of the same rules)
But with more walls around the garden
Russian, but yeah
More discussion here: https://tildes.net/~comp/18h8/web_environment_integrity_a_google_proposal_for_general_web_drm
This shit keeps radicalizing me about the internet more and more. Ughh.
I mean, Google does index and cache most webpages internally already. So yeah, maybe. But after reading the article it doesn't sound like they're doing that.
We see the “cloud” as some bulletproof storage but long term it’s up in the air really.
A+ pun, intended or not
I even found an old diary entry of mine today that linked to one of my own facebook posts, and that link had already rotted. Ugh.
There's a great video about the inherent problems with crypto stuff and contract law here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6aeL83z_9Y
Mostly about the inherent legal unenforcability of contracts on the blockchain.
Hm. I wonder if you could write a browser extension to just kill gifs in their tracks and only show the first frame without hover or whatever. Maybe. Didn't find a solution after a cursory look (only malware called Gif Jam) but this certainly seems possible in principle...
Someone on StackOverflow found a thing that accomplished it; maybe this can be converted into a userscript. If this would be really valuable to you, and you aren't up for doing it yourself, let me know — I might make this just for fun. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5818003/stop-a-gif-animation-onload-on-mouseover-start-the-activation
EDIT: I made one. Weirdly it works on all sites except beehaw, though, and it just breaks gifs on beehaw. Probably some content security policy on beehaw preventing the images from loading for the JS? https://gist.github.com/phoenixeliot/45f0c6a04fffd84998ac8bc526c901fe
But it does successfully replace gifs with broken images, so maybe still net positive for people for whom gifs are a health hazard?
Some parts that can be configured:
Which sites it applies to:
// @match https://beehaw.org/*
// @match https://*
How to select which elements are considered gifs:
var gifElements = document.querySelectorAll(
'img[src$="gif"], img[alt*=animated]'
);
This is a really specific thing, but GET A SEWER INSPECTION, and the sewer insurance on your homeowner's insurance! Sewer inspections apparently aren't a standard part of home inspections, and two of my friends bought a house recently — both had junk sewer lines that needed replacing, and one got the previous owner to pay for fixing it after it was found to have a crack, and the other friend didn't, and had to shell out something like $10k for it just a year into living there because they didn't have insurance for it.
This applies especially to old buildings.
My guess: People who can be as competent with security as they need are very expensive.