K. Ryabitsev 🍁
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@hyeyoo You're going to get some angry Scots Whisky drinkers in your comments for putting a bourbon in the same line-up as single malts and calling them all "whiskeys". :)
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@vegard I wouldn't call Hyperledger "cryptocurrency" as it's really just a platform for deploying blockchain-backed ledgers (for the small niche where they actually do make sense to use).
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I don't know the story behind this, but every time I see that the main bitcoin development list is hosted on lists.linuxfoundation.org, I have a huge WTF moment.
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@atjn It's not about rendering -- after all, even markdown/rst is rendered into HTML and displayed using webview. The problem is that HTML+CSS is such a complex standard with such a huge attack surface, that by claiming to support the full standard you're opening up your users to huge security risks both in terms of exploits and in terms of social engineering scams.
Microsoft realized this at some point -- after a couple of years of non-stop vulnerability reports in Outlook, which is why they made a decision to not use MS Explorer to render email, but switched to using the MS Office html rendering engine, which supported only a small subset of full HTML+CSS functionality. I believe, this is largely true to this day -- if you expect your email to render properly in most clients, you can't write it to the full HTML standard, but to the MS Office stripped down set of features.
If you don't believe me that using HTML for email was a bad idea, check your incoming mail and see how many of the "rich messages" have "Email not displaying properly? View it on our website!" link at the very top of their message.
Microsoft realized this at some point -- after a couple of years of non-stop vulnerability reports in Outlook, which is why they made a decision to not use MS Explorer to render email, but switched to using the MS Office html rendering engine, which supported only a small subset of full HTML+CSS functionality. I believe, this is largely true to this day -- if you expect your email to render properly in most clients, you can't write it to the full HTML standard, but to the MS Office stripped down set of features.
If you don't believe me that using HTML for email was a bad idea, check your incoming mail and see how many of the "rich messages" have "Email not displaying properly? View it on our website!" link at the very top of their message.
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If we were inventing email today, anyone suggesting that we use the full HTML+CSS standards to use as the markup language would be laughed out of the room and never invited back.
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Marco Arment
marcoarment@mastodon.socialThis new Slack redesign is great if you hate screen space, clarity, contrast, ease of use, information hierarchy, messages, channels, and communication
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Kenny Park
KennyPark@mastodon.scotMy daughter: "Everyone's so amazed that every snowflake's different, but no one cares that every potato is different."
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I put together a mailing list etiquette page, in case it's useful for newbie posters.
https://subspace.kernel.org/etiquette.html
https://subspace.kernel.org/etiquette.html
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Edited 1 year ago
Six months after the CBC and Radio-Canada scaled back its use of the social media site X, the public broadcaster says it will mostly remain off the platform formerly known as Twitter because it doesn't bring in a lot of traffic. https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cbc-mainly-remains-off-x-citing-low-traffic-six-months-after-scaling-back-presence/article_10695842-3deb-50d0-b624-b4102cd553c2.html
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@ross ok, but please send as RFE request to tools@linux.kernel.org, otherwise I will totally forget.
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I want iron-on Steam achievements for my campfire blanket.
"Oh, yes, kids, this is 'Grin and Bear It,' which you can only get if you survive 18 bear attacks in RDR2, and this one is 'the Great Deliverer,' which requires a rating of 60 or above in all your Death Stranding categories."
"Gee Willikers, Scouter K, that must have been tough!"
"You betcha, Tommy. You betcha."
"Oh, yes, kids, this is 'Grin and Bear It,' which you can only get if you survive 18 bear attacks in RDR2, and this one is 'the Great Deliverer,' which requires a rating of 60 or above in all your Death Stranding categories."
"Gee Willikers, Scouter K, that must have been tough!"
"You betcha, Tommy. You betcha."
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@mjg59 is there an objects/info/alternates in your repo? That's my usual culprit.
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