Hacker News: emayljames

New comment by emayljames in "End of Japanese community"

emayljames — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:53:17 +0000

I am from the UK, and I also think this is true. Hop on a call and the wording sounds like they do not want to fix the issue

It comes across very condecending. Maybe it is a US problem

New comment by emayljames in "How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border"

emayljames — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:25:16 +0000

I don't see how it is, you wont have your phone searched if you come here.

New comment by emayljames in "Ricochet: Peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services"

emayljames — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:07:55 +0000

And their website is down

New comment by emayljames in "How about trailing commas in SQL?"

emayljames — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:05:44 +0000

SELECT a

       , b

       , c
 
  FROM ...

is the same as:

SELECT a, b, c FROM ...

New comment by emayljames in "Thank You Bootstrap 1"

emayljames — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:10:32 +0000

I have a very good grasp on jQuery and a good grasp on SPA frameworks, and as soon as you cross that barrier into a complex application, jQuery is completely unsuitable in maintaining a clean state.

New comment by emayljames in "Thank You Bootstrap 1"

emayljames — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:06:22 +0000

Things like Tailwind take the core concepts of bootstrap and build and improve on it on a grand scale. It is like comparing jQuery (bootstrap), to React (tailwind).

New comment by emayljames in "It feels like 2004 again"

emayljames — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:54:10 +0000

Twitter and musk are nothing but far right "political extremists and pedo's".

You are kidding yourself if you think that twitter has or is gaining relevance. It has nose dived in users and has dramatically lost revenue from advertisers.

Dont kid yourself.

New comment by emayljames in "Ask HN: Is Firefox better than Chrome when it comes to user security?"

emayljames — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:41:55 +0000

You are ignoring the elephant in the room, so to speak. Apple has a large share of mobile browser usage with Safari (a Webkit browser). Add to this also that any browser used on iOS is webkit.

That aside, what you are asking is really just you giving your personal preference of a browser and if we agree.

New comment by emayljames in "Manifest V2 phase-out begins"

emayljames — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:43:43 +0000

This is why I do not use any chromium based browsers. Firefox is a solid browser with none of this interferance by a monopolistic advertising company.

New comment by emayljames in "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition"

emayljames — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:41:08 +0000

"About this Project

This interactive book is a product of the Runestone Interactive Project at Luther College, led by Brad Miller and David Ranum. There have been many contributors to the project"

New comment by emayljames in "Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing"

emayljames — Tue, 14 May 2024 11:49:15 +0000

also, wow that is an obsene amount of libraries they use: https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fspectrum.ieee.org%2fdis...

New comment by emayljames in "Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing"

emayljames — Tue, 14 May 2024 11:42:47 +0000

Microsoft websites are bad for this too. Not sure if is deliberate, as it used to be a dark pattern back in the IE days.

New comment by emayljames in "Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android"

emayljames — Tue, 14 May 2024 09:03:53 +0000

these devices are way more insidious though, a gps/mobile tracker would have more limitations due to it being less able to be hidden and less mobile.

New comment by emayljames in "Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android"

emayljames — Tue, 14 May 2024 08:46:16 +0000

Basically this is to stop stalking, where a partner or stranger is using these devices to secretly track the victim.

New comment by emayljames in "Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript"

emayljames — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:35:02 +0000

a much easier way is to convert the email address into html entities. It then displays and can be copied, but the actual source code doesnt have the email address.

New comment by emayljames in "Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online"

emayljames — Wed, 08 May 2024 17:11:14 +0000

For now at least, reddit doesnt seem to have all those dark patterns you see on say FB (forced refresh if you turn your screen off on mobile, minimum and deliberately bad moderating).

New comment by emayljames in "Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died"

emayljames — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:08:37 +0000

30 to go it seems https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4/19/boeing-subject-o...

New comment by emayljames in "Dream-HTML – render HTML, SVG, MathML, Htmx markup from OCaml"

emayljames — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:46:24 +0000

As always, an example output (or at least easily discoverable output) would really help.

New comment by emayljames in "Figma OSS Alternative"

emayljames — Wed, 01 May 2024 08:41:00 +0000

As a dev I second this. Dev's are usually far removed from any knowledge of design, hopefully that changes.

New comment by emayljames in "Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor [video]"

emayljames — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:17:57 +0000

I doubt much will end up public, as most vpns have a zero retention policy, so that leaves the NSA being able to track things at a lower level.