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New comment by jack1243star in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

jack1243star — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:55:39 +0000

Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful reply! I agree that in both of the scenarios you mentioned, this API does provide better usability.

I guess what feels wrong to me is the implicitness of this feature, I'm not sure whether clicking on something is going to add to history or not (until the back button breaks, then I really know).

New comment by jack1243star in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

jack1243star — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:20:32 +0000

(rant warning)

Well, if I wanted to return to the parent screen in a single page application, I'd click on the back button in the app itself. No need to prevent me from back tracking in the exact order of my browsing should I need it.

I especially hate YouTube's implementation, I can never know the true state on my older PC during whatever it's trying to accomplish, often playing audio from a previous video when I backspace out. I resort to opening every link in a new tab.

New comment by jack1243star in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

jack1243star — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:16:45 +0000

Please explain the legitimate uses. Not once I have ever encountered a website that does something useful by modifying the behavior of my browsing history.

New comment by jack1243star in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

jack1243star — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:10:44 +0000

The Affinity suite was made free to use, with optional paid "AI" features behind a subscription. The betrayal was probably against the promise of a perpetual license sustained not by subscription.

New comment by jack1243star in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

jack1243star — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:18:39 +0000

Trigger warnings are not there for some scientific effect. I view them as courtesy for consumers to have an chance to opt out of possibly unwanted experiences beforehand.

New comment by jack1243star in "How to turn anything into a router"

jack1243star — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:13:15 +0000

Are there links I can read up on this? Ethernet as on-chip bus blows my mind.

I guess it's cheaper than having to redesign an entire SoC, but still...

New comment by jack1243star in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

jack1243star — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:10:48 +0000

> You still need to use your phone number to sign up, though.

Which defeats the whole point. What if the FBI politely asks Signal about a phone number?

New comment by jack1243star in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

jack1243star — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:09:47 +0000

Totally understandable and even reasonable position, but the paying customer gets the worse treatment, which does not sit right.

New comment by jack1243star in "Various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis"

jack1243star — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:32:43 +0000

> marking clipboard text with some magical locale indicator

The geniuses behind Unicode managed to make it mandatory anyways, at least if you want correct CJK text rendering :)

New comment by jack1243star in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

jack1243star — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:30:55 +0000

Calling Half-Life 2D somehow feels right and wrong at the same time but I get what you mean.

New comment by jack1243star in "DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music"

jack1243star — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:25:13 +0000

That's what Sigil did with Buckethead, in a way.

New comment by jack1243star in "Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k"

jack1243star — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:14:46 +0000

Those fonts look awful in a hard to describe way. Font uncanny-valley? I feel like a barcode reader trying to OCR meaning out of ink blots.

New comment by jack1243star in "Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera"

jack1243star — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:30:38 +0000

I'm convinced whatever Torment Nexus we can think of will get built.

New comment by jack1243star in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

jack1243star — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:17:53 +0000

That's just English being irregular. One that hosts websites should be called a hoster in principle :)

New comment by jack1243star in "Monotype font licencing shake-down"

jack1243star — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:29:25 +0000

Wow, perhaps Nintendo/Konami actually learned this tactic from IBM, threatening smaller game developers with patents when their case for copyright is too weak...

New comment by jack1243star in "Steam Machine"

jack1243star — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:45:22 +0000

That's like saying online banking is doomed because rubber-hose cryptanalysis exists. The defense does not have to stop 100% of the exploits to be effective.

I hate kernel level anti-cheats but they do provide friction and reduce cheating.

New comment by jack1243star in "End of Japanese community"

jack1243star — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:50:00 +0000

To give them the benefit of doubt, English may not be their first language, so they might not be aware of the implication this comment gives.

It would be such irony if they asked GPT to reword it to a more polite tone though...

New comment by jack1243star in "End of Japanese community"

jack1243star — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:35:36 +0000

> Generally speaking, orgs aren't trying to replace high-quality human translations with lower-quality machine translations.

Seems that this is exactly what Mozilla did? And Microsoft, and Reddit, etc.

New comment by jack1243star in "End of Japanese community"

jack1243star — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:33:07 +0000

Not OP but the phrase in Japanese also carries a negative connotation, that important issues are decided by a shadow process hidden below the surface, beforehand by those in the loop. Meetings are just for show.

New comment by jack1243star in "Mr TIFF"

jack1243star — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:02:56 +0000

I understand, and I apologize for the rant.

Thank you for all the efforts that went into preserving the memories of those that built the world around us.