To be fair, the curl license doesn't mention "curl" anywhere in it. It seems reasonable for someone to interpret "this software" as referring to the software product that includes the license.
Neat, but the "Diffictulty" slider is a bit of a misnomer, IMHO. Puzzles with more pieces just take longer. I'm not sure what would be a better label, though. (If I were feeling uncharitable, I would propose "Tedium", or perhaps "Carpal Tunnel Risk" :-)
I wonder if there might be a way of changing the difficulty without changing the number of pieces? Like maybe putting gridlines between the pieces, so that you can't actually see the seamless connection between two correctly-oriented pieces?
Hmm, I don't know to be honest, usually difficulty translates to spending more time and the pieces being smaller does it make it visually harder to discern right?
Not really, time doesn't make something difficult, just tedious. For the cat puzzle, smaller pieces doesn't really make a difference. Once you get a corner it is easy to line up and knock them down. So, just tedious
Peeve of mine: blog posts that lack a date stamp. The only date appearing anywhere in the article is at the bottom, where it says "Last modified: August 29, 2024." So for all I knew it was a brand new post, until this comment. How old is it actually?
That's because all the text is inside <div> elements, so there is no hierarchy for a screenreader to latch on to: https://imgur.com/a/D78Tbgk
...And the three nav links are made via empty, transparent <a> containers absolutely positioned over <div> text. Focusing, therefore, has nothing to read.
N.b both left- and right-clicking activates these anchors, because navigation is implemented as a delegated `mousedown` event on the document.
Sorry, maybe I should have phrased this differently: Of course that should be fixed! (I have spent the last half year or so fixing a11y issues on a highly frequented website, mainly thanks to the EU Accessibility Act, so I'm starting to get a feeling for how awful non-accessible websites must be.)
What I meant to say was: The lack of a11y doesn't seem to be a deficiency of the library itself but rather of a hastily written demo application/renderer.
My surrounding description serves as alt text! More directly: that is a depiction of the flat hierarchy of the page, which also shows empty text anchors.
It doesn't render anything for me in Firefox, just a blank white page. After a moment, a message shows up: "This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page."
yeah, i have the same problem. it's been hanging for almost an hour for me now. probably an infinite-loop bug rather than a working but slow algorithm?
Lots of other issues also such as page up/page down on keyboard not working and mouse scroll wheel is very slow(it behaves as if acceleration is turned off).
Yeah the scrolling is handled by Clay rather than being native (everything has position: absolute and there's almost no nesting). It's very cool but I don't know if I'd want to ever use it for a website. Native apps though, might be worth trying out.
Speaking of games, one of the most accessible I've ever run across was Gears 5.
It allows you to add ping to various obstacles, has both TTS and STT, and so on and... I could actually play it, whilst blind [1]. I could play a shooter, and not suck, without my sight.
A lot of what they did with the engine was really simple, but I so wish that there was a wider adoption of those kinds of techniques.
[1] My blindness comes and goes. Some days I have 0% vision, other days 75%.
Genuinely curious as to why this was submitted to HN, and even more so why it made it to the front page. Was it written by an AI, and is being showcased as an example of such? As a good example, or a poor one, in terms of resulting quality?
I found it completely unreadable. A lot of the first comments on any article are from people who only read the title. Which makes sense, you save a lot of time by not reading the article. Anyone who is reading the article hasn't had a chance to comment yet.
Do you think my inability to post AdviceAnimal style memes on HN is a free speech issue? Or do you think that a given forum deciding that it has a specific focus is actually ok, and that flagging an article as not belonging here is not, fundamentally, a comment on whether or not someone can say it at all?
I find that most of the vocal “free speech” complaints seem to center on the belief that everyone is always obligated to host and support anything and everything I say, no matter where I say it. Your comment is emblematic of that, and I’m curious if that’s intentional or otherwise.
My comment about the irony of a free speech post being censured was mostly sarcasm. That said, Hn has a pretty broad set of topics that are allowed through. Right now there's a post on the top page that is just a rant about people being late to meetings. Is this more of the "specific focus" of Hn than "free speech"? I'd argue the opposite since technology is playing such a major role in the censorship of today.
All that being said Hn remains my top visited site (by far), so I am not for a minute complaining about its quality of moderation.
> London's Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well.
> "We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News
> One key aspect that makes this apparent crackdown on social media particularly shocking to critics is that the British government is threatening to extradite American citizens from the U.S. to be jailed in the U.K. for violating their rules about political speech online.
redwoolf: as you’ll no doubt have noticed by now, the internet is awash with bots (or worse, people) pushing right-wing and/or blatant Russian propaganda. This is one of the standard lines: any pushback against verifiably criminal actions is “censorship”.
You and I know the legal difference between posting “I disagree with the government” and “You should get a gun and shoot somebody”. One is protected free speech, the other is incitement of violence - which does not matter if you incite in person or on an online forum.
Don’t worry about the trolls and Kremlin-lovers, they’re a dime a dozen these days and not worth the hassle.
1. I'm a real American who is very easy to find. I've been on HN for a decade. I'm the easiest person on earth to find.
2. If you bothered to look up my other social media, you'd see that I'm vocally anti-Russia. If I was the US president, Ukraine would have aircraft carriers, F35s, and a couple thermonuclear warheads by now.
3. As an American, who likes American things like free speech and blowing up Russians, I can also notice and object when traditional bastions of liberty like the UK turn into fascist states who arrest people for posting on Facebook.
The world isn't simple, and everyone you disagree with isn't a paid troll. Engage with other opinions and you may learn something.
I don't think it's humanly possible for me to verify my real-world identity any more clearly. There aren't any other bpodgursky's on or off the internet.
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