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13 votes
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This month in Servo: tables, WOFF2, Outreachy, and more
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Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ
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Ffmpeg and AV1 for HTML5 streaming
I've been looking around online at compatibility for HTML5 browser streaming. It looks like straight up AV1 in a MP4 container is becoming absolutely fine for browser playback on devices. Is...
I've been looking around online at compatibility for HTML5 browser streaming. It looks like straight up AV1 in a MP4 container is becoming absolutely fine for browser playback on devices.
Is anyone using this on webpages yet? The sooner we move to AV1, the sooner we can have high quality video stored at smaller file sizes, which is a massive bonus.
Right now my company video hosting is purely in MP4 with H264, moov atom to the front as per the requirement, and it plays back on everything with no fallback in a straight HTML5 video container. What's the chance of switching to AV1 and not having to worry about the fallback for the most part?
Edit: I should have used a better title. I used FFMpeg for MP4 and AV1 creation/encoding. This is more about HTML5 video container code and direct AV1 file playback.
20 votes -
xkcd: Machine
83 votes -
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
41 votes -
Intro to DOMPDF - lightest and simplest PHP library to generate PDF documents
6 votes -
Fighting cookie theft using device bound sessions
14 votes -
Adventures in depression
36 votes -
I created a massive global treasure hunt
5 votes -
How to make your website available over Tor: A complete guide to EOTK, the Enterprise Onion Toolkit
9 votes -
Indexing the information age - Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
13 votes -
JavaScript bloat in 2024
51 votes -
Resources for starting your own small website
23 votes -
Build your own web server from scratch In Node.JS
6 votes -
Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within twenty days
37 votes -
The decline of username and password on the same page
Web devs: what's up with this trend? For enterprise apps, I get it…single sign-on needs to detect what your email domain is to send you to your identity provider. For consumers, I feel like it's...
Web devs: what's up with this trend? For enterprise apps, I get it…single sign-on needs to detect what your email domain is to send you to your identity provider. For consumers, I feel like it's gotta be one of these reasons:
- Users don't know about the tab key being able to move to other fields on a page
- Mobile users don't really have a tab key, despite there being "previous/next field" arrows on the stock iOS keyboard since its inception (Android users, help me out please)
- Users tend to hit Enter after typing in their username, leading to a form submission with a blank password
- Security, maybe? In the past I have sent a link and a password in separate emails or separate communication methods entirely. Are you hashing/salting these separately for better MITM mitigation?
Did your UX team make a decision? Are my password managers forever doomed to need a "keyboard combo" value for every entry from now on?
Non-devs: do you prefer one method over the other? If so, why?
Tildes maintainers: selfishly, thanks for keeping these together :)
71 votes -
Node's "Single Threaded, Event Driven" programming model seems highly deceptive and farcical
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced of it. The biggest selling point of Node folks has been the "single threaded, event driven" model, right? Unlike JavaScript, other languages work...
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced of it.
The biggest selling point of Node folks has been the "single threaded, event driven" model, right? Unlike JavaScript, other languages work on a "blocking" basis i.e. you run a statement or command and the program "waits" until the I/O is complete. For example, you issue
open('xyz.txt', 'rb').read()
in python and the program waits or blocks until the underlying driver is able to read that whole text file (which could take arguably long time if said file is too large in size).But with the Nodejs equivalent, you just issue the statement and then pass the "event handler" so that your program is never in the "waiting state". The whole premise of Node/JS event-callback is that "you don't call us, we will call you".
This is all nice in theory but if this were indeed true then Nodejs scripts should be blazing fast compared to Python and even Java considering that most programs we write are I/O heavy and 99% of time, they're just waiting for an input from a File/URI/User? If this event callback model indeed worked as effectively as claimed, Node would have been the numero one and only language being used today?
I think I'm starting to understand why that isn't the case. This whole "single threaded, event driven" thing is just a farce. You can also replicate the same thing that Node.js is doing in your Java or Python too by applying multi-threading (i.e. one thread just "waits" for the I/O in the background while the other keeps doing its job). All you've done here is just handed or delegated that complexity of multi-threading to Node.js?
Realistically, it's impossible to wait or block an I/O request while at the same time also letting the other part of the code engage in other tasks, that's the very definition of multi-threading. Doing "async" is impossible without multiple threads in that sense. Node must have a thread pool of sorts where one of them is engaged in the wait/block while another is running your JS code further. When the wait is over, the control is then passed to the "event handler" function it was bound to in that other thread.
What Node is selling as "single threaded" applies to application or business logic we are writing, node itself can't be single threaded. I feel it's better to just implement multi-threading in your own code (as needed) instead of using something convoluted and confusing like Node.js. What say you?
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Mousetrapped
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Resources and help for setting up a Tildes dev environment
I've been trying to set up a dev enviornment for Tildes, mainly so that I can actually test my MR (!136), and I've been running into a few issues. However, since we also have a new influx of...
I've been trying to set up a dev enviornment for Tildes, mainly so that I can actually test my MR (!136), and I've been running into a few issues.
However, since we also have a new influx of people who might be interested in contributing to Tildes, it seems like a good time to collect resources on setting up the dev environment, as well as helping anyone running into issues.
So, if you have issues or advice, post them here! I'll be adding my questions in a comment shortly.
Relevant wiki pages:
Edit: A more recent post on setting up the dev environment on Apple Silicon / M1 Macs
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Unpopular opinion: Desktop GUI is the most efficient and fulfilling way of Human-Computer Interaction
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stranger video
9 votes -
The history of emoticons
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After hack, personally identifiable information records of a large percentage of citizens of India for sale on the dark web. The hack includes biometric data
22 votes -
The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion
13 votes -
Comics beyond sight
12 votes -
See You Next Year
11 votes -
Android 14 adds native support for using smartphones as a webcams
15 votes -
Elan.School has finished
73 votes -
Wikipedia:Dark mode
20 votes -
With Focus you can search the web you want
21 votes -
Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
21 votes -
Kagi Small Web
34 votes -
Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60
18 votes -
Bringing back the minimal web
112 votes -
Punch Punch Forever!
14 votes -
Make the web your sketchbook
24 votes -
The cloud is a prison. Can the local-first software movement set us free?
35 votes -
The Block Protocol
10 votes -
Where is everyone hosting their email these days?
This is more focused towards those that use custom domains for their email. My current plan is up at Zoho for my team in a month, and even though I've used them for the past few years its been...
This is more focused towards those that use custom domains for their email. My current plan is up at Zoho for my team in a month, and even though I've used them for the past few years its been hit-or-miss (especially when using third-party apps or programs).
Who do you use? Who do you not trust? Who would you never go back to?
Sidenote: I hope this might eventually kick off a ~privacy group, one day.
72 votes -
What would the internet of people look like now?
39 votes -
On attestation on the web and why this could threaten the open web
13 votes -
Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
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Web Environment Integrity - A Google proposal for general web drm
47 votes -
Man found guilty in 2012 of supporting distribution of child porn, because he ran a Tor exit node – the story of William Weber
18 votes -
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
59 votes -
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
159 votes -
Every flashing element on your site alienates and enrages users
43 votes -
Tildes fundraiser June 2023: Encourage an app developer (me) to work on a Tildes app faster, by donating to Tildes (not me)!
Hey Tildes, with the renewed interest in the site, it got me thinking that we should hold a fundraiser for the not-for-profit company—which currently consists of just one person—that runs Tildes....
Hey Tildes, with the renewed interest in the site, it got me thinking that we should hold a fundraiser for the not-for-profit company—which currently consists of just one person—that runs Tildes. It's overdue.
Disclaimer: These are my words as a member of the community. I haven't run this message by the admin before posting. I may have gotten some details wrong.
Where to donate
- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/Deimos
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tildes
History
A bit of history: The site admin, @Deimos ran the first three years of the site working full-time on it, paid only by donations, plus a $5000 GitHub sponsor match one year, which I'm not even sure was fully achieved, or only just barely.
For that time period 2018-2020, a lowball salary as a software engineer with his experience would have been $100,000 USD per year not including benefits.
If he received $5000 in donations per year (almost certainly an overestimate for more recent years) plus the $5000 GitHub match for the first year—for the 5 years of Tildes' life, that's about $30,000.
The remaining opportunity cost of $270,000 was essentially paid out of pocket by himself, as a donation to the community. Plus remember there are server expenses, legal incorporation expenses, etc. And, y'know, rent.
In recent years he had to take a full-time job because the situation was, of course, unsustainable.
App?
I announced in April that a mobile app is under development. Originally, I was planning to take my time and release a first alpha by the end of 2023.
How about if we struck a deal: get the donation numbers up and I will devote more time to the app, as opposed to splitting my time between it and contract work and other projects.
What's the deal?
- 150 active donors combined on GitHub Sponsors and Patreon—I'll release an alpha by November.
GOAL REACHED - 300 active donors—I'll release an alpha by October.
GOAL REACHED - 500 active donors—I'll release an alpha by September.
The dollar amounts don't matter.
As of writing, we are at 46 active donors.
What's in it for you, though?
Feeling like I did a good deed, I guess? I'm not looking for a "slice of the pie," to be clear. In some sense I'd be matching your donations with my time, aka opportunity cost.
If I donate, can I bother the admin to work more on the site?
No.
Again, I haven't run this fundraiser by the admin. He will certainly keep his full-time employment for the foreseeable future, and will not magically have more hours in the day to devote to Tildes.
With a sustainable budget, though, a lot can happen in the future. Contracting out work to others, for example.
But the point of this fundraiser is more to make a small dent in the past debt we owe the admin, not making any promises whatsoever on the future of the site and how it's run.
Let's go, my fellow Tilderinos!
- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/Deimos
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tildes
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The small web and minimalist websites - what are your thoughts and experiences?
I'm a supporter and believer in the small web and minimalist websites (i.e. NOT "minimal design" websites, which are not minimalist more often than not). Some examples: Tildes. Sourcehut....
I'm a supporter and believer in the small web and minimalist websites (i.e. NOT "minimal design" websites, which are not minimalist more often than not).
Some examples:- Tildes.
- Sourcehut.
- HackerNews.
- To a limited degree, the different motherfucking websites (as they are, in essence, websites with no purpose).
- Members of the 512kb club (also see https://10kbclub.com/).
- Tools like Miniflux and Kanboard.
- Pinboard.in.
- And many others.
What is your experience, if any, with the small web?
Which steps have you taken (if at all) to ensure your website is not bloated?
What do you think can be done better both individually as well as globally to make the web a nicer, faster place?Edit: So I don’t look like I don’t practice what I preach, this is my blog. I try and follow the minimalist principles.
75 votes