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  1. Comment on All eighty books banned in Minnesota last year came from one school in ~books

  2. Comment on Does anyone recognize this phishing attack? in ~comp

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    Thanks so much! Sent her this link

    Thanks so much! Sent her this link

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Does anyone recognize this phishing attack? in ~comp

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    Ah good point, I pasted in some zero-width spaces Thanks!

    I would redact that link or make it not clickable here.

    Ah good point, I pasted in some zero-width spaces

    I’ll try to grab a (trusted) resource on that type of attack and reply to my own comment with it.

    Thanks!

    7 votes

  4. Does anyone recognize this phishing attack?

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    My friend owns a circus performance company, and she got a very real-seeming request to discuss a possible wedding gig. "Client" requested that she join a meeting link at...

    My friend owns a circus performance company, and she got a very real-seeming request to discuss a possible wedding gig. "Client" requested that she join a meeting link at h​tt​p​s:/​/​joininivite​.​es/egooglemeet​.​us to discuss (several zero-width spaces are pasted throughout that to make it unclickable). Friend joined the call and it asked her to update software in order to join, she didn't follow any links from the site directly but tried updating Chrome through Microsoft Store etc. This sounded fishy to me so I asked to see the URL and this definitely seems like a scam.

    This seems extra concerning because:

    1. Initial outreach from scammer seemed genuine even when I read it specifically looking for signs of phishing
    2. Initial outreach from scammer was specifically tailored to friend's website content, this is exactly the kind of gig she would get booked for
    3. There were several back-and-forth legit-seeming emails before any meeting was agreed to

    Friend now wants to make a post within her artist community to protect others and I'm wondering if anyone has already heard of this particular type of attack and has additional details that could help for informing non-tech-savvy performers about it (more specific than "have intuition about when URLs seem dodgy and never click install links that originated from email")

    19 votes

  5. Comment on Single-axis scroll has been adopted into the CSS spec and will be supported in Chromium soon in ~comp

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    That's indeed a good description for sticky, but sticky isn't a new feature; that's been around for years at this point. The new feature is the ability to have both of the following at the same...

    That's indeed a good description for sticky, but sticky isn't a new feature; that's been around for years at this point. The new feature is the ability to have both of the following at the same time:

    1. A horizontal-scrolling element that's smaller than the entire page (look at the scrollbar in the very last image of my blog post, it's only the one table that's able to scroll across, and for most of the page there's no horizontal scrolling at all; and when you scroll, it's only the table that will move, not the rest of the text). You can also play with the demo in the MDN docs if you want, try setting it to "hidden" to see an example of how overflow can work
    2. That same element is able to have the sticky heading behavior

    So this is very specifically to make large tables behave nicely when you're scrolling in both directions at the same time. Previously you had to pick one or the other.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on The new Firefox is so snappy, even with uBlock Origin enabled! in ~comp

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    I feel you, my userChrome is a gigantic pain in the ass nearly every single update

    I feel you, my userChrome is a gigantic pain in the ass nearly every single update

  7. Comment on The new Firefox is so snappy, even with uBlock Origin enabled! in ~comp

    RheingoldRiver
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    Thanks! There's still way too much padding in some things but this helps a lot

    Thanks! There's still way too much padding in some things but this helps a lot

  8. Comment on The new Firefox is so snappy, even with uBlock Origin enabled! in ~comp

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    I just updated (I was about 8 or 9 versions behind and the browser checks were getting annoying) and it definitely feels faster. Had to update some userChrome but surprisingly little given how far...

    I just updated (I was about 8 or 9 versions behind and the browser checks were getting annoying) and it definitely feels faster. Had to update some userChrome but surprisingly little given how far I updated.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Single-axis scroll has been adopted into the CSS spec and will be supported in Chromium soon in ~comp

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    Thanks for this!! I definitely wrote the post assuming a decent amount of background knowledge. Also worth noting that if you apply to the vertical axis in a "normal" document where you are...

    Thanks for this!! I definitely wrote the post assuming a decent amount of background knowledge.

    clip is a newer value which was designed to fix some of the older problems with overflow: hidden

    Also worth noting that if you apply to the vertical axis in a "normal" document where you are letting the content be however tall it happens to be, this property has no real effect. So in the normal case of wanting this feature (sticky to the top, and horizontal scroll), putting overflow-y:clip; is really not doing anything except signal that the new algorithm should be used.

    Honestly I think this is overly conservative, but maybe there's some weird use case of scrolling in vertical axis and sticking to a side that could break...? It's obviously of utmost importance that W3C doesn't go around breaking compatibility, but this just feels like a straight-up bug to me.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Single-axis scroll has been adopted into the CSS spec and will be supported in Chromium soon in ~comp

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    I'd expect rollout to be done on both Safari and Firefox by the end of 2027, but then you generally want to give 2 years for your users to actually update their software. But yeah, web standards...

    I'd expect rollout to be done on both Safari and Firefox by the end of 2027, but then you generally want to give 2 years for your users to actually update their software.

    But yeah, web standards change slowly....I started having major problems with some of my work projects because of this hole in the spec in about 2018. I was hoping that I'd only have a temporary JS workaround until the spec got adjusted. I left that company in ~2022, and I'm now at my 3rd different company since (not counting temporary contract work). "Temporary" indeed.

    5 votes

  12. Comment on Timasomo 2026: Roll Call in ~creative.timasomo

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    I have a small project I want to do this year, which is to write a blog post reviewing all of the spec fic I read last year that was also published last year. I did this for 2024 at the start of...

    I have a small project I want to do this year, which is to write a blog post reviewing all of the spec fic I read last year that was also published last year. I did this for 2024 at the start of 2025 and it was a great way to keep track of recent favorites, so I'd love to do this again before the year ends (and hopefully be more on top of this during 2027!)

    8 votes

  13. Comment on A college girl was exploited on camera. A network of anonymous men got to work. in ~tech

  14. Comment on What's the oldest piece of clothing you own and still wear? in ~life.style

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    I have a couple jackets that I wear occasionally that I bought in my teens. They're bright colored and really fun. I used to have a ton of them (bought one each year that we went to this street...

    I have a couple jackets that I wear occasionally that I bought in my teens. They're bright colored and really fun. I used to have a ton of them (bought one each year that we went to this street festival) but I left most of them behind when I moved back from LA to Chicago.

    I also still regularly wear the Auditorium 2: Duet (failed) kickstarter tshirt, which is from like 2014 I think

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Tildes Book Club - Future in ~books

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    I'm in a pretty similar position, though different life changes than going back to work full time. I think the last book I read specifically for Tildes book club was the poison one

    I'm in a pretty similar position, though different life changes than going back to work full time. I think the last book I read specifically for Tildes book club was the poison one

    3 votes

  16. Comment on What is your "when I found out about 9/11" story? in ~talk

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    typo! why we couldn't have outdoor* recess

    typo! why we couldn't have outdoor* recess

    2 votes

  17. Comment on What is your "when I found out about 9/11" story? in ~talk

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    Was on the way to school with my dad, and he had the radio on for the news (I always hated having the radio on for the news). Only the first tower had been hit when they started talking about it,...

    Was on the way to school with my dad, and he had the radio on for the news (I always hated having the radio on for the news). Only the first tower had been hit when they started talking about it, and I was so, so, so sure that it was an accident. Found out about the second tower at school when they told us why we couldn't have indoor recess. Mostly I just remember being so sure it was an accident, because how could it have happened deliberately?

    7 votes

  18. Comment on Tildes Book Club discussion - August 2026 - Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki in ~books

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    thanks for linking this! it didn't occur to me to listen to it when I read the book (a couple years ago) and I'm glad to hear it now

    thanks for linking this! it didn't occur to me to listen to it when I read the book (a couple years ago) and I'm glad to hear it now

    4 votes

  19. Comment on Multi-instance templates [in MediaWiki] and var_final in ~tech

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    The template engine is MOSTLY linear, but yeah the whole thing with strip markers is a bit wild. It leads to some wildly broken things when you use extensions that try to persist data in storage...

    The template engine is MOSTLY linear, but yeah the whole thing with strip markers is a bit wild. It leads to some wildly broken things when you use extensions that try to persist data in storage prior to strip marker evaluation....

  20. Comment on Replicating Reddit's best feature on other forums in ~tech

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    I used it a ton!! Though it was more that I used RES's "user tagging" options so I could tag with like "someone who is actually a friend" or "i trust their book reviews" or "this is the bot that...

    I used it a ton!! Though it was more that I used RES's "user tagging" options so I could tag with like "someone who is actually a friend" or "i trust their book reviews" or "this is the bot that posts the daily faq threads that i'm supposed to help upvote for visibility"

    RES also would just count my votes for someone and show that next to names so often it's like "oh there's a +35 here I probably have similar taste to them in books" even without me going through and tagging