IMO this is somewhere where if we were really doing something, we might as well go all the way and double check the relevant standards, right? The filesystem should accept some character set for use as names, and if we’re generating a name inside our program we should definitely find a character set that fits inside what the filesystem expects and that captures what we want to express… my gut says upper case Latin K would be the best pick if we needed to most portably represent Kelvin in a filename on a reasonably modern, consumer filesystem.
I'm not sure it would work in either case anymore. for better or worse, LLMs make it a lot easier to determine whether text is hidden explicitly through CSS attributes, or implicitly through color contrast or height/overflow tricks, or basically any other method you could think of to hide the prompt. I'm sympathetic, and I'm not sure what the actual rebuttal here is for small sites, but stuff like this seems like a bitter Hail Mary.
does it though? Are LLMs used to filter this stuff out currently? If so, do they filter out visually hidden content, that is to say content that is meant for screen readers, and if so is that a potential issue? I don't know, it just seems like a conceptual bug, a concept that has not been fully thought through.
second thought, sometimes you have text that is hidden but expected to be visible if you click on something, that is to say you probably want the rest of the initially hidden content to be caught in the crawl as it is still potentially meaningful content, just hidden for design reasons.
I don't know what the SOTA is especially because these types of filters get expensive, but it's definitely plausible if you have the capital, it just requires spinning up a real browser environment of some kind. I know from experience that I can very easily set up a system to deeply understand every web page I visit, and it's not hard to imagine doing that at scale in a way that can handle any kind of "prompt poisoning" to a human level. The popular Anubis bot gateway setup has skipped past that to the point of just requiring a minimum of computational power to let you in, just to keep the effort of data acquisition above the threshold that makes it a good ROI.
I tried this for a little while but quickly stopped as a critical mass of websites broke when I tried using it to sign in. Special characters in your email address is an edge case that produces inconsistent results even within a single product
YMMV, I think I only tried to sign up on 3 websites where it was not working. You can fallback to the original email address in those case.
The funniest part was that for one it work great for the signup part, but they used a third party tool for licences that broke because of my e-mail.
For another, only the js code was verifying the e-mail, and I could push it by removing the validation. When the owner had to validate my account, they got a message that the e-mail was incorrect when they tried to submit the form. They called me and had a great discussion about web apps security. We had a good time.
I would point out that it kind of prevents you from checking if your email is in a leak database as you need to test each aliases you used.
This has worked for me for nearly 20 years (when I made the account I didn’t know that the dots are ignored). The only time it’s been a problem was with one company whose system stripped the dots out.
You need to send them an email to cancel. When I tried they said “you need to cancel from the same email you signed up with.” :/
> And also at the same time a good reminder for everyone to find a browser that supports JPEG XL
That's probably furthest down on my list of features I look for in browser, where the top two are "Not run by a for-profit company living on extracting data from users" and "Can have tabs vertically in sidebar in a tree-based structured format".
- Supports JXL out of the box (including support for alpha transparency and animations)
- Vertical tabs with optional tree tabs (hired the original tree style tab developer to implement the feature)
- For profit, but I don’t want your data, collect it or use it to earn a living (telemetry/analytics/experiments disabled at build time and alongside a fair few patches on top to make sure external connections are limited to what’s necessary)
Firefox (with minor changes + addons) is what I use today, works well for what I care about. Thanks for the recommendation though!
While you're here, last time I came across your website (and it seems like it looks the same currently), I noticed that your browser comparison is not including Firefox, which is what you've forked from (as far as I can tell at least, it isn't made clear by the landing page actually, but the UI and name makes it obvious), which feels like it's a bit misleading almost intentionally.
Not intended to be misleading in a way, but it is on purpose as Mozilla don’t like it when there’s mention of Firefox on the website so I make any references sparingly.
Huh, interesting. Is it that you're avoiding Mozilla from some sort of retribution, preventing you from effectively working on Waterfox in case you anger them? I'm not sure it should matter too much what Mozilla thinks about other browsers comparing themselves to Firefox, it's definitely fair usage as long as you don't try to trick people into believing Mozilla is also building Waterfox / Waterfox is somehow exactly the same as Firefox.
Just adding Firefox in your comparison table really should be fine, and kind of makes me want to ask someone at Mozilla why others would be afraid of doing so.
Chrome's involvement in the past few years has (until very recently) been anything but reasonable.
That said, have any of them subjected WebP or AVIF to the same strict requirements, or should we reserve those only for less complex codecs actually designed with images in mind?
The second link parent posted literally explains it, which makes their "oh no, German in 2025 so broken" quite puzzling:
> Es gibt viel zu viele Waschbären, um mit den erlaubten jagdlichen Mitteln im städtischen Umfeld eine nachhaltige Bestandsreduzierung bewirken zu können, denn Waschbären können hohe Verlustraten durch vermehrte Fortpflanzung ausgleichen. Je mehr Waschbären getötet werden, umso mehr Jungtiere kommen nach. Die vielen Jungtiere machen aber unter Umständen mehr Probleme als die Alten, und die Gefahr einer Ausbreitung von Krankheiten und Parasiten wird durch die abwandernden Jungtiere erhöht statt vermindert.
> There are too many raccoons for permitted hunting methods within an urban context to have a sufficient effect on population numbers as raccoons react to high death rates with increased breeding. The more raccoons are killed, the more young are born. The large amount of young raccoons can create more problems than older animals, and the danger of spreading disease and parasites is increased as young animals roam from established territories.
tl;dr: you're not allowed to just randomly shoot shit in urban areas because duh, the population is too large for trapping, and the raccoons are just gonna fuck more and then go a-wandering, making everything worse.
I was so curious to see how the payment would work...I'm curious is there any way to make payment work without a browser? Is it impossible for any reason or just complex?
Well, it's certainly possible, as the guys over at terminal.shop let you enter payment information via SSH. :)
But on the one hand we don't want to handle credit card information _at all_. And then, stripe does not let you give them credit card data directly – at least in the default workflow.
(And we can offer alternative payment methods offered by stripe (e.g. Apple Pay, SEPA direct debit, …) much more naturally than what would be possible in the terminal.)
same here. newer saw such a fleshed-out ssh thingy. i just HAD to buy it. a bit weird to see this story on the frontpage now, just ordered tons of techy stickers from AliExpress two days ago...
i must say that the shopping experience on stickr.shop is way better than Ali, haha.
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