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  1. Setting up your own domain is beyond most people.
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    What more can you reasonably ask for?

    I could reasonably ask for making setting up your own domain easier.

    Sources: "personal-domain". "Why web sign-in#But everyone has an email address", and "Getting Started" on IndieWeb.org

  2. If you buy the personal domain in the first place before or upon graduating from high school, "the single one thing that makes it difficult" will never occur.

  3. Re:On the plus side, webstandards get adopted quic on 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Never had any problems supporting cross browsers, stick to the standard in the lowest common denominator you want to support

    Unless "the lowest common denominator you want to support" lacks a particular feature that is essential to your site. For example, before iOS 6, Apple WebKit for iOS lacked <input type="file">. This meant photo sharing websites could not accept uploads from users through Safari or any other web browser on iOS. Even nowadays, many web browsers implement only a subset of WebRTC: some lack H.264 because of the patent royalty, and some lack VP8 because of what appears to be a business decision to support only codecs standardized by ISO.

  4. Re:People don't lie knowingly being told. on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The ones that are advertiser unfriendly are not because of the shop stuff, it's because of what they say.

    But is that more common than a channel becoming demonetized once YouTube raises the minimum bar to 1,000 subscribers and 240,000 monthly watch minutes?

  5. Then do it with third-party games on MIPS Goes Open Source (eetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    you cannot legally get the games.

    Granted for first-party games. But it should be feasible for a sufficiently capitalized toy company to license 20 well-received third-party Nintendo 64 games from their publishers to make and sell a "Classic 64" console without Nintendo's help and without Nintendo's name on the box. At 8 to 32 MB per ROM, it'll fit comfortably on a board with 512 MB flash. Though the present source release does not include the Nintendo 64's RSP (vertex shader) and RDP (triangle filler), a high level emulation thereof would satisfy all but the most hardcore purists.

  6. Centralization varies in Christianity too on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing you've got to realize about Judaism is that it's massively decentralized. If you wanted a ruling on lab grown meat in Catholicism, it would be easy. The pope (or some bishop under the Pope) gives it the thumbs up and Catholics everywhere grab lab grown steaks in their local supermarkets. With Judaism, though, it's more like thousands of rabbis

    There are parts of Christianity that are decentralized as well. Roman Catholics (as you mention) and Jehovah's Witnesses are lot more centralized than, say, Baptists.

  7. Re: You have to use the word War on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when does YouTube ceasing to do business with a particular person "silence" that person? Nowadays, it's never been more practical to buy a domain name and cloud hosting and upload your videos for viewing in any HTML5-compatible player.

  8. Temple garments or bubble-covered swimsuits on CenturyLink Blocked Its Customers' Internet Access in Order To Show an Ad (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mormon porn comes in two types. One fetishizes the "temple garment" underwear. The other is swimsuit photography covered with a bubble-shaped solid color mask to help a dirty mind fill in the blanks.

  9. Flip phone web navigation uses tab order. Unless a website did something with script that would constitute an ADA or Section 508 violation, it should be possible to tab to the button to leave the captive portal.

  10. UBI to help poor children escape parents' poverty on Sean Parker Builds Beach-Access App To Atone For His Rule-Violating Wedding (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    I never suggested eugenics was necessary. A universal baseline income should be enough to help poor children escape their parents' deep poverty, attend trade school, and relocate for a respectable career. Job creators would benefit by having a larger skilled labor pool.

  11. You're confusing equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.

    Careful. A lot of people who make accusations like this ignore unequal opportunity that is caused by heritability of socioeconomic status. In other words, poor parents are more likely to have poor children.

  12. Re:Bidirectionality abuse (5:erocS) on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    just whitelist the most common unicode characters and disallow everything else

    Slashdot does exactly this. You disagree with its administrators on which numeric character entities to allow and which to disallow.

  13. Fluorescent lamp flicker on Screen Time Changes Structure of Kids' Brains, NIH Study Shows (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there an appreciable difference between backlight flicker when reading an electronic book and fluorescent lamp flicker when reading a physical book?

  14. Parents Television Council on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    religion doesn't prohibit others from swearing. It only prohibits the religious person themselves from swearing.

    Until the religious people set up organizations like Parents Television Council that lobby governments to prohibit swearing.

  15. Bidirectionality abuse (5:erocS) on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Vandals were abusing Unicode bidirectionality control characters to break the layout and spoof moderation scores, which I've called the erocS problem. A secondary problem is many other Unicode code points are more suited for making lewd "ASCII art" (in the broad sense) than for polite discussion using English language prose. How did SoylentNews, which runs a fork of Slashdot's software, solve these two issues?

  16. "You don't have a Telegram account yet" on Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Then Telegram's account creation policy must have changed between when you signed up and when I tried a week ago. I put my phone number into the web interface on a PC running Firefox, and I got this error message:

    You don't have a Telegram account yet, please sign up with Android / iPhone first.

    Method: auth.sendCode
    Result: {"_":"rpc_error","error_code":400,"error_message":"PHONE_NUMBER_APP_SIGNUP_FORBIDDEN"}

  17. Emulator under 2D barcode; Play-exclusive apps on Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If your laptop has enough CPU and RAM to run an Android emulator usably, good luck fitting its screen under the 2D barcode scanner of a quick-service restaurant's till when it's time to scan in for payment and rewards. And good luck lawfully acquiring applications in the first place if they're exclusive to Google Play Store. A lot of these applications aren't on F-Droid or Amazon, which I'm told are the primary app stores for users of Android emulators.

  18. Re:Fragmentation :/ on Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes Steam digital restrictions management superior to the lack of any DRM that's more common on Itch.io and GOG?

  19. Windows Embedded Automotive exists on Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This would be news if this guy found Windows 10 in there.

    How would it be any more news than, say, older versions of Ford Sync based on Windows Embedded Automotive?

  20. Simplification for the general public on Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They managed to run bash, not "an Ubuntu command shell." There is no such thing anymore than there is "Ford gasoline."

    In context, "an Ubuntu command shell" probably means "Bash as distributed by Ubuntu". It'd be a bit more of a stretch to expand "Ford gasoline" to "the gasoline that the Ford dealer's service department uses, which probably comes from the gas station on the lot next door to the dealer".

  21. Telegram and Chick-fil-A One on Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If I add a G4 Wireless to my laptop I will get 99% of my smartphone functionality

    The other 1 percent being communication services that your may employer or clients require of you and which are deliberately exclusive to iOS and Android and unavailable on Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux. Creation of a new account on the Telegram messaging service is one example. Restaurants' apps for ordering ahead are another.

  22. Re:Cool, so back to emulators. on Nintendo Warns It Won't Make More Retro NES and SNES Consoles (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Or Nintendo-sues-you-into-the-poor-house emulators? (See "LoveRetro".)

  23. Re:There is a Disconnect on In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Have the two family members considered proactive relocation to a different city where their skills are in demand?

  24. Solar panels don't use "rare earth" elements

    Not all renewable energy is photovoltaic. The dynamo in a wind turbine uses rare earth magnets.

  25. "Properly" has changed on Neurosurgery Could Spread Protein Linked To Alzheimer's, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It happens when the definition of "properly" changes to accommodate new evidence about how infection spreads.