dauwhe

Are Web Standards Toast?

I find myself in a tempest in a toaster. Yesterday I (and much of the web standards world) learned about two possible new HTML elements proposed by Google, std-toast and std-switch. I had no idea what “toast” meant in the context of the web, a problem shared my many other people. It turns out it’s a UI pattern, those little notices that pop up and then disappear without user interaction.

But wow, new HTML elements! This is the holy grail. In my part of the web we don’t even dream about new HTML elements. Oh, we’ve tried, but Hixie didn’t much care for footnote, WICG didn’t much care for list titles, and no one much cared about author. Just last week the author of the extensible web manifesto warned me to never expect new HTML elements, due to the difficulty of changing the parser.

But my concern wasn’t so much about the nature of the new elements, but of how we learned about them and what that says about how web standardization works. My [first tweet](https://twitter.com

fawkesley

#!/bin/sh

# /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/pre-up.d/randomize-mac-addresses.sh

# INSTALL
#
# > curl -L 'https://gist.github.com/paulfurley/46e0547ce5c5ea7eabeaef50dbacef3f/raw/56ee5dd5f40dec93b8f7438cbdeda5475ea3b5d2/randomize-mac-addresses.sh' |sudo tee /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/pre-up.d/randomize-mac-addresses.sh
# > sudo chmod +x /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/pre-up.d/randomize-mac-addresses.sh

# Configure every saved WiFi connection in NetworkManager with a spoofed MAC

relet

#!/bin/bash
# -------------------------------------------------
#  Get monitors configuration from monitor.xml and apply it for current user session.
#  In case of multiple definitions in monitor.xml only first one is used.
#
#  See http://bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/74-ubuntu/309-ubuntu-dual-display-monitor-position-lost
#  for instructions
#
#  Parameters :
#    $1 : profile name, loaded from $HOME/.config/monitors-$1.xml"

braian87b

# ========================================================
# Setup a Dumb AP, Wired backbone for OpenWRT / LEDE
# ========================================================
# Set lan logical interface as bridge (to allow bridge multiple physical interfaces)
uci set network.lan.type='bridge'
# assign WAN physical interface to LAN (will be available as an additional LAN port now)
uci set network.lan.ifname="$(uci get network.lan.ifname) $(uci get network.wan.ifname)"
uci del network.wan.ifname
# Remove wan logical interface, since we will not need it.
uci del network.wan

captainbrosset

(function() {
/**
 * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Positioning/Understanding_z_index/The_stacking_context
 *
 * A stacking context is formed, anywhere in the document, by any element which is either
 *
 * - the root element (HTML),
 * - positioned (absolutely or relatively) with a z-index value other than "auto",
 * - a flex item with a z-index value other than "auto",that is the parent element display: flex|inline-flex,
 * - elements with an opacity value less than 1. (See the specification for opacity),

rebeccacremona

# No dupes
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups

# Eternal bash history.
# ---------------------
# Undocumented feature which sets the size to "unlimited".
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9457233/unlimited-bash-history
export HISTFILESIZE=
export HISTSIZE=
export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

vancluever

Disabling GNOME Tracker and Other Info

GNOME's tracker is a CPU and privacy hog. There's a pretty good case as to why it's neither useful nor necessary here: http://lduros.net/posts/tracker-sucks-thanks-tracker/

After discovering it chowing 2 cores, I decided to go about disabling it.

Directories

hannob

--- wordpress/wp-comments-post.php	2015-01-08 08:05:25.000000000 +0100
+++ htdocs/wp-comments-post.php	2015-04-27 16:50:24.250000000 +0200
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@
 	exit;
 }
 
+$psize=0;
+foreach($_POST as $p) {
+	$psize += strlen($p);
+}

pwenzel

<script type="text/javascript">
// Track 404 errors with Universal Analytics
if($('body').hasClass('error404')) {
  ga('send', 'event', 'error', '404', 'page: ' + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + ' ref: ' + document.referrer, {'nonInteraction': 1});
}
</script>

claudiosanches

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