Notices tagged with javascript

LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jul-2022 16:55:44 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Back in the 1990s, my youngest uncle kept telling me to learn #COBOL instead of #Java (though at the time, I was taking courses with Microsoft #BASIC ... and later took both COBOL and Java, along with #Pascal, #Visual_Basic, #JavaScript, #Perl, #PHP, and more).

At the time, he was making $100,000+ and taking time off whenever he wanted. I think he made a lot more during the fixes that prevented #Y2K from becoming the expected meltdown, but he then ran into headwinds because foreign programmers were being imported to do the work for a lot less than what he was accustomed to earning, so he retired.

I thought about this back when the lockdowns geared up and state governors were crying about lacking the COBOL programmers to fix their unemployment insurance systems.

In conversation about 2 months ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-May-2022 02:10:34 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- Baseball
I bought tickets to a !baseball game. The process is unpleasant. If I wasn't already committed to go, I would not have gone through it.

1. Visit MLB.com on the (older) tablet and click on the team, then on tickets.
2. Oops! Their 3rd party processor does not like your #VPN. You're going to have to enter sensitive financial data across #hotel_Wi-Fi. I know that we're using HTTPS, so there's already encryption from me to mpv\.tickets\.com. Okay, I'll risk it.
3. Okay, pick a game that you want to buy tickets for. Wait up to 4 minutes for the #JavaScript to load and the page to stop jumping around. Now slide the price slider, so you can look at tickets at prices you are willing to pay. Wait for the JS again.
4. Now you're supposed to choose your seat by which section it is in, so you try to expand the map to see where each section is. The map seems unresponsive, but after 3-4 minutes, it will suddenly start moving. Okay click the back button and do it again.
5. Click 'buy now'. Wait 3-4 minutes and the 'create an mlb.com account' page opens. Account creation is followed by adding a credit card (or Google Pay) to your account.
6. You only had 9 minutes to complete the purchase before the tickets go back in the pool. Let's use the laptop instead. And the hotel log in page takes almost 15 minutes to go through tonight. (Once you get in, you've got 10Mbps up and the same amount down.)
7. Log in to mlb\.com, go back to the ticket buying site. This time, you're able to complete the purchase in a few minutes. Thanks to excessive #JabbaShit, the page is still twitchy. But you got it done anyway.
8. When you get to the field, you'll need to use the MLB app on your phone in order to present a bar code for entry. No Google account? You can't install the app.

In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2022 21:21:04 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I used to use a certain newspaper's site to do pay searches. If you worked for the US government, that site had your official pay scale (lagging about 18 months). Despite $EMPLOYER's effort to keep us from knowing who makes how much, I knew.

That info is now behind a paywall (and not a standard JS-based paywall that can be evaded by turning off #JavaScript).

In conversation about 4 months ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 01:09:25 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Case in point, in any of the #Chromium based browsers, you can turn #JavaScript totally on or totally off. There is no option to turn it off for 3rd party domains.

So many sites are #JavaScrippled these days that turning JS all the way off (without a one-click way to turn it on for one site) is too frustrating for anyone to do.

I did see in #Edge today that I can add sites individually to either a separate Yes to JS or No to JS list. I don't recall seeing it until recently. But that's cumbersome.

In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 04:39:01 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Apparently, Linus Sebastian (of "Linus Tech Tips") said that ad-blocking is basically piracy. But given the intrusive, invasive, interruptive nature of many ads and the extreme data-collection that accompanies them, ad-blocking is the only sensible and sane choice. It is okay to choose a small number of trusted sites and unblock for them--if you choose to do so--but in general, ads should be blocked.

The #JavaScript used to serve ads has been hijacked on occasion to install malware, in addition to its role in the data collection and spying that advertising networks do.

But as for the moral argument he's reaching for:
* the site is paid by the ad vendor
* the ad vendor is paid by the advertiser
* therefore, the site visitor has no obligation to allow or view ads on the site. If that affects the site's revenue so deeply that it is no longer worthwhile to run the site & produce the content that the site displays, then someone should be looking at alternate revenue sources (e.g., offer t-shirts and mugs with the site's name and logo
* the site visitor and site owner / administrator have no agreement express or implied which requires the allowance and viewing of advertisements

In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Jan-2022 22:53:00 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
There’s no question that PoW mining uses a lot of power. But so does Facebook and so does gratuitous #JavaScript on web pages. No one is suggesting that we forbid or boycott Facebook or JavaScrippled web pages over their expected climate impacts.

In conversation about 8 months ago from Shoyu permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Dec-2021 17:26:12 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.radioshack.com/

Link seen because @moon@shitposter.club repeated someone's post.

I refused to turn on #JavaScript, so I can't see most of the content, but I think this is a really bad idea. I'm not anti-cryptocurrency (as I think of it as one possible way to prevent bankers' tyranny over us), but whatever one thinks about RadioShack / Radio Shack, I don't think attaching a different product or service to the name makes any sense.

Too many people still remember going into thir stores and buying computers and somewhat outdated stereo systems, so the new owner's product or service _is_ going to clash in their minds.
In conversation about 9 months ago from web permalink
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1. RadioShack
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Dec-2021 20:16:02 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- Smalltalk, Self, IO, etc
after a nuclear war, the remaining people will probably not be able to spin up a modern operating system on their improvised chips. How do you build a simple, reliable, legacy-free OS from scratch? What ideas 💡 and techniques should be passed down to those people?

If we think hard enough about this, I think we’ll agree that closed-source systems are basically designed to be almost impossible for people outside the sponsoring organization to reproduce (for an example, consider [ReactOS](https://reactos.org/), which launched as [a project to produce a system compatible with Windows 95](https://reactos.org/wiki/FreeWin95) and [then changed to focus on Windows NT](https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS/History), and after more than 25 years, is still not capable of being a daily use system.

But we may also determine that most open-source systems are likewise not designed in such a way that reconstruction is viable. The Linux kernel is *huge* these days.

Additionally, in my opinion, they’d probably want to use programming languages designed for readability, ease of learning, and error-reduction first (that is, more like #COBOL than #C, more like #Java than #CPlusPlus, more like !Smalltalk and #Lisp / #Scheme than #Perl / #Raku and #JavaScript) and then performance and low-level access.

I think it is a mistake to assume that one could start with a modern version of #gcc or #llvm or #msvc … because it is not a given that the software itself and someone who knew how to use it (and update, modify, and adapt it) would still exist.
In conversation about 10 months ago from Shoyu permalink
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1. FreeWin95 - ReactOS Wiki
2. ReactOS/History - ReactOS Wiki
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Sep-2021 00:28:49 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://thehackernews.com/2021/09/protonmail-shares-activists-ip-address.html

I did not anticipate this, because I figured they’d have learned from Lavabit and designed their systems such that there was no way for them to have any metadata (user’s IP address, user’s ‘user agent’, timestamps of users’ correspondence, pretty much everything except what is required to send and receive messages). Any information your system has, however briefly, can be the subject of a government order.

My issue over the years has been that both Protonmail and Tutunota send you the JavaScript used to “end-to-end encrypt” your message. At any time, they could be ordered to modify that JS to cache the encryption keys for later reuse by government agencies.

Tags: #Protonmail, #surveillance, #government_over_reach, #metadata, #encryption, #JavaScript
In conversation about a year ago from Shoyu permalink
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1. ProtonMail Shares Activist's IP Address With Authorities Despite Its "No Log" Claims
  
  from https://www.facebook.com/thehackernews
  
  Despite its "no logs" policy, ProtonMail discloses an activist's IP address to authorities.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Aug-2021 02:55:57 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- simsa04
He did, but he kept control of them, so when his funds ran short, most of them disappeared. I've thought about deploying a Federati #Pump.io instance, but it runs atop #Node.js. I'd want to rent a completely separate server ( #VPS ) for it, so nothing else is affected if a poorly understood #JavaScript engine goes haywire.

In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Aug-2021 04:31:39 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
It looks like it has been some months since I looked at #jsish. As #JavaScript interpreter projects go, it looks relatively good.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Aug-2021 03:54:13 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Playing with "jsish":{https://jsish.org/} a little bit. If I get very far, I'll probably try to create a minimal project to demonstrate its use.

#JSISH is a #JavaScript like interpreter + websocket server + sqlite + C extension interface

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jul-2021 01:21:49 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
It took forever for YouTube's ton* of #JavaScript to load, but yeah, that does look like fun.

* Even after the video starts playing, the controls don't work until the last piece of #JabbaShit loads. Not even the "don't autoplay the next video" button. The actual video was already over by that time. WTH YouTube?

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jul-2021 07:37:36 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Wow. There looked to be about twenty different sites pushing #JavaScript on that job application site. Even after I allowed all (except CloudFlare Insights and Google Analytics), the submit button wouldn't work. There was a defective Date object somewhere that threw the 'then' clause of an if statement into a tizzy.

Switched browsers and it went right through. Same set of extensions, I think.

Both browsers have built in ad-blocking, so I'm going to guess that some difference in their ad filters caused the different behavior.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Jul-2021 03:57:06 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Manyverse ( mobile #SSB client ) is having another one of its “can’t connect to a pub server, so you’re basically operating standalone” periods. It seems the last successful connection was two weeks ago.

I know one of Secure ScuttleButt’s features is not needing Internet at all, but if you’re not connecting via LAN occasionally, you need a way for #peer-to-peer software to bootstrap a pool of connections into the network overlay over the Internet. I think pubs (and the new implementation that is just getting started) are a sign that a P2P project is not designed for real life usage.

I realize that many “Butts”, including the developers, are leftish anarchists, so when things work, they are able to discuss the dream world they hope to implement. But the majority of people are not breathing such rarified air, and #Secure_ScuttleButt needs to just work for regular people also.

Probably needs some concepts from Jami … and to be implementable without using Node.js … which I’ve seen people saying is not currently possible.

An aside: I do wonder whether it depends on peculiarities of #JavaScript or of #Node.JS itself. If the first is true, one may be able to implement SSB with #Deno or #JSI / #JSISH.

In conversation about a year ago from Shoyu permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jul-2021 18:59:58 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- Alexandre Oliva
@lxo RE: https://gnusocial.net/notice/9688345

When I saw Aral's post, I thought he couldn't mean what he said in https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/106532380339054212 ... surely he knows that generally, #JavaScript is hosted (and thus controlled) from the server, but runs on the local client. And therefore is only as trustworthy as the server's owner/operator.

A high JS front-end requires a high-spec client machine (see all the people complaining about PleromaFE's slowness and browser crashes) and as soon as the organization hosting the JS determines that their interests require data centralization, that scripting can send it all back to the server without the user ever knowing anything changed.
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1. Invalid filename.
  
  mensaje de Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net), el Tuesday, 06-Jul-2021 09:54:17 CEST - gnusocial.net
  
  it's not javascript per se that is dangerous. it's software delivered to you by the WWWorst App Store that is, because it's effectively under someone else's control, and running on your computer
2. Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
  
  from Aral Balkan
  
  @dheadshot@mastodon.social @rustygopher@distrotoot.com No, it doesn’t mean that because there is nothing inherent in JS that “isn’t good for privacy” or runs badly on older machines. On the contrary, keeping your secrets on the client (which you control) *requires JS* and requires that all logic runs on the client and that the server (which you don’t control) is as dumb as possible and never has your secrets. Sadly this generic dogma about “JS is dangerous” is perpetuated by folks like the FSF and it’s both wrong and harmful.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Jun-2021 23:13:08 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://github.com/ekzhang/rustpad Cooperative online text / document editor. Looked interesting until I saw that it requires #Node.JS.

I'm also still a little leery of letting WASM run in my browsers. Not that people can read obfuscated minified #JavaScript, but if you could obtain the pre-minified source, you might be able to tell what it was doing. With WASM, you're totally just letting unauditable and untrusted code run in your browser.

(I know this has a "Get off my lawn" flavor, but that's not what is happening here. Just wait until a GRU-sponsored malware gang starts inserting malicious WASM into popular sites around the Web.)
In conversation Monday, 07-Jun-2021 23:13:08 UTC from web permalink
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1. ekzhang/rustpad
  
  Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required - ekzhang/rustpad
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 04-Jun-2021 01:08:48 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Time to switch back to #Palemoon. I've been using #Falkon as my main browser for a few days.

Plus: Unlike Palemoon, when Falkon decides to have an issue, one or more tabs fail to load, but the browser itself doesn't crash.

Minus: It really needs something like NoScript, where all #JavaScript is off, except for specific sites you authorize; it cannot load PleromaFE and cannot log in with Soapbox. I should have tried Bloat, but I didn't. Although I don't knowingly have any Snaps installed, snapd randomly spins all CPU cores at 100% for a few minutes ... this was never observed with Palemoon.

In conversation Friday, 04-Jun-2021 01:08:48 UTC from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Apr-2021 06:28:58 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://nu.federati.net/url/280765 [www latimes com]

(NOTE: The "turn off your adblocker or pay money" depends on #JavaScript. If you turn #JabbaShit off, you can read the article.)
In conversation Wednesday, 21-Apr-2021 06:28:58 UTC from mustard permalink
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1. At flashpoint of George Floyd protests, Fairfax Avenue reacts to verdict with relief
  
  from https://www.latimes.com/people/julia-wick
  
  At flashpoint of George Floyd protests, Fairfax Avenue praises verdict and hopes for justice
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Apr-2021 04:29:44 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- Billy
@storm #Pleroma comes with PleromaFE and MastoFE. I know PleromaFE is high in #JavaScript. If the #JabbaShit interferes with your assistive technologies, there is a separate front end called “Bloat”, which is supposed to be much less JavaScript-y.

I have not seen Bloat myself (I don’t even know the project’s URL), so this is all hearsay.

In conversation Wednesday, 07-Apr-2021 04:29:44 UTC from Shoyu permalink

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