Notices tagged with javascript, page 3
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Sep-2020 00:20:50 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} JS-based webapps are a lot like adding salt to one's food. There's a point where you're simulating food with colored salt. No matter how appealing it looks, it is still nasty and harmful.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Sep-2020 20:16:09 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #JavaScript should be off-by-default and enabled on a per-site basis ... and only if necessary for some particular site function.
I just visited http://diveintomark.org/ just to see whether Mr. Pilgrim decided to come back one more time. Instead, I see one of those "this site works better with JS enabled" messages. Being me, I CTRL+U and view source. Yep, just as expected. Adsense.js ... I didn't read farther, so I don't know whether this is one of those squatters.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Jul-2020 20:42:51 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} In the late 1990s, when I had a computer running #Win95, with 32MB of RAM, one of my brothers had started playing an online game with "hive" as part of its name. Anyway, I was recently curious and wondered what the original game was and whether it was still around. I don't have a firm conclusion, but I did discover at least one "hive" game that currently exists. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive
(NOTE: page is #JavaScrippled. Since I was looking but not playing, I did not turn on #JavaScript to see what it does.) -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-2020 02:18:56 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @musicman I'm sure there are more efficient ways to read logs, but I often use either
A: "grep errorname /path/to/logfile | less"
when I know what I'm looking for
or
B: "tail -n someLargeNumber /path/to/logfile | less"
(or sometimes "tail -n someLargeNumber /path/to/logfile | head -n someSmallerNumber | less")
when I'm just wanting to see the most recent someLargeNumber entries or some earlier subset of the most recent someLargeNumber entries.
But most of the time, there will be at least one script tag that is loading #JavaScript. The src attribute will give a path where that is coming from.In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2020 02:30:58 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} How disease modelers try to forecast the spread of diseases https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/disease-modeling-coronavirus-cases-reopening/ [www washingtonpost com]
Includes #JavaScript based modeling exercise.
Uses an imaginary disease because #COVID-19 is too complicated for this simple toy model.In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink Attachments
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-May-2020 17:07:09 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Probably time to look into replacing Rutabaga (the Lenovo IdeaPad with 2G of RAM and 32G of eMMC disk). I was using it to look up some instructions for something I was doing on another machine. One link opened YouTube in another tab and immediately froze the machine.
After a reboot, I went back in. The next link opened a tab full of #JavaScript. The #JabbaShit, predictably, sucked up all the RAM and froze the machine again.
Then I thought, I won't use the browser at all. Opened an IDE, which immediately started downloading updates and again froze the machine.
I think #sonTwo had the same sort of issues with a different model (but similar specs) IdeaPad. He had to replace it with something that has better specs.In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2020 17:46:39 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @musicman @geniusmusing That’s mostly #Node.js, which is a somewhat outdated fork of Chrome’s V8 engine. Considering that the browser is the least secure part of modern computers, and the #JavaScript engine is a key part of that insecurity, it is up to each person to decide whether to accept the risk.
Personally, I’m willing to accept Node, but only in a completely separate VM or VPS from other server-side software. Which explains why I never have hosted a Pump.io instance.In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Apr-2020 04:35:23 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} #Opa — http://opalang.org/ Opa — a language that compiles into #JavaScript ( client-side and server-side [ #Node.js ] + #MongoDB as the database. The language did a pivot ... it was originally a very functional oriented language written in #Ocaml.
#Ur / #Urweb — http://www.impredicative.com/ur/ — a functional oriented language that copies some features from Standard ML ( #SML ), #Haskell, and #Ocaml and has libraries for web-related features.
Looking at their sites, it looks like Opa has a more updated site and possibly a more updated language (though there was a release of Ur this year).
I’ve watched them on and off for several years.In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink Attachments
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2020 01:54:01 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} In general, using #JavaScript this way is despicable enough that I'm in favor of visiting them regularly (with JS turned off) to repeatedly demonstrate its ineffectiveness. In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2020 01:24:22 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} You can calculate how many years it will take you to hit level 40 in #Pokemon Go -- https://nu.federati.net/url/267574 [forbes com]
Turn off #JavaScript, so their paywall stops working.In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink Attachments
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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2020 19:07:24 UTC Free Software Foundation Want to help out people trying to free their #JavaScript? Join the #LibreJS mailing lists and the free JS taskforce at https://u.fsf.org/fb9 and https://u.fsf.org/314. In conversation from status.fsf.org permalink Attachments
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2020 03:00:49 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @geniusmusing AFAIK he's never touched it, but he's in an online course now where he'll be using #Python, #Ruby, #JavaScript, and #C. In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 18:34:32 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @musicman @strypey Also, in the process of reading about it, I came across https://nu.federati.net/url/266568 [wapo]
Turn off #JavaScript / #JabbaShit and their “turn off your adblocker” garbage won’t interfere.
There are still a number of places where I saw “underfunded and ineffective”, but this is someone that worked there (possibly during the time when Trump is said to have shut down PRT).In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink Attachments
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2020 02:38:59 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Wow. #sonTwo, who turned from the #Unix administration (local college course taught using #Linux and #FreeBSD) and C++ (local college course using Windows IDE) to theater and photography when he was in high school, suddenly finds himself needing to become acquainted with #JavaScript. In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2020 02:49:45 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} If I get TME* this week, I'll set up a #Friendica instance for !fnetworks ... membership is only available to people with currently active Federati accounts.
I was going to set up #Pleroma, but the PleromaFE interface has too much #JavaScript / #JabbaShit piled up ... It causes my browsers to repeatedly pop up warnings about a hung script.
Consider it a testing instance for the time being
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2020 09:16:49 UTC Strypey @openrisk
> You could imagine servers being pure data API endpoints and the GUI being handled locallyFor sure. I touched on another way to think about it here:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103791277016958320What it comes down to is that #Javascript is an excellent way for newbie developers to make their code run on other people's computers without having to pass any of the security review it would require to be installed natively. Which is exactly as bad as it sounds ;)
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2020 18:06:34 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} https://www.calbcc.org/post/black-codes
Note: this is hosted on WIX, so I had to disable styles in order to view the article text. (I suppose there's some #JavaScript / #JabbaShit that re-enables viewing and scrolling, but I'm not about to turn on #JS for a #WIX site.)In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink Attachments
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2020 22:45:08 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @strypey Another reason to block #JabbaShit ( #JavaScript ): https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/HoverOverLink.php In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink Attachments
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2020 22:33:02 UTC Strypey Perhaps because #Javascript is usually deployed by web designers, not software engineers or sysadmins. Designers who are given with minimal to no maintenance budget, if they're even retained by the client after they deliver a website design. In practice, JS is a hot mess of known bugs and security holes, running on your browser without you knowledge or consent (unless you use #NoScript etc).
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2020 18:13:19 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Masto 3.0 wasn't a pleasant experience when I had a MastoSoc account. In fact, it was painful to use. If PleromaFE wasn't packing so much #JabbaShit that it could choke a pornstar, I'd encourage Mastodon admins to switch software to Pleroma. #JavaScript In conversation from nu.federati.net permalink