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For the interim, may it be a wise idea to include an inlined script at the very top of any page which includes untrusted 3rd party code, in order to overwrite the Performance tools by a wrapper? By ad…

Also recommended, the charming, rather British presentation of the Atari Video Music at the Techmoan channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wle0eqBwtL8 …

"Oh, yes ... Oh, so late ... so late, already ... Listen, you have been so friendly with me, but I really have to feed the ducklings. It's well ... beyond their hour ... May I hand you over …

Maybe, rather than investing more into Lenny, create some more personas (voice, gender, etc) to add to the variety between calls? Maybe also have an option to hand a call over to the next persona in l…

This is great! Instead of trying to be smart, Lenny capitalizes on prejudices about elderlies and possible communication factors regarding non-native call center operatives. It's more social engi…

I still wonder, how responsive mixed reality UIs and/or content presentation may be implemented in a general way. E.g., your app requires a user selection of one out of 5 tools, which are to be d…

In framesets, parent-child relations were absolutely defined and stable, as were the paths between individual frames. (Current frame is "self" or "window", parent frame or frameset…

"never intended to be archival" – HTML originated as an easy to handle stand-alone documentation standard (as a cut-down version of SGMLguid + links/anchors). The entire point of a docu…

E.g., drop of framesets. Many old documentations use them, as do most websites from the second half of the 1990s (so-called 2nd gen. websites). Without frames, the content can't displayed in cont…

I'm really afraid that this is preparing the final drop of browser support. (We've seen similar in http, where many of the http/1.1 (1997) features, like multipart-http, for-headers, et…

Hm – I'm not too happy to see most of the original HTML-elements marked "not conforming" and "must not be used", thus preparing for browsers to eventually drop the support. Th…

Rolling out new physical cards in just a quarter of a year may be some feat. – Is there confidence in achieving this? Or is the key regeneration tool a complete replacement for the procedure?

I know, this may be unpopular in context, but are there any updates on the Estonian ID-cards? News as of November were that they were (temporarily) locked-down [1] and are to be reissued until next Ma…

But they are also leaking your phone number next to your keystrokes, so 2FA based on text messages is also broken. (To attack/reroute SS7, the subscriber number is all you need – which isn't…

Usual rational at that time was to not go beyond 40K, if possible. So 64K was rather "fat".

Also nice: Websites tended to keep evolving with the browsing skills of the client/sponsor. Say, a site started out complying to the usual rules regarding opening external links in external windo…

Actually, this became an issue just at the end of the 1990s. In the first years professional websites were usually designed and made by dedicated screen designers. Edit: Usually, it was also the sam…

Another thing often forgotten: font-sizes where relative to the system, meaning, they where usually bigger on Windows (depending on the system-wide font settings) and there was no rational for text-im…

This is true for the latest iterations, where MINIX 3 is embedded in the Platform Controller Hub (PCH). Earlier iterations were running on ThreadX RTOS embedded in the Northbridge. To my understanding…

> in modern JavaScript You are probably right on this – but there's still old code around and ease of context switching may be a thing. Also, I guess, you can't be too defensive in your a…

This way we were porting former terminal services to web applications back in the last century ... (Maybe requesting additional server data by what would be called padded JSON nowadays via a hidden fr…

On the other hand, well-known constructs as used for translating FORTRAN labels to switch statements have been around for ages. E.g., function main(entrypoint) { switch (entrypoint) { de…

It's really about the arrow operator starting with "=", which is most likely the beginning of a chained assignment as in a = b = c = 0; Also (as noted in the edit), I'm not …

A bit OT, but may I suggest for a style guide to not use the shorthand, w/o brackets, in single-argument arrow functions, as in var wait = ms => new Promise((r, j)=>setTimeout(r, ms)) …

IMHO, the analogy to the video tag made in the proposal is rather far fetched: The video tag is still about embedding an external source, rather a natural extension of the image tag. As opposed to thi…

Complementary reading: "A Most Dangerous Book. Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich" by Christopher B. Krebs (W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 2011) (German transla…

Now, the OS of processor management units like Intel AMT and the AMD equivalent also incorporate wireless stacks. What are the chances of them becoming effectively fixed?

You are marking out an interesting point, rather ignored in general observations. We may say that there had been soon two strains in fixed word-length machines: One that prefixed address contents by o…

The first photo is from the NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship, built in the US in the late 1950s as a demonstration project for the potential use of nuclear energy: https:/&#x…

> "JavaScript isn’t like CSS or HTML. Both these building blocks of the web are fault-tolerant. This means when you write invalid HTML, the browser tries to fix it. If you use bleeding edge CS…