The linked site has a bit more about it, but usually you see toggle switches like that with relatively “balanced” options. “On” / “Off” are about the same width when rendered as text. It’s easy then to just make the switch big enough for the bigger option and everything’s good. What happens if you have “On” and “Some really long text option that should probably be shorter”? The image shows what it looks like toggled to “On”, and then goes over two solutions, neither of which are great options:

• Use the smallest size and cut off the larger text. Not really a viable option
• Use the longest size, but when the shorter option is toggled to, you’re left with a bunch of blank space

Related, pagination can still get broken if you try hard enough. Some sites have pagination, but bump up the id of old posts every time there’s a new post, so it’s still useless because the links will change content

There’s actually a proposal for various new HTML elements, including a switch:

https://open-ui.org/components/switch.explainer/

It’s a little bit harder than you think, because people will definitely do things like this, and they have to account for that sort of behavior:

It is nice to see that they’re working on it, where “they” means part of the W3C (so not just random nobodies):

The purpose of the Open UI, a W3C Community Group, is to allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI components and controls, such as <select> dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons, and date/color pickers.

To do that, we’ll need to fully specify the component parts, states, and behaviors of the built-in controls, as well as necessary accessibility requirements, and provide test suites to ensure compatibility. We’ll also implement polyfills for our extensible web UI controls.

Today, component frameworks and design systems reinvent common web UI controls to give designers full control over their appearance and behavior. We hope to make it unnecessary to reinvent built-in UI controls, but for those who choose to do so, we expect that these design systems will benefit from Open UI’s specifications and test suites.

Long term, we hope that Open UI will establish a standard process for developing high-quality UI controls suitable for addition to the web platform.

It’s federated, just not to the ActivityPub universe, right? People have been able to join rooms on discuss.online using their matrix.org accounts, which to me counts as federated.

It seems like you’d say that Matrix isn’t included? It’s not ActivityPub/AT/nostr

Posted a related question over here: https://discuss.online/post/16758155

Wanted to promote the chat room, but wasn’t sure where a good place is, if the fedi* communities are appropriate or if matrix doesn’t “count” as part of the Fediverse.

At any rate, neat that you’ve got cinny.discuss.online! I like that there’s multiple frontends for Matrix, centralized services like Discord hate alternate frontends, because you can just skip all the ads they try to shove down your throat.

What is interesting about the dunes? Is there more to do than just walking around and saying “yep, that’s sand”?

In the courts, it’s been referred to as the “feel” and “sound”:

Gaye’s family accused the song’s authors of copying the “feel” and “sound” of “Got to Give It Up”

And then I noticed the ring on his finger

Only one program can listen on a port at a given time usually. Something’s listening on port 443 (the standard HTTPS port), and when nginx starts up it tries to listen on that port and can’t. You can figure out what’s already listening on that port with commands like lsof or netstat, see here for examples:

https://superuser.com/questions/42843/finding-the-process-that-is-using-a-certain-port-in-linux

I don’t think mutual aid can work well like that on the internet. Works great in person, works OK for GoFundMe-type stuff like “I had something happen to me that will take a lot of money to fix”. Too easy to scam and grift for small stuff like this though, where for all you know they’re just a very clever dog on the internet.

Even non-profits aren’t immune to hostile takeovers. OpenAI is a for-profit company controlled by a non-profit, and that hasn’t stopped them from turning into something indistinguishable from a regular for-profit company. They’ve also been making noise about abandoning the fig leaf of the non-profit.

Mozilla is another one where nominally they’re a for-profit controlled by a non-profit, but they’re now getting into shoving ads in your face just like any other company.

It is harder to turn bad when you’re a non-profit but not impossible, without something of a poison pill that makes it unacceptable to for-profit takeovers.