This is why I like generating passwords with a 1 way SHA-256 hash, no need for any storage or encryption and no reliance on some website service being up.

And no way to change your password when it's compromised?

Now add one special character, mix upper and lower case, max 32 characters. This wouldn’t work on even 1% of all websites out there.

It needs to have a dark mode in the CSS.

There's a dark mode toggle persistent in the upper right. :-)

This algorithmic filtering is almost certainly still in place, they just dialled it back from 100% ban to some lower percentage.

The only way to win against this is to close all your Meta accounts and never look back. It seems hard to do, but once you rip the plaster off it is actually quite a relief.

I keep Messenger though because some people I know from offline life keep using it and won't switch. Same with WhatsApp. These two don't have intrusive algorithms fortunately.

It is built into the CSS standard

/* Dark mode */ @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { ... }

The issue with both dark and light modes is so many designers seem to have jumped onto the idea that colour schemes have to be either bright white or darkest black.

I'd much rather see colours that are 'slightly darker' at night and 'slightly lighter' in the daytime. For one thing there are still so many websites with no colour schemes setup at all so if you avoid going to extremes it minimises the contrast difference.

The dark mode background should be actually black so our OLED screens can turn their pixels off completely.

OLED displays can still save energy even when they are not displaying absolute black https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069781

But it is pretty linear, so blacker is better, and the darker the black is the darker the white can go while still maintaining contrast, right?

The other issue is many sites don't use that CSS media query at the minimum for auto setting the theme. They instead use a Javascript approach that often involves local storage/cookies even if no choice is made, which doesn't work if those are blocked and/or Javascript disabled. In such cases the default theme is forced.

The optimal approach is applying the appropriate `prefers-color-scheme` using CSS alone, while additionally allowing a theme override using JS/storage. Fewer do this though, even though it wouldn't require any cookies and thus no consent dialog.

The worst are sites that only have theme switching gated behind registration.

The whole point of a font stack is to give a prioritised selection between beautiful modern fonts that won't be available on every machine and basic standard defaults like 'sans-serif' that will.

Any clock which doesn't have a seconds display is probably not accurate to the second and is also very unlikely to have been set to the exact second. Those 2 factors together mean a good chance the time is > 30 seconds out, making the original point moot.

Thanks for the kind words, I'll be scanning this thread to see if there's anything new that I've missed.

The problem with that is everyone might vote for it repeatedly, making more and more politicians ineligible. You could end up with 10 or 20 elections in one year and you wouldn't be able to repeal the rules without a government in place.

No because voters eventually get tired of it, because they want a functioning government.

'Watching the English' is nearly 40 years old now and a lot of things have changed. M&S is no longer hugely more expensive than other stores, for food I think Waitrose has taken its place. Also this article is veering into the idea that class is all about money, which may work in the US but is far from being true in the UK.

There is an updated version by the way. Don't know if that bit has been updated.

I still think doing your whole food shop at M&S is 'higher class' than doing it at Waitrose, but it's weird because of the M&S Simply Food shops which are more geared I think to somebody in a city buying a day or two's food.

And you are right, class is much much more complicated than just money :-)

Surely no government would ever lie about something like that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag