Is it possible to trigger a tap on a capacitive touch screen remotely?
https://crazypeople.online/post/19126153
Is it possible to trigger a tap on a capacitive touch screen remotely? - crazypeople.online
The linked article covers some ways to tap a touch screen without a finger.
That’s probably the most comprehensive document on the topic yet those options
all seem impractical for my needs. So here’s my problem: Travel websites are
increasingly enshitified and consumer-hostile (and often Tor-hostile). They are
also protectionist with the data as they use anti-bot tech (which really
ammounts to anti-human tech b/c bots serve humans). Kiosks are a refuge of a
sort (almost, kind of). Some kiosks have useful information without the anti-bot
shenanigans, but they are also still designed to be labor intensive. Kiosks that
sell train or bus tickets force users to supply a specific date of travel and
specific destination. For me, the date of travel depends on the price of the
ticket, but the UI does not allow users to know the price until after they fill
out a form. Sometimes I don’t even know the destination because the city I visit
depends on the price as I look for a cheap trip somewhere. What we need is a
tool that will enter all combinations of queries for ranges of travel dates and
times and for sets of origin-destination pairs. Is there hardware that can
handle this job? If the kiosk is a touch screen, my knee-jerk instinct was for a
laser do the job of a finger. But after further checks, I don’t think a laser
can have an electro magnetic effect or whatever is needed. Apart from
convenience of being able to harvest a dataset and do my own queries, I also
imagine some handicapped people (e.g. without the use of arms) have the same
problem and would benefit from the same solution.
Mozilla believes browsers should serve the webmaster, not the user
https://crazypeople.online/post/17159600
Mozilla believes browsers should serve the webmaster, not the user - crazypeople.online
…evidenced by the stale mothballed bug report (linked). This should be an easy
bug. It should be a no-brainer that triggers a Mozilla dev to say “of course, no
problem… job done”. It’s kind of like when Trump was asked to condemn the KKK.
He had to pause and think. Or when Peter Thiel was asked: > “Hey, what do you
think? Should humanity survive?” And it took him five, six, seven seconds to
say, ‘Yes, I guess so’.” (from Rutger Bregman’s lecture
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nhld]) A year after the bug was raised,
Mozilla has not made a decision.
Did we lose the option to keep local copies of webpages?
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Did we lose the option to keep local copies of webpages? - crazypeople.online
There used to be a feature whereby a bookmarked page could be flagged for
offline use. Then when you visit that page, it instantly renders the page
regardless of whether you are online. Was that removed? There is a «File→Work
Offline» tickbox, but that’s apparently something different because it gives no
way to specify which pages should function offline.
I thought only Americans faced nationality-based discrimination by banks. But I heard there are others. Who else?
https://crazypeople.online/post/5581570
I thought only Americans faced nationality-based discrimination by banks. But I heard there are others. Who else? - crazypeople.online
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[/c/[email protected]] [https://crazypeople.online/c/humanrights] –
https://crazypeople.online/post/5464740
[https://crazypeople.online/post/5464740] > FATCA specifically oppresses
Americans who live outside the US. It strong-arms banks into treating Americans
adversely different based on their national origin (ranging from denial of
service to extra data collection and disclosure). I thought Americans were the
only people who broadly face discrimination in banking due to their nationality.
But I recently heard of other nationalities (not Americans) who are refused bank
access due to their nationality (in Europe, where we might have a high
expectation of human rights). > > I could never get the details. People that
report this to me have been vague. But I’ve heard it twice now. Does anyone know
the specifics? Which nationalities and why?
I thought only Americans faced nationality-based discrimination by banks. But I heard there are others. Who else?
https://crazypeople.online/post/5466787
I thought only Americans faced nationality-based discrimination by banks. But I heard there are others. Who else? - crazypeople.online
cross-posted from: https://crazypeople.online/post/5464740
[https://crazypeople.online/post/5464740] > FATCA specifically oppresses
Americans who live outside the US. It strong-arms banks into treating Americans
adversely different based on their national origin (ranging from denial of
service to extra data collection and disclosure). I thought Americans were the
only people who broadly face discrimination in banking due to their nationality.
But I recently heard of other nationalities (not Americans) who are refused bank
access due to their nationality (in Europe, where we might have a high
expectation of human rights). > > I could never get the details. People that
report this to me have been vague. But I’ve heard it twice now. Does anyone know
the specifics? Which nationalities and why?
