Comment on The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)

lyda@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow this is awful on mobile lol

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• lyda@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  js console: document.querySelector(‘.pointers’).hidden=true

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  • hazelnoot@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you for this! You can also get rid of it with a custom ad-blocker rule. I added these to uBlock Origin, and it totally kills the pointer thing.

    wss://tonsky.me
    http://tonsky.me/pointers/
    https://tonsky.me/pointers/
    

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• heftig@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re actually seeing mouse pointers of other people having the page open. It connects to a websocket endpoint including the page URL and your platform (OS) and sends your current mouse position every second.

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  • lyda@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just because you can do something…

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