how come this article only got 2 points[1] when someone submitted it here a day ago, but this time it's at the top of everything?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11726766

Because life isn't fair.

+1

i tried turning off scripts a while back

i could refresh any page and it would near-instantly return me to the same scroll position without jumping around as scripts load

i didn't have to feel so cautious about sites abusing my browser to show me popups, subscription forms or ads

it felt really empowering for some reason

So why did you turn it back on? NoScript allows you to have it off by default and turn it back on on sites it's actually needed on.

> or Cloudflare

https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/#cloudflare-ssl-options

cloudflare's "flexible ssl" option encrypts the connection between their datacenter and the user, but not the one between the datacenter and the actual web server

i guess it's better than nothing if your host doesn't support ssl but the false sense of security could be harmful

what are they going to do when they run out of letters in the alphabet?

Go back round again with new animal names.

This appears to be the correct answer. Backed up here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

Would Ubuntu 20.04 Fiery Fox be considered copyright infringement?

Unicode is growing fast enough.

I love that answer. Switch to a different language and alphabet!

Shut down the company and stop releasing new versions, obviously.

Yeah, it's really a shame. I thought the open source movement had a lot going for it, but they should have thought this part out better.

It's okay though, I honestly feel we can take most of what we learned and apply it to the Commodore 64, which, while closed source, most "black hat" hackers can patch the kernel of to include execution of the Binaries Formerly Known As Ubuntu.

The process will be different, though: After powering on the system and reaching the READY string signaling the BASIC interpreter, you'll POKE the unicode name-string of the package you want to update to the user space at $C000, then execute an SYS command to set the CPU's program counter to the vector of the package installation.

Greek, Cyrillic, Elvish,...

Invent two thirds of a new alphabet and then get distracted by the idea of creating new numbers and promise to complete the alphabet "real soon now"? ;)

endangering his health probably

the page seems to only work over http

i had to disable the site's HTTPS Everywhere rule