It's runined by professional victims. The bigots would have no voice without their victims' amplification.

It is rarely the identified group complaining and instead almost exclusively rich, no problem in the real world, people and or trolls.

The impact is overwhelming power transfer to racists.

This makes sense given the skewed overlay of people who are now "social justice warriors" that were once incredibly prejudice clowns.

It's a groovebox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovebox

Why use an image at all when css background-color exists?

As the article mentions, the browser requests an image and to respond with anything different would take as many bytes if not more.

This is the comment I just ctrl-f'd for: exactly?!

That was sarcasm, right?

I think well-crafted sarcasm is one which cannot be judged as such.

If the OP doesn't respond my bet is yes.

not agreeing with the parent, but if that is not the main use case of free speech then what is? Stating things others might consider inconvenient, disrespectful or outright unacceptable. Indeed, if one is serious about freedom of speech they will find themselves defending the rights of all kinds of extremists, it is inevitable.

There's an infinite number of possible viruses. Inventing some random new ones doesn't protect anyone.

We need to be able to defend from the dark arts. Just like in Harry Potter.

There's no audio in MIDI - midi is like a machine readable sheet of notes.

it's got this css:

    html,body {
        user-select: none;
    }

Makes me remember all those blogs disabling text selection to prevent people from "stealing" their work. Which is just terrible UX for people using it for reading, I generally just exit the website immediately.

Please, never do that.

yeah I turned that off in dev tools, but why author it that way in the first place, what possible motivation...?

Possibly to prevent fast clicks being registered as double-click user select, but with a too general a target.

Keep your keys in a faraday cage.

That solves nothing for this failure mode. Thieves are programming new keys on the spot.

Depends, are we willing to practice basic public sanitation during influenza outbreaks or are we returning to the days before germ theory? I care more about my grandparents than the economy, I take the flu shot yearly, what exactly is the issue with preventative medicine?

"Download the app"? No.