Both sports betting and prediction markets are effectively the same as reading tea leaves anyway. You can determine the real odds in roulette or blackjack because those are closed games that have simple probabilities, but any odds given in sports betting or prediction markets are just fancy guesses

The odds in betting are the payout ratio. To hinder manipulation, the payout ratio would have to be hidden and then the platform can just always say you won less money than you did.

Let me know when it runs DOOM

A valid use case I can think of is if npmjs.com is blackholed by your company to prevent supply chain attacks

> The blocker wasn't capability—it was liability.

Yikes (regarding the AI patterns in the comment)

Isn’t that why you should like it then? It saves your time because you’d get the page earlier

Or Rspack (https://rspack.rs/) which is intended to be a drop-in Webpack replacement

how is this possible? isn't everyone using the same node version?

and checking in lockfile changes

I think they're referring to the spiders that are deep in the web, since the midges presumably don't make it that deep

That code from your post is fairly standard image load handling, but the notable part is this line:

self.apng_supported = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, 1, 1).data[3] === 0;

Unless I'm misunderstanding, it's basically a "neat trick", like using ~~ for rounding or a fast inverse square root.

Is the intent that everyone who makes use of that trick is supposed to link back to your blog?

The notable part is the PNG file was copied exactly. He could have generated one himself.

I feel like the article should've been called "plaintext-only websites" or something, because if you had asked me I would've also defined "text-only" as image/video-less websites