[ale] Idiots shutting out those with visual problems: was Weird window-manager shenanigans on debian 12...

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:44:52 -0400
William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:

> > The preceding URL didn't resolve, giving a "ERR_NGROK_3200",
> > whatever that means. I know of one distro, whose filthy name I
> > won't mention, who not only used 6 point fonts on X11, but arranged
> > their framebuffer to to use the same tiny fonts.
> >
> >  
> It works for me through the tor network.  Are you using google
> nameservers?  They sometimes mess with ngrok addresses.   You tube
> does too.  You have to use a tinurl to get them to work off YouTube.

Dohhhh! Teaches me to skim over replies. I didn't involve the tor
network at all. If it was supposed to be used with tor, my not being
able to pull it up is the URL operating as designed.

SteveT

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