Hacker News: Borgz

New comment by Borgz in "An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia"

Borgz — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:49:27 +0000

As it is, Grokipedia is not a threat to Wikipedia because relative to Wikipedia, almost nobody is using it.

Additionally, an encyclopedia reader likely cares about accuracy significantly more than average.

New comment by Borgz in "New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens"

Borgz — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:23:34 +0000

>Note: Google must be set as your default search engine for this feature to appear.

New comment by Borgz in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

Borgz — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:15:30 +0000

Yes, it's the same price as a Google Play Console developer account, but this is for access to the new Android Developer Console.

New comment by Borgz in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

Borgz — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:49:20 +0000

Looks like Google will also be limiting each developer's number of apps and installations unless you pay them $25. https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/...

New comment by Borgz in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

Borgz — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:01:27 +0000

Funny to say this when the article literally says "nothing wrong with mascots!"

Out of curiosity, what did you read as hostility?

New comment by Borgz in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

Borgz — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:59:13 +0000

In a different repository, though. I think it's understandable that someone would miss it.

New comment by Borgz in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

Borgz — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:23:58 +0000

Perhaps one justification for blocking ads is protecting users from personal information harvesting, tracking, and malware delivered through advertising networks. Aside from that, I can't think of a justification.

I actually think it would be good if there were filter lists that whitelisted ads that were not harmful to users in those ways, but that sounds difficult/impossible to fairly maintain, and I doubt anyone else wants it.

New comment by Borgz in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

Borgz — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:06:06 +0000

4chan doesn't store threads for very long, hence the plethora of third-party archive sites. I doubt they are still storing any useful data from back then.

New comment by Borgz in "Default styles for h1 elements are changing"

Borgz — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 03:45:29 +0000

From the linked article:

>To test in Firefox with the new behavior, set layout.css.h1-in-section-ua-styles.enabled to false in about:config.

New comment by Borgz in "Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a"

Borgz — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:13:39 +0000

There is a 2020 video with a Minecraft developer talking about this testing infrastructure: https://youtu.be/vXaWOJTCYNg

New comment by Borgz in "Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website"

Borgz — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:26:43 +0000

According to this article, Arc requires an account and sends Google's Firebase the hostname of every page you visit along with your user ID. Does this make Arc the least private web browser currently being used?

New comment by Borgz in "How Chainalysis made their way into popular Monero wallets"

Borgz — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:18:21 +0000

The hacker accidentally published their entire home directory (including ~/.ssh) along with the stolen patient records, which I imagine made things pretty easy for the authorities.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/11/hacker-charged-with-exto...

New comment by Borgz in "Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia"

Borgz — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:07:17 +0000

>"In alignment with our commitment to an open and accessible internet, Mozilla will reinstate previously restricted listings in Russia," the group declared. "Our initial decision to temporarily restrict these listings was made while we considered the regulatory environment in Russia and the potential risk to our community and staff.

New comment by Borgz in "Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Simulate a Shadow of the Pen Being Emulated"

Borgz — Fri, 17 May 2024 23:52:52 +0000

I would tell you to go to a specific timestamp to see the pen shadow that you are missing, but the Threads video player doesn't seem to have a visible time nor a way to pause playback. That's unfortunate.

If you go 1/4 to 1/3 of the way through the video when the camera zooms in, you'll probably see it.

New comment by Borgz in "An HTML Switch Control"

Borgz — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:00:28 +0000

Because then it wouldn't be backward compatible.

New comment by Borgz in "Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies"

Borgz — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:48:39 +0000

This is a problem that PWAs address

New comment by Borgz in "Firefox Keeps Getting Faster"

Borgz — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:46:43 +0000

How do you dump logs?

New comment by Borgz in "A theory on why OpenAI (Ilya) fired Sam Altman: Different AGI definitions"

Borgz — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 01:07:03 +0000

HN seems to do this with Reddit a lot

New comment by Borgz in "U.S. cities consider banning "right on red" laws amid rise in pedestrian deaths"

Borgz — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 05:34:49 +0000

Requiring vehicles to be safer is a good idea, but it will take many years before unsafe vehicles are off the road. In the meantime, we should try to make changes that can have an impact on a shorter timeframe. Changing traffic laws can be done relatively quickly and have an immediate effect.

New comment by Borgz in "Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant"

Borgz — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:40:51 +0000

Apparently Google provided police with IP addresses, but not names [1]. Assuming that Google did not provide any other account details, the usage of a VPN service or Tor might be able to protect users in similar cases.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/google-search-arson-suspects-colo...