Hacker News: DarkFuture

New comment by DarkFuture in "Scars mark Britain's economy 10 years after Brexit vote"

DarkFuture — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:13:03 +0000

Ah yes I remember in 2001 reading on Slashdot how only old Christians voted for Republicans/Bush, and they will soon die and George W Bush will not get re-elected.

It was even said on HN/Twitter during Covid 2021, how Trump supporters were dying in great numbers from refusing face masks and it was again Game OVER for Republicans, only for him to get elected again in 2024.

New comment by DarkFuture in "Bypass Paywalls Clean Chrome"

DarkFuture — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:11:03 +0000

On Firefox, this extension doesn't ask to run on all domains that you visit, only the news sites it bypasses paywalls. For example I visited deepl.com now and it doesn't have permission to run.

That's the default, but Firefox does offer toggle to give it permission to run on all pages you visit, I never clicked it (never seen the need to).

Also for Firefox, Mozilla banned it from their extension store (like Chrome did) after a legal threat from news publishers, but they still have to sign the extension and approve every new release even though it is distributed outside the Mozilla extension store now.

Link for Firefox version: https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-fire...

New comment by DarkFuture in "Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing"

DarkFuture — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:54:52 +0000

I looked into buying my own IP space from that IP auction site, an IPv4 C-class costs around $10,000. What stopped me was finding out I also to register with RIPE and pay the LIR annual fee, costing hundred Euros per month or so, even if I wasn't yet ready to use the IP space (I wanted to setup a basic Anycast IP without Cloudflare with help of VPS host who said they can help and had multiple locations around world).

New comment by DarkFuture in "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"

DarkFuture — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:05:13 +0000

Yes I've been using this:

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/social-switch...

And set it to ImgInn for Instagram

New comment by DarkFuture in "JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine"

DarkFuture — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:50:56 +0000

Disappointing for Firefox for such lower performance.

I just ran the JetStream2 benchmark and got:

- Firefox: 159 score

- Chromium: 235 score

That's on latest Fedora Linux and Ryzen 3600 CPU.

New comment by DarkFuture in "On privacy and control"

DarkFuture — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:03:07 +0000

They must have meant LibreWolf.

I've used it as a 2nd browser for past 2 years although on Speedometer benchmark it constantly gets a much lower score than Firefox. You can feel LibreWolf slower it on heavy sites like YouTube.

https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/

I also notice Chromium browsers get lower score than official Chrome binary. Apparently Google make further modifications to Chromium before compiling (that they don't make public).

New comment by DarkFuture in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

DarkFuture — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:48:35 +0000

Yes that's all I do, official LineageOS image for Pixel 6 (I bought it used on eBay).

I haven't tried it but apparently Aurora Store also supports login with your Google account, which means you can download apps you've paid for on the Play store directly.

New comment by DarkFuture in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

DarkFuture — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:18:34 +0000

I install MicroG (on my LineageOS on Pixel) which allows me to install my UK banking apps and Google Maps, etc. MicroG just reimplemented the Google APIs:

> microG GmsCore is a free software reimplementation of Google's Play Services. It allows applications calling proprietary Google APIs to run on AOSP-based ROMs like LineageOS, acting as a free replacement for the non-free, proprietary Google Play Services (sometimes referred to as the more generic term "GApps"). It is a powerful tool to reclaim your privacy and freedom while enjoying Android core features (although apps you use that take advantage of it may still be using proprietary libraries to communicate with microG, just as they do when communicating with the actual Google Play Services).

Source: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki

I add the official MicroG repo to my F-Droid using this QR code: https://microg.org/fdroid/repo/

Also, I download apps (like my UK banks) from official Play store using Aurora Store, which connects to Google servers directly to download the APKs, keep them updated, etc. No need to use those dodgy APK websites. Aurora Store is itself also available on F-Droid too.

I guess in time Google will target these apps :(

New comment by DarkFuture in "How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads"

DarkFuture — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:58:47 +0000

If I was doing 60mph instead of ~50mph these motorbikers would be dead (me too probably):

https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsOnBikes/comments/debwm4/2_bik...

New comment by DarkFuture in "DeepSeek-v3.1"

DarkFuture — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:42:43 +0000

I've been running LLM models on my Radeon 7600 XT 16GB for past 2-3 months without issues (Windows 11). I've been using llama.cpp only. The only thing from AMD I installed (apart from latest Radeon drivers) is the "AMD HIP SDK" (very straight forward installer). After unzipping (the zip from GitHub releases page must contain hip-radeon in the name) all I do is this:

llama-server.exe -ngl 99 -m Qwen3-14B-Q6_K.gguf

And then connect to llamacpp via browser to localhost:8080 for the WebUI (its basic but does the job, screenshots can be found on Google). You can connect more advanced interfaces to it because llama.cpp actually has OpenAI-compatible API.

New comment by DarkFuture in "AOL closes its dial up internet service"

DarkFuture — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 17:42:57 +0000

Dial up was a painful period, sitting in school Monday-Friday thinking about what I'm going to surf in the weekend because that was the only time it was available for the package my parents had in 1998/1999 here in UK. Counting down the hours on Friday evening until it hits 12:00am.