Hacker News: Deebster

New comment by Deebster in "Lunar Flyby"

Deebster — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:47:12 +0000

There is EXIF available in the original version: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e00...

It's taken with an AF Nikkor 35mm f/2D on a NIKON Z 9.

New comment by Deebster in "Lunar Flyby"

Deebster — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:37:04 +0000

I think your first link should be to https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009566/art002e00...

New comment by Deebster in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

Deebster — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:07:19 +0000

CRUD = Create, Read, Update, Delete

Plenty of business apps don't really ask for much more than that, and those are the CRUD apps. They're not particularly challenging to write, nor is it very interesting to do so.

New comment by Deebster in "I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric"

Deebster — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:05:42 +0000

I play badminton, which has games that are about ten minutes long. I've noticed an uptick in the number of times I've had to stop and wait for someone I'm playing with to read a message on their smartwatch. I'm terminally online, but I can disconnect long enough for a game or a film - I seem to be increasingly in the minority.

New comment by Deebster in "The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process"

Deebster — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:50:05 +0000

Well, unless you're using threads.

Or did I miss the sarcasm?

New comment by Deebster in "Our Best Customers Are Now Robots"

Deebster — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 01:09:47 +0000

For better or worse, describing software this way is fairly standard usage - e.g. robots.txt.

New comment by Deebster in "eserde – a serde that just doesn't stop"

Deebster — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:09:37 +0000

That’s quite useful in the example given (passing errors back to clients), but I wonder if sometimes these others errors are artifacts from the first error - it would be more annoying to have these false negatives (and wasting time understanding that that’s what they are) than having to retry.

New comment by Deebster in "Why Linux developers do not fix reported issues or ignore bug reports"

Deebster — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:03:35 +0000

That user might be the one from that old XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/

New comment by Deebster in "API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS"

Deebster — Thu, 30 May 2024 08:56:31 +0000

As your screenshot says, you've enabled HTTPS-Only Mode - that's not the default, though, so most(?) Firefox users don't see that.

New comment by Deebster in "Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site"

Deebster — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:48:52 +0000

I read the release notes, and I still didn't see where this was mentioned.

This feature does seem like it's designed to help defend against bad plugins, but in other hands it could be a source of worry.

New comment by Deebster in "Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes"

Deebster — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 07:00:42 +0000

There are different kinds of colourblindness. Deuteranopes are likely to confuse greens with yellows, which are consecutive here.

New comment by Deebster in "Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company"

Deebster — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:20:01 +0000

I'm not OP but there is him talking on his blog about cookies:

https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reasoning-behind-w...

https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-blocking-3rd-party...

He doesn't come across as overly prescient there, but there's definitely some of the familiar juggling trade-offs in his design decisions.

New comment by Deebster in "Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company"

Deebster — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:11:00 +0000

> Firefox Containers are awful

Do you have any sources or reasons for this condemnation?

New comment by Deebster in "Thunderbird in 2019"

Deebster — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 07:50:17 +0000

I wonder how up-to-date that warning is, given that the feature was introduced in TB 38 and we're now on TB 60.

Edit: there's still 35 bugs tagged maildir (albeit all unconfirmed or new): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?classification=Clie...

New comment by Deebster in "The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India"

Deebster — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:36:24 +0000

Well done to the author for planting the word "hegemony" in there.