Hacker News: Drawde

New comment by Drawde in "The Static Site Paradox"

Drawde — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:33:43 +0000

is also a nice one

New comment by Drawde in "I Like Makefiles"

Drawde — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:31:42 +0000

This is most likely what is being referenced: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/Makefile

I like how the includes are separated and commented.

Also if you weren't already familiar with their work you might be interested in giving this a read: https://justine.lol/ape.html

New comment by Drawde in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"

Drawde — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 12:14:48 +0000

> See, for instance, the deals Mozilla has with their default DoH providers.

Like the one they had that just circled back around to the ISPs that regularly data-mine their users' traffic?: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/comcast-mozilla-...

New comment by Drawde in "Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers"

Drawde — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:28:40 +0000

They released a blog post about it with a little more info: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attri...

New comment by Drawde in "Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest"

Drawde — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:15:39 +0000

For anyone wanting further information about this: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/13p889x/red...

New comment by Drawde in "Tell HN: MS forcing Edge shortcut on desktop"

Drawde — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:57:36 +0000

That line seems to often be said in threads where people are fighting against Microsoft's latest barrage of dark patterns. For some reason the time spent on dealing with that is never compared fairly: "Windows is only usable if your time has no value".

New comment by Drawde in "Tell HN: Edward Snowden hasn't tweeted since Russian invasion of Ukraine started"

Drawde — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:49:40 +0000

He did pick Cuba! If I recall correctly he was flying from Hong Kong to Cuba and the US canceled his passport on the layover in Russia, stranding him there.

New comment by Drawde in "uMatrix has been archived"

Drawde — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 12:08:42 +0000

If you're using uBlock Origin already, then you don't really need uMatrix or NoScript. Just enable medium mode or hard mode:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...

New comment by Drawde in "System Hardening in Android 11"

Drawde — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:36:23 +0000

Sadly it seems that prior restrictions in Android have already taken their toll on Termux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23224669

New comment by Drawde in "Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness"

Drawde — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:53:54 +0000

Why not just use ublock origin in medium mode[0] (or hard mode[1] if you're so inclined)?

[0]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

[1]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...