Hacker News: Forgeties79

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:20:20 +0000

If we’re going to use this kind of metaphor, I would say Firefox is just doing a mixed job of cleaning up the mess Google made on your carpet.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:57:04 +0000

You’re welcome.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:41:02 +0000

If you want to compare Obama and Trump insofar as “presidents generally don’t do 90% of what they say” that is valid but to imply their admins are/were anything alike beyond that would be ridiculous. I’m assuming that’s not what you mean but I just need to throw that out there.

The only other obvious comparison is the typical expansion of executive power we’ve (unfortunately) come to expect, though like the previous comparison, with Trump it’s different by orders of magnitude.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:06:13 +0000

Ah duh I should’ve checked for that documentation. Thanks

New comment by Forgeties79 in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:35:05 +0000

He also ran on releasing the Epstein files, let's make sure to remind folks of that at every turn.

"The most transparent" president.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "My Ten Years in No Man's Sky"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:32:56 +0000

"The Galactic Hub" is the best. Very active community, ongoing ambitious projects (many completed), it's really so much fun. It's also easy to get in to it. They have a "taxi service" on discord where a user gets on the mic and coordinates with you to bring you to the hub worlds so you don't have to do it manually.

If you're remotely considering it, join up. I hop on every month or two and it's a treat.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:29:49 +0000

I was about to say, we are over a decade now into "the Trump show," any excuses about his outsider status or not knowing stuff is gone. Trump is the establishment. These people voted for The Man and his plans. Then when we say "look what he did" (assuming they can even acknowledge a critique is valid) they go "well you made us vote for him." I swear I'll lose it if another Romney-Republican who believes this is a blip or whatever shares me yet another Peggy Noonan piece.

It's ridiculous. No responsibility taken.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:53:30 +0000

My friend lost their research grant because they had “accessibility” - they were going to make sure to accommodate screen readers.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:38:05 +0000

Very true. It’s hardly a fair fight

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

Forgeties79 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:31:42 +0000

All good. I got filtr up, seems decent.

Appreciate the tip!

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

Forgeties79 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:48:44 +0000

For those reading this, it does not work with Firefox (or anything not safari it seems). Wish I had looked that up before excitedly purchasing it lol but so it goes, seems like a good project so I’m considering it a $5 donation

Edit: looks like starting with ios26 they have “filtr” mode which extends more broadly to other apps but “stick to safari for best results”

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

Forgeties79 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:43:56 +0000

Adblocking is basic security now. I gladly pay for quality services.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

Forgeties79 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:34:43 +0000

How do you do this? Straight up don’t know what the “content blocker subsystem” is ha

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

Forgeties79 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:56:25 +0000

Well chrome is obvious. Firefox always triggers the same complaints about Mozilla foundation. They’re valid, but the dog pile is always very striking. At the end of the day Firefox is a great browser and has enabled a bunch of great forks all outside of the chromium ecosystem. We can be critical and should be, but again, it’s very intense sometimes. Google is clearly worse.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year"

Forgeties79 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:01:22 +0000

Didn’t I just see on HN the other day that it has “be humorous and irreverent” baked into its system prompt? Something like that?

New comment by Forgeties79 in "ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year"

Forgeties79 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:57:34 +0000

Alternate headline:

“After three years of unprecedented investment including governments, Facebook, and Google dumping money into the promise of AI, ChatGPT still has over 50% of the traffic.”

Also, grok isn’t been on that list, further proving that no serious people use it.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

Forgeties79 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:50:01 +0000

A browser that is routinely dumped on by HN for not being perfectly managed lol

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

Forgeties79 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:23:25 +0000

Yet apparently people still dump unvetted LLM outputs onto their colleagues and expect them to thank them for the privilege. So it’s worth asking them what the consensus is of their work to find out if it’s the case.

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

Forgeties79 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:28:52 +0000

Have you asked your colleagues what it’s like to deal with your code?

New comment by Forgeties79 in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

Forgeties79 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:28:18 +0000

They’re not “bugs” they’re “quirks”! Our software is so quirky. It’s a feature!