Hacker News: GeckoEidechse

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix"

GeckoEidechse — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:49:44 +0000

Maybe OP felt addressed xD

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative"

GeckoEidechse — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:24:51 +0000

In regards to Mozilla creating an Electron alternative, they already tried that. It was called Proton and it never caught on but was solely bleeding money so they had to shut it down again.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "ElonJet Is Now Suspended"

GeckoEidechse — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:40:41 +0000

Seems like there's a now an account for it on Mastodon

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Exoskeletons qualify for direct disability compensation in Germany"

GeckoEidechse — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:05:39 +0000

Well the article is a about German health insurance so without mentioning it explicitly it's not clear that you were talking about the US system :P

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Pulse Browser – An experimental Firefox fork"

GeckoEidechse — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 13:38:34 +0000

Just go to about:compat in Firefox and you can see them. Most of them are simple UA locks but some require more advanced logic.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Pulse Browser – An experimental Firefox fork"

GeckoEidechse — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 11:22:03 +0000

Currently the 3rd most requested feature on Mozilla Connect is native vertical tabs: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/native-vertical-tabs-li...

Any chance we could see something like this in Pulse Browser or is that something that just requires touching too much of the underlying code base to be viable? ^^

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"

GeckoEidechse — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:32:22 +0000

On the topic of Twiter, Mastodon, and the Fediverse, why do federated FOSS alternatives to popular platforms not offer a read-only version of said platform as one of its instances to augment its lack of content?

In the example of Twitter, Nitter already exists as an alternative front-end. Now what if there's a Mastodon instance that uses Nitter to wrap official Twitter content and serve it as if it where the twitter.com mastodon instance? Again it would need to be a read-only version as Twitter is not Mastodon but it would help fill the content gap for sure.

Now Mastodon might not have a content issue but PeerTube for example very well has and in that case masquerading YouTube as a PeerTube instance would become very interesting.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Feel the power of the Manifest v3"

GeckoEidechse — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:03:26 +0000

Yeah no, modifying logic of a binary application as large and complex as modern web browsers is slightly more involved than the Discord frontend mods that essentially just tweak some CSS and or HTML and JavaScript.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair"

GeckoEidechse — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:25:57 +0000

Repairability and device thinness are by no means mutually exclusive IMO.

When LTT did a review of the Framework laptop for example they also did a size comparison with a similarly specced Dell laptop and found that the framework both thinner and sturdier than the Dell laptop, next to being obviously more repairable ¯\_( ツ )_/¯

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks"

GeckoEidechse — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:48:31 +0000

Planned obsolescence? Batteries are consumables, so once it's dead the consumer is essentially forced to buy a new model.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks"

GeckoEidechse — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:46:00 +0000

While the limitation to newer models sucks. The fact that thanks to (planned) legislation Apple feels pressured to make parts available to consumers is an absolute win for right to repair.

Is Apple doing as much as they can to make this as unviable as possible? Yes, but it's a first step in the right direction :D

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Botspam apocalypse"

GeckoEidechse — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:10:32 +0000

As much as I hate the whole cryptocurrency hype myself, I think I agree that a proof-of-work requirement on spam detection that pays in the hosts favour could help solve spam to some degree.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Botspam apocalypse"

GeckoEidechse — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:08:00 +0000

I wonder if a general solution could be to make the visit more computationally demanding to the visitor than to the host, e.g. some form of proof-of-work. I guess captchas already do that in some sense but they require the humans to do the work.

Now the author above has stated they dislike the crypto route and I agree that the whole web3 idea is bs but what if in the case that spam of some form is detected by the server, it requires the visitor to show some proof-of-work and combine that with the "mining crypto in JS instead of ads" craze. That way the bot would need to put work in which would slow it down and at the same time it would pay for its own visit.

No ofc no spam detection system is perfect and it would also hit human users but in their case it would be just a wait a few more seconds longer for page to load kinda case.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Spain will introduce free train travel"

GeckoEidechse — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 18:21:29 +0000

Austria and Switzerland definitely have better train service than Germany. In fact the Austrian federal railways (ÖBB) even bought up the majority of DB's night train routes after DB considered decommissioning them ^^

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)"

GeckoEidechse — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:07:50 +0000

Bringing us back to the discussion about threat models :P

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on YouTube"

GeckoEidechse — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:34:06 +0000

Yet some of the tactics of spammers/scammers are so obvious that it's surprising YouTube doesn't provide simple solutions for some of the case.

For example a common example as MKBHD mentioned is scammers impersonating channel owners within their comments.

Why can't content creators set an option to auto-flag other users that use their name and profile picture (to some degree of similarity) in comments under their video?

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "API-0.core.keybaseapi.com has expired certificate"

GeckoEidechse — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:58:24 +0000

Yeah I switched away from Wire again due to constant notification issues (yes battery saving options are disabled on Android). My session has since timed out and trying to log back in on either mobile or desktop just causes the app to crash.

Also there's no Matrix bridge for Wire compared to Signal.

The multi-account support was nice and is something I'd really love to see in Matrix.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Steam to Chrome OS"

GeckoEidechse — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:40:59 +0000

While this was not stated in the linked post, other sources said it will be limited to x86 chromebooks that run 11th+ gen Intel CPUs or equivalent.

That basically limits it to models that cost >800$ making it a very niche product.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens: A Comprehensive Guide"

GeckoEidechse — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:20:50 +0000

As others have already mentioned, the process is interestingly enough reversible (to some degree) by simply subjecting it to a colder environment like a freezer for a bit.

New comment by GeckoEidechse in "Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call"

GeckoEidechse — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 19:26:10 +0000

Maybe a bit off-topic but will upcoming Matrix Live also be hosted via Matrix VoIP now? ^^

(At least the smaller ones like interviews where the number of participants is <=8 until compatibility with SFU is done)