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New comment by LucasOe in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

LucasOe — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:50:34 +0000

I wrote a Spicetify plugin to show information about a song’s genres, but unfortunately the public API endpoint it was using -- as well as many other endpoints -- was removed after their changes, even for Premium users.

New comment by LucasOe in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

LucasOe — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:47:30 +0000

And as a result Spotify has restricted their public API; which has limited the functionality of third-party-apps and Spicetify plugins.

New comment by LucasOe in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

LucasOe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:56:35 +0000

In my opinion, the biggest benefit of skills is that they encourage good CLI tooling. Even someone who doesn't use AI all that much can profit from it.

New comment by LucasOe in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

LucasOe — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:53:05 +0000

I know it's subjective, but personally I think Nausea by Sartre is the much better "The Stranger", and it always saddens me a bit to see Camus so high up on every list while missing Sartre.

New comment by LucasOe in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

LucasOe — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:50:33 +0000

There are Chromium-based apps that block ads by default, like Brave and Vanadium.

Edit: It should be mentioned however, that the blocklist for Vanadium is pretty small.

New comment by LucasOe in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

LucasOe — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:22:50 +0000

I wish the article would talk a bit more about security. Here's what the GrapheneOS project has to say about Firefox [1]:

> Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/usage

New comment by LucasOe in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

LucasOe — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:46:29 +0000

Why?

New comment by LucasOe in "I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease"

LucasOe — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:57:08 +0000

What a coincidence! At the end of last year, I had uveitis for the second time, and my eye doctor advised me to investigate whether I have an autoimmune disorder. Two weeks ago, I underwent a blood test, but all my values came back normal. It was only after researching the HLA-B27 antigen online and discussing it with my doctor that I was able to persuade him to test me for it. Initially, he was reluctant, as he saw no reason to do so. Now, I have another blood test scheduled in three months, where I will finally find out if I have it.

New comment by LucasOe in "Maybe Bluesky has "won""

LucasOe — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:12:59 +0000

That's the reason why people are moving to Bluesky: because there you don't have a make a constant effort to ignore posts.

On Twitter, I have a make an active effort to not click on the "For you" tab because I'll be bombarded with posts about Trump or "woke" games, which I simply don't want to see. On Bluesky, I can actually discover new content without having to think about my mental health when using the "Discover" feed.

Chasing Ghosts: Phantom DLLs in Mirror's Edge

LucasOe — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:34:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shonk.sh/posts/chasing-ghosts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41578427

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by LucasOe in "The Bun Shell"

LucasOe — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 07:51:16 +0000

If you want bash like syntax, you can always run msys2 / Cygwin / WSL on Windows. But 99% of the time I just need to run basic commands like git and maybe pipe them to ripgrep or fzf, and frankly the PowerShell is fine for that. For anything more complicated, I'll write a script in Python or maybe JavaScript anyway, so I don't really care what shell I use as long as I can customize it and it can run basic commands. And if you don't like PowerShell, there's Nushell.

New comment by LucasOe in "Immanuel Kant – What can we know?"

LucasOe — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 02:05:10 +0000

I like Kants work, but it has always bugged me, how he defined the 12 Kantian categories of a priori knowledge that just are. It feels inelegant. I'd much rather have a generalisation of all a priori knowledge instead of a defined list.

New comment by LucasOe in "Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose"

LucasOe — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 17:45:00 +0000

I always struggle with keeping my writing clear and concise, maybe because English isn't my native tongue, so this looks like an incredibly helpful tool to me. Does Vale.sh have the ability to check the prose used in comments? Using this for doc comments would be useful for writing better documentation. The example only shows it being used for markdown files.

New comment by LucasOe in "Proof you can do hard things"

LucasOe — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 01:26:46 +0000

I don't think this is the reason you learn calculus in school, but I do think it is a good reason to learn it.