Hacker News: SimeVidas

New comment by SimeVidas in "SQLite in a PWA (Anita) with FileSystemAccessAPI"

SimeVidas — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:09:46 +0000

Bug report: If you navigate to the start page and click the Get Started button, the browser’s Back button stops working (you can’t return to the start page by going back).

New comment by SimeVidas in "Every pricing page should have GIFs"

SimeVidas — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:36:29 +0000

I’m curious, would you disable GIF autoplay if the browser’s settings offered it?

New comment by SimeVidas in "Every pricing page should have GIFs"

SimeVidas — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:34:46 +0000

Why 20 MB of GIFs when you can have 200 KB of videos?

New comment by SimeVidas in "Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony"

SimeVidas — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:57:51 +0000

> Engineers from Apple and Mozilla are largely our bastion against Google's harmful proposals for the web.

Brave also deserves a mention. As long as Brave exists in its current form, there will be a version of Chromium without Google’s “bad” stuff.

New comment by SimeVidas in "Zelda 64 has been fully decompiled"

SimeVidas — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 18:22:42 +0000

On a related note, it’s a shame that you have to look to emulators to play this game because Nintendo’s official emulation is so bad.

New comment by SimeVidas in "The curious tale of a Nintendo UK Hotliner during the console war era"

SimeVidas — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 05:37:57 +0000

“This training consisted of completing the entire NES catalogue, about 100 games, in one month.”

I’ve been playing video games my entire life, but I’m not sure I could survive this “training”.

New comment by SimeVidas in "How do people resist Covid infections? Hospital workers offer a hint"

SimeVidas — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:59:53 +0000

Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/.

New comment by SimeVidas in "AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives"

SimeVidas — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:22:55 +0000

Heh, when I watched the Chrome Summit recap video earlier this week, when they talked about the Privacy Sandbox developments, I remember thinking to myself “This is all cool, but I don’t trust you”. xD

New comment by SimeVidas in "Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden"

SimeVidas — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:07:13 +0000

I didn’t say I’m not affected. I’m uninformed about most things, and I sometimes behave irrationally. I don’t see that as a problem. But it does explain why I make bad decisions. That’s all I’m saying. I guess I should have clarified that I didn’t mean my comment negatively.

New comment by SimeVidas in "Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden"

SimeVidas — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:15:48 +0000

You get used to Duck over time. Many of us have lived in pre-internet times. It was fine. You don’t have to always get the best search results immediately.

New comment by SimeVidas in "Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden"

SimeVidas — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:13:54 +0000

Simple explanation: Most people are uninformed and irrational.

New comment by SimeVidas in "Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal"

SimeVidas — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:11:01 +0000

Maybe Google’s researchers are kept out of the loop.

New comment by SimeVidas in "The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs (2012)"

SimeVidas — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:25:42 +0000

Speaking of laws, there should be a law that forces blogs to put publication dates below article titles. Was this article published yesterday or 10 years ago?

New comment by SimeVidas in "German BigBrotherAwards 2021"

SimeVidas — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:27:51 +0000

> Use of the Proctorio software also requires the Google Chrome browser to be installed on the students’ computers.

Why am I not surprised. The only major browser that doesn’t block any trackers by default is the perfect fit for this type of software.

New comment by SimeVidas in "Malwarebytes' privacy VPN is Mullvad in a shady trenchcoat"

SimeVidas — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:04:57 +0000

Don’t VPNs have a very large number of servers all over the world? That must cost a ton of money and make it hard for new players to enter the market without a significant investment. I’m not sure Mozilla can spare such an investment right now.

New comment by SimeVidas in "Malwarebytes' privacy VPN is Mullvad in a shady trenchcoat"

SimeVidas — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:43:37 +0000

What makes you so sure they could afford it? How much does it cost to set up an independent global VPN service?

New comment by SimeVidas in "Malwarebytes' privacy VPN is Mullvad in a shady trenchcoat"

SimeVidas — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:15:22 +0000

Yep, Mozilla does not have VPN infrastructure money. They're happy if they have enough money to develop Firefox.

New comment by SimeVidas in "Super Mario 64 has been ported to iOS"

SimeVidas — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:43:55 +0000

By the way, you can declare your preference for "old" in Reddit's settings. It has worked pretty well for me on desktop (not sure if old even exists on mobile).

New comment by SimeVidas in "Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions"

SimeVidas — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:44:26 +0000

> I just want a well-functioning and secure browser that people can trust.

You can't trust any of them. The real question is, who do you trust more? Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, Brave. You can't trust any of them, but you have to pick one.

New comment by SimeVidas in "Did iOS 15 kill Google AMP"

SimeVidas — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:04:05 +0000

There could also be a newly discovered bug or change in Safari 15 that affects AMP pages.