Hacker News: WolfeReader

New comment by WolfeReader in "Vivaldi 8.0"

WolfeReader — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:08:32 +0000

Vivaldi has been doing exactly this for years now

New comment by WolfeReader in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

WolfeReader — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:06:04 +0000

"If you only use Apple devices, it’s really solid."

It's not a good idea to become dependent on a single corporation's products.

New comment by WolfeReader in "A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools"

WolfeReader — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:07:11 +0000

That's not a good reason to avoid using ad blockers.

New comment by WolfeReader in "AI slop is killing online communities"

WolfeReader — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:47:56 +0000

Unlike a lot of communities, yours at least started on the correct side. Better to ban outright, than to slowly realize that you should have banned it.

New comment by WolfeReader in "AI slop is killing online communities"

WolfeReader — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:21:44 +0000

He's stating a fact. Turn on showed in your options and scroll to the bottom of the comments on any popular story. There are so many agentic users here.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

WolfeReader — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:39:16 +0000

It was on a work computer, and my next job was a lot less permissive about letting us run our own OS.

My personal computer is too gaming-focused to be a good candidate for Qubes.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Let's talk about LLMs"

WolfeReader — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:07:07 +0000

Stories can't be downvoted.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

WolfeReader — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:03:49 +0000

This makes me miss running Qubes a few years ago, and keeping BitWarden in a separate VM from everything else. I've never felt as secure as when I had that setup.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

WolfeReader — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:02:21 +0000

Browser-based password management serves the purpose of locking users into a specific browser; I'd much rather have the freedom to switch browsers at will without the cognitive tax of securely moving all my creds every time I want to switch my main browser.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

WolfeReader — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:59:27 +0000

Bitwarden has taken investor money, sadly. It's still in good shape for the moment. But the time will come when they place profits above other needs; it's a matter of when, not if.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

WolfeReader — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:52:33 +0000

Please use a dedicated password manager, instead of a browser-based one. KeePass is likely the best going forward.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"

WolfeReader — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:09:15 +0000

"I thought about using fossil many times but it seems codex and claude have deeper integration with git."

Don't let "agentic" "coding" be the reason to avoid fossil.

Fossil and other VCS are much easier for humans to use than Git is; there's no reason to have an LLM burning up tokens and the environment to do tasks you'd do yourself quickly and correctly.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Ti-84 Evo"

WolfeReader — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:07:45 +0000

Yes, things that are not LLMs continue to be useful and interesting even though LLMs exist.

I hate what AI hype is doing to peoples' brains here.

New comment by WolfeReader in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

WolfeReader — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:37:06 +0000

I was a loyal magit user for a decade. Now I use jujutsu from the command line. It's actually really nice.

New comment by WolfeReader in "High Performance Git"

WolfeReader — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:07:41 +0000

I have to use Windows for work. With WSL, it's actually perfectly fine! Which is really more of an endorsement of Linux than Windows.

New comment by WolfeReader in "High Performance Git"

WolfeReader — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:59:32 +0000

Git is noticeably slow on Windows. Git is built to run on top of Unix commands, which work great on Linux and Mac. For Windows, the commands have to be installed separately, and there's a performance penalty for each call. Individual Git commands are usually fine, but anything that calls several steps in sequence will visibly drag.

(WSL gets around this entirely.)

New comment by WolfeReader in "Not buying another Kindle"

WolfeReader — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:50:32 +0000

I've had two Pocketbooks and never encountered these issues. Sounds like you had some bad luck.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Not buying another Kindle"

WolfeReader — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:47:35 +0000

Kobo works with Libby if you use Adobe Digital Editions as an intermediary.

From the Libby web page, you have an option to download the ASCM. Load that onto ADE, and you have the book. Then plug in your Kobo and transfer the book. It even respects the loan duration!

This isn't perfect, but it works, so I can't agree that Libby and Kobo are absolutely incompatible.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Not buying another Kindle"

WolfeReader — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:21:54 +0000

I truly hope you're buying books as well - authors (and editors, illustrators, translators, etc) should be rewarded for their art.

New comment by WolfeReader in "I'm never buying another Kindle"

WolfeReader — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:18:23 +0000

The Kindle scene is a disaster that shows the dangers of prioritizing DRM. Meanwhile, I'm buying DRM-free books and keeping them in Calibre and reading on KOReader. It's a great experience.