Hacker News: aAaaArrRgH

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

aAaaArrRgH — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 06:00:23 +0000

We call it appelblauwzeegroen (apple blue sea green)

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

aAaaArrRgH — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:44:53 +0000

The ad placements aren't tailored to you. They're tailored to the advertiser's wishes.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal"

aAaaArrRgH — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 05:09:20 +0000

> but possibly could lead the old, cool, hobbiest & un-monetized web being reinvented?

It still exists. It just isn't that popular.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago"

aAaaArrRgH — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:43:31 +0000

Not when it comes to video/image/vector editing. DaVinci Resolve, Adobe and Affinity are still miles ahead of FOSS creativity tools like The GIMP.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

aAaaArrRgH — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:03:24 +0000

Or just don't access any content that is funded by advertising. The nonprofit web still exists. But for all content that's not someone's spare time passion project, someone's gotta foot the bill.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

aAaaArrRgH — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:02:36 +0000

Hard disagree. If you're a fan of the strictly functional "what's CSS?" look, you might as well stick to viewing README.md on GitHub and call it a day.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees"

aAaaArrRgH — Thu, 23 May 2024 05:32:12 +0000

I tried to delete my ChatGPT account but the confirmation button remained locked. Anyone else have the same issue?

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "We need to rewild the internet"

aAaaArrRgH — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:38:47 +0000

You could bring back web directories.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers"

aAaaArrRgH — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 07:27:28 +0000

Good, thank you for fighting the good fight.

I do wonder whether it's possible to inject harmless stubs for these trackers so you don't have to deal with the bureaucracy of filing a complaint though. Then again, stubbing helps a few techy people, filing a formal complaint helps everyone.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "Mental health in software engineering"

aAaaArrRgH — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 05:27:00 +0000

Americans need that extra money to cover higher out-of-pocket healthcare costs. That's not necessarily a reliable indicator of wealth.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)"

aAaaArrRgH — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:31:16 +0000

And it officially registers your opt-out, if you care about that sort of thing.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++"

aAaaArrRgH — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:16:10 +0000

VSCode and Sublime Text do that too. And recently Microsoft even added it to Notepad.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl"

aAaaArrRgH — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:21:07 +0000

Given that it's a small SSH server, I wonder how feasible it would be to rewrite it in a memory-safe language. C doesn't feel like the most security-conscious (and, quite frankly, legible) language in this day and age.

British climate startup claims to have solved direct air capture's cost problem

aAaaArrRgH — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 21:56:21 +0000

Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/direct-air-capture-machine-mission-zero-uk-startup-funding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39750527

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

aAaaArrRgH — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 09:14:33 +0000

Still based on Chromium though, so the Manifest v3 drama about Google trying to sabotage adblockers still applies.

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot"

aAaaArrRgH — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:58:14 +0000

There is some precedent: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23853517/microsoft-teams-...

New comment by aAaaArrRgH in "The bash book to rule them all"

aAaaArrRgH — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 10:32:07 +0000

Just so everyone's aware: the author receives a commission for each book sold through their Amazon link, so take that into account when reading their review.