Hacker News: brymaster

New comment by brymaster in "Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default"

brymaster — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 22:16:00 +0000

Thank you for your dedication on this. Now on the subject of energy use, how about the patch for the following critical macOS bug landing in a Firefox 67 point release?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551990

New comment by brymaster in "Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks"

brymaster — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:39:00 +0000

  Electrolysis isn't enabled by default

It is enabled by default, you just may have a plugin installed that is blocking it. The plugin(s) could be multiprocess compatible but unmaintained and missing the multiprocess=true flag in its package.json.

You can go to about:support to see if multiprocess is truly enabled. If not, go to about:addons and start disabling extensions until it does work.

New comment by brymaster in "Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks"

brymaster — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:30:38 +0000

  Media playback on new tabs is blocked until the tab is visible

^^ That feature was in the Beta release notes but didn't seem to make it into 53 release...disappointing because it appears to work great in Beta/Developer Edition. Can anyone from Mozilla explain why it was scrapped?

New comment by brymaster in "Booting the Final GameCube Game"

brymaster — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 20:06:34 +0000

> odds are good emu and rom scene would deteriorate

This is a rather limited point of view - the draw to emulation is much more than convenience.

There are thriving communities based around homebrew, preservation, ROM hacking, translations, prototype collecting, debugging, tool-assisted speedrunning, enhancements, music, artwork and reverse engineering.

What I learned selling my Reddit accounts

brymaster — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 01:26:31 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@Rob79/what-i-learned-selling-my-reddit-accounts-c5e9f6348005

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11459417

Points: 20

# Comments: 5

New comment by brymaster in "Announcing the Twitter Trust and Safety Council"

brymaster — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:15:45 +0000

These were simply citations; adding context to someone's statement. I find it hard to understand that the information we all post freely online is creepy when we are confronted on it. Shouldn't we just stand by what we say?

New comment by brymaster in "Announcing the Twitter Trust and Safety Council"

brymaster — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:33:22 +0000

Actually was disturbed that you felt 'exstudent2 should craft the conversation around whatever you want instead of his valid points about who this new Twitter committee associates with.

New comment by brymaster in "Announcing the Twitter Trust and Safety Council"

brymaster — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:16:28 +0000

No goalposts are being moved. Your relevant history on the subject is what was being pointed out. I think you know exactly why and it doesn't have anything to do with "generating" drama.

New comment by brymaster in "Announcing the Twitter Trust and Safety Council"

brymaster — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:04:23 +0000

Not a weird comment and you know why. I pointed to your comments about "GamerGate" because you singled him out with:

> The best "radical" quotes you have from this person are criticisms of video games?

"Video games" being the focus there.

New comment by brymaster in "Announcing the Twitter Trust and Safety Council"

brymaster — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:02:19 +0000

I disagree and I wouldn't call it a dossier. If someone takes a stance on a certain issue it is helpful to know why.

Edit: ...and I could have just the same pointed out to past comments on HN.

New comment by brymaster in "Announcing the Twitter Trust and Safety Council"

brymaster — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:01:59 +0000

If you post here long enough, you'll find that when certain topics arise there are a group of three-letter acronyms prevalent in tech that make rational discussion of said topics nearly impossible.

New comment by brymaster in "Openage – Free Age of Empires 2 engine clone"

brymaster — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:59:03 +0000

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511084

New comment by brymaster in "Firefox Now Offers a More Private Browsing Experience"

brymaster — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 01:19:51 +0000

> The domain connect.facebook.com isn't in there, for example

"Anti-ThirdpartySocial" aka "Anti-Facebook List‎" list https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifacebook.txt

> ||connect.facebook.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.net|~fb.com

> ||connect.facebook.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~fb.com

> ||facebook.com/connect/$third-party

Is that not what you are looking for?

New comment by brymaster in "Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan"

brymaster — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 07:11:05 +0000

>rationalwiki

Very ironic that you decided to link to that RationalWiki piece, actively edited by the notorious 'Ryulong' who was banned from Wikipedia largely in part by his bad behavior (rule-beaking, undoing edits, bias and unethical practices) on the GamerGate entry. (https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ryulong%20banned)

Wow, I mean come on!

New comment by brymaster in "New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Journalism"

brymaster — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 03:16:46 +0000

This is disappointing because I think you're smarter than this.

A running joke, "ethics in journalism", by detractors and the very same "journalists" being criticized for ethical transgressions is not effective for anything, besides perpetuating the "this is really about misogyny" meme.

If one is "cautious", one can certainly do their due diligence to investigate this matter and learn that reporting on games, tech and all sorts of other journalism really are cause for ethical concerns.

I'm aware you don't care about games or game reportage, but I'll cite a few examples anyway: take corrupt "journalists", such as Nathan Grayson (http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson) or Jenn Frank (http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=jenn_frank) who collude, fail to disclose relationships and give favorable coverage and reviews to friends.

By the way, trolls and shit-stirrers are not the "loudest people" nor do they represent a label. No amount of Twitter reweets, likes and favorites will make that a reasonable argument.

New comment by brymaster in "New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Journalism"

brymaster — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 00:32:29 +0000

> If you, like me, or tptacek [1], were confused why this is a big deal, that's because it's not.

Ah yes, because you two are certainly the authorities on the matter.

> Standing up for "ethical journalism" was and continues to be one of GamerGate's most popular smoke screens.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. It's getting stale that the diverse group of people associated along with GamerGate are merely harassers: you know that isn't true.

Downvoted. You use scare quotes and have to link to someone else's post in an attempt to add weight to your clearly weak argument, make no attempt to add evidence to your points and eventually fallback on claiming thinly-veiled harassment and misogyny. Absolutely no legs to stand on.

For some reason, your particular group of people cannot have a real discussion about ethics without dismissing it all together and then dropping your boogeyman term "GamerGate".

Why do you think that is?

New comment by brymaster in "We apologize"

brymaster — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 03:39:29 +0000

> Ellen Pao being at fault for everything is a meme spawned by the Gamergate/MRW/anti-SJW crowd.

No, it wasn't.

> If the CEO was some boring old white man, nobody would be calling for his head like this

Nice meme. Let's address both the race and sex parts:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=fire+brendan+eich

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=fire+tim+armstrong

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=fire+satya+nadella

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=fire+mark+pincus

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=fire+yishan+wong

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=boycott+papa+johns

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=hobby+lobby+scotus

and extra special: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=cancelcolbert

New comment by brymaster in "Reddit’s Chief Apologizes After Employee’s Dismissal"

brymaster — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 02:03:38 +0000

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9840805

New comment by brymaster in "Petition: Step down as CEO of Reddit Inc"

brymaster — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 06:35:48 +0000

> vocal minority

That's interesting because it mirrors Ellen Pao's attitude:

> But Ms. Pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of Reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.

- (source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderato...)

... yet here we are with over 100K signatures and quickly rising. When your largest subreddits and influential content creators take a big chunk of the site down, it's not a vocal minority with zero ramifications - it's you about to become the next Digg.

This isn't an issue for Reddit to take lightly. If content creators pack up shop, Reddit becomes just another cat photo and yesterday's news dump like your facebook feed (read: low quality content). Users will end up where ever your cool content creators defect to.

New comment by brymaster in "Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News"

brymaster — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 23:02:07 +0000

This is like RewindHN.com (created by user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kami8845) before it bit the dust.

It's open source: https://github.com/doda/rewindhn