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New comment by bugmen0t in "Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer"

bugmen0t — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:09:24 +0000

The link is terrible. Maybe the article should link to https://arewefastyet.com or maybe the Speedometer selection at https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/raptor-desktop-spe...

New comment by bugmen0t in "Firefox address bar"

bugmen0t — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:59:28 +0000

There's also @ for steering the browser to a specific search engine (e.g., wikipedia search).

The canonical URL for how the address bar short cuts is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...

New comment by bugmen0t in "The Lone Banana Problem in AI"

bugmen0t — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:42:59 +0000

Would be kinda funny if the lone bananas have been removed from the training dataset because they are not part of the depicted item but are merely in the picture for scale :)

Educated immigrants protest proposed changes to immigration policy in Helsinki

bugmen0t — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:31:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/politics/23763-educated-immigrants-protest-proposed-changes-to-immigration-policy-in-helsinki.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36396738

Points: 1

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New comment by bugmen0t in "On Having Enough Socks (2019)"

bugmen0t — Fri, 05 May 2023 12:17:37 +0000

So, what's the solution to pairing socks? Buying many pairs from the same. Sure. That makes sense. But what happens when half of them are lost or damaged and you can't buy the same kind?

Do you end up as someone pairing socks again or do you throw away half of your socks?

New comment by bugmen0t in "Ask HN: Project ideas for a Linux kernel module"

bugmen0t — Tue, 02 May 2023 09:55:14 +0000

write a backdoor :) A kernel module that drops the user into a root shell if they call an obscure kernel functionality with a secret value in some registers.

This should be somewhat easy to start and self-contained. If you want, you can easily extend it if you want things to become more fancy. E.g., hiding the secret constant. Implementing a challenge response protocol, limiting access to other global state (hardware dongle? ip address?) and so on.

New comment by bugmen0t in "The Future of Thunderbird"

bugmen0t — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:29:29 +0000

Frankly, it's surprising how long they managed to drag it along given they build on top of a weird fork of Firefox ESR. Their foundation is crumbling for years and years. They really need to get off of it.

Origins, Sites and Other Terminologies

bugmen0t — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 21:58:06 +0000

Article URL: https://frederik-braun.com/origins-sites-and-other-terminologies.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34384551

Points: 1

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New comment by bugmen0t in "I still use Flash"

bugmen0t — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 13:21:30 +0000

Surprising there is no mention of the wasm/rust-implemented flash player https://ruffle.rs/ in the article.

New comment by bugmen0t in "Lesser-known JavaScript APIs"

bugmen0t — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:24:52 +0000

MDN is documentation for the web, not Firefox.

New comment by bugmen0t in "Complete Rewrite of ESLint"

bugmen0t — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:37:01 +0000

ESLint does not even support the browser. I think your first sentence is (I'm assuming accidentally) creating a straw man argument.

New comment by bugmen0t in "Ask HN: Good resource on writing web app with plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS?"

bugmen0t — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:33:37 +0000

The web platform was mostly piecemeal and happenstance. Not careful, coordinated design.

You'll find that it is unnecessarily and necessarily complex unless you adopt a framework that makes design decisions for you.

New comment by bugmen0t in "Ask HN: Is DRM on firefox another nail in the coffin of free internet?"

bugmen0t — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:26:38 +0000

Those who were involved with the Mozilla open source project or the company in the years of ~2013-2014 will heavily disagree.

There was a strong and long debate about the pros and cons. One of the strongest argument against was this here, including interoperability. I believe Cory Doctorow has also written multiple articles against DRM. I agree that DRM is generally bad.

However, the arguments for implementing it were the following: at least two other browsers will adopt the tech and that will allow it (per W3C process) to graduate from a Candidate Recommendation to a full Recommendation, making it part of the web platform.

On top, what would it mean for marketshare if people had to install a second browser just for watching movies? Would the non technical users accept and understand this without switching to a browser that they’d consider "actually feature complete"?

New comment by bugmen0t in "EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers"

bugmen0t — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:58:00 +0000

Can’t they run an open collective just to pay the bandwidth bill?

New comment by bugmen0t in "Paypal.com is using revoked certificate"

bugmen0t — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 09:21:10 +0000

Why are other browsers allowing access when Firefox is not?

Isn’t this a security issue?

New comment by bugmen0t in "Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain"

bugmen0t — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:19:17 +0000

Nice idea. Out of curiosity, which song inspired you to build this site?

New comment by bugmen0t in "Templating in HTML"

bugmen0t — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:43:48 +0000

template does HTML parsing. The `content` attribute returns a DocumentFragment.

New comment by bugmen0t in "Templating in HTML"

bugmen0t — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 04:14:52 +0000

Do you have a link to the template instantiation proposal?

New comment by bugmen0t in "Swatch Internet Time"

bugmen0t — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 05:53:20 +0000

Yup. Like on a casio. If I remember correctly the modes were normal time, stop watch, timer and .beats

New comment by bugmen0t in "Swatch Internet Time"

bugmen0t — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 10:13:16 +0000

I had a "beats" watch in the late 90s. Something with "internet" in the name was super appealing to me, when I knew I couldn’t have the actual internet with me.

I guess back then, as a teenager I didn’t even know how much of a nerd I was :-)