Hacker News: captainepoch

New comment by captainepoch in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

captainepoch — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:59:26 +0000

Ladybird is doomed with this.

New comment by captainepoch in "Gemini in Chrome"

captainepoch — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:10:58 +0000

I hope Brave deletes this from Chromium if it's present in the source code.

New comment by captainepoch in "What's New with Firefox 142"

captainepoch — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 05:13:15 +0000

It's useful, but it's a meaningless feature.

We've been asking for a good JS and HTML engine, faster than what Firefox uses, and for better compatibility with websites (there are webs that don't work properly with Firefox). And to not put the Manifest V3 into Firefox (which it's done already, besides we still have uBlock Origin working as intended, for now, because nobody knows what's going to happen with that in the future).

And I think that's way more important that being able to group tabs.

New comment by captainepoch in "What's New with Firefox 142"

captainepoch — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:41:55 +0000

So... Nothing really useful or what users are asking for a long time...

And we then ask why people aren't using Firefox...

New comment by captainepoch in "What's New with Firefox 142"

captainepoch — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:41:15 +0000

I moved long ago, I don't regret anything.

New comment by captainepoch in "FreeDroidWarn"

captainepoch — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:33:42 +0000

For now, there isn't an alternative. Maybe a Pixel phone and GrapheneOS with the sandboxed Play Store would be the only choice, but for now, nobody knows.

New comment by captainepoch in "Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy"

captainepoch — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:51:01 +0000

If you want a hardened version of Firefox, download LibreWolf.

New comment by captainepoch in "Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification"

captainepoch — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:28:47 +0000

> Where in the real world is anonymity considered ok?

It should be everywhere, no matter the place or the platform.

New comment by captainepoch in "Vibe coding tips and tricks"

captainepoch — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:11:26 +0000

The day people stop inventing stuff like that and they put the same effort in do really good, quality code... That day, we might start having decent software and not Electron or React apps everywhere...

God bless old times when programmers cared about quality rather than stuff like this... "vive coding"... My God...

New comment by captainepoch in "Where's Firefox going next?"

captainepoch — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:03:01 +0000

The only thing Mozilla has right now better than Chrome is that the APIs needed for uBlock Origin to work as intented exist.

New comment by captainepoch in "Where's Firefox going next?"

captainepoch — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:00:45 +0000

I think exactly the same. It's always the same play.

I guess they don't want to listen to things they need to pour money into.

New comment by captainepoch in "Where's Firefox going next?"

captainepoch — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:00:09 +0000

Read the comments from Lio and skywal_l, both replies to your comment <- that's what I mean.

New comment by captainepoch in "Where's Firefox going next?"

captainepoch — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:42:49 +0000

So... Here's an idea: stop wasting time and money on things like that, listen to the community, hire engineers, and make a browser that can be at the same level as Chrome. We already told you what we want and need, no need to keep asking.

Mozilla and the story on "How to waste money and resources" is getting tiresome at this point.

New comment by captainepoch in "Let me pay for Firefox"

captainepoch — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:51:38 +0000

Mozilla has already millions of dollars than can be put into Firefox's development instead of the business they're getting into. It doesn't need even more money, it just needs to put part of it into engineers who would make Firefox what we need.

New comment by captainepoch in "F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant"

captainepoch — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:15:39 +0000

I hope they use the money to improve all the issues people have arised over the years. It can be a really good platform, if they're open to change. Otherwise, it might be dead in the future.

New comment by captainepoch in "First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)"

captainepoch — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:01:21 +0000

No faith on a piece of software of the author of the now abandoned Pixelfed, a software that is not finished and still very buggy.

New comment by captainepoch in "We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky"

captainepoch — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:24:07 +0000

Pure Bluesky endorsement from a MIT blog.

ActivityPub, Pleroma and Mastodon existed before this, and they just work.

New comment by captainepoch in "We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky"

captainepoch — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:22:27 +0000

> 1) A Twitter clone without the political baggage and chaos of the current Twitter ownership.

Not the current, but the previous one when Dorsey owned Twitter. And I don't know what's worse, honestly.

New comment by captainepoch in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

captainepoch — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:35:02 +0000

Cool. Now, in Europe, please.

New comment by captainepoch in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

captainepoch — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:25:43 +0000

Hope they do that worldwide soon too!