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New comment by chrisldgk in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

chrisldgk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:08:39 +0000

I would suppose it interrupts the page load after streaming the HTML and before loading and/or executing the cookie banner‘s javascript, meaning the content is there but the cookie banner will never open.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents"

chrisldgk — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:20:00 +0000

Per their own docs, D1 is primarily meant for things like Auth DBs that you have frequent read/write access to but that store limited amounts of data. If you need more storage, running Postgres somewhere else and querying via Hyperdrive is probably what you want to do instead.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Peptides: where to begin?"

chrisldgk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:02:10 +0000

Reading this back, I did entirely misinterpret your comment and may have acted on that a bit more emotionally than I would like to admit.

Thank you for clarifying and I wholeheartedly agree.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Peptides: where to begin?"

chrisldgk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:41:31 +0000

You sound exactly like the tens of doctors that misdiagnosed my aunt (who passed away through euthanasia after her symptoms got too bad to live with late last year).

I understand that the symptoms of ME/CFS might be similar to being obese/depressed or housebound, but the problem is that doctors often jump to that conclusion too quickly and don’t take efforts to diagnose ME/CFS leading to situations like my aunt’s. She was also obese and depressed and has been struggling with those symptoms for about 30 years and has constantly been misdiagnosed the entire time because doctors didn’t figure out that those were symptoms of ME/CFS and not two unrelated conditions coming from two different diagnoses.

Thanks to long-covid putting the symptoms of ME/CFS on the forefront lately, there’s finally been some much needed research into the disease and people like my aunt finally get the diagnosis they should have been getting many years ago.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

chrisldgk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:25:45 +0000

My main question here is mostly why so many people still rely on axios for their fetch implementation. Native fetch has been a thing in the JavaScript world for so long, and the DX gains to using axios over it are miniscule. The only thing I can think of is axios instances, but you can easily write a tiny wrapper for fetch that would do the same.

This is a genuine question - if you still use axios, why exactly?

New comment by chrisldgk in "Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI"

chrisldgk — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:18:54 +0000

People tend to forget that React != React-DOM (i.e. HTML).

React is just a framework for declaratively defining components and reactivity, the end result can be whatever you want. That’s what react-native is for mobile apps, and as another commenter pointed out, in this case it was using React Native for Windows[1], which apparently calls native Windows APIs in the background.

I like to jump on the MS hate train as much as the next guy, but React itself is not the reason the start menu is bad.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

New comment by chrisldgk in "Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications"

chrisldgk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:07:21 +0000

Notice the word „decriminalize“, not „legalize“. It’s about not throwing people already struggling with addiction in jail but rather offering safe alternatives (counseling, safer use, etc.).

The government‘s not passing out drugs in the street, like US media likes to suggest.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148"

chrisldgk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:50:52 +0000

It’s simple, you use innerHTML if you know for sure where the input comes from and if it’s safe (for example when you define it as a hard coded string in your own code). You use setHTML when you need to render HTML that is potentially unsafe (for example forum posts or IM messages). Honest question, which part of that isn’t clear?

New comment by chrisldgk in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

chrisldgk — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:57:00 +0000

They did carry over into the USB era! I specifically remember my stepdads copy of Cubase (music production software) requiring a USB dongle to open.

New comment by chrisldgk in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

chrisldgk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:19:41 +0000

There are sites that will happily sell you keys, though I don’t feel qualified to comment on their legitimacy.

You could also sail the seven seas and run an AutoKMS script, though that might (and probably will) include some malware.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Turbopack: Building faster by building less"

chrisldgk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:11:59 +0000

Is this a quip I’m not understanding or is there really something here that bun‘s bundled wouldn’t be able to do? Because I can’t find anything.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Turbopack: Building faster by building less"

chrisldgk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:10:36 +0000

Which is mainly NextJS (old and new), since under the hood that still seems to rely on Webpack.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Can you slim macOS down?"

chrisldgk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:01:00 +0000

That and losing the ability to connect displays via USB-C is what’s keeping me from switching sadly. I love what the Asahi team is doing and I’m confident they’ll get it figured out. I wish I could do something to help, but this type of programming is far beyond my skill level so there’s not much I can do other than donate here and there.

New comment by chrisldgk in "The Concise TypeScript Book"

chrisldgk — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:46:32 +0000

I think the point is that you can write your code using ES6 and ES7 and the TypeScript compiler allows you to output ES6 or ES5 compatible code if you want to make sure it runs in older browsers as well. You can do that with non-TypeScript ES code as well but you’re bound to use another transpiler. With TypeScript you get it „for free“ since you need to compile your code either way.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times"

chrisldgk — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:31:55 +0000

You‘re probably talking about this video: https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo

The part you mentioned is at around 7:29.

New comment by chrisldgk in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

chrisldgk — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:41:14 +0000

The translation layer doesn’t really matter though, does it? If a user installs a game and it runs the same, the user doesn’t care about the translation layer inbetween. If installing and running a game on Linux is the same as running it on windows, there’s no reason to prefer one over the other for gaming.

New comment by chrisldgk in "What you need to know before touching a video file"

chrisldgk — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:13:48 +0000

You should read the article.

The reasons stated against upscaling were that (re-)encoding video files should generally be done in a way that preserves as much of the original information and intent as possible. AI upscalers add information where there is none, thus modifying the video in a way that goes against that goal.

New comment by chrisldgk in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

chrisldgk — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:49:54 +0000

For the German HN readers, there’s a really good podcast with some investigative journalism about this exact topic made by the public broadcast services: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:305aa362...

I don’t believe there’s an English translation sadly, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

New comment by chrisldgk in "'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app"

chrisldgk — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:59:39 +0000

It is. And it’s also the fairest platform for musicians pay-wise. Though Epic apparently acquired Bandcamp[1] recently (presumably to stuff its IP catalogue for Fortnite Festival, so who knows how long that will be true for.

[1] https://pitchfork.com/news/epic-games-sells-bandcamp-amid-la...

New comment by chrisldgk in "Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar"

chrisldgk — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:07:28 +0000

To add to this, when I went to school for design a long time ago, our typography teacher basically told us to never use underlines if we can use italics instead. It tends to mess with the readability of a paragraph and shifts the visual center of gravity downward, making text more difficult to parse. I assume that’s also why italics and underline seem to be used interchangeably from time to time, since they generally achieve the same goal of emphasizing text in the same semantic manner.