Hacker News: coffeeling

New comment by coffeeling in "Omacom Foundation launches with $8M"

coffeeling — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:22:57 +0000

Not close to just dotfiles of Arch. It used to be that, sure. That was a year ago. Now they have their own packaging infrastructure going on, both different stages of Arch mirrors (stable is a ~month behind Arch to catch buggy packages and supply chain attacks) and run their own extra repository for other software. The Omarchy stuff isn't dotfiles, it's proper packages served by their own infrastructure nowadays.

New comment by coffeeling in "old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login"

coffeeling — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:30:52 +0000

Lobste.rs deliberately blocks Brave due to the maintainers having ingested all the FUD.

New comment by coffeeling in "Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker"

coffeeling — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:54:12 +0000

You haven't heard about it because it is a lie.

Brave has a tipping service that lets users tip creators with Brave's crypto coin, BAT. When they launched the tipping service, they put out a pool of their own BAT and let users tip with that BAT. Their initial UI for the tipping app was sadly bad, and didn't really properly show which creators were signed up for the program, which weren't. If the tips from the pool were given to someone not on the program, Brave would hold them assigned to that person for 30 days, then return them to the pool. No user's resources were affected.

Tom Scott gave them some harsh criticism for the UI, and Brave improved it within a couple days, resolving Scott's complaints.

New comment by coffeeling in "Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker"

coffeeling — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:40:29 +0000

Chromium has better security than Firefox, especially on mobile, where Firefox's site isolation is either nonexistent or rudimentary.

New comment by coffeeling in "Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker"

coffeeling — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:33:35 +0000

Mozilla wants to do quite a lot more than just make a browser - for years, under Mitchell Baker, they weren't really primarily browser makers even. After she's left, Firefox has gained a new degree of focus and we've actually gotten good new features.

Also Firefox is made by Mozilla Corporation, and they're funded by Google money. Firefox defaults to Google search and search suggestions on, which is an awful privacy posture.

New comment by coffeeling in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

coffeeling — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:07:41 +0000

Brave's an easy slot-in - fiddle with settings or buy Brave Origin, and you get what's basically Chrome, except it has a built-in ad blocker that can do stuff extension-based ad blockers (even MV2 ones) can't do on Chromium, the profile sync backend is end to end encrypted, and you get ~uBO grade adblock on mobile.

A chief benefit is that Chromium is much more secure than Firefox, especially on mobile.

New comment by coffeeling in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

coffeeling — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:05:16 +0000

Brave has an end to end encrypted sync service as well.

New comment by coffeeling in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

coffeeling — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:02:45 +0000

Both. Brave is FOSS.

New comment by coffeeling in "America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance"

coffeeling — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:31:32 +0000

Chat control was shot down, and will be proposed again. And again. And again. Until the people/governments vote correctly, and then dismantling it won't be up for a constant vote.

New comment by coffeeling in "Is my blue your blue?"

coffeeling — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:12:54 +0000

Cyan isn't between green and blue, at least not completely. If you take green and blue, you won't be able to represent a good chunk of cyan hues. It feels greenish and blueish, but is neither, and is broader than any combination of the two, which is partly why some bright cyan objects (like the bird eggs on Wikipedia) look kind of unnaturally intense. Those eggs are a bright, slightly blue-leaning cyan.

New comment by coffeeling in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

coffeeling — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:07:37 +0000

The funny part about color spaces being that you can't make (pure) cyan out of green and blue, which is exactly why CMYK is used over RYB in inks.

(I mostly think about colours in Hue-Saturation-Value terms, and a hue wheel of blue-cyan-green-yellow-orange-red-purple)

New comment by coffeeling in "Microsoft blocks trick to unlock native NVMe driver, but workarounds still exist"

coffeeling — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:59:13 +0000

The fucked up thing is Windows is the most stable Linux environment to build against. Linux overall relies far too much on the idea that the software is either actively maintained, or open source and can be recompiled for new systems.

New comment by coffeeling in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

coffeeling — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:38:06 +0000

A lot of Apple's services revenue is Apple Store mobile games, AIUI.

New comment by coffeeling in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

coffeeling — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:19:26 +0000

Chromium is still markedly ahead of Firefox on security, especially on mobile.

New comment by coffeeling in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

coffeeling — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:55:15 +0000

Yes. They are weaker, but Manifest v3 has been tweaked a good bit since the very initial announcements, and people have figured out ways to compress old-format blocklists into Manifest v3 compatible rulesets that can remain surprisingly extensive. They are weaker than v2 blockers or Brave Shields, without a doubt, but they do still do a decent job.

New comment by coffeeling in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

coffeeling — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:34:12 +0000

They're not rebranding Office, the app suite.

They had Office.com, a hub website, and a desktop app called Office that was basically just a wrapper for said hub website. They also had a mobile all-in-one app called Office. As far as I can tell, those are what are being rebranded and made to default to an AI chat view on login, not Office as a whole.

New comment by coffeeling in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

coffeeling — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:39:27 +0000

It's also weird because Microsoft has some excuse for wasting screen real estate - Windows is used on touchscreen devices and has to at least adapt to them. But Apple stubbornly refuses to put touchscreens on laptops, at which point what excuse do you have to not build good information density?

New comment by coffeeling in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

coffeeling — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:36:13 +0000

One thing I dislike is that Synaptic style proper package managers are being phased out in favour of app stores.

New comment by coffeeling in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

coffeeling — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:25:02 +0000

That's uncharitable: Stability matters, and Linux just doesn't give a fuck about breaking the environment since software is of course FOSS and can just be recompiled from sauce, right?

Meanwhile try to launch a proprietary app and have it work after some years? Lol, good luck unless you constantly update it. Windows, you can still run ancient apps because key parts of the system are stable.

New comment by coffeeling in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

coffeeling — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:47:44 +0000

I've tried their Arc Search mobile browser, and the UX is just absolute trash unless you're specifically using it via search only workflows. It's not really a browser in the normal sense.