Hacker News: dekatron

New comment by dekatron in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

dekatron — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:25:12 +0000

It was funny how the other way when I searched for "nvm" to look up Node Version Manager, the AI mode thought I was saying "nevermind" to it. It felt quite jarring.

New comment by dekatron in "Why I use Firefox"

dekatron — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:47:32 +0000

Picture-in-picture in Firefox is super useful when having a video call and sharing the screen at the same time, especially on a laptop screen.

Firefox lets you pop out the video feeds of call participants, so you can have them in a corner when sharing a full-screen window.

New comment by dekatron in "Firefox Sync actually works"

dekatron — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:51:12 +0000

One of the things that I like about Firefox is that it lets you right click on websites that disable right clicking by holding down shift. Reminds you that the browser should be the user's agent and not the website's.

New comment by dekatron in "Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release"

dekatron — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 05:29:24 +0000

It is an awful experience indeed. I switched to Kiwi browser when Chrome forced tab groups on everyone with no option to disable it. Kiwi has add-on support and removes many of Chrome's annoying aspects. I could never go back to browsing on mobile without add-ons like uBlock Origin and Sticky Ducky.

New comment by dekatron in "Just normal web things"

dekatron — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:24:47 +0000

Ha, different strokes for different folks I guess.

Usually when I'm reading something, my hands are off the keyboard and I use one hand to scroll with the mouse. In this scenario, it's so much easier to double-click to select a word and drag it to a new tab instead of reaching for the keyboard.

New comment by dekatron in "Just normal web things"

dekatron — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:35:06 +0000

New Reddit also messes with text selection with unnecessary JS crap. Wherever you select some text, they show an "Embed" button that prevents you from dragging the text to a new tab to perform a web search.

Thankfully this behaviour can be blocked with uBlock Origin by adding these rules:

  www.reddit.com##+js(aeld, mousedown, isSelectionOutOfRange)
  www.reddit.com##+js(aeld, mouseup, shouldShowButton)

New comment by dekatron in "Arc Browser 1.0"

dekatron — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:16:03 +0000

I see it as marketing that tries to make you feel like you want the browser, without telling you what actually makes it great. You can attract users with hype and FOMO, but I'm not sure how long those users will stay...

New comment by dekatron in "Arc Browser 1.0"

dekatron — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:50:54 +0000

I think they show different buttons depending on your platform. If you visit from a mobile browser, it shows a "Get download link" button which asks for your email.

They presumably do this so that people can download it later from desktop using the emailed link. It's easy to mistake it as an attempt to harvest email IDs. The website could definitely use some text which indicates that it's Mac only at the moment.

New comment by dekatron in "Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of largest Lemmy servers"

dekatron — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 07:53:50 +0000

A bit more context from [1]:

> The contract between Freenom and the Malinese government that gave Freenom technical control over the domain extension and give out the domains for free, has expired on Monday July 17. The contract was not renewed, which means that the control of the .ml domain extension is returned back to the government of Mali.

[1] https://forum.infinityfree.net/t/all-ml-domains-are-down-due...

New comment by dekatron in "Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?"

dekatron — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:54:30 +0000

Not a solution, but somewhat related: https://youglish.com/ lets you search YouTube videos for keywords, but the purpose is to find examples of how to pronounce words from real usage. It also works for a few other languages aside from English.

New comment by dekatron in "Why do Ivy League students self-sabotage?"

dekatron — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:18:47 +0000

High achievers are often burdened by the weight of expectations, and the pressure to live up to a certain brand name. Their goals and ambition are often not their own, but have been hijacked along the way by people around them and society in general. They don't always realise this themselves, but somewhere along the way they discover that it's easier to let go and find ways to escape the pressure.

Sometimes, the failure that results from this "self-sabotage" can be a good thing. It can lead to the shattering of assumptions [1] about how the world works, allowing people to redefine their self-worth, and letting them be more in tune with their own capabilities and goals without being encumbered by societal expectations.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_assumptions_theory

New comment by dekatron in "Reddit: Killing a Giant"

dekatron — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:03:55 +0000

Social networks and platforms that people use to talk to each other should never have been dominated by profit-seeking businesses in the first place. Federated alternatives like Lemmy and Kbin that put community interests first look promising, and could very well be the future.

New comment by dekatron in "Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade"

dekatron — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:52:51 +0000

Is a desktop shortcut and dark theme really an "upgrade" to private browsing?

New comment by dekatron in "Tell HN: Reddit started asking logged-in users to use the app"

dekatron — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 08:25:36 +0000

Reddit's infuriating mobile website made me switch from Android Chrome to Kiwi Browser, because it lets me use the Old Reddit Redirect extension [1] to redirect all Reddit links to old.reddit.com links.

While old Reddit is not a great interface for browsing on mobile, it lets me get the information I'm looking for quickly (usually when following a Reddit link from a Google search).

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

New comment by dekatron in "Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling"

dekatron — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:41:37 +0000

Just replace the `node.parentNode.removeChild(node);` line with `node.style['position'] = 'static';`.

With this, you can 'un-sticky' the element instead of removing it.

Here's the URL-encoded bookmarklet code with the above change:

  javascript:(function()%7Bdocument.querySelectorAll('body%20*').forEach(function(node)%20%7Bif%20(%5B'fixed'%2C%20'sticky'%5D.includes(getComputedStyle(node).position))%20%20%7Bnode.style%5B'position'%5D%20%3D%20'static'%3B%7D%7D)%3Bdocument.querySelectorAll('html%20*').forEach(function(node)%20%7Bvar%20s%20%3D%20getComputedStyle(node)%3Bif%20('hidden'%20%3D%3D%3D%20s%5B'overflow'%5D)%20%7B%20node.style%5B'overflow'%5D%20%3D%20'visible'%3B%20%7Dif%20('hidden'%20%3D%3D%3D%20s%5B'overflow-x'%5D)%20%7B%20node.style%5B'overflow-x'%5D%20%3D%20'visible'%3B%20%7Dif%20('hidden'%20%3D%3D%3D%20s%5B'overflow-y'%5D)%20%7B%20node.style%5B'overflow-y'%5D%20%3D%20'visible'%3B%20%7D%7D)%3Bvar%20htmlNode%20%3D%20document.querySelector('html')%3BhtmlNode.style%5B'overflow'%5D%20%3D%20'visible'%3BhtmlNode.style%5B'overflow-x'%5D%20%3D%20'visible'%3BhtmlNode.style%5B'overflow-y'%5D%20%3D%20'visible'%7D)()