Hacker News: fafzv

New comment by fafzv in "Nintendo reportedly issues DMCA takedown for Switch homebrew projects"

fafzv — Sun, 07 May 2023 12:44:12 +0000

Sega died and Nintendidn't

New comment by fafzv in "5G Rollout Disappointments"

fafzv — Sun, 07 May 2023 10:31:43 +0000

They are not, because if you stay in 4G, your experience will only worsen with time.

New comment by fafzv in "Discord’s username change is causing discord"

fafzv — Sat, 06 May 2023 23:33:11 +0000

If you have a username full of weird casing and unicode characters you kinda deserve people not being able to add you

Regarding discriminators: have 5-digit discriminators for usernames used by more than 10000 accounts

New comment by fafzv in "Discord’s username change is causing discord"

fafzv — Sat, 06 May 2023 23:32:31 +0000

It's even worse that if you try to add bob#1234 and he doesn't exist because it's Bob the error message you get doesn't remind you usernames are case sensitive.

New comment by fafzv in "Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security"

fafzv — Sat, 06 May 2023 21:39:10 +0000

How is VAC the ideal solution? It is weak even in theory.

New comment by fafzv in "Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security"

fafzv — Sat, 06 May 2023 21:37:24 +0000

Is this something that can be fixed with a software update or is it basically game over?

I've got an MS-7E07 which is in theory not affected, but who knows...

New comment by fafzv in "Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security"

fafzv — Sat, 06 May 2023 21:19:26 +0000

So don't play the game. Personally I want kernel level anticheats because they make it much harder to cheat in the game. I want to know that my opponents are not cheaters. That's something I don't have in CS:GO, a game ripe with cheaters, or TF2, a game ripe with bots. (Valve's usermode anticheat is absolutely useless)

New comment by fafzv in "Arianespace CEO: Europe won't have reusable rockets for another decade"

fafzv — Fri, 05 May 2023 18:44:51 +0000

You are replying to a joke, or so I hope

New comment by fafzv in "Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government"

fafzv — Fri, 05 May 2023 11:41:52 +0000

It's cultural, and I'm not sure I agree that it's an issue. Different cultures behave in different ways.

New comment by fafzv in "Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government"

fafzv — Fri, 05 May 2023 11:25:55 +0000

I'll never get tired of saying it: politicians are the same as the citizens that vote them in. In India they won't vote out corrupt politicians because the citizenry is corrupt itself.

New comment by fafzv in "Enhancements to the Kagi Search Experience"

fafzv — Thu, 04 May 2023 00:24:26 +0000

https://kagi.com/pricing?plan=individual

I knew Kagi is paid but I didn't know they had a limit on how many searches you can perform, which is also rather low. But what I really didn't like is how dishonest they are. The lowest tier costs $5 and includes 200 searches per month. That is 6.66 per day! But they say "Includes enough searches for 99% of internet users" because "The average person searches Google three or four times per day". They know very well that someone for pays for Kagi (or even knows about Kagi) doesn't perform three or four searches a day.

New comment by fafzv in "I want to talk about WebGPU"

fafzv — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:42:40 +0000

I'm on Chrome on Windows and some of those examples work but most do not.

New comment by fafzv in "Did the EU ban JSdelivr and other free CDNs?"

fafzv — Tue, 02 May 2023 21:25:57 +0000

They have an extension API for that purpose.

New comment by fafzv in "Did the EU ban JSdelivr and other free CDNs?"

fafzv — Tue, 02 May 2023 21:04:52 +0000

Interpreting an mp4 file as executable code is not a feature of a media player, not to mention there's no way to disable it. Bad analogy.

New comment by fafzv in "Did the EU ban JSdelivr and other free CDNs?"

fafzv — Tue, 02 May 2023 20:24:41 +0000

Webmasters are not giving their users' browser histories to jsdelivr. Instead, their users have configured their browsers to load 3rd party content.

New comment by fafzv in "Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla"

fafzv — Tue, 02 May 2023 19:27:29 +0000

They took Gecko, the slowest rendering engine that there was (is?), made an entire OS around it, and put it on the slowest mobile phones that existed back then. That was not a gamble, that was throwing money down the drain.

New comment by fafzv in "Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla"

fafzv — Tue, 02 May 2023 17:54:11 +0000

Safari only runs on Apple hardware and the world at large is poor. Like really, really poor.

Safari has 34.6% share in the US: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-s...

New comment by fafzv in "Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla"

fafzv — Tue, 02 May 2023 17:53:13 +0000

The browser wars are over because Firefox lost them by spending all the time patting themselves on the back about how much better they were than the competition, wasting their money on stupid stuff like this instead of improving their browser.

Getting themselves into a deeper hole is unlikely to help, imo.

New comment by fafzv in "Vice is said to be headed for bankruptcy"

fafzv — Tue, 02 May 2023 00:24:48 +0000

There is nothing counter culturish about the left wing now. If anything, right wing is the new counter culture.