Hacker News: flomo

New comment by flomo in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

flomo — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:06:12 +0000

> I want my browser to prevent random extensions from directly reading web page data. The declarative API idea is pretty good.

Agreed. And you would think most paranoid HN types would too.

> It's just that uBlock Origin is so insanely useful, important and trusted

Maybe I'm foggy on the history. But isn't this like Fork #4 or #5 of some previous AdBlock extension?

Seems like the only business model for this type of extension is "selling out" for certain ads. And then the cycle repeats and forum posters tell you to install qBlock Omega or whatever. Maybe Mozilla doesn't want to get in the middle of this?

New comment by flomo in "Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML"

flomo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:53:30 +0000

IIRC, that "w3c validator" was overly strict, and would error on attributes it didn't recognize, even though they were technically 'valid' (and supported in ~every browser). So there were always a couple things like, ehhh, doesn't matter.

New comment by flomo in "CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K"

flomo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:29:18 +0000

> MS-DOS became obsolete only at the launch of Windows 95.

Not even. The genius of Windows 95 was you could still run most of your DOS crap. (Maybe not games, but business apps.) Novell shops for example had a huge pile of DOS drivers and all that just worked underneath 95. DOS only faded away afterwards.

New comment by flomo in "CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K"

flomo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:08:23 +0000

Just as some off-the-top history, MS-DOS was clearly obsolete, but it hung around for like 10 years too long because people couldn't quit it. It was a DOSSY DOS world.

"Protected Mode DOS" went through the IBM/MS gristmill and became OS/2, which was a compromised product in a lot of ways. Then Windows (still mostly a DOS program) got a little traction, and Microsoft had hired Dave Cutler to write a real OS. And David overthrew Goliath and the rest is history. On topic, nobody really wanted protected-mode DOS or CP/M etc.

New comment by flomo in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

flomo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:51:35 +0000

Just one little thing: East of Buena Vista Park, you have a lake, it is actually the road which goes around the park.

Also, I would love to zoom in more. (pls give me the pixels)

New comment by flomo in "Lego building instructions through time"

flomo — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:36:03 +0000

Those sets were marketed as 'Expert Builder' in the USA, so maybe the challenge was part of the point?

New comment by flomo in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

flomo — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:08:00 +0000

It's fine not to be an AI user, just some people there seem to be holding their breath and stomping their feet until it goes away. Which leads to a really repetitive and boring discussion. (I'm not a member there, but they often have better technical links vs HN.)

New comment by flomo in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

flomo — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:32:24 +0000

I don't think that was it. Slashdot would only run stories from their 'content partners' like ZDNet and the Register, so they were always 2 days behind Reddit/HN/Twitter/etc.

(When RMS was 'cancelled', that would have been a huge deal there in the old days, they had one post days later.)

Also Digg wasn't just a graphical redesign, they changed how the site worked. I don't think Slashdot ever did that.

New comment by flomo in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

flomo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:35:02 +0000

Hey, your response improves my opinion of 'car guys'. Because the analogy is thin and they are looking directly at what is coming out of the 'sausage machine'. And if the result is good, they could sell the machine for profits! (Unlike computer nerds.)

I'm sticking with "hobbyists/dabblers" here, because almost nobody runs Arch in real production scenarios. Its just a fun high-touch thing people can enjoy fucking around with. Nothing wrong with that.

(That is why someone could trivially trojan hundreds of packages and it's NBD. Because "Nobody Cares." Wipe it and start over, funguy.)

New comment by flomo in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

flomo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:09:01 +0000

To be honest, it took me way too long to figure the Arch etc crowd are hobbyists who enjoy having something which always 'needs maintenance' over the weekend. (And maybe they don't want to admit they are hobbyists because what they are doing seems Very Important.)

Sorta like 'car guys' who recommend some old thing you can wrench on.

New comment by flomo in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

flomo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:32:29 +0000

Certainly not a Musk fan, but IMO the real point of hyperloop was more that it's on a route that could be constructed within our lifetimes. (Unlike CAHSR, check their website.) Of course, California knows this because that's where they built Interstate 5.

New comment by flomo in "CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude"

flomo — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:29:22 +0000

It's just another tool in the belt. Someone will say that's cheaper than rewriting in safe rust or whatever. (Apple must have a bunch of 1980s code written to 1980s standards. But that is their moneymaker.)

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:27:51 +0000

Ok, lets start planning its 10th birthday party.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:25:17 +0000

Cool, a super technical dude like you can just spin a secure Win11 VM to run TurboTax then. You probably have a bash script or something. What are you complaining about.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:20:56 +0000

Easy question because you need to evaluate every dependency for Win10 compatibility, Win10 bugs that MS fixed in Win11, running unsupported Win10 CI somehow, QA testing team for Windows 10 (programmers won't do this)... and on and on.

All for an dead operating system. I guess this works in your basement mind where people work for free or something.

New comment by flomo in "Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs"

flomo — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:06:19 +0000

Bumbershoot is a great blog if you are a 1980s home computer/console enjoyer, but were never quite sure how it all worked. He is trying to figure this out himself, so he goes step-by-step through getting his games working on a particular system.

So there are a lot of ASM 'deep dives' like this entry (which probably won't get too much traction.) My one complaint is he has a lot of content, but the blog is hard to navigate.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:05:15 +0000

You know it as well as I, no gotcha here buddy.

It's getting tough for shitters with some old ass legacy PC who depend on online services. Hopefully they were smart enough to understand they were living on borrowed time.

edit, also there are government subsided smartphones if you need one.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:50:12 +0000

TT was/is old-style "slick", like at the time it put my bank to shame in terms of UI. It probably wasn't using a 'popular framework' and if it was, it wasn't a naive implementation. It also was/is optimized for desktop, while many financial corps now only care about mobile. So as of last April, it was still good enough for me.

Was it fast? No. Just fast enough. That's why I doubt the desktop app is really any different. They must have a bunch of API endpoints, and the 'slowness' is all on the backend.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:35:06 +0000

Calls to tech support are by accounting defintion. So that makes it easy to draw the line somewhere, and cut off groups of negative-value customers. Its 2026 and times are tough baby.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:34:00 +0000

A big feature for Microsoft is you have to pay them lots of money to still run supported Windows 10. Are you paying Intuit too? Probably not.

I say again this is really a filter against "high support" customers because most of them are not technical and running derelict setups.