Hacker News: gbil

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

gbil — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:18:40 +0000

I use an Android tablet with detachable keyboard and works great also with Samsung DEX if you want something more for basic multitasking and there i want the shortcuts, I actually used it a lot, before firefox switched to Fenix base, for navigating tabs, opening closing them really really smooth but then....

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

gbil — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:03:43 +0000

If this means that they release a iOS version with the same Adblock features as brave then I’m sold. I use essentially all OSs and I want a browser with basic features like adblocking/custom filters on all the platforms and currently Firefox fails this on iOS devices. Still I believe the Firefox sync is much more robust than eg. Brave one , among various platforms. But then I will also need Firefox to fix keyboard shortcuts on Android which they had until the Fenix rebase some years ago and still haven’t fixed since

New comment by gbil in "Why Not Venus?"

gbil — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:24:27 +0000

This really struck a chord for me. The majority of the people I know - including me - want to be drawn into a topic somehow and that somehow is story telling. People like Sagan and Tyson are amazing story tellers, they will draw you in with their use of language, their voice and pace and will open the doors for everything else. This is how great teachers do it and this is what is missing for most of the people to be interested into a topic, no matter how basic it is.

New comment by gbil in "Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'"

gbil — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:02:07 +0000

I saw this the other day in a couple of apps, I've checked other apps and didn't have that, did a quick check on HN frontpage and saw nothing and said wth I'll update to see if something changes in the app or there is a message. Got nothing, and didn't think more about it but I'm not sure why, is it the "trust in the process" thing or what?

New comment by gbil in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

gbil — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:22:20 +0000

I can find it on my S25fe with exynos android 16/oneui 8.0 if I search for it in the setting but is greyed out. I wait for 8.5 to see if it is enabled then and is the only time I'm happy to have an exynos device!

New comment by gbil in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

gbil — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:12:27 +0000

My understanding is that the integrated linux terminal is not supported on all processors like snapdragon ones and also is not available on all manufactures like Samsung. Therefore this approach covers a much bigger audience.

Sony and Tcl Sign Definitive Agreements for Strategic Partnership

gbil — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:23:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sony.co.jp/en/news-release/202603/26-0331E/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588720

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gbil in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

gbil — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:57:12 +0000

Sorry guys I don't follow US politics in such depth to get the sarcasm here. Well played by the OP in this context.

New comment by gbil in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

gbil — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:47:53 +0000

it was 50k in February but 45k today, S&P down to 6300 from almost 7k in February and the latest 401(k) reports are from Q4 2025 so your numbers are based on months ago before the Iran war.

New comment by gbil in "HandyMKV for MakeMKV and HandBrake Automation"

gbil — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:24:25 +0000

> Storage is relatively cheap

was! Even a plain - non NAS - HDD has increased 40%+ since 6 months ago

Dev implements HDMI FRL in AMDGPU, hence HDMI 2.1 on AMD Linux driver

gbil — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:13:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mkopec/linux/tree/hdmi_frl_amd_staging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049098

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gbil in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

gbil — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:39:08 +0000

What is your experience from a performance perspective? Nova Launcher was pretty light on that front, I'm using smart launcher since a few months and it is ok but Nova was lighter.

New comment by gbil in "Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery"

gbil — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:46:51 +0000

Is this some kind of a joke? People, children, are getting bullied every day by fake nude images of them ending even in suicide and you are asking what is "so terrible" ???

EDIT: op seems to have clarified in another reply that they are talking about fully generated computer images but this is out of context, the outcry here is that Grok generated fake images of actual people to start with!

New comment by gbil in "Pebble Round 2"

gbil — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:31:06 +0000

Isn’t this thread about the pebble round 2 which is the closest from form factor to a garmin ? Moreover, GPS is lacking on any pebble anyhow which is also a major use case and again therefore, garmin’s and pebble’s can’t be compared, 2 different use cases for me.

New comment by gbil in "Pebble Round 2"

gbil — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:05:06 +0000

No HRM on the pebble which makes it a totally separate use case and can't be compared at all with the Garmin ones.

New comment by gbil in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"

gbil — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:32:44 +0000

Personal anecdotes from my early mid teen years

1. Touching the circuit board on the back of the CRT tube by mistake trying to troubleshoot image issues, “fortunately” it was a “low” voltage as it was a B&W monitor….

2. Throwing a big big stone to an abandoned next to the trashcan CRT TV while I had it placed normally because it didn’t break when I threw it facing up and the next thing I remember after opening my eyes which I closed from the bang was my friends who were further down the road looking at me as it I were a ghost since big big chunks for the CRT glass flew just right next to me.

CRTs were dangerous in many aspects!

EDIT: I meant to reply to the other thread with the dangers of CRTs

New comment by gbil in "ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error"

gbil — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:34:26 +0000

A couple of years ago ARIN increased their fees considerably - way higher than fees paid to RIPE for way less resources - and had a call with their management to express my frustration, not because I was paying from my pocket but because of the high discrepancy of the what they wanted to get and the quantity/quality of their services. Now I can see that their backbone services haven't really improved while their income for sure has.

On a sidenote, what I appreciate in both RIPE and ARIN is that you can have at least a proper discussion when you have valid arguments with their support teams.

New comment by gbil in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

gbil — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:56:29 +0000

Curtains should also fall under the same category because they do make it more difficult for UK security and intelligence agencies to monitor suspect activities. Then of course you also have walls...

The argument is so fundamentally stupid that they should be embarrassed just putting it down in writing!

New comment by gbil in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

gbil — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:27:18 +0000

I learned British English starting in the 80s and using s whereas z was used in American English, together with tre instead of ter (eg. theatre), was a big difference. And I can tell you that MS Word back then was just not there so this sounds like an urban legend but let the British people in HN chime in.

New comment by gbil in "Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox"

gbil — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:10:08 +0000

> At some point, though, Enzor-DeMeo will have to tend to Mozilla’s own business. “I do think we need revenue diversification away from Google,” he says, “but I don’t necessarily believe we need revenue diversification away from the browser.”

So they want to monetize the browser somehow outside of the Google deal. Future does't look good for Firefox