Hacker News: genevra

New comment by genevra in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

genevra — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:56:21 +0000

Weird timing, I was just lamenting today how limited Linux music players are. The best looking one I've found is still Amberol but it doesn't even save your music. Then again the music player selection on Windows isn't that much better

New comment by genevra in "ICE to Buy Tool That Tracks Locations of Hundreds Millions of Phones Every Day"

genevra — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 05:34:11 +0000

https://archive.ph/iZpZt

non paywall link

New comment by genevra in "SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people"

genevra — Wed, 14 May 2025 22:30:58 +0000

What's the actual method that can be easily deployed at scale then?

New comment by genevra in "Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional"

genevra — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:22:53 +0000

"Police now know they cannot use this method in the future"

I wish I had as much confidence in a finger wag as you do but unfortunately I think it'll work more like Pavlov.

New comment by genevra in "I bought a Mac"

genevra — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 02:19:44 +0000

It's always bothered me that Apple has so little backwards compatibility. I suppose that's why Windows is used by most of the corporate world for "reliability" (more reliable than Apple), and "ease of use" (people don't want to learn command line for Linux). It's just the mid option

New comment by genevra in "Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code"

genevra — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:14:56 +0000

McDonald's is probably one of the most morally bankrupt companies out there, but I see your point.

New comment by genevra in "Show HN: Cigarette – a Safari extension that hides ads on X, Reddit, & LinkedIn"

genevra — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:12:39 +0000

Does ublock origin not work On Safari? I don't own a Mac so I'm unsure

New comment by genevra in "Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash"

genevra — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:12:04 +0000

There are "some" Photoshop wannabes. I still haven't found any program on Linux that can give me anywhere close to the same ease of use and powerful tools that Photoshop has. The example you provided sounds like you want to use Illustrator for your use case anyway.

New comment by genevra in "Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?"

genevra — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:54:17 +0000

Great article. I've been noticing sites in general getting slower and slower. I've started doing things like blocking remote fonts and using Decentraleyes, but even stuff like that can't help when the site design is fundamentally broken

New comment by genevra in "Show HN: I built an app to stop me from always being late"

genevra — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:45:37 +0000

For being built by someone with ADHD, I'm disappointed I watched like 2 minutes of video and clicked around on the home screen and still have no idea what the app even does.

New comment by genevra in "Bored of It"

genevra — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:25:30 +0000

Today while staring at my strawberry plant I started wondering if the soil had enough nitrogen for it. 10 queries, some fluff learning, and an in depth discussion about the stoichiometric steps required to convert the nitrogen consumed by a single strawberry plant got me to some workable measurement of fertilizer I could add. I think anyone bored of it is using it for too much, and too often.

New comment by genevra in "Firefox 137.0 released with vertical tabs"

genevra — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:35:50 +0000

Glad they are staying competitive with other browsers and modern trends, but I will never personally use vertical tabs. It seems to waste so much space.

New comment by genevra in "Runway Gen-4"

genevra — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:17:43 +0000

I'm shortening my time-line to 10 years before we can watch fully generated in real time movies about our preferred prompt.

New comment by genevra in "Microsoft redesigns BSOD, drops QR code, frowning face, blue colour"

genevra — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:15:28 +0000

It actually provides MORE information in my opinion. It now states what failed.

Removing the extra fluff string that no user cared about anyway is fine.

I'll miss the frowny face though.

New comment by genevra in "AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please"

genevra — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:07:17 +0000

I agree up until the coding example. If someone doesn't know about version control I don't think that's any fault of the company trying to stretch the technology to its limits and let people experiment. Cursor is a really cool step in a direction, and it's weird to say we should clamp what it's doing because people might not be competent enough to fix its mistakes.

New comment by genevra in "BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable"

genevra — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:57:03 +0000

Awesome, you can also use it with LibRedirect (https://libredirect.github.io/)

New comment by genevra in "The Jailbreak Bible"

genevra — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:17:28 +0000

For a few brief seconds as I read the post I had the delightful impression LLMs were somehow helping jailbreak iOS.

New comment by genevra in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

genevra — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:30:27 +0000

Absolutely, as someone with far less experience than you I feel quite spoiled I'll have this for help coding for the rest of time.

New comment by genevra in "The