Hacker News: hegz

New comment by hegz in "How America lost its love for the stick shift"

hegz — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 01:08:29 +0000

Most people dont care about driving. Its a tool to get you to a place.

New comment by hegz in "How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC"

hegz — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:43:20 +0000

Iirc there is a captcha on sign up. Same as discord.

New comment by hegz in "XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust"

hegz — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 01:15:36 +0000

That 150ms is especially important if the tool is running in a loop in a bash command.

New comment by hegz in "Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome"

hegz — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:52:59 +0000

The gdpr agreement form on websites usually requires you to enable 3rd party scripts and cookies otherwise you get hit with endless popups about it. Someone should make a browser extension that automatically denies every gdpr popup.

New comment by hegz in "Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL"

hegz — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:24:21 +0000

Modern websites use the screen width to show you mobile vs desktop view. But before CSS had good support for responsive web design everyone had to create a separate website for mobile and put it on m.website

New comment by hegz in "Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL"

hegz — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:20:28 +0000

Been using Firefox on my desktop and its amazing. For some reason the mobile version is incredibly slow to load pages though.

New comment by hegz in "Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department"

hegz — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 23:54:12 +0000

"SoundWaves" on fdroid. I just searched podcast and downloaded the most recently updated app and it was pretty good.

New comment by hegz in "Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook"

hegz — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:08:27 +0000

Maybe a global general social network simply can't exist. Maybe the people who are not on the network are just as important as the people who are. Facebook is full of people we don't want seeing everything we post.

Reddit these days has gotten really bad these days, likely because there are just far too many people on it now.

New comment by hegz in "Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages"

hegz — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 05:21:48 +0000

Amp websites often don't even work for me because the site owners were unable to get it working in amp so they give you this half baked crap.

New comment by hegz in "Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages"

hegz — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 05:20:09 +0000

I haven't tested it but google shows a lighting bolt next to amp sites so maybe the custom amp websites dont get the bolt.

New comment by hegz in "Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department"

hegz — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 01:18:27 +0000

I have been using only open source apps for the last year. For basic stuff like podcast streaming and IM the Foss stuff is better than the proprietary stuff. For complex things like maps and assistants its like taking a step 5 years back in the past.

OSM and is no where near as good as google maps at most things but its still perfectly usable.

The average person probably won't be happy with a purely foss phone right now but if its something you care about then it can be done fairly easily.

New comment by hegz in "I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports"

hegz — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 04:53:12 +0000

They won't solve every issue posted to it though. Also microsoft does things differently to Linux distros. Hardware manufacturers have to make sure their devices work with windows and software devs have to do the same. Canonical accepts bug reports on just about any hardware and the thousands of programs in the repos.

New comment by hegz in "Web Design Museum"

hegz — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 03:13:36 +0000

Still feels a little dated but if I had to guess when it was made I would say 2010.

New comment by hegz in "Web Design Museum"

hegz — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 03:12:11 +0000

Works better on more screen sizes. All standard web tech; no flash/Java/browser specific things.

Less clutter and visual distractions once you block adverts. Also much much easier to navigate with a consistent design guideline vs having every page randomly assembled with no oversight. Standardised components and design also makes larger websites possible without having to manage 1 billion pages and elements.

New comment by hegz in "Can Beethoven send takedown requests?"

hegz — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:58:20 +0000

The org that they send from will legally have nothing but patents so they are safe from counter attacks.

New comment by hegz in "I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports"

hegz — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:57:14 +0000

Proprietary software just wouldn't have a bug tracker for you to use.

New comment by hegz in "I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports"

hegz — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:55:42 +0000

This wouldn't be an issue if support charged for the amount of time spent. If the user spends their money getting stupid non issues looked at then thats their issue.

New comment by hegz in "I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports"

hegz — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:53:50 +0000

Also a lot of the bugs will affect such a tiny percent like users with some obscure Bluetooth card trying to use some uncommon feature. Ubuntu could spend all year closing obscure bugs and almost none of their users would benefit.

New comment by hegz in "I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports"

hegz — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:50:42 +0000

Its also good to see if something is a bug and not user error

New comment by hegz in "Loopwheels: A vibration-reducing wheel with integral suspension"

hegz — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:41:55 +0000

Rough terrain on bikes was already solved with suspension or larger tires I doubt they managed to create something that worked better than that.