Hacker News: hexagonwin

New comment by hexagonwin in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

hexagonwin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:14:54 +0000

video autoplay can be blocked in firefox with a builtin feature, though i can't test if it works for facebook

New comment by hexagonwin in "Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust"

hexagonwin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:11 +0000

lmao, even GPTzero gives 100% on a snippet I copied. (from "Here is the constructive turn" to "and slower is what we can actually buy.)

New comment by hexagonwin in "NetBSD 11.0"

hexagonwin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:58:34 +0000

wasn't that around gcc4 or something era? gcc12 is pretty new

New comment by hexagonwin in "Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later"

hexagonwin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:48:10 +0000

it's already working really well on my iOS 13 iPhone SE. the safari on this version struggles to render any 'modern' website these days, this browser works perfectly and I can even use uBlock Origin with it.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't"

hexagonwin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:09:17 +0000

funny, but it seems false. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/made-in-usa/

New comment by hexagonwin in "Ask HN: Any good replacements for "Refined Hacker News?""

hexagonwin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:42:18 +0000

the addon also seems to support firefox, switching the browser could be a solution

New comment by hexagonwin in "Xsnow "protestware" in Debian"

hexagonwin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:59:31 +0000

it is in upstream. but the debian package maintainer is also the upstream maintainer.

New comment by hexagonwin in "HN Returning "Sorry.""

hexagonwin — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:58:01 +0000

same here. in my case it happens when accessing from a link of a specific item, the frontpage and login page opens without any issue. after logging in the issue is gone.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

hexagonwin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:38:47 +0000

thanks. i just checked and it seems like i was mistaken, the one i own now is a t60 not a t61. seems like it's already supported, gotta try installing coreboot on it.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

hexagonwin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:11:43 +0000

awesome! hopefully T61 can also get some support soon..

these machines are amazing, but sadly they're showing signs of age these days. mine's already kinda unusable due to dim CCFL backlight and fan grinding noise.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

hexagonwin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:09:01 +0000

i don't think it's really "far behind", it just can't run on hardwares that require manufacturer keys (e.g. intel bootguard)

afaik all modern x86 chromebooks ship with coreboot based firmware

New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

hexagonwin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:05:45 +0000

everything except graphics driver would probably actually work with 98SE..

Win2000 or WinXP would be a better choice due to numerous reasons though. Win2K with an SSD is absolutely going to fly on that thing.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

hexagonwin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:04:50 +0000

most linux/bsd you can throw at it would just work fine. i personally like tinycore linux and porteus linux, they unpack the rootfs to ram so overall interaction with the system feels insanely quick on very underpowered systems with HDDs.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Chuwi Minibook X"

hexagonwin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:54:53 +0000

hardware support is provided by the linux kernel, it should be fine. if there's issues one could just switch kernels..

8gb is plenty. i've ran tinycore on machines with 512MB or less

New comment by hexagonwin in "Chuwi Minibook X"

hexagonwin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:42:26 +0000

maybe try a linux distro like tinycore or porteus? it puts the rootfs in ram so things run insanely fast, and sync changes to disk before shutdown

New comment by hexagonwin in "Reddit Is Blocking Some Users from Accessing Its Website from Mobile Devices"

hexagonwin — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:35:04 +0000

i legit couldn't tell it aside from the sketchy link. this is getting scary.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Reddit Is Blocking Some Users from Accessing Its Website from Mobile Devices"

hexagonwin — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:12:49 +0000

i believe you linked something else

edit: the parent commenter's comment history looks weird; constantly linking to that url. is this a bot i'm replying to?

New comment by hexagonwin in "Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop"

hexagonwin — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:27:14 +0000

wikipedia is fine, and you can still use vector or even monobook skins. try adding ?useskin=monobook at the end of the url

New comment by hexagonwin in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

hexagonwin — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:38:27 +0000

for a short time i had warcprox sitting behind my firefox and auto feeding its output to pywb, it seemed to work but i had connections failing randomly after having warcprox running for more than a few hours~days. not sure if it's an issue with pywb or warcprox but there were some urls missing that i did browse on firefox, and many dynamic pages couldn't be replayed at all.

New comment by hexagonwin in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

hexagonwin — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:36:41 +0000

they silently ran the DDoS script on their captcha page (which is frequently shown to visitors, even when simply viewing and not archiving a new page)