Hacker News: hffft

Ask HN: One feature that you wish Mozilla didn't remove from Firefox?

hffft — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:08:24 +0000

For me, it's extensions on Firefox mobile (only about 14 are left out of thousands) and also the ability to right click on an image and click "View Image".

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29817177

Points: 5

# Comments: 6

New comment by hffft in "When WikiLeaks bumped into the CIA: Operation Kudo exposed [video]"

hffft — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:12:41 +0000

I haven't tried to find anything specific but it probably makes it faster in some cases to skip over a specific section.

New comment by hffft in "Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?"

hffft — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:15:15 +0000

Use a static site generator like Hugo and a VPS found at https://www.lowendstock.com/... or Web3.

New comment by hffft in "Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1"

hffft — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 22:42:40 +0000

> Persona had many advantages over the Web3

it has none now ;)

New comment by hffft in "When WikiLeaks bumped into the CIA: Operation Kudo exposed [video]"

hffft — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 01:24:08 +0000

Love that seek bar where it shows a visual preview

New comment by hffft in "Ask HN: Why can't I downvote? I've been a member for over 10 years"

hffft — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 06:38:03 +0000

I have a few accounts with downvote powers if you need one... they expired their few months life, for me.

New comment by hffft in "Can we stay in full control of our personal computers and privacy?"

hffft — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 05:38:06 +0000

> In a world in which computing is increasingly omnipresent, we are running the risk of losing control and privacy.

We already lost most of it... time to get it back.

New comment by hffft in "Japanese firm abuzz after successfully testing drones to eliminate wasps"

hffft — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 05:03:06 +0000

Why not have the drone bring the nozzle of an ultra puissant shopvac, to the nest...

New comment by hffft in "2.3k Patch Would Improve Linux Build Times 50~80% & Fix “Dependency Hell”"

hffft — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 04:06:11 +0000

who knows if the title of this post has been edited or not since then, there are no indicators whether it was or not edited even if it was in the past...

New comment by hffft in "2.3k Patch Would Improve Linux Build Times 50~80% & Fix “Dependency Hell”"

hffft — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 01:30:43 +0000

> The OP missed out the key word "series" from the actual blog.

Probably didn't miss it... probably hit the very strict/short HN post title limit.

New comment by hffft in "Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet"

hffft — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:58:50 +0000

Does that mean the universe is still considered "new"?

New comment by hffft in "Fer-de-lance – for millions of people, the _only_ snake worth talking about"

hffft — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:45:37 +0000

That's a good site example where you should hit the reader icon on Firefox... that font is painful.

New comment by hffft in "Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall"

hffft — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:32:51 +0000

right, I used to have a firewall that could whitelist apps in the 90s on Windows (can't remember the name)... iptables can't even do that as far as I know... but there is https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch that I still need to try (I no longer use Windows).

New comment by hffft in "Why Linux is now my primary OS going into 2022"

hffft — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 19:08:04 +0000

> professional artist

There are a lot of professional Blender artists... probably many with others apps also...

New comment by hffft in "Miami Herald Report on the Surfside Condo Collapse: House of Cards"

hffft — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:55:33 +0000

> Furman helped the older woman climb over the rubble, their path illuminated by the sparks of live wires, she said. “It looks like I’m in hell,” Furman said.

New comment by hffft in "Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter"

hffft — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 10:40:20 +0000

"And the other ones, where the Nazis, lunatics and scammers hang out.

I‘m still not sure what to take from that. "

Probably because the Nazis, etc have been pushed off the mainstream networks and had to find alternatives and the rest of the people didn't and those new/smaller networks haven't been required to censor yet.

New comment by hffft in "Ask HN: Is “smart home” a good idea?"

hffft — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 04:00:40 +0000

I would consider putting all smart devices on a different network that doesn't have access to the internet so that they can't phone home, and using some open software like https://www.home-assistant.io/ to control it...