Hacker News: hyproxia

New comment by hyproxia in "M1 Pro 14“ MacBook Pro Running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux ARM"

hyproxia — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 16:39:35 +0000

No, I only care about _my_ freedom to use the hardware however I want, not Apple's or anyone else's freedom. However, if people keep not giving a shit, my freedom will be more and more limited.

You're trying too hard.

New comment by hyproxia in "What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?"

hyproxia — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:54:28 +0000

Or, y'know, just put it in airplane mode or unplug the SIM card

New comment by hyproxia in "Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions"

hyproxia — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:10:02 +0000

A more reasonable take would be to find ways to reduce its costs.

Surely killing someone can be way cheaper than sustaining them for life.

New comment by hyproxia in "Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions"

hyproxia — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:57:16 +0000

> it would be cheaper to just shoot

Ah, no, that's not how this works.

New comment by hyproxia in "Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions"

hyproxia — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:32:34 +0000

So you think that locking up people for the rest of their lives is less barbaric?

New comment by hyproxia in "Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel"

hyproxia — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 08:00:55 +0000

I assume they mean Arabs and others

New comment by hyproxia in "Firefox Add-On Policy Changes 2021"

hyproxia — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 22:56:20 +0000

Finally, a based move from Mozilla.

New comment by hyproxia in "I don't know how to browse the internet anymore"

hyproxia — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 21:45:39 +0000

> I have nine different browsers installed on this machine

Why?

New comment by hyproxia in "LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom"

hyproxia — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 12:42:52 +0000

Money.

New comment by hyproxia in "My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent"

hyproxia — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:22:22 +0000

What happened afterwards?

New comment by hyproxia in "Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector"

hyproxia — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 14:06:11 +0000

How old are you? Is it too late for you to live up to your potential?

New comment by hyproxia in "Firefox on Unix is moving away from X11-based remote control"

hyproxia — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:41:45 +0000

Most people who criticise X like you have no idea what they're talking about. The parallels you're drawing are childish and indicate an extremely shallow understanding of the issues at hand.

New comment by hyproxia in "The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board"

hyproxia — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:28:09 +0000

>Keeping it tightly controlled like that also makes it harder to crack

Can you elaborate?

New comment by hyproxia in "The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board"

hyproxia — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:35:21 +0000

>Want/need to use DRM? You won't receive a response from Google/widevine

Thanks Google!

New comment by hyproxia in "EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board"

hyproxia — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:32:09 +0000

>OSI

If you honestly think that the OSI were ever the "good guys", then do I have the news for you...

New comment by hyproxia in "Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap"

hyproxia — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:16:55 +0000

I know, I've read the rules. Still, I thought that this is an interesting exception since it's directly related to the content at hand.

New comment by hyproxia in "Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap"

hyproxia — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:07:43 +0000

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/au...

New comment by hyproxia in "Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap"

hyproxia — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:58:36 +0000

>for free

No, the site owner is usually gaining money from his users (through ads, tracking, etc). This is an incredibly dishonest statement.

New comment by hyproxia in "Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap"

hyproxia — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:55:35 +0000

Thank you for posting it, I wish that this becomes a trend on HN (and other forums).

New comment by hyproxia in "Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap"

hyproxia — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:44:05 +0000

Here's another way of looking at it: Does this page really need to execute code on its users' machines? Why is this such an acceptable thing in the first place?