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Leonid Radvinsky Has Died

ivanmontillam — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:03:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/leonid-radvinsky-who-changed-porn-with-onlyfans-is-dead-at-43

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488928

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's"

ivanmontillam — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:31:45 +0000

On the right top side of the image you can see a little rounded square that says "Ad"

I had to look thrice to find it.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Twitter(X) Is Down"

ivanmontillam — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:49:41 +0000

Where does one go to complain that X is down when X itself is gone?

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

ivanmontillam — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:40:35 +0000

New CEO could change that.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

ivanmontillam — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:23:39 +0000

I am fine with it being a disable-button, as long it's persistent once set.

What I honestly fear is that while AI-features are disabled, popups inviting me to enable them again. That, or them auto-enabling them on every update like sometimes has happened with `browser.ml.enable` flag on `about:config`.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it"

ivanmontillam — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:46:37 +0000

yeah, it reeks of LibreOffice, which is not mentally associated with a high-quality office suite.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy"

ivanmontillam — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:29:05 +0000

It's already problematic to have Chromium dominating/near-monopolizing, and add salt to the wound letting Gecko die this way.

Chromium is so prevalent as an engine, that most developers don't test their code on Firefox and just tell everyone to use Chrome/Chromium when they run into issues.

This has the unintentional side-effect of strong-arming the W3C into compliance with the engine and not the other way around. Why do we bother with the W3C then? if they are powerless and Chromium can do as they please?

New comment by ivanmontillam in "The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy"

ivanmontillam — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:21:28 +0000

But they already do?[0]

[0]: https://cyberwarzone.com/2025/11/07/mozilla-unveils-enterpri...

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Keep Android Open"

ivanmontillam — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:38:54 +0000

The happened to me with Uphold, precisely yesterday.

It required me to install the application to sign in via web browser. There was no way, the web app wouldn't bulge.

I did it, checked my $5 dollars balance and deleted the app again.

Totally disgusting behaviour.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Keep Android Open"

ivanmontillam — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:35:34 +0000

You're getting downvoted because that's not the point.

You are technically right, we still have access to these services via a web browser today. It doesn't mean we'll have it forever.

With the advent of AI browsers and AI agents, it's not hard to think of a future where LLM chat interfaces and mobile apps are the future, and web apps start getting disregarded as legacy and eventually, discontinued.

Try ordering some food via mobile application and then again via web app. You'll instantly feel the downgrade on the web app. Bugs, glitches, slow experience.

The desktop web is already the 2nd-class citizen for modern startups.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

ivanmontillam — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:05:57 +0000

If you were as resource-constrained as Mozilla is, you'd drop support for unsupported platforms anyway.

GitHub Bans Vmfunc

ivanmontillam — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:59:03 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/vmfunc/status/1978079375183536440

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582908

Points: 5

# Comments: 5

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move"

ivanmontillam — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:36:12 +0000

You don't really have a choice: it's either Android or Apple iOS.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

ivanmontillam — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:15:10 +0000

> Proton VPN was briefly sharing employees with Tesonet during initial app bringup

I assume they needed the experience in how to run a VPN company, so that initial partnership was needed.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?"

ivanmontillam — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 01:25:19 +0000

Electron is just a packager for Chromium, with the minimum code necessary to achieve that objective.

Technically it is a browser. Unless I am making a serious logic flaw here, it should be applicable.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "I miss using em dashes"

ivanmontillam — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:22:38 +0000

case in point

New comment by ivanmontillam in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

ivanmontillam — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:05:34 +0000

If you live outside the US, it's even worse with WhatsApp.

If for whatever reason you dislike WhatsApp, you just can't also be a society's functioning member.

Some companies have decided to deprecate email and phone support and only have a WhatsApp chat, potentially with AI slop. I've had to discontinue my services with some of these companies because of that.

Even some government services are going through WhatsApp; I've had to be there in person, among senior citizens just because of their tech choices.

I pretty much vouch for "vote with your wallet," but I am running out of alternatives.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "iPhone DevOps (2023)"

ivanmontillam — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:20:09 +0000

The ability to be "bored" is an advantage today. IMHO, it develops patience.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court"

ivanmontillam — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:17:55 +0000

A Show HN post would have been more appropriate; this seemed to me opportunistic at best.

New comment by ivanmontillam in "iPhone DevOps (2023)"

ivanmontillam — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:30:10 +0000

> Simply sitting in a chair for hours is really mentally taxing and a huge waste of time.

How do people that rawdog international flights do it? No phone, no books, no music, maybe just the flight screen with the little aeroplane over the map.

You could just let your thoughts wander. That's a form of meditation, letting the mind unravel on its own.

I wish I did it more, actually.