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New comment by jamesforestwest in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

jamesforestwest — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:34:29 +0000

Well, not bad. But it's not uBlock, and Safari's blocker is already working fine for me. Brave's also been doing this for years. But at least it's something.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)"

jamesforestwest — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:29:33 +0000

I completely understand the author, at some point I also came to this thought. There’s something oddly liberating about not caring whether your computer is old anymore.

In general I really dislike the modern trend toward disposability. It's clear that companies profit from it but it's still sad. Why should we buy a new thing every time instead of repairing and improving the old one?

The only thing I don't agree with is using SD cards as the only storage medium. They break too easily

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

jamesforestwest — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:14:01 +0000

“Just check what the agent is requesting” sounds reasonable until the agent starts asking for confirmation every few minutes... The result is genuinely interesting. There’s a lot to think about