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New comment by jkl5xx in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

jkl5xx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:38:52 +0000

Thanks for the level-headed response. Agreed, "blame the kings" is also an overly simplistic take. There's rarely a single entity to blame. Just wanted to bring some nuance to the hate getting thrown around here.

Redirecting frustration towards the systemic issues that drive perfectly normal people to work for a terrible company like Meta seems more productive to me.

I hate what Meta does just as much as the next guy, but shaming friends who feel like they have no better employment option doesn't seem like the best way to make a difference here.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

jkl5xx — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:30:40 +0000

This is a pretty uncharitable perspective. Most folks I know working at Meta or Amazon aren’t morally bankrupt. They just have kids, debt, poor parents with health problems, etc. They work at Meta to support their loved ones. And it’s not like you can walk onto the street and just wave down a morally superior job with similar pay and benefits. Blame the tech oligarchs, not the workers.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

jkl5xx — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:13:00 +0000

This misses the point that parent was making. The conversation shouldn’t be “move your data to countries you can trust”. It should be “use protocols that don’t require trust in the first place”.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

jkl5xx — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:09:06 +0000

I’ve had the same thought and would love this. MacOS shortcuts are too deeply ingrained in my fingers.

But every attempt of mine to make Linux shortcuts Mac-like has had too many sharp edges to be useable. Toshy didn’t seem to work well with Wayland and felt heavy. Probably the best so far I’ve found has been keyd and custom configs for your most used apps.

A community effort might get us there. Distribute the hours of tinkering across many passionate users instead of everyone doing it in a vacuum.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

jkl5xx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:55:48 +0000

It’s kind of wild to read through these comments and realize hn is still riffing on the same ideas. Is it e2ee? Does it run on Linux? Who would pay for something you can slap together in a weekend with a few bash scripts? Really highlights this community’s values, skills, and blind spots. Also a bit of a bummer that the privacy and open source situations today are even worse in many ways.

New comment by jkl5xx in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

jkl5xx — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:04:18 +0000

Regardless of the intent, it was poorly executed and highlights security gaps inherent in the distribution model of browser extensions.

New comment by jkl5xx in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

jkl5xx — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:49:20 +0000

Agreed. Times are tough. Open source is under-appreciated. People are going to crack and slip up like this. We’re only human.

New comment by jkl5xx in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

jkl5xx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:43:24 +0000

I did webdev for a long time, so yeah. If you want the story, I was looking into guix on asahi and ended up on https://www.asahi-guix.org/ which didn’t load anything, so I checked the page source and noticed the element.

New comment by jkl5xx in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

jkl5xx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:34:55 +0000

Noticed a suspicious element called give-freely-root-bcjindcccaagfpapjjmafapmmgkkhgoa in the chrome inspector today.

Turns out about a month ago, the popular open source [JSON Formatter chrome extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/json-formatter/bcji...) went closed source and started injecting adware into checkout pages. Also seems to be doing some geolocation tracking.

I didn't see this come up on hn, so I figured I'd sound the alarm for all the privacy-conscious folks here.

At this point, I feel like browser extension marketplaces are a failed experiment. I can just vibecode my own json pretty-printer extension and never deal with this problem again.

JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

jkl5xx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:34:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721946

Points: 289

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New comment by jkl5xx in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

jkl5xx — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:38:15 +0000

Good points. What local models have you found work best for your use cases? I feel like if we get to opus 4.6 level intelligence running on local hardware, we’re in the clear for a lot of day to day use cases.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Why I love NixOS"

jkl5xx — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:25:31 +0000

Definitely interested! I've reinstalled Fedora Asahi Remix several times on my old M1 after fiddling my way into a broken state. NixOS sounds like a tinkerer's dream but getting started is a bit intimidating.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

jkl5xx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:57:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Much better source.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

jkl5xx — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:14:12 +0000

This is smart and a good first step. Everyone can't be trusted to do the security dance flawlessly, though. We need sane defaults. Least privilege by default for 3rd-party code. Deno's headed in the right direction with this. But I think the solution needs to exist deeper in the stack. The surge in popularity of `curl -fsSL https://my-cool-ai-starup.ai/install.sh | bash` style installers is particularly concerning to me in this regard.

New comment by jkl5xx in "The terminal of the future"

jkl5xx — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:10:05 +0000

Totally agree with all of your comment. To solve for structured data instead of everyone writing parsers, I’ve enjoyed using nushell (not affiliated, just love the idea). https://www.nushell.sh/

It’s like powershell but not ugly and not Microsoft.

New comment by jkl5xx in "You can now disable all AI features in Zed"

jkl5xx — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:59:59 +0000

Huh? Zed's vim emulator is one of the best I've used in an IDE. Saying it's an afterthought feels disingenuous. I'm pretty sure some of the core zed devs are big vim enthusiasts.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Doorway effect"

jkl5xx — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:56:55 +0000

I'd never heard of this effect before but it reminds me of a feature I've aways wanted for ios which is, in order to unlock your phone, you need to type in what you're planning to do (and maybe for how long), so you can refer to that or get notified when your memory inevitably blanks and you get sidetracked.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards"

jkl5xx — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 05:21:48 +0000

Is there an SRS app or Anki feature that takes into account your reaction time when answering a card? I've wanted to use Anki for things like speeding up mental arithmetic but Anki doesn't seem to have a feature for measuring and plotting progress on response times.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Show HN: Marimo – an open-source reactive notebook for Python"

jkl5xx — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 14:30:29 +0000

Does the local underscore variables feature solve this? Or the approach outlined in the plots tutorial? IMO, not allowing redeclaration is more valuable than supporting this use case. A slight paradigm shift away from your example gives you the significant benefits of a reactive environment with fewer edge cases/quirks. I'd much rather have a notebook error out instead of silently overwriting a value. You save so much time debugging.

New comment by jkl5xx in "Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com"

jkl5xx — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:25:00 +0000

I love this! I usually use the UG iPhone app which isn't great, so if this is PWA-abble, I'd be stoked. The biggest issue I have with UG is that it can't be used offline. Often I'm out camping or something and just need a refresher on the lyrics but am thwarted by connectivity