Hacker News: malepoon

New comment by malepoon in "Kiwi Farms response to CloudFlare"

malepoon — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 13:17:07 +0000

> or do these KF people do doxing on sorts on other sites and use KF as a central place to coordinate attacks?

Yep. KF is their harassment HQ where they share information about individuals they don't approve of. It's creepy.

New comment by malepoon in "Kiwi Farms response to CloudFlare"

malepoon — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 13:15:08 +0000

> between two internet mobs headed by two unsavoury individuals

This is a bit too much "both sides are bad" for me. Fact is that Kiwi Farms is a horrible website where people harass others, share information about them, and drive them to suicide. That's pretty bad on its own.

New comment by malepoon in "Day ahead electricity prices for EU"

malepoon — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 19:58:21 +0000

> Most densely populated country in Europe has solar parks for fuck sake.

I don't know how much is from solar parks? About 20% of all houses in the Netherlands have solar panels according to some sources so that adds up.

Man tests positive for monkeypox, Covid and HIV at the same time

malepoon — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:26:29 +0000

Article URL: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2022/08/man-tests-positive-for-monkeypox-covid-and-hiv-at-the-same-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32574976

Points: 2

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New comment by malepoon in "Using: Has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more"

malepoon — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:36:59 +0000

Remember (P)NaCl? Or WebSQL? Google has a bad reputation for pushing poorly designed web "standards".

Thanks to Mozilla we then got asm.js, wich evolved into Wasm and ultimately replaced NaCl.

Now imagine there was one engine and Google could implement whatever they wanted? RIP privacy and well-designed standards.

New comment by malepoon in "Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?"

malepoon — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:39:35 +0000

It's true though. You see something similar with the address bar: Chrome's is pretty horrible for accessing history or bookmarks, it instead tries to push you to do a search. Firefox has much richer information here.

New comment by malepoon in "RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD"

malepoon — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:36:49 +0000

From Wikipedia:

> Today, FreeBSD is used by many IT companies such as IBM, Nokia, Juniper Networks, and NetApp to build their products.[16][17] Certain parts of Apple's Mac OS X operating system are based on FreeBSD.[18] Both the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Switch operating system also borrow certain components from FreeBSD,[7][8] while the PlayStation 4 operating system is derived from FreeBSD 9.[19] Netflix,[20] WhatsApp,[21] and FlightAware[22] are also examples of large, successful and heavily network-oriented companies which are running FreeBSD.

New comment by malepoon in "Ask HN: Why did smartphones become a single point of failure?"

malepoon — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:58:15 +0000

This is why I love (WebAuthn) security keys: it's completely separate from your phone (and easy to register a second/third key as backup for in a safe location) so you eliminate this whole class of issues.

New comment by malepoon in "Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud due to privacy concerns"

malepoon — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 06:24:41 +0000

So the students learn to use these "free" services and then later pay with their data for their personal accounts? Even worse if you ask me.

New comment by malepoon in "Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud due to privacy concerns"

malepoon — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 05:28:07 +0000

Even if that's true, do we really want our children to grow up with (and get used to) these services that are usually "free" for personal use but paid for by tracking people across the internet, separate division or not?

New comment by malepoon in "Transparent stairs: what happens when no-one on the design team wears skirts"

malepoon — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 16:49:00 +0000

Please no, if you need to add so much complexity just to work around problems with glass stairs, it's better to just go with boring normal stairs.

New comment by malepoon in "Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make"

malepoon — Mon, 02 May 2022 20:44:01 +0000

Twitter also supports WebAuthn security keys as 2FA, much stronger than SMS/TOTP.

New comment by malepoon in "Reading on smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension"

malepoon — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:46:47 +0000

To be honest I only notice that with movies. Books are fine, TV show episodes are usually fine, but long movies I can have a hard time concentrating on. Maybe because I can easily change my reading speed to keep my mind occupied.

New comment by malepoon in "Porting USB applications to the web. Part 1: libusb"

malepoon — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:00:51 +0000

It's too bad these Chromium "specs" tend to be pretty low quality and rushed. They're then never changed because "too bad, we shipped it already, can't break the web!" See the garbage they tried to push in the form of NaCl, WebSQL, etc.

New comment by malepoon in "Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern"

malepoon — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 21:09:11 +0000

Thanks. At some point Twitter itself didn't let you read threads without logging in, but it looks like they changed that...

New comment by malepoon in "Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern"

malepoon — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 20:57:45 +0000

Twitter thread from a vaccine developer: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1464222680731820043.html

A lot of speculation still, but it's not all bad so far.

New comment by malepoon in "Photoshop’s journey to the web"

malepoon — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:37:40 +0000

Indeed. Also, using the generic web.dev domain to market Chrome reminds me a lot of Project NERA.

New comment by malepoon in "Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden"

malepoon — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 08:02:38 +0000

Brave and Edge are better than Chrome if you care about privacy, but 99% of the code base is still controlled by Google and they don't really have a voice in standards committees. To support the open web it's much better to have engine diversity too.

Pale Moon switches to private repository

malepoon — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:06:40 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=27369

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28529442

Points: 13

# Comments: 6