Hacker News: mb720

New comment by mb720 in "Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client"

mb720 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:25:06 +0000

The extension withExEditor[1] can open the editor of your choice in its own window, optionally with a different editor config file. Your editor writes to a file in /tmp and on each write, the text in the input field or area in your browser is updated with the contents of the file. This is an advantage over Tridactyl, by the way, since in Tridactyl you have to close the editor in order to update the text inside the browser.

[1]: https://github.com/asamuzaK/withExEditor

Show HN: File carver in the browser (Rust and WebAssembly)

mb720 — Mon, 08 May 2023 07:59:20 +0000

An experimental file carver [1], currently extracting only JPGs, written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly.

Files that the user provides are searched inside the browser, there's no server upload.

The extraction of JPGs works using their magic numbers. I'd love to get ideas on possibly more sophisticated extraction methods and the Rust code in general.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_carving

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35859155

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mb720 in "Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux"

mb720 — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 11:23:31 +0000

I used to like Windows 7 when it came out and Windows was the only OS I'd used.

It's hard for me now to love an OS that

* blatantly spies on its users[0]

* has an update mechanism that takes way too much time and CPU

* and an antivirus software that scans those updates, making the machine even slower

* shows ads, even though users paid for the OS[1]

* in its "professional" edition comes preinstalled with all kinds of cruft like Candy Crush[2][3]

* in its home edition blocking users to install a different browser, patronizingly claiming that Edge is the best[4]

Switching to Linux made me feel like I actually own my machine again.

[0]https://www.privacytools.io/operating-systems/#win10

[1]https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-remove-the-most-annoying...

[2]https://i.imgur.com/qhoV17Q.png

[3]https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-10-will-come-with-candy-c...

[4]https://i.imgur.com/CBOqNmE.jpg

New comment by mb720 in "Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux"

mb720 — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 23:27:47 +0000

>scars from the 90s/00s hegemony

Honestly curious, are you referring to Microsoft's illegal[0] tactics to destroy Netscape?

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/04/04/j...

New comment by mb720 in "“I will slaughter you”"

mb720 — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:16:25 +0000

cURL is one of the greatest pieces of software I ever used.

Thank you, Daniel, for creating it and all the volunteers who maintain and improve it.

I donated some time ago to the project here: https://curl.haxx.se/donation.html

I encourage everyone who used it to do the same.

Don't let the crazies get to you.

New comment by mb720 in "I Know What You Download on BitTorrent"

mb720 — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:47:44 +0000

Funny it categorizes Big Buck Bunny as XXX.

New comment by mb720 in "My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file"

mb720 — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:28:04 +0000

Similar to 'gf' there's 'gx' that opens a URL in your browser. I use this every day.

https://github.com/tyru/open-browser.vim

Here's my config from the vimrc:

" Disable netrw's gx mapping

let g:netrw_nogx = 1

" If the current word is a URL, open it in the browser. Else, pass it to a search engine

nmap gx (openbrowser-smart-search)

vmap gx (openbrowser-smart-search)

let g:openbrowser_default_search="duckduckgo"

New comment by mb720 in "Why Continuations Are Coming to Java"

mb720 — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:06:38 +0000

There's an error in the presentation's slides: The type of returnIO is "a → IO a" and not "IO a → IO a".

New comment by mb720 in "How We Found a Missing Scala Class"

mb720 — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:18:39 +0000

The title is misleading. The class was there all along, the NoClassDefFoundError was thrown because the class loader was closed when trying to load a class.

New comment by mb720 in "For software that is cross platform and accessible, forget about Qt"

mb720 — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:35:39 +0000

The comment you refer to was about how programmers getting yelled at on the mailing list of the Linux kernel and how that's not OK.

The comment you refer to wasn't at all about Qt and the article about accessibility.

New comment by mb720 in "For software that is cross platform and accessible, forget about Qt"

mb720 — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:49:38 +0000

When I provide code for free I want to be treated with respect. There's evidence that this is not always the case when working on the Linux Kernel.

Of course, when somebody introduces bugs, that's a problem and should be talked about. But you can do that respectfully without sugarcoating the affair.

New comment by mb720 in "For software that is cross platform and accessible, forget about Qt"

mb720 — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 11:57:02 +0000

I get that the author is frustrated with false claims about Qt, but calling people working on open source software "hippie coders" is just an insulting misrepresentation harming any rational debate.

New comment by mb720 in "Why we should learn German"

mb720 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:42:23 +0000

> Germany is today a country where foreign journalists are chased through the street by communist activists

Source?

New comment by mb720 in "Ask HN: Is there a sane alternative to Angular and React?"

mb720 — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:18:52 +0000

You can use Scala.js[1] to transpile your Scala code to JavaScript and have type safety between client and server. You don't need to use any frameworks if you use Scala's features on the client well.

[1] https://www.scala-js.org/

New comment by mb720 in "The Antidesktop (2002)"

mb720 — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:51:23 +0000

Because of that I moved from Vimperator to VimFx[1] which is a great plugin.

Additionally, I use It's All Text[2] to write comments like these using Vim.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/vimfx/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/its-all-text/