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New comment by mfro in "uBlock Origin Lite is back on Firefox add-ons"

mfro — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:33:04 +0000

Yes, it is meant for the manifest v3 browsers. I think it has a simpler interface so it may be useful to non technical people.

New comment by mfro in "Don't couple your Go code to GitHub"

mfro — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:27:55 +0000

Yes, but the solution differs. As the author says — updating DNS entries can be considerably less complicated than migrating libraries and their references

New comment by mfro in "Don't couple your Go code to GitHub"

mfro — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:15:27 +0000

The article doesn’t mention any of these namespaces failing as the major issue… he is referring to the challenge of transferring hosting providers, which could be done for various reasons.

New comment by mfro in "How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads"

mfro — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:15:39 +0000

Apple Maps is much better in my experience. I've never had an update rejected.

New comment by mfro in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

mfro — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:57:17 +0000

Surprise, case was voluntarily dismissed. Wonder how much they paid him.

New comment by mfro in "Our Servants Will Do That for Us"

mfro — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:13:05 +0000

Even assuming the end-state of all this is Trekonomics -- consider the amount of retired folks that generally just sit around and watch TV. I think a massive culture-shift is in order before we can even consider a healthy society consisting of 0 essential employment.

New comment by mfro in "Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C"

mfro — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:34:03 +0000

Because C is the best.

New comment by mfro in "Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks"

mfro — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:47:30 +0000

Jeez. Surely the ECS agent could just query for permission to join a cluster, and disable if disallowed?

New comment by mfro in "Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity"

mfro — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:41:02 +0000

I would kill to see the equipment intel uses to study these things

New comment by mfro in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

mfro — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:30:33 +0000

Not to mention huge quant firms that paid more than 4x your salary just to get a trading latency advantage

New comment by mfro in "The great wealth transfer reality check"

mfro — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:47:26 +0000

My comment didn’t really portray what I’m getting at. Food insecurity is obviously an indicator for financial confidence. I know people can afford food, on top of the fact they will choose to pay for it because they have to. I know people who have chosen to eat and fall behind on rent. The point is, if you’re worried about your meals, you’re not living the rest of your life with confidence. It’s not something to be brushed aside.

New comment by mfro in "The great wealth transfer reality check"

mfro — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:41:51 +0000

Pretty big gap in quality of life between people who have no worries about their next meal and those who have to stress over every one.

New comment by mfro in "Harddrive Is Probably Full"

mfro — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:50:41 +0000

I think about this problem often in life because of my tendency to procrastinate. Only the long term effects that cause me serious paranoia get any real attention (failing to meet social expectations, major health issues, large-figure finance problems). It’s absolutely necessary to define the constraints before they define you. This requires a lot of forward thinking and effort but considering how little time we get on this earth… worth it

New comment by mfro in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

mfro — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:38:27 +0000

I don't love that this starts an API server on launch and has no option to disable it...

New comment by mfro in "Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)"

mfro — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:15:20 +0000

yes, this is something I have seen used to good effect, for example in the RE:4 remake

New comment by mfro in "Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO"

mfro — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:55:39 +0000

No, I’m just saying I don’t know if buying SPY today would be a good idea.

New comment by mfro in "Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)"

mfro — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:33:16 +0000

SSAO really is awful but it’s the best performing AO we could get for a long time afaik. It’s such a hallmark of 00s and 10s rendering that I laugh every time I see it in a modern release. There are some new solutions hitting the space, I believe RTGI/PT inherently handles AO, and there is even a new method called ‘FidelityFX CACAO’ which does look considerably more realistic. Things are improving… slowly.

New comment by mfro in "Qubes OS Security in the Public Record"

mfro — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:11:15 +0000

Ehhh, I think most engineers that actually want this are pretty accepting of their current tooling and wouldn’t want to switch to a whole new Linux distribution just for a slightly more seamless experience. Besides, the people who care are always pushing forward to make the UX better — see devcontainers, Apple Containers, WSL, etc.

New comment by mfro in "Valve say there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, prices going to increase"

mfro — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:33:49 +0000

The reality is more along the lines of traditional rendering with special ML models inferring and splicing in generated frames. Framegen is already in most modern games and Nvidia has made it a driver level option for many unsupported ones. In case you haven’t used it — it is black magic. Studios will have almost no motivation to optimize if framegen can be perfected, and it’s not far.

New comment by mfro in "Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO"

mfro — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:59:29 +0000

Would have been an amazing idea 10 years ago. Not sure anymore.