Hacker News: mimasama

My decade-old budget Android phone is faster than my 2024 flagship iPhone

mimasama — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:01:13 +0000

Article URL: https://jstpst.net/f/technology/15047/rant-it-s-crazy-how-much-faster-computers-were-10-years-ago

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643138

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mimasama in "Cloudflare breaks promise to not gatekeep small browsers"

mimasama — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:16:16 +0000

Since HN apparently strips out URI fragments I meant to link to this post in the thread (latest post as of writing): https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=33442#p273914

> And worse yet, I was just now told that CF "provide the troubleshooter as a quality-of-life tool and maintain it with best effort." So they aren't even committed to making it work while that was one of the very things that kept coming up in our meeting as it was the only tool remotely available to be able to test Pale Moon (other than testing internally which they seem unwilling to consider, as well) prior to them pushing things to production, so they are already going back on their promises.

> I'm really running out of what little patience I have left with CF. They have effectively not addressed our problems, not provided answers, not told me what behaviour is wrong or broken in Pale Moon (according to them), not provided any tools, and are now playing down the one thing we could use in some fashion as "best effort without commitments", while continuing to be gatekeepers for the Internet and access to large swathes of it. EU's Digital Markets Act is pretty clear about how that is not acceptable behaviour -- even if it was written initially to deal with "preferred bundled software" for operating systems, it does lay the groundwork for addressing unfair practices by other types of gatekeepers like CF.

Cloudflare breaks promise to not gatekeep small browsers

mimasama — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=33442

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116591

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by mimasama in "Cloudflare gatekeeps small browsers by requiring WebGL draft for their CAPTCHA"

mimasama — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:07:18 +0000

And the funny thing is that the WebGL context attribute they're asking for is not even the root cause, so implementing it didn't do squat. But it shows the attitude of Cloudflare to the open web: we don't care about mature and stable web standards, or the fact that you don't allow automating your browser by intentionally not implementing WebDriver or Selenium, implement these draft features unrelated to actual bot detection or we will consider your browser a robot and block it.

Cloudflare gatekeeps small browsers by requiring WebGL draft for their CAPTCHA

mimasama — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:56:55 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=32045&start=740

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717435

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

CSS Isn't Real

mimasama — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:34:00 +0000

Article URL: https://cssisntreal.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437652

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

A lot of Touhou 3's gameplay mechanics has been decompiled and researched

mimasama — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:26:29 +0000

Article URL: https://rec98.nmlgc.net/blog/2026-03-16

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424856

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mimasama in "I tried Firefox's new AI 'Smart Window' in a beta build"

mimasama — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:41:10 +0000

> My memory list isn’t populated with things Smart Window learned since I enabled it. Oh no.

> It has activity going back months. We’re talking searches and website interactions from long before I enabled this. features.

> Firefox just handed that history to the AI models to plough from, without telling me upfront.

Pretty concerning that Mozilla at this point has made sharing all of your browsing history the default, without even asking you about it. This is a beta version, which is pretty much like a release candidate in Firefox, being the next version to be published after all. This shouldn't have reached beta at all.

New comment by mimasama in "Firefox Nova – our first look at the browser's big redesign"

mimasama — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:18:18 +0000

Are they really going to double down on the tabs looking like buttons.

Anyway not looking forward to my userChrome CSS for tabs on bottom ending up broken again in the redesign

Firefox's AI Kill Switch Is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

mimasama — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:29:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178062

Points: 10

# Comments: 9

New comment by mimasama in "Keep Android Open"

mimasama — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:56:04 +0000

I email my dad documents and photos I need printed (and he uses his work office's laser printer). I forward the billing statement I receive monthly from my family's ISP to my mom via email. And I'm "Gen Z"

New comment by mimasama in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

mimasama — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:23:05 +0000

Sure, "all" operating systems. "All" that is OSes that have a web browser built for it that at least supports [TransformStream](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TransformSt...)... And the browser and spec written and maintained mostly by people outside of France. Kinda compromises the point of being "sovereign" doesn't it?

New comment by mimasama in "Termux"

mimasama — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:45:57 +0000

I use Termux for my OTP implemented in a bash script, I trust oathtool more than an app.

The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies

mimasama — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:12:54 +0000

Article URL: https://islandinthenet.com/the-indie-web-is-not-defined-by-its-enemies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853651

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mimasama in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

mimasama — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:52:01 +0000

> Even after losing server access, attackers maintained credentials to internal services until December 2, 2025, which allowed them to continue redirecting Notepad++ update traffic to malicious servers. The attackers specifically targeted Notepad++ domain with the goal of exploiting insufficient update verification controls that existed in older versions of Notepad++.

New comment by mimasama in "XHTML Club"

mimasama — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:01:09 +0000

> Better question, why don't we upgrade XML to do that?

XSLT which is an application of XML allows you to do a for-each: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XML/XSLT/Refere...

New comment by mimasama in "FOSS "just fork it" delusion"

mimasama — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:13:06 +0000

> when that problem is big enough that enough people are thinking about forking it

Isn't that a situation where forking happens as "a last resort when projects become irredeemably captured or hostile" as the article writes?

I think you're the one who missed the point and haven't digested this blog post properly.

FOSS "just fork it" delusion

mimasama — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:25:46 +0000

Article URL: https://hamishcampbell.com/foss-just-fork-it-delusion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743328

Points: 63

# Comments: 84

Webpage content should not be able to influence GC via WeakRef

mimasama — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:58:06 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2753

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310774

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mimasama in "Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine"

mimasama — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:14:33 +0000

Actually JPEG XL is based in part on Google's PIK format. The Zurich team from Google Research (which developed PIK and Brotli) is even actively working on JPEG XL to this day.

The reason why Chrome (also a Google product) removed it at first is more likely to be internal politics. Google is a very large corporation after all, with each faction within it having its own priorities and alignments. In the case of Chrome the team there are probably more aligned with the AVIF/AOM team than with Zurich/PIK when it came to the next-gen image format to be pushed (which would explain why Chrome did not have problems with Brotli, because there wasn't a competing Google faction that is developing a replacement for gzip).