Hacker News: mostlysimilar

New comment by mostlysimilar in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

mostlysimilar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:33:28 +0000

Incredible. LittleSnitch is must-have for macOS and trying to get equivalent functionality on Linux was painful. So very happy to see this, and very happy to give the developers at Objective Development my money.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "'This Is Just Not How the Human Race Should Operate,' Says US Senator"

mostlysimilar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:49:27 +0000

38% approval, roughly the same percentage of people who will support anything Trump does.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

mostlysimilar — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:17:36 +0000

Literally the only thing that will get me to upgrade. My M1 MacBook Pro is a beast and I've felt no need to replace it.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

mostlysimilar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:43:10 +0000

I think it's worth giving people a tiny bit of grace on this. I've surprised people by explaining that the "Department of War" is just fascist fanfic and that the legal name has not changed.

It's a testament to the broken information ecosystem we're in that many people genuinely don't know this. Most will correct themselves when told. I agree with you that those who don't are not worth engaging.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages"

mostlysimilar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:35:01 +0000

It's also just an utterly meaningless statement. Filler words with no value whatsoever.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Google Street View in 2026"

mostlysimilar — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:31:44 +0000

I think about this so often. Google Street View and YouTube are full of irreplaceable information. At least it's not Meta, but apart from them it could hardly be in less reliable hands.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

mostlysimilar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:52:49 +0000

Both browsers offer import/export functionality for all of those things. Spend one week trying Firefox and if you don't like it, switch back. The inconvenience here is so small it might as well not exist.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

mostlysimilar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:50:06 +0000

It strips query params used for tracking. Has it never bothered you when you click share on Instagram or YouTube and it inserts a unique-to-you "share ID" in the URL? I was burned by this once, now every time I copy a share URL from a social media platform I first paste it into my text editor and remove all of the privacy invasive tracking cruft.

As an aside I think it's only matter of time before this is done without query params and instead each share link is generated just for you.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

mostlysimilar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:10:08 +0000

YouTube is social media first, even if it also happens to be a repository of useful content. Social media does not want you to navigate with agency. They want to choose what you see because it lets them keep you on the platform longer, which is the entire goal.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Flameshot"

mostlysimilar — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:49:13 +0000

My understanding of the landscape currently is that KDE Plasma is the only major DE that supports HDR. I use it for Steam for that reason.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

mostlysimilar — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:56:31 +0000

> For users that have enabled Advanced Data Protection, iCloud stores content for email, contacts, and calendars that the customer has elected to maintain in the account while the customer’s account remains active. This data may be provided, as it exists in the customer’s account, in response to a search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause, or customer consent.

> Apple does not receive or retain encryption keys for customer’s end-to-end encrypted data. Advanced Data Protection uses end-to-end encryption, and Apple cannot decrypt certain iCloud content, including Photos, iCloud Drive, Backup, Notes, and Safari Bookmarks

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Elon Musk's X down for users"

mostlysimilar — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:21:49 +0000

What is "seo.ai" and how do they determine the numbers they publish? I looked and didn't find any methodology or real data, just a bunch of fluff words.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

mostlysimilar — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:41:48 +0000

There are two camps who have largely made up their minds just talking past each other, instinctively upvoting/downvoting their camp, etc. These threads are nearly useless, maybe a few people on the fringes change their minds but mostly it's just the same tired arguments back and forth.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

mostlysimilar — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:59:20 +0000

There's a button at the top of the page to disable it.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

mostlysimilar — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:41:07 +0000

> around 50% taxes between state, local.

Truly? I believe he lives in Washington State. It's really HALF of his income?

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind"

mostlysimilar — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:56:44 +0000

> Everything should be Tailwind because all code is written by LLMs these days.

Sarcasm? Bait? Woefully misinformed?

Not all code is written by LLM these days.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Please just try HTMX"

mostlysimilar — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:30:48 +0000

In most simple cases you probably don't want to be handling request-response initiated DOM updates in a Stimulus controller. Turbo Frames and Turbo Streams are the more htmx-like in functionality and they're excellent for this.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "What the heck is going on at Apple?"

mostlysimilar — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:22:53 +0000

> Amar Subramanya, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of AI, will be Apple’s new vice president of AI.

That doesn't bode well. The last thing I want from macOS is Windows-like overbearing insistence on AI everything.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already"

mostlysimilar — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:11:19 +0000

As always, the answer is that we need to found our own companies and stop letting the vampires suck our blood.

New comment by mostlysimilar in "Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay"

mostlysimilar — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:42:58 +0000

The world we live in now is one where fake internet points can be redeemed for political and social capital. The worst people we know figured this out before the sane ones and that's why we're in this mess we're in.