Hacker News: mzur

A possible future for Damn Interesting

mzur — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:25:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.damninteresting.com/a-possible-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847511

Points: 316

# Comments: 44

New comment by mzur in "EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn't used for image-orientation: from-image"

mzur — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:18:32 +0000

Browsers starting to rotate images based on EXIF is such a pain. I maintain an image annotation tool and all of a sudden images were shown differently to users depending on the browser they used. Then you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to ignore the EXIF orientation again. In some cases you are not allowed to see if the orientation was changed for security reasons. And then the only way to control this is through a CSS attribute which only works if the element is in the DOM.

New comment by mzur in "State of the Bird 2024/25"

mzur — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:08:23 +0000

They wrote about this recently. With "Panorama" [1] they want to introduce an SQLite DB for all messages that will also be responsible for the search index.

[1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/video-conversation-view...

State of the Bird 2024/25

mzur — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:06:33 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45515744

Points: 12

# Comments: 8

New comment by mzur in "Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops"

mzur — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:29:02 +0000

I'm a happy user of my second Tuxedo laptop after using the first for over 7 years, repairing several parts. I found their support very responsive and spare parts affordable. Your points are valid though. If you don't like their custom stuff, the device also works fine with a stock Linux install (Ubuntu in my case).

New comment by mzur in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

mzur — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:18:53 +0000

If you need a web app to mark/count things in images, search for "image annotation" tools. I know first hand of a tool that is around since 2009 and still maintained.

New comment by mzur in "The Sheep Incident (2008)"

mzur — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:39:58 +0000

If you liked the article, please consider a donation to Damn Interesting. They recently announced taking a break [1] because of a shortfall of donations. DI has been such a great resource for interesting articles (to me) and it would be sad to see it wither away.

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/breaking-a-bit/

Language Segment Anything

mzur — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 07:06:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/luca-medeiros/lang-segment-anything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37787939

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

ThunderCast Podcast #4: Will the Real Mozilla Please Stand Up?

mzur — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:46:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/09/thundercast-podcast-4-will-the-real-mozilla-please-stand-up/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507252

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mzur in "May Flowers Spring COSMIC Showers"

mzur — Thu, 11 May 2023 18:57:49 +0000

I see they have a workspaces applet that has "row" and "column" in the source code. I'd love to see a GNOME-like DE that supports 2D workspaces again so I can happily abandon my GNOME extension (Workspace Matrix).

I couldn't figure out how to run COSMIC so I couldn't test if the applet really supports 2D workspaces, though.

New comment by mzur in "Ipmitool Repository Archived, Developer Suspended by GitHub"

mzur — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 20:39:01 +0000

I use this shell script with a cron job: https://gist.github.com/rodw/3073987 It can back up repos, issues and wikis.

New comment by mzur in "Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?"

mzur — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:12:59 +0000

I just use good old Thunderbird.

New comment by mzur in "Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos Monday"

mzur — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 09:20:09 +0000

I haven't been sued personally but some of my clients were. I told everyone to ignore it but had to update their websites nonetheless.

New comment by mzur in "Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos Monday"

mzur — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 07:24:56 +0000

Thank you so much for google-webfonts-helper! It's been helping me a lot recently ever since there was this questionable court decision in Germany that using fonts directly from Google violates the privacy regulation and website owners were sued all over the place.

New comment by mzur in "Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you"

mzur — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 09:13:49 +0000

I like to use Spotify Release List [1] which is also a good replacement for the Spotify Release Radar. It just watches for artists you follow and doesn't include those that buy their way into the Release Radar (I'm looking at you, Ed).

[1] https://spotifyreleaselist.netlify.app

Great New Features Coming to Thunderbird 102

mzur — Thu, 12 May 2022 08:30:24 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/05/7-great-new-features-coming-to-thunderbird-102/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31350835

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mzur in "Ask HN: What's the most stable form of digital storage?"

mzur — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 05:53:02 +0000

Others have mentioned the Internet Archive. There is also Zenodo [1] where you can archive code and have a good chance that it survives long-term. Zenodo is run by CERN and even has an integration with GitHub, so you can easily archive GitHub repositories. Each archived item can get a Digital Object Itentifier with you could etch into glass to put on your shelf (so you can find your stuff again in a few decades).

[1] https://zenodo.org

New comment by mzur in "Show HN: Anno – Effortlessly annotate and comment on videos/audio"

mzur — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 05:48:05 +0000

BIIGLE (https://biigle.de).

New comment by mzur in "Show HN: Anno – Effortlessly annotate and comment on videos/audio"

mzur — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:29:47 +0000

Decoding the video manually seems so much overkill when all that's needed would essentially be a currentFrame property. But it seems I have to explore this avenue as well. I only aim to support Chrome and Firefox but as much as I hate to admit it, Firefox is somewhat lacking on the video side anyway (as there is a bug that lets it display different video frames for the same currentTime than other browsers or FFmpeg [1]). Therefore I already discourage using Firefox for video annotation.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735300

New comment by mzur in "Show HN: Anno – Effortlessly annotate and comment on videos/audio"

mzur — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:35:29 +0000

Is it open source or are there plans to make it so? I'd be very interested how you do frame-accurate video annotations in the browser, as I found the currentTime attribute of HTML video elements to be too unreliable for this. (Context: I maintain a video annotation tool that is mostly used for marine imaging.)