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New comment by oktoberpaard in "Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery"

oktoberpaard — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:50 +0000

I’d say it’s very easy to hurt someone with pixels on the screen by spreading these generated images of actual people online.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

oktoberpaard — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:47:53 +0000

Local software could be stealing plaintext secrets from your encrypted disk. Physical access is not the only attack vector.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

oktoberpaard — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:11:44 +0000

> In general, of 3rd party blockers, uBlock Origin isn't even the best, AdGuard is.

Why? I thought uBlock Origin on Firefox was the most effective combination available (assuming that you use the same filter lists).

New comment by oktoberpaard in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

oktoberpaard — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:11:58 +0000

Have you actually seen the contents of the comment? Do you actually have an example of anyone that went to jail for calling someone fat? Also: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/tennessee-ch....

New comment by oktoberpaard in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

oktoberpaard — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:26:34 +0000

It runs on another device and connects to the YouTube app(s) as a client.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal"

oktoberpaard — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:37:23 +0000

HDR photos taken on iOS or Android devices are displayed as SDR images when opened on Windows. The gain map that they contain (see ISO 21496-1) is ignored. Before the ISO standard it didn’t even work between iOS and Android. This is what OP’s frustration is about.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal"

oktoberpaard — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:02:13 +0000

What you are taking about is also called HDR, but has nothing to do with what the other person is talking about. The other person is talking about the still image equivalent of HDR video formats. When displayed on an HDR capable monitor, it will map the brightest parts of the image to the extended headroom of the monitor instead of tone mapping it to be displayed on a standard SDR monitor. So to be even more clear: it defines brightness levels beyond what is normally 100%.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

oktoberpaard — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:32:11 +0000

Apparently I was wrong about that part. Only the part about cents still being legal tender was correct. So you can pay the exact amount, but not demand the exact change.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

oktoberpaard — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:31:03 +0000

Thanks for the correction. So only the part about legal tender was correct, which is probably what I was confused with. The relevant part:

> The one and two cent coins will remain legal tender, and retailers can choose whether or not to participate. The Netherlands cannot declare the smallest coins worthless on its own in Europe; this must be arranged in Brussels.

The government page about this: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/betalingsverkeer/vr...

> Of course, budget stores like Lidl and Aldi still use them but any other corporation is not going to care.

What do you mean with this? Surely the Lidl and Aldi don’t give exact change by default in the Netherlands in 2025?

New comment by oktoberpaard in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

oktoberpaard — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:50:06 +0000

In the Netherlands cash payments get rounded to the nearest 5 cents, in both directions. Card payments are not rounded. If I’m not mistaken, you can still demand exact change according to the law and you’re allowed to pay the exact amount (cents are still legal tender). Most merchants wouldn’t be able to give you exact change, so it depends on the situation what would happen. I’ve never heard of such a situation happening, though.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

oktoberpaard — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:40:40 +0000

> You could also have a Safari content blocker with an optional WebExtension for additional functionality with no usage of DeclarativeNetRequest.

That’s exactly what AdGuard and some other content blockers do. The result is that content blocking works everywhere, but it’s most effective in Safari. As a user, I prefer that over the approach of uBlock Origin Lite, which is a pure WebExtension and doesn’t do anything outside of Safari. Too bad, because I prefer using uBlock Origin on other platforms.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

oktoberpaard — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:31:57 +0000

Without having any experience with the APIs to back up my claim, I believe that the WebExtensions API is more powerful in the sense that it allows more complex blocking rules. AdGuard seems to include both options simultaneously, where you have "advanced protection" (WebExtensions API) that only works in Safari and separate blocking lists (old API) that work in both Safari and WebView. This is precisely what keeps me from using uBlock Origin Lite.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

oktoberpaard — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:25:52 +0000

I got RSI using a touchpad, which then transferred to using a normal mouse. I couldn’t do anything with a mouse for longer than a few minutes. I completely fixed it with a DXT Mouse 2 (and later 3).

My normal (mechanical) keyboard doesn’t give me any issues, as long as it’s narrow enough (75% layout or less) that I can keep my mouse close enough to the center of my body that I don’t have to rotate my shoulder outwards too much.

My natural resting position on my keyboard is with both arms coming in diagonally without bending at the wrists. I do a lot of work on the terminal, including programming, so I’m using it quite intensively and I never feel any strain.

I tried to get used to a split orthogonal keyboard, but I couldn’t use it for extended periods without getting RSI like symptoms. Would I have persisted, I might have gotten used to it. Or maybe it just wasn’t the right one for me.

Anyway, this is not to counter any of the things you said, because I basically followed the same path with my mouse, but it shows how different postures and usage patterns can lead to different outcomes. I’m still interested in ergonomic keyboards, though, and I might try one again in the future.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "World emissions hit record high, but the EU leads trend reversal"

oktoberpaard — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:14:37 +0000

What are you talking about? We’re below average already[1].

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

New comment by oktoberpaard in "The value of bringing a telephoto lens"

oktoberpaard — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:08:37 +0000

Zooming in and out worked on my iOS device to trigger it to load properly.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

oktoberpaard — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:11:03 +0000

For me it’s not so much about the readability in sunlight, but about being able to glance at your watch without moving your wrist and about the watch not emitting light in dark environments. I find that distracting and I like the stealthiness of MIPS. That being said, if the minimum brightness is low enough and battery life with always-on high enough I think I could live with it, but with wrist gestures completely disabled except during activity.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "DeepSeek-v3.1"

oktoberpaard — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:07:35 +0000

I’m running Ollama on 2 eGPUs over Thunderbolt. Works well for me. You’re still dealing with an NVDIA device, of course. The connection type is not going to change that hassle.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "A GPU Calculator That Helps Calculate What GPU to Use"

oktoberpaard — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:08:41 +0000

It gives weird results for me. I’m using Qwen3-32B with 32K context length at Q4_K_M, with 8 bit KV cache fully offloaded to 24GB VRAM. According to this calculator this should be impossible by a large margin, yet it’s working for me.

Edit: this might be because I’ve got flash attention enabled in Ollama.

New comment by oktoberpaard in "New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes"

oktoberpaard — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:24:29 +0000

Or it could have another reason: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduc....

New comment by oktoberpaard in "Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone"

oktoberpaard — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:47:51 +0000

You might as well use uBlock Origin Lite. The point is that all of these options are less powerful because of the limitations of manifest v3. Instead of downgrading the effectiveness, they’ve opted to release a separate less powerful option so that it’s clear to the end user that it’s less effective than what was available with manifest v2.