Hacker News: protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=protosterHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:26:03 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"]]>>Other Chromium-based browsers like Opera and Microsoft Edge could soon follow suit too. Although it is not specified, Edge began disabling uBlock Origin back in February

Cmon, it's in the article.

]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:51:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480055protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480055https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480055<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"]]>I expected some kind of fallout from Google nuking uBo. I've heard pretty much nothing so far.

]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:42:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479904protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479904https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479904<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"]]>They're working on it.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:45:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376024protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376024https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376024<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]>Thinking that Gmail thinks anything about you is giving them too much credit. The only reason for any of this is the desperation to juice their AI usage metrics.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:28:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375790protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375790https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375790<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"]]>More like a global economic depression

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 20:51:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300477protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300477https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300477<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"]]>This feels like a sign of something very bad happening soon

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 19:18:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299125protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299125https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299125<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"]]>For real. There has to be an RSS fan high up in the company, because RSS allows users to bypass the very thing YT are pushing so hard for i.e. recommendations and shorts.

]]>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:18:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036590protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036590https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036590<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"]]>Yes, it's very good. However, basically-every-current-multiplayer-shooter is a big missing category.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:32:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922177protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922177https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922177<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"]]>Coverage is still partial because some VERY popular games do not run on Linux due to anti-cheat

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:23:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922056protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922056https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922056<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"]]>> At the start of the year, Microsoft generated a lot of goodwill among Windows 11 fans when it announced its big plan to fix the operating system in 2026

The only thing generated was boatloads of incredulity and some laughs.

]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:54:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752908protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752908https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752908<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Our commitment to Windows quality"]]>So why did they make taskbar bottom only in the first place? Too difficult to implement? Branding? No room for ads when it's vertical?

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:22:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460121protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460121https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460121<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"]]>I'm in the same boat, have to use Windows at work. In addition to whatver MS is doing, every workstation is encumbered with various EDR and antivirus software.

]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:02:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856787protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856787https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856787<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"]]>For sure, but 11 is on a whole new level in my experience.

]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:59:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856757protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856757https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856757<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"]]>Too late, idiots. Just as Windows 10 was being retired, you ran the craziest anti-marketing campaign I've ever seen and successfully coaxed me into switching my daily driver to Linux. Until this year, I've been using windows my ENTIRE life.

]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:40:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855917protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855917https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855917<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"]]>Many problems in the world would be solved if people actually read Economics 101.

]]>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:59:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680430protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680430https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680430<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"]]>Author seems to enjoy writing posts that get lots of votes on site that I would describe as eye-rending, especially the "normal" yellow color scheme. It's aggressively unpleasant to read.

]]>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:37:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500950protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500950https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500950<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"]]>tonsky.me is a troll site that should be banned from being posted on HN

]]>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:28:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499114protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499114https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499114<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"]]>I'm raising my hands, you got me.

]]>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:13:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291180protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291180https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291180<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"]]>There are three browsers: FF, Chrome, Safari. I'm not on Apple so FF is the least worst option.

]]>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:10:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291142protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291142https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291142<![CDATA[New comment by protoster in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"]]>I use Firefox because I don't want to use a browser provided by an advertising company e.g. Chrome.

]]>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:46:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290809protosterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290809https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290809