Hacker News: qweqwe14

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"

qweqwe14 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:02:22 +0000

No.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

qweqwe14 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:11:50 +0000

It absolutely is. Defaults matter, most developers just want a GUI for their app that doesn't look like ass. Almost no one wants to mess with styling.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

qweqwe14 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:32:12 +0000

We need to start putting guardrails on hn to not allow those pointless comments complaining about usage of AI.

If you have nothing else to comment on then can you stop crying please?

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:37:43 +0000

I've yet to see any ads on uBO Lite so I'll assume it's false, unless you give an example

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:12:22 +0000

It won't matter if dozens of nerds use Firefox, Chromium is just better in every way and that's the reason for it's popularity. No amount of "voting" will change that.

Manifest V3 doesn't prevent anyone from blocking ads, as proven by uBO Lite. And yet misinformation about MV3 takes place in every Chromium vs Firefox debate.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:01:59 +0000

uBO Lite exists and blocks ads just as well as uBO. Why do people pretend it doesn't exist?

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:59:53 +0000

For some bizarre reason you think that you can't block ads on Chromium. uBO Lite exists and blocks ads just as well as uBO.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:56:52 +0000

You could, but at the very least you'd need to MITM all HTTPS, and that means installing your own CA on all devices

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:43:59 +0000

No.

You do realize that people have stuff to do and want their browser to be both 1) fast and 2) compatible with all websites?

Firefox is slower than Chromium, and always will have some compatibility issues, because all websites are made with Chromium in mind.

You can pretend all you want that "well ackshually standards exist and all website makers should use things from the standard", but it's not realistic, everyone will just stick with what works on Chromium.

Also projects like Ungoogled Chromium exist, but for some reason Firefox fanboys conveniently ignore them and pretend that all Chromium-based browsers are evil and Firefox is our last bastion of hope (it isn't and also it sucks)

New comment by qweqwe14 in "sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3"

qweqwe14 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:19:05 +0000

Just use a real web browser or enable JS, it's not that hard buddy. "Why do you keep hitting yourself?"

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:32:51 +0000

I didn't say corporations can't have an ugly laptop lineup.

I'm saying that the trend of consumer/business laptop lineups is to make all of them look similar to a MacBook, because that's what most people want. Of course there will always be exceptions, like the ThinkPad.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:08:55 +0000

Sure, but normal people care about aesthetics, and unsurprisingly big corporations cater to that.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:03:01 +0000

> I don't understand why they are not popular at all and only a few manufacturers build them.

Because they are ugly, just like ThinkPads that include them.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

qweqwe14 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:04:15 +0000

Isn't the fun part having the thing work how you wanted it to? Why shouldn't I be keen to automate the process away?

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Stop Killing Games"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:37:00 +0000

It's not pee-pee — it's poo-poo.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:11:23 +0000

You wouldn't pick BSDs for a desktop anyway, assuming you want a working system and don't want to use Windows/macOS.

Now the concept of a "working system" can be a bit hard to grasp for some people, so let me put it this way: There are vastly more things that normal people do on their computer that work on Linux than on BSDs.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:01:24 +0000

It's Linux bro, we absolutely need to have 500 different options for every single thing. Doesn't matter if every option sucks, diversity is above everything! /s

There are some truly special people among Linux users that think diversity in init systems/libc implementations/etc is a good thing for a general-purpose desktop. They don't understand that people just want stuff to work, and developers don't want to support more than 1 init system (or other trivial thing) for their package.

Success of Linux on the desktop is fundamentally incompatible with diversity, but unfortunately not everyone gets that.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

qweqwe14 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:10:42 +0000

This would never happen because there's zero incentive to do this.

Browsers are complex because they solve a complex problem: running arbitrary applications in a secure manner across a wide range of platforms. So any "simple" browser you can come up with just won't work in the real world (yes, that means being compatible with websites that normal people use).

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s"

qweqwe14 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:26:31 +0000

There is a way: you have to make something that's better in a meaningful way, so that companies' management would want to SWITCH to it. And your new shiny thing also has to be compatible with all of the integrations, the ecosystem etc. that the current thing has.

I'm not even mentioning trust issues, when sensitive data is involved.

Doing anything less and hoping that companies would use your toy project is just wishful thinking. Sorry to be that guy, but please get real.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Linux Kernel Explorer"

qweqwe14 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:43:54 +0000

How is this different from https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux