Hacker News: reddalo

New comment by reddalo in "Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome"

reddalo — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:36:15 +0000

> browsers have no consistency in how they pick the one to actually display

The same Firefox on macOS shows different favicons depending on if I'm using it on the laptop screen or an external one (probably because of different pixel densities). It's crazy!

New comment by reddalo in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

reddalo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:29:10 +0000

I miss lightweight tools so much. Even on Linux, opening some apps feels slow and sluggish, maybe because of Snap or Flatpak containerization, I don't know.

New comment by reddalo in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

reddalo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:22:59 +0000

Nor safe. Good luck recalling a wrong crpyto transaction.

New comment by reddalo in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

reddalo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:21:52 +0000

I don't know. It used to be 26%, like capital gains from shares, securities, etc. but since 1st January 2026 crypto is taxed at 33% unless it's euro stablecoins (still 26%).

At this point, I think most crypto investors in Italy will just evade taxes altogether.

New comment by reddalo in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

reddalo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:34:57 +0000

Sorry, my bad. I just wanted to know what the OP meant by "timing a bubble", I didn't want to insinuate that they said something different.

New comment by reddalo in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

reddalo — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:43:19 +0000

>I can time a bubble

What do you mean? Selling everything before this bubble pops?

New comment by reddalo in "Substack writers, you need a website"

reddalo — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:01:34 +0000

>{my-hn-username}.substack.com will still be around

I wouldn't be so sure. Platforms come and go, they change domains (e.g. Twitter), they merge, they die.

New comment by reddalo in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

reddalo — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:56:05 +0000

Which is also why you get Google results in your own language, even if you're in Japan. Google receive your requests from an IP address in your own country.

New comment by reddalo in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

reddalo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:54:09 +0000

That's the sad thing: Apple decided to leave all Intel macs on broken macOS 26. Very bad on Apple's part.

New comment by reddalo in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

reddalo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:51:07 +0000

>have led many people to defer upgrading until MacOS 27 is available

Then there's me, crying in MacBook Pro 2019 stuck on MacOS 15 because 27 won't be available for my machine.

New comment by reddalo in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

reddalo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:08:31 +0000

That's why I said .doc. The format you're talking about is called .docx

New comment by reddalo in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

reddalo — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:56:28 +0000

>Word is basically an operating system.

And .doc files are basically a memory dump.

New comment by reddalo in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

reddalo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:10:55 +0000

The problem of DNT is that Internet Explorer 11 set it to true as default, and then all companies started ignoring it on purpose.

New comment by reddalo in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

reddalo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:10:17 +0000

The term "dickover" is now approved by the guy who invented "enshittification"! https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/21/dickovers/

New comment by reddalo in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

reddalo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:08:50 +0000

That's what I'm doing with a service I made. But I don't have any ads, and ad-supported websites can't easily do that.

New comment by reddalo in "98.css"

reddalo — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:53:22 +0000

I wish modern operating systems were like that: simple, clean, with no wasted space for decorative purposes.

New comment by reddalo in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

reddalo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:35:05 +0000

Until I can have all my keys as cleartext in a text file, I won't use passkeys.

New comment by reddalo in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

reddalo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:26:46 +0000

Exactly, I always refuse to add a passkey because I'm afraid I won't be able to easily login again. Also, I don't want to be locked in to a vendor.

New comment by reddalo in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

reddalo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:23:31 +0000

> Linux is the only oddball here, I had issues getting this flow to work.

Take a guess why.

Passkeys are just a trick for vendor lock-in disguised as a security practice.

New comment by reddalo in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

reddalo — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:11:13 +0000

> Compiz

Wow, you just unlocked a memory. Good times.