Hacker News: someNameIG

New comment by someNameIG in "Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds"

someNameIG — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:04:37 +0000

He was also a nazi. Not in the "everyone I don't like is a nazi", but he was a member of a group calling themselves national socialists.

New comment by someNameIG in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

someNameIG — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:11:43 +0000

That's great. The only reason I haven't got it on my M1 Air yet.

New comment by someNameIG in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

someNameIG — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:10:21 +0000

Deutsche Bank made a statement recently that Europe holds about double what the rest of the world does combined in US bonds and equity.

New comment by someNameIG in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

someNameIG — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:31:53 +0000

They say it's first operational system in it's class, but it seems very similar to the Australian Apollo system, with Apollo being able to go up to 150kW

https://eos-aus.com/defence/high-energy-laser-weapon/apollo/

New comment by someNameIG in "France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year"

someNameIG — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:15:11 +0000

I'm Australian and neither any Meta platform nor Reddit have asked to verify my ID, as I presume both just inferred that I was over 16 and that was adequate.

New comment by someNameIG in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

someNameIG — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:20:17 +0000

> All the non-technical people I know loved it. It's pretty. It's neat. It looks cool. Apple is a consumer products company.

My partner doesn't like it, and outside of excel she is not a technical person.

New comment by someNameIG in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

someNameIG — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:18:01 +0000

> using a fork like Mullvad or Waterfox. Those are going to keep all these AI features out. So what do we privacy maximalists care? The forks give us exactly what we want.

The thing is most of the forks are still using some/all of the on device ML models, they're just not advertising them as AI. From Waterfoxs announcement of "Not using AI*"

>The asterisk acknowledges that “AI” has become a catch-all term. Machine learning tools like local translation engines (Bergamot) are valuable and transparent. Large language models, in their current black-box form, are neither.

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla...

Zen:

> Based on Firefox, Zen also inherit its translation features

https://docs.zen-browser.app/user-manual/translate

New comment by someNameIG in "Is Firefox Firefucked?"

someNameIG — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:44:49 +0000

> Firefox was and still is mostly used by "power users" and we're pretty much the only ones left that intentionally install the browser.

This really isn't the case. Firefox has almost 200 million users, yet sub 10% of them have uBlock Origin installed:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

Less than half have any extensions installed (with extensions include language packs):

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior

The users who talk about Firefox online are not the average user.

New comment by someNameIG in "Is Firefox Firefucked?"

someNameIG — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:36:27 +0000

Not who you were asking but my reasons for thinking Brave is a joke.

First they're a cypto/addtech company, which is a type of company I wouldn't trust to run my browser. And this has resulted in them doing things in the past like:

Blocking ads and replacing them with their own ad networks ads: https://archive.is/W0k4j

Their rewards crypto was opt-in for creators. Making it look like creators were openly asking for donations in Braves crypto currency without their consent. They had to change this due to complaints: https://brave.com/blog/rewards-update/

Inserting their own affiliate links: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

Installing a non-free VPN without user consent: https://www.xda-developers.com/brave-browser-installs-vpn-wi...

They criticise the effectiveness of ad block testing websites, and urge people to use and trust privacytests.org instead. They fail to mention the conflict of interest in that privacytests is run by a Brave employee. https://brave.com/blog/adblocker-testing-websites-harm-users...

New comment by someNameIG in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

someNameIG — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:45:08 +0000

> Well, yes. If you build a userbase out of power users and folks who care about privacy and control...

Is that their core user base, or just the vocal user base online? Only 5-10% of their user base have UBO installed (FF has almost 200 million users, extension store reports ~10 million UBO installs).

Firefox isn't LibreWolf, it's user base are just average people, not much different than that of Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

New comment by someNameIG in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

someNameIG — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:58:24 +0000

Just to test I just logged into myGov then through Firefox and it worked fine.

New comment by someNameIG in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

someNameIG — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:23:14 +0000

And their engine is still around, how's the leader of the times web engine going?

New comment by someNameIG in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

someNameIG — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:41:33 +0000

They're the only modern usable browser engine not developed by a multi-trillion dollar corp. I'd say that's a pretty big achievement.

New comment by someNameIG in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

someNameIG — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:36:09 +0000

> Want a fully functional ad blocker

Is this even the case? UBO has ~10 million users going by the extension store, Firefox has over 150 million users.

So less than 10% of Firefox installs also have UBO.

New comment by someNameIG in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

someNameIG — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:06:04 +0000

What actual extra privacy does that add though? You still need to connect to them from your IP address, which can be traced back to you.

New comment by someNameIG in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

someNameIG — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:36:25 +0000

OP is in Australia. Most stores that sell gift cards have loyalty cards that give points for gift card purchases. And a few times a year they give bonus points (e.g. 10x) on gift cards, that can result in an equivilent 10-15% saving.

You can even use this to get an effective discount on hardware, as you can use your Apple account balance to buy from Apple.

New comment by someNameIG in "Size of Life"

someNameIG — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:18:51 +0000

From what I remember from undergrad the reason they're not life is that they lack their own metabolism, they use the metabolism of host cells. And metabolism needs to be a constant thing, they don't have any when outside a cell.

New comment by someNameIG in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

someNameIG — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:04:35 +0000

As an Australian the only platforms I have that asked for an age check were Discord and Bluesky. Which is funny as neither came under this legislation, they're implementing this because they chose to.

Nothing from Reddit or any of the Meta platforms which have to comply with this legislation.

New comment by someNameIG in "Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban"

someNameIG — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:33:20 +0000

An an Australian, the social media ban legislation specifically requires than non-ID methods be available (it specifically says that also included digital ID).

New comment by someNameIG in "Physicists prove the Universe isn't a simulation after all"

someNameIG — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:53:03 +0000

If something like Orch OR is correct then maybe not.