Hacker News: unicornporn

New comment by unicornporn in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

unicornporn — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:44:36 +0000

Uhm, but ScreenStufio is not available for Linux (or Windows for that matter)?

OpenStudio apparently is and I'm hyped.

New comment by unicornporn in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

unicornporn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:39:58 +0000

The latest Waydroid beta is over three years old. Waydroid is dead and I haven't found an alternative.

New comment by unicornporn in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

unicornporn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:36:56 +0000

X86 builds of Android are stuck at many generations back of the OS. Running Android in a VM on X86 is basically dead AFAIK. :(

New comment by unicornporn in "Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines"

unicornporn — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:51:36 +0000

Cool. Anything different from https://sill.social?

New comment by unicornporn in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

unicornporn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Thanks. So, a misunderstanding from the OP and not a feature specific to Graphene?

> We're making a better per-app Location Scopes feature

Cool!

New comment by unicornporn in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

unicornporn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:04:52 +0000

> Want location? Give the app a location point I've fixed for that app.

How do I do that? Been using Graphene for many years but did not know this was possible.

New comment by unicornporn in "Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts"

unicornporn — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:12:08 +0000

How about not creating a precarious underclass with lack of (higher) education that is ready to vote for whatever solution promising to take down the system that made them so desperate for radical change?

New comment by unicornporn in "LTXVideo 13B AI video generation"

unicornporn — Sat, 10 May 2025 14:35:01 +0000

Uncanny as always. What do people use these for? Except for flooding Meta platforms with slop, that is...

New comment by unicornporn in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

unicornporn — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:56:05 +0000

They "work", but not well.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

New comment by unicornporn in "Facebook ban on discussing Linux?"

unicornporn — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 07:33:37 +0000

Both. Clearly both.

New comment by unicornporn in "How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)"

unicornporn — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 21:54:00 +0000

> the author is quoting prices in Euros, which is pretty much synonymous with "extreme poverty" I mentioned before :)

Care to elaborate?

> Especially ironic this article is from 2020 when M1 was launched and now laptops, both Qualcomm and Apple ones, are leaps and bounds better than before.

Something tells me you haven't quite grasped the blog post or what LOW←TECH MAGAZINE is about. https://permacomputing.net

New comment by unicornporn in "A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union"

unicornporn — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:40:29 +0000

I don't understand your point.

> A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state (or nation state).[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

New comment by unicornporn in "A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union"

unicornporn — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:57:06 +0000

Yes. "A communist state" is an oxymoron. Communism is by definition stateless. Government/governance, sure, but without a state. Rojava would probably be a better example of communism (in practice) than Soviet.

New comment by unicornporn in "Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page"

unicornporn — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:40:06 +0000

Let me guess... Another Blink engine browser?

New comment by unicornporn in "Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page"

unicornporn — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:36:55 +0000

I agree that it sucks. But does it really suck more than the alternative (Blink monopoly and terrible vertical tabs implementations)?. No way. I made most of these changes years ago and have just migrated my Firefox profiles directory since.

New comment by unicornporn in "Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page"

unicornporn — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:13:02 +0000

10. Disable Pocket with "extensions.pocket.enabled = false"

11. Disable Privacy Preserving Attribution using "dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled = false"

New comment by unicornporn in "Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix"

unicornporn — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:27:41 +0000

A double edged sword[1] for sure.

[1] https://edri.org/our-work/why-chat-control-is-so-dangerous/

New comment by unicornporn in "Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix"

unicornporn — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:21:43 +0000

This is likely also the sole reason[1] that Meta is considering connecting Threads to the fediverse.

[1] https://yiffit.net/comment/498225

New comment by unicornporn in "On Desktop GUI Minimalism"

unicornporn — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 19:44:04 +0000

Even better: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

New comment by unicornporn in "FBI obtains Kolektiva.social database while executing warrant on administrator"

unicornporn — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 20:02:50 +0000

> You realize that heirarchy is exactly how you enforce rules, correct? You can't enforce rules without heirarchy.

That's not necessarily true, is it? All participants of an instance or group could practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy to form and enforce a set of rules without hierarchies. Not saying that's what happened here though...