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New comment by watashiato in "The Little Book of C"

watashiato — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:04:30 +0000

I can (it's really obvious here) and wish I couldn't. Every time I run into something I might wanna read, but it turns out to be LLM "assisted" writing after I've already invested some time, it feels like I was tricked into eating cardboard.

And when I bring up that this should be clearly marked, preferably up front, it's often taken as a personal slight.

I realize this is a me problem to some extend, I shouldn't feel strongly about this, but I do.

New comment by watashiato in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

watashiato — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:34:18 +0000

Before anyone gets too excited about ntsync, the performance gains are (with few exceptions) mild, usually in the lower single percentage range. These extreme gains are the result of benching against vanilla wine without fsync, anyone playing demanding games on linux would have been doing so using fsync. This is mentioned in the article but treated like a side note. I've been running benchmarks between both and while the performance increase is real, please temper your expectations. A few titles might also run slightly worse.

Add Age Verification Signal Specification · Merge requests · xdg / xdg-specs

watashiato — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:21:09 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_requests/113

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321739

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

Experimental: Add xx-zones protocol for area-limited window positioning

watashiato — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:54:31 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905148

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by watashiato in "The Awful German Language (1880)"

watashiato — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:11:54 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20170629103902/http://www.bash.o...

New comment by watashiato in "Hardest problem in computer science: centering things"

watashiato — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:56:05 +0000

It's certainly distracting and toggle would be nice, but a uBO filter does the trick in the meanwhile.

||tonsky.me^$websocket,1p

New comment by watashiato in "Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN?"

watashiato — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:14:14 +0000

Just letting you know, both stylish extension and with it userstyles.org have been largely left behind by the community due to past transgressions like tracking site visits. While that's mostly in he past afaik, they've been superseded by the stylus extension and userstyles.world

New comment by watashiato in "Firefox address bar"

watashiato — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:06:22 +0000

The no-addon workaround for this is to right click any tab, first select all tabs and then bookmark all tabs. Give the folder a name and open it in the bookmark manager. Now you can select them all and copy the URLs.

It's an awkward solution, but it does work and is relatively quick.

AdashimaaTube: Restore old YouTube layout with many customizable options

watashiato — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 14:47:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sapondanaisriwan/AdashimaaTube

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36644931

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by watashiato in "Deceptive example for malicious usage of .zip domain"

watashiato — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:03:37 +0000

Here's the original source by the author: https://scribe.rip/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld...

While I think that we really don't need a .zip domain, this trick falls apart when not shown as an image. Hovering over either URL should tip you off. Firefox shows the actual link in the bottom left.

New comment by watashiato in "Planescape: Torment pitch document (1997) [pdf]"

watashiato — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:46:25 +0000

For those who haven't played the game, it should be noted that the game is nothing like what the pitch implies.

PS:T is a well written and introspective RPG and in this capacity it is rivaled by only a handful of contenders.

New comment by watashiato in "Forgetful Browsing"

watashiato — Fri, 12 May 2023 06:38:36 +0000

While I'm not sure about the privacy advantages, setting network.dnsCacheEntries to 0 will prevent firefox from caching dns.

There's no appreciable difference in response time on my setup, it just hits the local dnscrypt-proxy cache instead.

New comment by watashiato in "How to play FPS games if you’re over 30"

watashiato — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:07:06 +0000

I was about to write up this exact post, almost verbatim. Excellent game sense can seem like you're able to predict the future. Someone who thinks they're "bad at FPS games" usually runs into a lack of game sense, but mistakenly blames it on bad reflexes.

New comment by watashiato in "Substitute certain overhyped programming terms with more accurate replacements"

watashiato — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:22:54 +0000

Relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1288/ https://xkcd.com/1625/ https://xkcd.com/1679/

This is one of those things you'd better do with a userscript instead of yet another addon. Way more flexible too.

New comment by watashiato in "Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory"

watashiato — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 09:23:30 +0000

I'm probably not the first to point this out, but isn't this crossing the spam line pretty hard?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=singularityhub.com

New comment by watashiato in "Brave browser now blocks cookie banners"

watashiato — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:09:54 +0000

This comes down to what you care about. Third party tracking is largely stopped by uBlock Origin, which is my primary concern. If the server I'm currently on does anything to analyze my browsing, that's fine with me. Not because I don't care, but because there's nothing I can do either way. It could lie about it and I would be none the wiser.

New comment by watashiato in "Brave browser now blocks cookie banners"

watashiato — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:08:47 +0000

A nearly ideal way to do this on Firefox is to combine

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

(which is a maintained fork of the original I don't care about cookies extension, recently bought by Avast)

with https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete

This setup will automatically accept or reject, whichever works, the cookie nonsense and get rid of them once you're done with your tab. CAD comes with a friendly interface to white/greylist cookies you want to keep.

One of the default blocklist for uBlock Origin aims to remove cookie banners too, but a lot of them cannot be simply nuked that way, hence the above method.

New comment by watashiato in "Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists"

watashiato — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 15:40:04 +0000

> Wikipedia is already full of boring and random stubs, I don't see the obsession editors have with making sure that a person is "important enough" to have an article. I feel like the bar should be lowered - not too low, obviously.

I agree that there's a lot of chaff on wikipedia, but your complaint is immediately followed by a method to make the problem worse. One of the bigger problems I've observed when the (high?) bar isn't enforced is things like people writing their own articles for the sake of self promotion.

New comment by watashiato in "Poll: Is there a negative stigma toward articles written in Medium?"

watashiato — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 13:33:06 +0000

https://git.sr.ht/~edwardloveall/scribe made the occasional consumption of medium content a decent experience for me.

Pick an instance (or selfhost) and set your browser up to automatically redirect to it. https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector and https://libredirect.codeberg.page/source_code are good options.

New comment by watashiato in "Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI"

watashiato — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 09:49:43 +0000

It can be done, but don't attempt this unless you're ready to fix a ton of tiny problems all over the place. Backup your data and move it over to a fresh installation instead.