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capitainenemo··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
Cite? I think the timeline has issues there. That predates the CEO controversies AFAIK. They did ditch a lot of R&D as their userbase kept shrinking due to chrome growth. 'course this sort of thing keeps coming up - yeah, I do think their CEO is overpaid ... and? Solution is what. Kill firefox off completely, hand internet over to chrome? Basically, where is this point going?
capitainenemo··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
Yeah. Take Firefox choosing to create PDF.js to have a clean minimalist sandboxed PDF parser. Chrome instead used an existing one that has been the source of dozens of vulnerabilities.

Or Firefox pulling in a ton of anti-fingerprinting measures from the Tor team. Not even worth talking about anti-fingerprinting as a serious consideration in Chrome.

Rust - a mozilla effort that resulted in code from servo being pulled into Firefox - chrome is headed that way too.

Even WASM was definitely a security improvement over NaCL, and Mozilla also led the way on Flash replacements in the day, making one of the first JS flash players (in the end, the solution was no more flash, but hey, at least they tried).

Font sanitisation - originally a mozilla security effort...

I feel I could go on and on.

capitainenemo··on Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News
Which is denser on information, faster to read, more accessible and works without javascript.

I did whitelist the orangecrumb domain for JS temporarily though. Does look neat, but not the the sort of interface I'm into.

capitainenemo··on Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News
I was wondering what the heck ① was all about and found this site in a search that seems to have a bone to pick with Thomas Lockley. https://japanese-with-naoto.com/2024/07/10/perfidious-histor... https://japanese-with-naoto.com/2024/05/29/disappointment-in...

First I've heard about this controversy, and I've never played the game, but I could see if a historian was a cite for something and they were saying different things in japanese and english, that the english wikipedia would end up citing inaccurate things.

There's been problems in the past with the deletionist faction on wikipedia or moderators abusing small fiefdoms - some of which has even ended up here on HN, but in this case, wikipedia just citing information from a supposedly reputable source seems to be wikipedia operating as intended.

capitainenemo··on Love systemd timers
True. But commonly used ones.
capitainenemo··on Love systemd timers
As someone else noted, that's also a cron feature
capitainenemo··on Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)
well, people do in fact still do that. or APNG or WEBP. But, all I was focused on was the initial comment was on if you were going to use this particular tool, it'd be nice if it had a pure CSS rotate mode, which makes a fair amount of sense given "working without JS" is probably one of the few significant use cases anyway (unless, you reeeeeally need your model to be tightly integrated into the DOM for some reason).

So, saying that CSS would be worse than JS as a feature for this project did not really make sense. We weren't talking about "should the project even exist" (I feel it should and it's awesome ;) )

capitainenemo··on Love systemd timers
How does systemd on the 2 machines avoid that? Are they communicating somehow?
capitainenemo··on Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)
Oh. Sure, that is pretty obvious. A triangle in webgl is so much more lightweight than building it out of DOM elements but this was more about "if one is going to use this CSS system, why not support a pure CSS viewing mode" - which right now, it does not - rotation requires JS and is pretty stuttery. I was thinking it should actually be a bit smoother if there was a "toggle on/off rotation using a CSS animation" option. Plus, something like that could easily be done in pure CSS if JS was disabled, which would make the output all the more accessible and offer a good usecase.

It could also be helpful in scenarios where JS is restricted - emails? iframes? bulleting board user content? Dunno. Trying to come up with some that aren't just "nemo was running umatrix and doesn't trust your site just yet"

capitainenemo··on Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)
Huh.... why would a CSS animation of a transform be slower than JS? This is strictly for the "CSS transform" case ofc - obviously pure webgl would be way faster.

I'm having a hard time seeing it. My experiments with CSS animation have always performed much better in CSS than JS (again, excluding it being pure webgl/canvas JS).

And ofc there's the nice bonus that it works if I haven't chosen to trust and whitelist their website for JS yet.

capitainenemo··on Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)
Then there's "minecraft in CSS" which uses invisible form elements for camera rotation and works with no JS at all.

https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/

It's been on HN before ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148 )

capitainenemo··on DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
Huh. Didn't know there were 2 non-JS interfaces. I get redirected to https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ (which is also 10 per page). I do appreciate that DDG has it at all. Google blocks all non-JS searches these days.

I've never noticed the challenge, but then, I don't think I've ever clicked 20 pages into the search results either. Usually if I've clicked on a couple of pages I feel it's time to refine my query..

capitainenemo··on DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
I will say it's nice to have them actually honour keywords in searches that google has made harder and harder to discover and seems to ignore at will (inurl: site: etc)

The funniest one for me in google is +"foo" they decided people didn't actually mean it, so they changed it to +""foo"" - then when we all started doing that, they made the new secret "yes I really want that string" to be +"""foo"""

capitainenemo··on Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'
shrug not interested in stock market speculation. That ⅕th figure is from 2025 actual revenue figures. The government percentage had dropped from 2024 where it was ¼.

It's variable though, and if DoD decides it wants a bunch of spy satellites or whatnot in orbit, you could see the percentage growing, along with their total revenue ofc.

It's just far from "completely dependent" which was my only objection.

Starlink obviously a huge part - $11½b revenue in 2025.

capitainenemo··on Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'
Only a fifth of spacex revenue is currently from government contracts, a percentage that they forecast will continue to trend downwards.

(not to say that isn't a huge risk if it disappeared, it's just far from "completely dependent")

capitainenemo··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
(and ofc there's a bunch of forks adding bugfixes, some even relatively recent in activity, but unfortunately none have become the blessed official maintainer)
capitainenemo··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
It hasn't received updates in a good long while, but seems to work fine, for me anyway. Has some rough edges, logging blocks when there's a bunch of redirects is a bit of a pain, making it hard to fix whitelisting in complicated things (like the dozen domains microsoft uses for auth) but apart from that...
capitainenemo··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
uMatrix + NoScript personally (yes, seems silly, but I find NoScript's UI more convenient for script toggling, while liking uMatrix's fine grained controls)

Did you enable firefox resist fingerprinting? Also maybe letterboxing, which I think is not enabled by that flag by default, and also helps with CSS fingerprinting.

capitainenemo··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
Yeah, the specs were... decent... nothing standout. Really I was going over the list of things I had lost after the Galaxy Note got rid of all their features and decided the replaceable battery was the one I cared about the most. The ruggedness was just a nice plus.
capitainenemo··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
At least the USB-C ones I purchase are not flush - I never found those to be reliable. It's a male prong that looks pretty much identical in wiring to the male prong on the phone, that connects to a female one plugged into the socket. That plus a bit of a collar to help hold it in place. So I don't see why there would be any difference in grounding, it's the same connection...

(that plus the comments from the more knowledgeable person below)

Eventually they start wearing out, and I just replace them. I've had no issues with high voltages (45W+ charging on phone and steamdeck) and with peripherals (hub for example).

capitainenemo··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
Indeed. I've had my XCover 6 for 3½ years now. I've dropped it many times, on hard surfaces (like outdoor concrete/brick). I've undoubtedly been fortunate. the plastic has gouges in it. there's (small) scratches on the screen (some from my keys), but the screen is not cracked. When it is dropped the back and battery pop off, which I think helps dissipate the forces. BTW, for anyone trying to extend their phone life, I strongly recommend those magnetic USB connectors. Reduces wear and tear on the USB port, and is also kinda convenient for quick disconnect.
capitainenemo··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
At least on Android, when my Samsung Galaxy Note (I loved that phone - replaceable battery, pressure sensitive stylus, IR blaster, OLED, audio jack, water resistant - they went downhill from there IMO) finally end of lifed, I just used the official Samsung tool to upload a community image on it. The process wasn't horrendously difficult. I don't know if people would do it, but it was a clear set of steps that even a tech novice could accomplish if following carefully.
capitainenemo··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
So, they have an XCover 7 now - with similar specs.

Also, they committed to a rather long support cycle for the xcover6 (5 years I think?) - I have one and it is still going strong. I've replaced the battery twice - not because I desperately needed to, but... why not. They are cheap, and I use the older ones still as backup battery packs since they are fast to swap in.

capitainenemo··on We need a federation of forges
So, as a long-time mercurial users, revsets in jujutsu were a major feature for me. And if you don't want to use them, don't. But if you are looking to treat your VCS DAG as a queryable database they are awesome. And, they are great for avoiding having to chain a bunch of commands together, inefficiently, to get the same effect. Although you still can do that if you really want to. Just like you don't have to use jq to query JSON - you can do terrible cursed things with grep and awk and sed and it'll even work for simple cases. But you might want to give jq a spin - and really there are strong parallels in how they work.
capitainenemo··on 40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal
NP... Maybe it's due to the recipe being made so variable. The water might help with the oatmeal variant.
capitainenemo··on CSS as a Query Language
I suspect they are replying to this part of the article: "What you actually want to say is: “an element is effectively-dark if it has data-theme=”dark”, or if it has an effectively-dark ancestor with no effectively-light ancestor in between.” That’s a recursive relational definition. CSS cannot express it. CSSLog can:"

The entire article doesn't seem to mention the existence of :has() which is rather surprising given how recently it was written. Not even in the footnotes.

capitainenemo··on 40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal
A little belated followup - I tried it, and I feel it was way too thin, even after adding corn starch. I would cut that water way down. Maybe even add as needed after initial blending. Not sure why that is, don't remember it being that thin.
capitainenemo··on 40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal
Cup and Tablespoon. Sorry, I probably faithfully transcribed a bit too well. Do let me know if it works. I haven't made it in a while. I guess I should try it again.
capitainenemo··on Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip
I don't have debian handy to check at this moment, but the devuan machine (and devuan is typically debian config for the 99% of things that are not systemd) I have installed using mostly defaults, does not have it enabled by default.
capitainenemo··on FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
Works pretty well even. I wish there was a libchafa variant, and ideally for SDL2.

I've even played SC2, The Ur-Quan masters fairly successfully in an ssh session that way. And Frozen Bubble.

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