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different_baseon My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

Why on earth Cloudflare scripts are running on a webpage made by a little girl?

We fucked up bad. Real bad. As software engineers, we have produced nothing but garbage in the last two decades.

different_baseon For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

I appreciate Ladybird's initiative. But if they work with Servo, Ladybird can build the browser and Servo can focus on the engine. Also we can avoid C++ nightmare. Everybody wins.

different_baseon Algebraic Data Types for C99

One of the crimes of modern imperative programming languages is not having ADTs (except maybe Rust) built-in. It is such a basic mental model of how humans think and solve problems. But instead we got inheritance and enums which are practically very primitive.

different_baseon WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows

What is the fuss about bcachefs? What does it do better compared to Btrfs or Zfs?

different_baseon Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

I run dnscrypt-proxy on my OpenWrt Router. It's like Syncthing. Install and forget, like how softwares should work in general.

different_baseon German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

Using OnlyOffice promotes Microsoft Document format even further. Microsoft will again change their spec and OnlyOffice won't know how to render it correctly.

For long term, it's better to choose LibreOffice which uses open standards and does not purposefully change specs to break others.

different_baseon Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

I deleted my Reddit account long back after they blocked VPNs. I used old.reddit.com usually from DDG or Google search results. Now this is fucked up. I am not able to access Reddit through either VPN or Tor. They are dead to me now.

I just want a solution to completely remove Reddit links from appearing in search results. Anyone has any solution?

different_baseon Bug hunting in Btrfs

It's not Linux's fault for not merging ZFS. Blame Oracle.

different_baseon Proton Mail desktop app officially launches – for premium subscribers only

I'm very skeptical of installing apps to access Email or VPN. If the company turned evil tomorrow, apps can turn into malware.

Always use standard protocols using free software to transfer data over Internet. Use Thunderbird or Wireguard/OpenVPN client. Worst case you will give out data specific to that service. Don't encourage "apps" over protocols.

different_baseon Flathub: One million active users and growing

> flatpak is like a cross-distro snap that actually works

You are right. Besides proprietary app store, Snap lacks even basic sandboxing in non-Debian based distros. I can't believe that Canonical engineers thought this was a good idea when designing a cross platform packaging format.

Flatpak got everything right from it's initial design. Multiple repositories, Sandboxing that actually works in any Linux distro, OSTree to reduce disk space usage etc.