HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

foxandmouse

472 karma · joined February 24, 2020

submissionscomments
foxandmouse··on "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
I love Mozilla, but I’m concerned about its future. Since 80% of its income reportedly comes from the Google search deal, do they have a plan to replace it after the recent ruling? And can they maintain their current level of autonomy while doing so?
foxandmouse··on Record 4 Camera Angles at Once Using Only iPhones and iPads
I think the competition in this segment will make that less less likely. davinci resolve is good enough to keep them competative, same cant be said for photoshop or illustrator alternatives.
foxandmouse··on Ask HN: How do I figure out what skills are in demand?
There was an interesting analysis of the recent "who's hiring" post that outlined skills in demand: https://tamerc.com/posts/ask-hn-who-is-hiring/
foxandmouse··on Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
That’s quite interesting, does it tie into why the snapdragon X elite is so much better than anything they’ve produced in the past?
foxandmouse··on macOS Sequoia Preview
Since it's not available on iPadOS, I think the answer is.. it wont?
foxandmouse··on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
Don’t discount the native apps, expeically if you have an iphone/ ipad. Here are some others that I haven’t seen listed:

Fork (Git Client), RapidAPI, Fantastical (great for showing reminders on a calendar), openEmu (vintage game emulator), lulu/ lilsnitch (network monitor), craft (an alternative to obsidian), soundSource (because along with windows management, OSX also dosen’t have basic sound management), postgress app, paper (markdown editor), Zed (text editor)

Finally, some very pricy but IMO, best of “Mac” software: iA Writer/ Presenter, Omnisuite, Nova (Editor), Things(GTD), Little Snitch.

foxandmouse··on Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients
Can someone please help me find some direction, I thought that adobe vindicated on this... if the claim still holds, it's pretty damning.. hell, if their generative ai wasn't so good they'd be obsolotere.. that said, they abused trust to be able to train models but no one seems to care...
foxandmouse··on [dead]
I'm a millenial canadian, so I have no about war or what it causes us to do.. that said, bombing a location where you innocent woman and children are.. I hope I never have to sell my soul to something so low..
foxandmouse··on Yes, you can play Duck Hunt without a television (but I can't)
um... well, I just found this out at 32... granted I don't have access to my nes to confirm this.
foxandmouse··on Ask HN: How can we change ethics in big tech?
Probably by realizing that people who work in tech are no better and not more moral than people working in any orher industry.
foxandmouse··on Recovery after HP tech support bricked my father's laptop
Planned obsolescence, Lack of innovation, High cost of consumables, Inadequate software support, Inconsistent product quality, Poor customer service.. not sure why you feel the need to defend them. They're prolly the one of the worst companies alive..
foxandmouse··on Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
The official website was compromised and tainted .dmg files were uploaded to the site, using an Apple Developer signature to bypass the OS X gatekeeper feature

The tainted packages installed a ransomware application (a variant of Linux.Encoder.1, but recompiled for Mac, known as KeRanger) that encrypts the user's files and attempts to force users to pay.. The developers were not complicit in the hack that affected their software; but I included it because the point I was trying to make was that hackers are aware and targeting apps popular among developers.

foxandmouse··on Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
Funny enough, that's the article I read before commenting. They've made bold claims in the past and failed to deliver.
foxandmouse··on Clues to disappearance of North America's large mammals 50k years ago
Sorry, but this is clearly a False Dilemma fallocy.
foxandmouse··on Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
Do we know anything about Linux support for Snapdragon X.. Personally, I don't trust Qualcomm with Linux support. Their WiFi adapters don't work properly with Linux. Their mobile SoC that supposedly have mainline support only have the CPU part working, but GPU, modem, Bluetooth, etc. won't.

Also, wasn't their history of closed source drivers and their short support timeline was the reason Android devices only ever got 2 years of updates only a few years back?

foxandmouse··on Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
It is just me or has this been happening more and more with mac apps. The unarchiver, Transmition, uTorrent..
foxandmouse··on Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg
before any of us bein patting ourselves on the back, It's prolly best to acknowledge that without Frances copyright laws this project along with many others would've been killed by lawyers.
foxandmouse··on Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
have you looked at the ProjectM: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
foxandmouse··on Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
I can't remember the last time I thought of winamp, I moved on to foobar2000 and then to streaming services. Even with this announcement, there's no mention of a licence... Too little too late, maybe if foobar2000 became open source but I'd doubt it.
foxandmouse··on Show HN: I've built a macOS app for developers to clean their dev machines
@Dan, can you please review this post.
foxandmouse··on Claude Team plan and iOS app
Where's the best place to keep up with consumer "Ai" products?
foxandmouse··on Ask HN: Wouldn't it be cool to have a Supabase for SQLite?
Pocketbase sounds like what you're describing.
foxandmouse··on IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
I expected this when the terraform license changed. Not IBM specifically but it was obvious they weren't interested/ able to continue with their founding vision.
foxandmouse··on Show HN: LangCSS – An AI Assistant for Tailwind
I'd love a VS code extension that lets my type css and converts it to Tailwind.
foxandmouse··on We will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks
I agree, unfortunately I think this is what hacker news looks like when dan is asleep.
foxandmouse··on Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor
I've been loving this app, It's replaced all other markdown apps for me including obsidian and ia Writer!
foxandmouse··on Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
Thank you for clarifying, and sorry for making that incorrect statement.
foxandmouse··on Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
If Netlify and Vercel don't offer ddos protection, or at least a spend limit.. any other recommendations for next/ react hosting?
foxandmouse··on Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
Sorry, but there is a lot more going on here than you addressed, these charges were incurred on your "starter tier", which has no mention of additional costs.. I've noticed a lot of "sponsored content" by netlify, and again no mention of this possibility.. Also, no comment on not having ddos protection, or at least a spend limit?

Sure, this instance was resolved, but it's also the top post of the last month. Who honestly things it would be the same outcome if not for going viral...

foxandmouse··on Alexei Navalny has died
here's a wiki article to get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany , https://www.jstor.org/stable/24324663 this is a better source if you're iterested enough
← PreviousPage 2 of 5Next →