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iza··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
You misplaced "lunatics" in your sentence, though sadly the likely answer remains the same.
iza··on Vivaldi 8.0
The old look is still available. Settings > Themes > Editor > Coloring Mode

You can also adjust density, rounded corners, transparency, blur, etc.

iza··on JSON Formatter Chrome Plugin Now Closed and Injecting Adware
Maybe but it's always been a problem. I've been receiving offers to monetize or sell my extension for over a decade.
iza··on What We're Working on in Firefox
I hope this means they're changing the main menu back to functioning like an actual menu instead of a weird panel thing, but somehow I doubt it.
iza··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
* You don't believe China should be an "adversary"
iza··on Dracula Theme for Hacker News
Personally I use https://github.com/pyxelr/hacker-news-bluish-gray
iza··on Git commit messages are useless
git log --first-parent

Works best if your merge commits have useful messages.

iza··on uBlock Origin 1.53
Is there something significant about this release? I read the changelog but nothing really stands out to me.
iza··on CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)
Considering it still needs javascript, this trick seems massively overcomplicated compared to the following:

  <textarea oninput="this.style.height = 0; this.style.height = this.scrollHeight + 'px'"></textarea>
(Yes this forces an extra reflow but it likely won't matter)
iza··on Govt of Canada proposes a 4% Link Tax
Yes, because the bill hasn't actually taken effect yet. Meta is blocking news preemptively, Google plans to do so later.
iza··on Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer (2021)
Yep, I've been getting these emails since 2014, around 200 in total. My extension has had between 30,000 and 100,000 active users. They often quote up to $500 a month per 1000 users, which sounds too good to be true.
iza··on Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin
These tests just show the default settings. If you enable the ad blocker and disable third party cookies it would score a lot better.
iza··on An interactive guide to SVG paths
This SVG path editor is incredibly useful if you're building or editing SVGs by hand: https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/
iza··on Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely
Isn't Raddle open source? The footer links to https://postmill.xyz/ https://raddle.me/wiki/why_raddle
iza··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
I've noticed my newer GitHub repos are not indexed by Google for weeks, while on Bing and DDG they show up very quickly.
iza··on A new attack can unmask anonymous users on any major browser (2022)
Wouldn't blocking third-party cookies prevent this? It should really be the default setting at this point.
iza··on GitHub's New Code Search Is Bad for Finding Code
It often missed what should have been exact matches. You could copy and paste a variable name or a string from the repo and the search would not find it.
iza··on Foobar2000 v2.0 Released
> User interface updates: Dark mode support on Windows 10 and 11.
iza··on Push notifications are now supported cross-browser
You can deny push notifications by default in your browser settings and never be prompted again. They can still be manually allowed on the sites where you actually want them. Same goes for location requests and other "site settings".
iza··on Firefox now supports extension's Manifest V3, with support for ad blockers
Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34412975

Aside, I've been waiting years for a favicon API, which Chrome has had from the start. It's a pretty glaring hole for any extension that displays bookmarks or history.

At least with Manifest V3 they finally triaged the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315616

iza··on The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)
The Decentraleyes[1] and LocalCDN[2] extensions aim to do this in part. But the effectiveness is limited since they only have a handful of libraries and most sites bundle their javascript.

[1] https://decentraleyes.org/

[2] https://www.localcdn.org/

iza··on Tech Nostalgia: BlackBerrys, Dictaphones and 11 More Things We Miss in 2023
I still miss my BlackBerry, not just for the keyboard; the trackpad was far more precise and comfortable than a touch screen. No awkward reaching for controls at the top of the screen, no fat-fingering the wrong link.

I honestly think their biggest mistake was the BlackBerry-specific data plan requirement, not the slow entry to the touchscreen market.

iza··on New Display Tech Is Coming from Apple, Google, Meta and Others
https://archive.ph/xjv6P
iza··on Tech Layoffs Shock Young Workers. The Older People? Not So Much.
https://archive.ph/0nu8Y
iza··on Ask HN: How do you choose your usernames?
They have it on their website, no account needed:

https://www.lastpass.com/features/username-generator

iza··on Where are my Git UI features from the future?
Indeed most git GUIs can do this. git-gui (built-in), VSCode, Sublime Merge, Git Extensions to name a few.
iza··on Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
I use this on an ancient Chromebook because VSCode and Lapce feel sluggish in comparison. What it really needs is a plugin manager.
iza··on Mastodon's federation model encourages specific instances with peculiar rules
I prefer the approach taken by nostr[1] and Scuttlebutt[2], where identity is a public key not tied to any particular server. However Mastodon is gaining a lot more traction and seems to be good enough in practice.

1. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

2. https://scuttlebutt.nz/

iza··on XFCE 4.18
> Thunar: It is now possible to add a 'file creation date' column

Finally! Coming from Windows this is something I've always missed.

I know older filesystems didn't support it but EXT4 has been the default for years now.

iza··on XFCE 4.18
I worked around this issue using xcape to map my Super key to another key combo:

  xcape -e "Super_L=Alt_L|F1"
Then set the keyboard shortcut for xfce4-popup-whiskermenu to the new combo (Alt+F1 in this case). This allows other Super shortcuts to work without triggering whiskermenu.
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