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jnrk··on uBlock-Origin 1.53.4 – 1.53.0 plus fix for Microsoft Edge
Arc has the best Chrome-based implementation IMO. The best implementation all-round is tree style tabs in Firefox.
jnrk··on Apple ditches the Lightning connector in favor of USB-C after 11 years
Who?
jnrk··on *@gmail.com
> but moved everything of consequence to better providers.

What other providers do you recommend?

jnrk··on Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
iClouds private relay seems good enough for day-to-day security - but when I was abroad a couple of weeks ago, I used Tunnel Bear to circumvent region blocks. It's cheap and gets the job done.

I'm mostly in the Apple ecosystem (MacBook, iPhone, iPad)

jnrk··on FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
Or you can just disable ligatures in the editor.
jnrk··on FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
I agree.

I respect that people use it, but it's really not for me. It makes the code harder to read IMO

jnrk··on Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
> I figured there must be some professional software for this, but if so, I don't know what it is.

As an architect I can confirm that there's indeed a lot of professional software for this. The ones I usually work in are Revit and ArchiCAD, which are tailored for architects. Our interior architects also use Sketchup a lot. There's also more general-purpose CAD software like AutoCAD and Vectorworks available.

jnrk··on Gawker Is Shutting Down
> Trump seems like he's going to jail finally

I feel I've heard this for 6 years now.

jnrk··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
> The general public still is blown away by autosuggest in mobile OS keyboards.

And it's still not available in my language on iOS... :( (Norwegian)

jnrk··on What to do if a nuclear disaster is imminent [pdf]
You have a water mattress..?
jnrk··on Thoughts on Arc Browser
> It’s next to unusable for me [...]

May I ask why?

jnrk··on DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
It used to, but the developer pulled it after extensions were moved to the App Store (requiring an Apple dev account and certification) and some other technical restrictions introduced in Safari 14 IIRC.
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