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phantomathkg··on I switched to Brave
> It's worth stating that things not working isn't the fault of Firefox. It's developers not testing their web apps with Firefox, since it has such a small market share.

Moving from Firefox to Brave does not help the vicious cycle either.

phantomathkg··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
I wonder if Apple have fixed the issue where the user want the Siri to use a different language than the UI language.
phantomathkg··on Remember Hong Kong
Propaganda of what?

If you have read news you should have seen the HK courts now jail people left right and center for against CCP.

phantomathkg··on Ducklab – dev harness that built itself: 416 runs, $176, local models
Isn't it a name clashing with DuckLabs who made DuckDB?
phantomathkg··on Our position on open-weights models
I found lots of comments here suffer from proximity bias.

Anthropic anti-open-model stance does not mean China is not a threat.

phantomathkg··on Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
Here we have an example of someone who see college/university as a vocational training center for worker, instead of seeing it as higher education that inspire civilized thinker.
phantomathkg··on Remote Attestation
This is also the technology that big and small OTT stream provider that they wish they can deploy on us.
phantomathkg··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
I can tell you it has NOTHING to do with developer, but more the business/content protection people say unlocked bootloader is not secured.
phantomathkg··on The <usermedia> HTML element
Chrome basically is abusing its market position, 69.65% globally, and becomes the new IE. Implementing its own HTML/JS standard.

The sad truth is, some companies will look at Statcounter[0] and say because Firefox does not reach 5% global population and decided not supporting it, actively or passively.

[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/

phantomathkg··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Company like this exist

https://www.geocomply.com/

phantomathkg··on How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
Does it means the Wayback Machine is also unethical to you as well?

To me archiving the internet is way more ethical than putting bulk of the content behind paywall.

phantomathkg··on Fox to buy Roku
Genuine ask.

Roku do Automatic Content Recognition, why do you feel they are non-evil?

phantomathkg··on Fox to buy Roku
The only decent device out there will be Nvidia Shield.

As a Google certified Android TV, this means it will do Widevine L1 DRM decoding, give you the 4K streaming quality.

For TV I used to recommend Sony, but now they sold the whole business to China TCL. Will have to wait and see if TCL will enshittify it.

phantomathkg··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
While Trump can travel to the China with his burn phone, the citizens of the US cannot. Surely everyone is equal.
phantomathkg··on Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)
Is there any relevance with another tool call mnemon?
phantomathkg··on Roku LT Operating System open source distribution
How could it be better? Brightscript is a proprietary language that serves nothing but a low power STB.
phantomathkg··on Roku LT Operating System open source distribution
The good thing is, it is not written in Brightscript.
phantomathkg··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
The "First they came for the Communists" logic still holds. When government able to open the flood gate, the mandatory ID check will be slowly and surely be everywhere.

If you don't use social media and AI platform. Fine. But what about app stores, what about any registries from docker, to npm, to apk and toward the end source code repositories like Github/Codeberg?

phantomathkg··on Naphtha shortages in Japan
I think you are overly optimistic and forget a few key facts here.

According to wiki, 8% of males and 0.5% of female suffer from colorblindness. That means for the rest of the people, the color is part of the information that our brain use subconsciously when we go and grab a bag of Calbee.

Will it affect the Japanese general public? Minor inconvenience for sure. Will it affect sales? Probably for area popular by tourist? Maybe it move the needle by 1%?

But what's important that's below the fold is there could be other knock on effect as naphtha is used to make other product.

phantomathkg··on Cars collect a startling amount of data about you
It is fascinating that we still haven’t have a law that forbid the car company from automatically share the data.

The car owner is buying a car, using computer to handle complicate hardware I understand, but at what point it make sense to share the data automatically without consent?

phantomathkg··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
Fan club lottery.
phantomathkg··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
Good for artist, bad for those fans who have shallow pocket.
phantomathkg··on Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
Instead of soon, how about just "now"?

I would imagine not single everyone on HN have enough disposable income that allow us to subscribe Claude Max or other similar max plan of other models without thinking.

Some people mentioned open weight model, but there are two hurdles. One the current economic mean securing the best hardware is already stupidly expensive compare to a year or two ago. And the open weight model lack the magic that Claude/Gemini/OpenAI put in the proprietary one, meaning one will have to create their own agent that is clever enough to search the internet when it knows its training data is stale.

phantomathkg··on The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build
As a Hongkonger, native in Cantonese (zh-hk/yue) and fluent in English (en) and work in Singapore (en-sg & zh-sg), I have a even more mundane use case that Siri is not clever enough to support.

I want my location to be in Singapore (Singapore SIM/Card etc) I want my UI to be in English. I want my Siri speaks Cantonese to me.

For reason on Apple knows why, I have to use English (Singapore) as my UI and Siri language or Apple Intelligence will not turn on. As if the engineer who develop Siri/Apple Intelligence have never think about the needs of those who speaks more than one language.

phantomathkg··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
Interesting technical choice, Flutter. And every text on screen is not highlight/copyable.
phantomathkg··on LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request
can, but how? Have you verify all 6278 and what they do?
phantomathkg··on Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight
How about having a law that ban super tight economic seat?
phantomathkg··on Mahjong: A Visual Guide
Solitaire version should be pretty well known due to the computer game.
phantomathkg··on Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
The UX of the website is kind of horrible. After a few clicks it prompted to subscribe. I understand it takes time to build the thing up, but the disruption is huge.
phantomathkg··on The Technological Republic, in Brief
https://xcancel.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312
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