HeckFeck

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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   Ah, got me :) How are you using AppleScript with your browser? It's something I've yet to explore on MacOS.
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   I live in the UK, I try not to think of what anyone is voting for.
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   I agree in principle but it is basically at the expense of having an age-appropriate social life anywhere that isn't online - ironic. Practically everything around me in the 20s-30s age range is organised on walled garden social media.
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   You won't regret it and you won't miss anything. Who cares if Chrome is 2% faster on some obscure CSS parsing test? At least you aren't participating in your own psychological manipulation and are resisting WEI.
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   The third party tracking was dependent on someone else's processing power and system, this is sinisterly making the user's own software work against his best interest and instead work for a morbid advertiser's interest. Since
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   Let's have an advertising company also have a monopoly on the web browser. What could possibly go wrong?
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   How does its complexity compare to DisplayPort?
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   Nothing wrong with DOS (and I mean that sincerely), just Windows 9x was much more than it.
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   I wouldn't be a programmer today if it wasn't for the relative openness and accessibility of Windows 98. It let me into the system files without flinching, and I learnt so much just from changing things just to see what happened.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Was that a Cult of the Dead Cow release, by any chance?
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    > Three of these VxDs comprise the very heart of Chicago: Virtual Machine Manager (VMM32.VXD), Configuration Manager (CONFIGMG), Installable Filesystem Manager (IFM). VMM32 is essentially the Chicago kernel. It handles memory management,
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I run a blog that's generated with a static website builder. Whilst is very light on resources and has practically no security holes, I actually miss the comment section. Previous blogs I operated were WordPress and the comments acted
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    C.f. "Xbox is the new water cooler"
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    It's obvious LLM tripe when you click into the article and it begins with several worthless paragraphs describing why someone would be interested in the topic and how things can sometimes go wrong... Yes, I already knew that. That&#x27
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    That would be how outsiders see those who don't shirk the extra work that goes into building their own infrastructure to escape the merchants of convenience.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    The worst part is they have the resources to make a browser that people want, without having to shove it upon everyone. If they did the following in some alt timeline, I'd be a happy Edge user: - Stuck to EdgeHTML and Chakra for a bett
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    "Fuck you Nvidia" - L. Torvalds. We should take this mantra to the Nvidia offices and chant it until we go hoarse, may the proprietary blob crumble like the walls of Jericho.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Now this jogs a memory for me. There was an abandoned airfield in tyrone called Cluntoe Airfield, much of it bumpy and grown over. It didn't deter some of us from trying our our newly-acquired driving skills, even attempting a race whi
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Ahhh... straight from 'funny things I was linked in 2006' and glad to see the legend yet lives!
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    These used to line a shelf inside a glass cabinet at my grandparents' house. I haven't seen many since. The souvenir spoon collector is a dying breed.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    If you'll pardon the self-promotion I've a compilation of websites that preserve the same spirit here: https://wmw.thran.uk
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I would say nice things about Windows if it wasn't riddled with telemetry and data guzzling spyware.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Didn't we have something similar to that with the early DOS-based palmtop PCs?
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I was hoping they'd went the FPGA route, but this looks like another emulator in a box.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Agreed. Advert blocking wasn’t a necessity until adverts became intrusive, tracking and targeting became pervasive, and every site flooded with cookie banners. I remember when AdWords was just a humble bar of contextual text links, absolu
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    You've some hesitation with Perl, but if you stick at it, you'll find what you seek. It feels very 'unixy' and can achieve much the same as shell while being more consistent in its syntax. Its portability means it will w
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    If the future is Snap I don't want to be around for it.
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    Show HN: No-WEI.js, a banner that will warn Chrome users of the dangers of WEI(github.com)

    5 points by HeckFeck 3y ago|1 comments
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    They also have a few annoying bugs and missing features: - Does not use the email notification sound on iOS - Cannot open iCal attachments in the system Calendar on iOS - this is infuriating! - Proton Calendar itself doesn't support sh
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Great. Now let me do the same for all telemetry services. Also patch out the mandatory "microsoft account" while your at it.