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by assemblylang 4y ago
>A interesting question would be, if the degrading google search is responsible that it is harder nowdays to find them I was going to comment on this. Forums are probably cropping up at a faster pace than ever (its never been easier to h
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Ask HN: Who has ditched their phone and what is your replacement?
40 points by assemblylang 4y ago|38 comments
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by assemblylang 4y ago
>And its still the most private consumer grade browser out there >All other browsers require tweaks and changes, while with brave from your first click you are more private, I can give it to my grandma and she would be more private by
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by assemblylang 4y ago
>Since we're indulging in conspiracy theories here Are you Brave's native marketing arm at work? When I open up wireshark and I see telemetry sent back to Brave after I open the browser, must be a conspiracy right? I find it fu
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by assemblylang 4y ago
>Does anybody find the constant promotion of Brave on HN annoying? Yes, its extremely annoying, and I do not trust anyone saying positive things about Brave or its other product offerings. Brave is a shady company that: >puts profits
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by assemblylang 4y ago
There are still ways to prod out good content from the SEO spam on search engines. I wrote a google search front end that does this [0], using search operators to remove some common SEO spam. [0] https://sayno2seo.com
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by assemblylang 4y ago
I'm actually optimistic on the programming language research that can come out of it. One implementation bug can collapse a whole blockchain or series of smart contracts, and I've seen some more research going into language design
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by assemblylang 4y ago
Literally people like you and all these "marketers" (read: scumbags) are the reason I wont scan a single QR code ever. >For an extra few milliseconds of load time, why not find out things like # of scans, location, browser Wow,
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Show HN: SayNo2SEO - Google Search with less SEO spam(sayno2seo.com)
3 points by assemblylang 4y ago|0 comments
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by assemblylang 4y ago
Here some people I follow: --- For commodore 64 news and projects @allc64@nerdculture.de --- For command line tips and tricks @climagic@mastodon.social --- For kubuntu news @Kubuntu@mastodon.technology --- For lubuntu news @lubuntu@mastodon
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by assemblylang 4y ago
>I deleted Facebook some time around 08... I've abstained from almost all social media, and suffered the consequent damage to my social life. You're not alone, I deleted my Facebook roughly around that same time (in 09 IIRC), a
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by assemblylang 4y ago
Wikipedia, such as simple yet effective design that's been working well for over a decade.
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Ask HN: Working for companies that optimize software?
2 points by assemblylang 4y ago|2 comments
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by assemblylang 4y ago
The timeline of web browsers on wikipedia [0] has a good list of browsers. Some notable browsers that are not just copies of Chromium or Firefox: * Palemoon (Goanna engine, derived from Gecko but forked a while ago) * Netsurf (Independent e
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by assemblylang 4y ago
I looked into MorphOS before, but IIRC you need PowerPC hardware to run it. Is there an x86 or ARM version I'm not aware of?
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Ask HN: What old or deprecated software do you wish was still updated?
24 points by assemblylang 4y ago|67 comments
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by assemblylang 4y ago
Great to see new updates! I run a mastodon instance [0] (themed to look like Windows XP). Overall I really enjoy mastodon (and the fediverse in general), it gives the user an opportunity to carve out their own niche through their own instan
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by assemblylang 5y ago
>What is the relationship between W3C and WHATWG these days? IIRC a few years ago W3C essentially handed over web standards to WHATWG, with the thinking being that it wasn't helpful to have 2 competing standards.
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Check out both Ruffle[0] and Flashpoint[1]. Ruffle is an open source flash player emulator that compiles to WASM and has a browser plugin you can add that will allow you to run embedded flash content on a web page (although its not needed i
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by assemblylang 5y ago
> Flash is terrible in retrospect Actually it has a good use case for videos and animation. Flash animation uses vector graphics, saving huge amounts of space for basic animations and allowing the animation to scale to any screen size wi
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Show HN: Windows XP Themed Mastodon Instance(lunadon.org)
8 points by assemblylang 5y ago|1 comments
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Hello HN, sharing a forked Mastodon instance I set up themed in a Windows XP style with a focus on retro tech. Brief overview if you haven't used Mastodon before, Mastodon[0] is a Twitter-like, federated social network with an open sou
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Nice project! This project, and a similar project called Monolith[0], was a bit of an inspiration for making my own single HTML file tool called Humble[1] to solve a few edges cases I was having with bundling pages (and since I wanted a Typ
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Great implementation, looks identical to HN and is very responsive! HN is a great website for trying out web frameworks, given how simple it is in terms of features and design. I made an alternative front end for HN not too long ago that wa
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by assemblylang 5y ago
One thing missed when talking about Firefox's market share is desktop versus mobile market share. If you look at Wikimedia's metrics, Firefox still has ~10% market share of the desktop browser market[0], not too bad considering Fi
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Working on FOSS full time would be pretty nice.
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Librewolf[0] is probably the best alternative, drop-in replacement for firefox in terms of privacy. It's essentially (base firefox + privacy patches + privacy policies and configs), and available on Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, and more. edit
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by assemblylang 5y ago
There are also some people that write FOSS software which has almost no commercial potential, and could only really exist as free software projects. For example, consider something like this Hacker New TUI app[0], great piece of software fo
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by assemblylang 5y ago
I made a tool like this called humble[0] with a CLI interface that base64 encodes and inlines everything in an HTML file, images, audio, video, CSS, JS, favicons, cursors. The file sizes will be large of course (base64 encoding incurs a 34%
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Thanks for the correction, updated the post

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