drnick1

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by drnick1 10mo ago
Anything that would introduce any amount of unneeded Javascript would make HN worse. It's the cancer of the modern Web. The current design shows that it isn't needed at all.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> X trackers and content blocked > Your Firefox settings blocked this content from tracking you across sites or being used for ads. Why is this website serving such crap? For God's sake, if there is anything absolutely worth show
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by drnick1 10mo ago
USA, paying $15/month for the cheapest T-Mobile plan. I only use a few hundred MB per month typically.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> Counterpoint, HN is notoriously hard to use on mobile No it's not, it's perfect on Vanadium with the zoom set to 125%. Much better than some bloated Javascript monstrosity.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
It's well known that big tech companies are overstaffed. You probably can't build Dropbox in a weekend starting from scratch, but a smaller scale cloud-based storage solution can be deployed very quickly if you start from existing
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Many reasons not do use the provided DNS. First, you don't want to give the ISP more information on your browsing habits than it can already gather otherwise. Second, in some countries, ISPs censor websites at the request of of the mov
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by drnick1 10mo ago
If this is about porn or other content deemed age-sensitive, the moment it becomes difficult to source through "official," mainstream platforms, the content will move underground (P2P networks), making it even more difficult to an
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Age verification on mainstream porn sites does absolutely zilch against teenagers accessing porn. There are countless other ways of obtaining porn. Even DDG with the safety off will provide plenty of it.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
This does not work, browsers like Firefox don't even always use the system DNS by default.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Switch VPN region or upload a random picture generated by AI, problem solved.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Instead of trying to regulate everything, perhaps it would be better if consumers educated themselves and did not buy devices that do not run locally using open protocols in the first place. For me, it's a hard requirement -- I will no
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by drnick1 10mo ago
I posted this reply from Ladybird, its pre-alpha but works better than you might think.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Reminder: Ladybird is being developed by a handful of people with contributions from the community. It's far from being complete, but it clearly shows that you don't need an enormous budget to build a Web browser entirely from scr
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> If you put too much in your Telemetry/crash reports, yeah, users become fingerprintable. It's not only what gets send to Mozilla as telemetry or crash reports that is a problem. That can be turned off (many Linux distros do),
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> The O-1 category includes the O-1A, which is designated for individuals with extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business or athletics and the O-1B, reserved for those with “extraordinary ability or achievement”. > My
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> Having our full costs returned in ~11 years is definitely something we're happy with Except that after 11 years the equipment will have broken down or become obsolete, at which point you have to start over. > we've also ha
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> I'd definitely love to see them take some steps, but at the points where a minor increase in privacy leads to a much worse UX for average people Disabling Javascript or even just third party scripts does lead to major breakage, bu
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by drnick1 10mo ago
The open source community will start taking Firefox seriously again when all the AI shit is removed for good and real improvements to performance and privacy are made. Despite all the posturing about "respecting your privacy and free
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Do you also tip Amazon drivers? If not, then I don't see why food should be different.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Mozilla has stopped being relevant to open source long ago. It's are every bit as corporate as Google these days.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> Tipped generously. You shouldn't tip delivery drivers, it's literally their job.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Because Apple makes privacy claims all the time, but all their software is closed source and it is very hard or impossible to verify any of their claims. Even if messages sent between iPhones are E2EE encrypted for example, the client apps
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> someone will scan it and try to attack it. Maybe not if it's a random game server, but any popular service will get under attack. That's fine, it's only people knocking on a closed door. You cannot host things such as em
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Interestingly, Ladybird, which aims at being the n = 3, is also written in C++.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Reminder: If you are using Tailscale or a VPS you aren't really self-hosting.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Is it still self-hosting though?
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Hardware that is considered e-waste (like a Core 2 Duo) makes a wonderful home server.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
Way too expensive for their moderate performance. All serious self-hosters (not Youtube home-labbers) use x86 machines, often retired desktop/gaming rigs or used datacenter hardware.
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> Put wireguard on that thing and don't expose anything on your public IP. Better yet don't have a public IP. This is nonsense. You can't self-host services meant to interact with the public (such as email, websites, Matri
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by drnick1 10mo ago
> but there are still a million other pitfalls to fall in to if you are not a full time system admin. Pro tip: After you configure a new service, review the output of ss -tulpn. This will tell you what ports are open. You should know exa

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