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Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:30PM (#38849588)
I would say there is a chance that there are fewer vulnerabilities in the 60k~ lines of code contained within dillo than the in the however many million lines of code it takes to do anything with firefox or chromium.

running dillo in a bubblewrap container would probably be fine and not eat all of your available resources.

[i got my 60k loc number from running tokei in the dillo repo, doing the same in the gecko repo took multiple minutes and pegged 8 cores at 100%, might be a bug in tokei or maybe 21 million lines of code is just enormous]

Re:Qsv: Efficient CSV CLI Toolkit on Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:11PM (#38749240)
gnu awk recently got CSV support built into it which is quite nice imo though certainly less featureful than qsv appears to be
Re:Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:05PM (#38563024)
I didn't buy a fairphone 4/5 having previously bought a fp3 that got broken mostly beyond repair. I didnt buy the updated version as it didnt have a headphone jack. I opted for a used phone instead.

It flies in the face of claiming to care for repairability and sustainability. Wireless earbuds (maybe including the ones they sell) I by and large dont have replaceable batteries. That isnt sustainable.

If my USBC jack breaks from wear and tear being in my pocket with a cable attached to them, I no longer have a working phone and need to buy a part to fix it, if the headphone jack breaks, I can live without headphones and still have a functional phone. If the selling point is sustainability, they miss the mark by creating extraneous rubbish, even if its not direct