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Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:48PM (#49482060)
You misplaced "lunatics" in your sentence, though sadly the likely answer remains the same.
Re:Vivaldi 8.0 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:06PM (#48229405)
The old look is still available. Settings > Themes > Editor > Coloring Mode

You can also adjust density, rounded corners, transparency, blur, etc.

Maybe but it's always been a problem. I've been receiving offers to monetize or sell my extension for over a decade.
Re:What We're Working on in Firefox on Thursday May 30, 2024 @06:57PM (#40529693)
I hope this means they're changing the main menu back to functioning like an actual menu instead of a weird panel thing, but somehow I doubt it.
* You don't believe China should be an "adversary"
Re:Dracula Theme for Hacker News on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:56PM (#39186521)
Re:Git commit messages are useless on Thursday January 25, 2024 @07:07PM (#39137231)
git log --first-parent

Works best if your merge commits have useful messages.

Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:34AM (#38095214)
Is there something significant about this release? I read the changelog but nothing really stands out to me.
Re:CSS Solves Auto-Expanding Textareas on Saturday September 30, 2023 @03:32PM (#37718914)
Considering it still needs javascript, this trick seems massively overcomplicated compared to the following:

  <textarea oninput="this.style.height = 0; this.style.height = this.scrollHeight + 'px'"></textarea>
(Yes it forces an extra reflow but it likely doesn't matter)
Re:Govt of Canada proposes a 4% Link Tax on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:41PM (#37355968)
Yes, because the bill hasn't actually taken effect yet. Meta is blocking news preemptively, Google plans to do so later.
Yep, I've been getting these emails since 2014, around 200 in total. My extension has had between 30,000 and 100,000 active users. They often quote up to $500 a month per 1000 users, which sounds too good to be true.
Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:48PM (#36900600)
These tests just show the default settings. If you enable the ad blocker and disable third party cookies it would score a lot better.
Re:An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths on Monday July 03, 2023 @12:50PM (#36575587)
This SVG path editor is incredibly useful if you're building or editing SVGs by hand: https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/
Isn't Raddle open source? The footer links to https://postmill.xyz/ https://raddle.me/wiki/why_raddle
I've noticed my newer GitHub repos are not indexed by Google for weeks, while on Bing and DDG they show up very quickly.
Wouldn't blocking third-party cookies prevent this? It should really be the default setting at this point.
Re:GitHub's New Code Search Is Bad for Finding Code on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:00PM (#35890126)
It often missed what should have been exact matches. You could copy and paste a variable name or a string from the repo and the search would not find it.
Re:Foobar2000 v2.0 Released on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:37PM (#35718848)
> User interface updates: Dark mode support on Windows 10 and 11.
Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:34PM (#35343766)
You can deny push notifications by default in your browser settings and never be prompted again. They can still be manually allowed on the sites where you actually want them. Same goes for location requests and other "site settings".
Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34412975

Aside, I've been waiting years for a favicon API, which Chrome has had from the start. It's a pretty glaring hole for any extension that displays bookmarks or history.

At least with Manifest V3 they finally triaged the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315616

Re:The Website Obesity Crisis on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:01PM (#34469150)
The Decentraleyes[1] and LocalCDN[2] extensions aim to do this in part. But the effectiveness is limited since they only have a handful of libraries and most sites bundle their javascript.

[1] https://decentraleyes.org/

[2] https://www.localcdn.org/

I still miss my BlackBerry, not just for the keyboard; the trackpad was far more precise and comfortable than a touch screen. No awkward reaching for controls at the top of the screen, no fat-fingering the wrong link.

I honestly think their biggest mistake was the BlackBerry-specific data plan requirement, not the slow entry to the touchscreen market.

Re:Ask HN: How do you choose your usernames? on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:10PM (#34391496)
They have it on their website, no account needed:

https://www.lastpass.com/features/username-generator

Re:Where are my Git UI features from the future? on Sunday January 08, 2023 @02:17PM (#34302115)
Indeed most git GUIs can do this. git-gui (built-in), VSCode, Sublime Merge, Git Extensions to name a few.
I use this on an ancient Chromebook because VSCode and Lapce feel sluggish in comparison. What it really needs is a plugin manager.
Re:Mastodon is not a good social network on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:00PM (#34087532)
I prefer the approach taken by nostr[1] and Scuttlebutt[2], where identity is a public key not tied to any particular server. However Mastodon is gaining a lot more traction and seems to be good enough in practice.

1. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

2. https://scuttlebutt.nz/

Re:XFCE 4.18 Released on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:10PM (#34004983)
> Thunar: It is now possible to add a 'file creation date' column

Finally! Coming from Windows this is something I've always missed.

I know older filesystems didn't support it but EXT4 has been the default for years now.

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