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Re:Twitter tests Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:10AM (#27917536)
So, will Twitter ban single-sided up or down voting in accordance with their agenda, similar to how they have start preventing users from even "liking" a tweet?
Re:RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2012) on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:15PM (#27523791)
This is wasteful trash and has no place in a standard.
Re:WordPress 18 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:50PM (#27311540)
Am I the only one that doesn't like WordPress anymore? The concept was great, but it has basically become a "website builder" and not really a piece of blogging software anymore.

Throw on top of it the architecture of plugins (no sandboxing!) and the culture this has developed for websites being "built" with a combination of 50+ outdated plugins and it frankly becomes a nightmare. Of course this can occur with any huge software project, so I somewhat concede this point.

The real turning point for me was the push to move to the "block" editor and effectively turn WordPress into Wix or Squarespace or whatever

Re:Latest Mozilla VPN features on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:59AM (#26648149)
Mozilla: a corporation funded by a spying company with a recent shady record of injecting stuff into products secretely (hello Mr robot). What could go wrong in this thought crime?
Re:I reverse engineered the Raspberry Pi hardware [video] on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:40AM (#26618049)
I am imagining this is running without a kernel or operating system...
Re:Show HN: A Terminal Tetris Game on Saturday March 13, 2021 @06:26AM (#26445871)
I thought rust was meant to prevent this stuff?
Re:Gordon Hall has died on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:54AM (#26444851)
Thanks for the memories.

I think one of the bad things about getting older that people don't seem to discuss is the increase in death of both those you know or those you know of.

Re:Fraidycat: Follow from afar on Thursday March 11, 2021 @08:52AM (#26423981)
Mozilla is a political organisation now. Has been for a few years.

Install kiwi on Android for extension enabled Chromium.

Re:What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:58PM (#26419672)
Building houses on site is definitely slow and potentially a logistics nightmare between different trades people.

Prefab doesn't solve that one hundred percent, but I assume it would significantly increase build speed and predictions of completion date.

Re:Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:10AM (#26396516)
I see we have all caught on to Apple's "Silicon" buzzword.
Re:A Saudi Prince's Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter (2020) on Saturday February 27, 2021 @08:17PM (#26289785)
Alongside another 100+ people. This is a nothing-burger.
Re:Facebook to restore news pages in Australia on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:07AM (#26234281)
Despite the Australian Government's big scary words about not backing down last week.

What an embarrassment.

Personal preference: I really hate the term "side hustle". Cringe.
Does that mean when I pull out my iPhone to search, Google will no longer work?

Bring on bing I suppose

Re:Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:00PM (#25965897)
Windows bloat, performance, and telemetry is frankly out of control. I use primarily either macOS or Ubuntu for development work day to day, but need to use Windows for specific builds and testing. I don't enjoy the experience.

I'm not sure if these issues are because I don't use it very frequently, but every time I start it up:

* CPU gets eaten alive by telemetry related services for minutes at a time.

* A barrage of updates I didn't ask for get forced on me (Despite whatever settings I put)

* Anti malware tools cause system to be I/O bound for about a minute

Longer term observations

* The disk usage goes up and up and up, even though I'm putting no data on to it

* I keep getting nagged to use a Microsoft account to sign in

* The default internet browser gets reset to Edge

* Some older applications just stop working for no reason, only to start working again weeks later.

On the plus side, Visual Studio seems to be much improved from what it used to be.

Re:Post Covid? Co-working is dead. Who cares on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:14PM (#25965341)
This is just a childish rant. To lump everyone into the basket of only using coworking for "a sense of community" is entirely a false premise.

Also, the cussing is disgustingly unprofessional. Not funny. Not cool.

Isn't that the intended purpose of banning Trump? To delete his supporters communication platform?
Re:Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:10PM (#25953293)
Sorry, but if you signed up to use Robin Hood and agreed to their terms and conditions, you don't have a leg to stand on.
Funny how all of the people spurting out "It's a private company they can do what they want" after banning Donald Trump have now changed their mind about big tech censorship.

The precedent of accepted censorship was set and accepted. Deal with it.

Re:Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:31AM (#25914623)
I am amazed people glide through life with skin so thin. It's not even real. What's to be offended about?
Re:Richard Stallman Is on Plumebio on Saturday January 23, 2021 @07:32AM (#25881767)
How long until he is de-platformed?
Re:EStimator.dev: the modern JavaScript savings calculator on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:37AM (#25869673)
Estimator.dev results:

This site would be 9% faster with Modern JavaScript. Currently, this site ships 25kb of Javascript (uncompressed).

Switching to modern JS would reduce that to 22kb, while still supporting 95% of browsers

Re:SecureDrop: Share and accept documents securely on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:30AM (#25869633)
Is this the current state of HN? A warning is needed for a softly worded reality? My god.
Re:SecureDrop: Share and accept documents securely on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:29AM (#25869630)
Originally created by Aaron Swartz AND Kevin Poulsen. Please stop with the fanboyism.
Re:Ask HN: What companies are you excited about? on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:25AM (#25869607)
I really want to like system76 laptops, but I can't help but feel they are literally straight out of a prefab China warehouse, same old crummy quality plastic crap.
What an idiotic comment. Lawns are stupid? What about the roads you drive along daily? Or the car parks you park in? Or the gigantic concrete buildings you work in?

Lawns are very obviously the least of society's concerns.

If I had a dollar for every throw away account that posted something along these lines on hackernews, I'd be slightly richer than I already am.
Re:Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:37AM (#25857122)
You have to be joking right? You'd have to be blind to not see the rapid decline in Firefox marketshare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#...

Re:Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:07PM (#25854856)
I wonder if Mozilla regrets laying off 25% of their engineering team [0] given their rapidly declining browser market share [1], and their rapidly declining performance. Not to mention their forced adoption of the new Firefox on Android which disables all add-ons except Mozilla approved ones, despite their promises to correct this [2].

Mozilla _used_ to be about open internet and security, but that's just a false pretense at this point [3][4].

I believe it's time to embrace Chromium / Blink, throw away the idea of internet freedom and just use the best performing browser of the week.

[0] https://thenextweb.com/insights/2020/08/11/mozilla-firefox-l...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/03/firefox-update-face...

[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...

Re:A Complete Course of the Raku programming language on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:54AM (#25776246)
Is perl or "Raku" still used in serious new applications these days?

I'm not talking about gluing stuff together with scripts - I mean a large project operating wholly under it

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