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Re:Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:36PM (#50077402)

Firefox supports policies for enterprise deployment, the ability to install extensions (like uBO) has been available for a long time:

https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#extensions

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Deploying-uBlock-Orig...

Re:Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives (updated for 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:51PM (#49699990)

I noticed in the "A penguin juggling chainsaws" prompt that Qwen created an animated svg

Re:Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results on Saturday September 12, 2026 @06:23AM (#49670888)

https://devdocs.io/

Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:36PM (#43776376)

it seems possible to install GfW into an existing MSYS2:

https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper

Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:18PM (#43776224)

microsoft introduced Dev drives for this reason, they are optimized such that no file system filters are attached

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

Re:How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @03:24PM (#43775759)

one might argue that one of the advantages of languages like C is that you only pay for the features you choose to use, no unnecessary overhead like initializing unused variables

Re:Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @06:22AM (#43011546)

and here I am still playing Civ II MGE

https://github.com/FoxAhead/Civ2-UI-Additions

Re:Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you here on Monday January 06, 2025 @06:07AM (#42609585)

I use this handy bookmarklet to kill sticky headers::

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

Re:Where Is OpenCV 5? on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:46AM (#38432174)

While OpenCV was born at Intel, I don't think it's solely developed by Intel anymore, there's now a non-profit organization in charge of the project:

https://opencv.org/opencv-platinum-membership/

Re:Linuxatemyram.com on Monday October 09, 2023 @05:07PM (#37825493)

the cache being talked about is for recently/frequently accesses things, not stuff pending write

Re:The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unico... on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:09AM (#37752948)

first thing I did before reading the article, using uBO to block JS on the page

Re:Google RealFill: Authentic Image Completion Using Diffusion Models on Friday September 29, 2023 @05:47PM (#37710495)

https://petapixel.com/2022/12/14/man-fakes-an-entire-month-o...

Re:Inside the Matrix: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication, Attention and... on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @11:03AM (#37660420)

I agree, the visualization is pretty but kinda useless to explain mat-mult.

It would have been more intuitive to show every element in output matrix corresponds to a dot-product of row/column vectors from input matrices, the animation doesn't even highlight those corresponding vectors clearly..

Re:What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++ on Sunday September 24, 2023 @12:34PM (#37634592)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Layer_for_Unicode

Re:What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++ on Sunday September 24, 2023 @09:12AM (#37632807)

The above manifesto makes the argument to use UTF-8 *everywhere*, even on windows where the internal representation is not native utf8.

The conversion overhead is really negligible: https://utf8everywhere.org/#faq.cvt.perf

(note: the two api calls per conversion is because how those specific functions work, first call to get the size to allocate, second to do the actual conversion, but you can always use another library in the implementation for the utf8<->utf16 conversion that might be more optimized than those windows api functions)

Re:What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++ on Sunday September 24, 2023 @08:49AM (#37632650)

Like explained in https://utf8everywhere.org/#windows , you can write simple wrapper functions `narrow`/`widen` used when you are about to call window api functions.

    ::SetWindowTextW(widen(someStdString).c_str());

Implementation is straightforward, relying on `WideCharToMultiByte`/`MultiByteToWideChar` to do the conversion:

https://github.com/neacsum/utf8/blob/master/src/utf8.cpp

Re:Usability of Old Computers on Sunday September 24, 2023 @07:46AM (#37632236)

- TLS 1.2

https://www.emailarchitect.net/eagetmail/sdk/html/object_tls...

- Root Certificates

https://msfn.org/board/topic/175170-root-certificates-and-re...

- XP Browsers / Mail Clients

https://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/search/label/browser

Re:DALL·E 3 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @02:19PM (#37587817)

SD is uncensored, you can generate anything you want with no "safety" rails to stop you.

Just take a loot at civitai to see the kind of finetuned models that are out there.

Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:10PM (#37577628)

Nowadays even consumer-level hardware can run some decent local LLMs, completely offline.

You might want to browse /r/LocalLLaMA/ if "security" is an issue for you.

Re:Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:05PM (#37573777)

both work in the same way, by setting up a proxy/local-vpn through which all traffic passes in order to filter ad hosts at the dns level.

Re:Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:49PM (#37573539)

sounds like something LLMs can help with, sift through huge amounts of documents to summarize and highlight the interesting ones

Re:AI Real-Time Human Full-Body Photo Generator on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @04:07PM (#37241399)

private/incognito window?

Re:Shrinking a Shared Library on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:42AM (#36466144)

given the proliferation of electron-based desktop apps, which are known to be resource heavy, making various so libraries smaller is indeed a welcome improvement.

Re:Show HN: I revived a game I abandoned 5yo ago and released it for f... on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:23AM (#35136101)

> What really does itch.io or Steam offer in the way of protection if a developer wants to be malicious anyway?

more eyes; if a game contained some kind of malware, there will likely be reports made on the game discussion page (hosted on steam), and game will likely be taken down with enough complaints

i've seen this happen before when some random game added a cryptominer in a silent update

Re:Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:58PM (#34715024)

It should be possible to disable many of these connections as documented here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-con...

Re:Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:55PM (#34714963)

something like this using mitmproxy (from 2017):

https://www.softscheck.com/en/blog/windows-10-enterprise-tel...

Re:Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked on Thursday January 26, 2023 @08:11AM (#34531197)

just means that given the nature of BitTorrent, you will be exposing your IP address to other peers and trackers

Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:33PM (#32599607)

https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/project-t...

> You can have one free project on your user account, and the resources you create within it will be limited. You will not be billed for any usage within a free project, but you must add a card to your account for verification first.

not having to add credit card info before using the free tier is one of the main reasons for Heroku being so popular with students and toy projects, truly a friction-free experience.

Re:More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web (2021) on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:20PM (#31685598)

uBlock Origin can: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...

Re:Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:15PM (#28761465)

Egypt has over 100 million people. Facebook/WhatsApp is quite popular in that part of the world, so I would image it had significant traffic..