ChrisNorstrom (u/ChrisNorstrom)

ChrisNorstrom commented on Mozilla Firefox's extension store being flooded with malware theregister.com/2025/08/0... · Posted by u/lknik

blitzar · a month ago

Partially off topic, but youtube ads for me are currently 70% out and out scams - deepfaked tv personalities telling you about some government scheme where every person gets £20,000 cash.

Even the closed ecosystems are infected.

ChrisNorstrom · a month ago

YES. I get constant Deepfake Oprah and Joe Rogan ads on YouTube. They know about it. They just don't care. Google can easily demonetize channels, block videos, anytime you talk about something controversial (Covid-19 vaccines, Jan 6, election denial, etc...)

A few years back when people were talking about Q-Anon / Pedophile celebrities thousands of YouTube channels were taken down simultaneously of anyone, ANYONE, who was talking about it. "Mouthy Buddha" on YouTube had just 2 videos on the subject and had his channel taken down and was never allowed back on. They all migrated over to BitChute at the time. The YouTube press release claimed about 10,000 videos and their channels removed.

So Google does have ways of scanning content and banning the scam ads, they just don't want to.

ChrisNorstrom commented on Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope wired.com/story/steam-itc... · Posted by u/6d6b73

wmf · a month ago

Wired had plenty of coverage of the WikiLeaks battle with Visa/MC.

Anyway, are you not aware of the "vibe shift" from "woke" to "based" that took place in November 2024?

ChrisNorstrom · a month ago

Ah yes the vibe shift where the people's lives who were ruined and censored was magically undone around Nov 2024.

ChrisNorstrom commented on AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000WX Content Creation Review pugetsystems.com/labs/art... · Posted by u/binarycrusader

ChrisNorstrom · a month ago

Thank you so much for these benchmarks. They really are for very specific use cases.

For Photoshop and Premier and Davinci: 16, 24, or 32 cores is really the sweet spot. Anything more gets negative results.

But for Unreal Engine, Blender, V-Ray, and Large Language Models, the 64 and 96 cores are significantly faster.

ChrisNorstrom commented on Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next? ft.com/content/f4a13716-8... · Posted by u/HelloUsername

ChrisNorstrom · 2 months ago

Pessimistic Me:

Nothing. They are too comfortable. They are stuck in rainy cloudy Bellevue Washington, in a skyscraper with limited space. Approx the same employee count as decades ago. Neither Epic's games store, EA's Origin, Microsoft's Games for Windows Live, nor Amazon's, was able to dethrone them. They tried to branch out into Movies and Music, they used to sell movies on there but removed the ability in 2019 because no one was using it. Looking back now, it even threw me off, but it's obvious now... People don't want to download movies, they want to stream them like YouTube videos. I'm sure people would want that with games too but that's difficult to do right now. Video games are an emotion, music and movies and books and comics are too. If I were them I'd try to expand Steam so it sells all types of media content. I think it's a mistake not to.

Optimistic Me:

I was worried about them about a decade ago because anytime you think you are "too big to fail" you set yourself up for long term failure and "getting comfortable" is usually what begin's a company's decline. But they've made some really good decisions to branch out. Like getting into hardware. They've got the Steam Link, Steam Machine, Steam Controller, their VR headset "the Index", and their handheld Steam Deck.

So I guess Valve's a hardware company too now.

ChrisNorstrom commented on TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3 arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/kozika

tomhow · 2 months ago

Once again you're using HN for ideological battle, which is against the guidelines. We've asked you to refrain from doing this before. Please remember to avoid this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ChrisNorstrom · 2 months ago

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ChrisNorstrom commented on DeepSpeech Is Discontinued (2020) github.com/mozilla/DeepSp... · Posted by u/LorenDB

nopelynopington · 2 months ago

Firefox is already an excellent and fast browser and people just don't use it. I think it's a marketing problem. Google, Microsoft, Brave, etc all put a lot of money and resources into promoting their browsers, pushing them at an OS level (with legal care), using ads etc. For Firefox to compete they'd need to spend a lot more of their money marketing and end up building far fewer fun toys and experiments, and they could still never achieve the same level as MS or Google.

I think I'd rather they keep innovating

ChrisNorstrom · 2 months ago

I was part of the first generation Mozilla FireFox fan. Yep, I had the "Get FireFox" T-Shirt and everything. I came over from Netscape Navigator. After all these years honestly, good riddance. The glitches, the bugs, the crashes, the instability, and it took years or was it decades for them to make it so that extentions don't break on every update. Too little too late. There's no reason for me to go back. We already have the bad memories, and firefox comes with a lot of bad emotions for it to feel new and fresh again. Imagine Mozilla saying "Okay guys we redid FireFox again this time, do you want to try it?" NO.