Readit NewsNikxDa commented on Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser werd.io/why-im-all-in-on-... · Posted by u/benwerd
Brave is faster and the features are similar
Brave however is riddled with Crypto and AI crap. It doesn't have any useable support for multiple profiles, too: last time I tried it, it would end up showing various errors on every startup and you couldn't have two profiles in the same window.
NikxDa commented on Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser werd.io/why-im-all-in-on-... · Posted by u/benwerd
Zen still has some annoying shortcomings, like missing Widevine DRM or the dev tools opening up annoyingly slow. The potential is there, but it wasn't quite daily drivable as a developer for me just yet as of a few weeks ago.
Once it gets there, I too will finally leave Arc behind. Until then, while it is on life support, Arc actually works. I really wish The Browser Company would just own up to their fuck up and revive it.
NikxDa commented on Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger lazybrush.dulnan.net... · Posted by u/tvdvd
An alternative that works very well for signatures too is Perfect Freehand (by the guy behind TLDRaw)
NikxDa commented on Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive? dodge.trickle.host... · Posted by u/samdychen
Didn't move at all, top 81% of all time.
The Top 81% calculation in the game is not as good as it may sound. Top 100% means you are at the bottom. You can confirm this by just losing immediately, which will place you in the Top 9X%.
NikxDa commented on New MacBook Air Fixes This Decades-Long Design Oversight macrumors.com/2025/03/07/... · Posted by u/ksec
> The keyboard change is typical of Apple's meticulous attention to detail, even if it took more than a quarter-century to implement.
I thought this paragraph was absolutely hilarious. Especially if they had such meticulous attention to detail, it wouldn't have taken decades. The article is a joke.
NikxDa commented on 70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam blog.phylum.io/the-great-... · Posted by u/louislang
> Contrary to what npm states, this package actually depends on one of our aforementioned spam packages. This is a by-product of how npm handles and displays dependencies to users on its website.
For me personally, this is the biggest surprise and takeaway here. By simply having a key inside package.json's dependencies reference an existing NPM package, the NPM website links it up and counts it as a dependency, regardless of the actual value that the package references (which can be a URL to an entirely different package!). I think this puts an additional strain on an already fragile dependency ecosystem, and is quite avoidable with some checks and a little bit of UI work on NPM's side.
NikxDa commented on Olympic surfing comes to a 'poisoned' paradise nytimes.com/2024/07/30/wo... · Posted by u/Thevet
No paywall: https://archive.is/NyEQo
NikxDa commented on This Month in Ladybird: July 2024 mailchi.mp/ladybird/july-... · Posted by u/richardboegli
That's a rather cynical take. Halide has been around for 7 years and they haven't gone to subscriptions.
Halide is 2.99 a month, or 12.49 a year, and has been a subscription model since 2020. Sure, you have a one-time purchase option, but it is $70. I believe people who bought before the subscription got one year free, but things like widgets aren't supported. So unfortunately, that is likely the same fate for Kino.
This post introduces the subscriptions: https://medium.com/halide/introducing-halide-mkii-30f9f2bcea...