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flanbiscuit commented on Hackers (1995) Animated Experience   hackers-1995.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
flanbiscuit · 6 days ago
“Do you remember where I put that thing that one time” is a line that pops up in my head so often.

I don’t remember the last time I saw this film and this is the 2nd time that it’s popped back up into my life recently, so it’s a sign that I need to watch it.

flanbiscuit commented on Just the Browser   justthebrowser.com/... · Posted by u/cl3misch
DangerousPie · a month ago
I had a look at what it actually does in the Firefox settings and all it seems to do is to disable one AI feature flag, change the default search engine, and then set a few other flags that are changes that you may or may not want to make, unrelated to AI. Not sure you want to run a 3rd party shell script just to do that…
flanbiscuit · a month ago
For anyone interested

This is the shell script it runs on Mac/Linux: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai...

For FireFox it downloads this: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai...

  {
    "policies": {
      "DisableFirefoxStudies": true,
      "DisableTelemetry": true,
      "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true,
      "FirefoxHome": {
        "SponsoredStories": false,
        "SponsoredTopSites": false,
        "Stories": false
      },
      "GenerativeAI": {
        "Enabled": false
      },
      "SearchEngines": {
        "Remove": [
          "Perplexity"
        ]
      }
    }
  }

flanbiscuit commented on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri   cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple... · Posted by u/stygiansonic
dhruv3006 · a month ago
Didn't they make a deal with OpenAI sometime back?
flanbiscuit · a month ago
ChatGPT is currently integrated into Apple Intelligence. When I ask Siri something I can choose to use ChatGPT for my answer.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-chatgpt-with-appl...

So I'm guessing in a future update it will be Gemini instead. I hope it's going to be more of an option to choose between the 2.

flanbiscuit commented on During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website   sparkbox.com/foundry/hele... · Posted by u/CqtGLRGcukpy
flanbiscuit · a month ago
Nice to see other fellow Western NC folks commenting here, I'm in Asheville. I did not know about all of these text only version of major news sites. I'm going to bookmark them.

What saved us from a news deficit after Helene was that we had 2 portable AM/FM radios. Both of the radios took batteries and one of them you could even charge via a hand crank. I highly recommend having a portable AM/FM radio of some kind. Blue Ridge Public Radio (our local NPR) was amazing during this time. Their offices are located right in downtown, which never lost power, so they were able to keep operating immediately after the storm.

I also feel this pain of bloated sites taking forever to load when I'm traveling. I'm on an old T-Mobile plan that I've had since around 2001 that comes with free international roaming in 215+ countries. The only problem is that it's a bit throttled. I know that I could just buy a prepaid SIM, or now I can use an eSIM vendor like Saily, but I'm too cheap and/or the service is just good enough that I'm willing to wait the few extra seconds. Using Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin helps some, but not enough (also I just switched to iPhone last month). I've definitely been on websites that take forever to load because there's just so much in the initial payload, sometimes painfully slow. I don't think enough developers are testing their sites using the throttling options in the dev tools.

flanbiscuit commented on You can make up HTML tags   maurycyz.com/misc/make-up... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
flanbiscuit · a month ago
I learned this back when HTML5 was brand new around 15-ish years ago. If you wanted to use the new tags like <article>, the only “polyfill” needed was some css styles. You can see it in the early versions of the HTML5 Boilerplate:

https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/v0.9/css/styl...

I realized that I could just make up tags and style them and it was work.

flanbiscuit commented on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio   bruno-simon.com/... · Posted by u/razzmataks
tgdn · 2 months ago
Does not work on Chrome, and actually freezes the tab
flanbiscuit · 2 months ago
Same for me. Worked smoothly in Firefox (MacOS Desktop)
flanbiscuit commented on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected   helixguard.ai/blog/malici... · Posted by u/mrdosija
poetril · 3 months ago
How does bun compare? Does it have similar features as well?
flanbiscuit · 3 months ago
yes bun does both of the things mentioned in the parent comment:

> Unlike other npm clients, Bun does not execute arbitrary lifecycle scripts like postinstall for installed dependencies. Executing arbitrary scripts represents a potential security risk.

https://bun.com/docs/pm/cli/install#lifecycle-scripts

> To protect against supply chain attacks where malicious packages are quickly published, you can configure a minimum age requirement for npm packages. Package versions published more recently than the specified threshold (in seconds) will be filtered out during installation.

https://bun.com/docs/pm/cli/install#minimum-release-age

flanbiscuit commented on Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#   duerrenberger.dev/blog/20... · Posted by u/ingve
flanbiscuit · 3 months ago
I needed this post a year ago when I was looking for this exact thing. I did end up going with Puppeteer because I needed it for something else that I couldn't avoid. I use a large list of flags with it to launch the most minimal version of headless Chrome that I can.

I am going to look into switching to MigraDoc and see if i can drop puppeteer

Thanks for this great research!

flanbiscuit commented on .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser   avaloniaui.net/blog/net-m... · Posted by u/vyrotek
flanbiscuit · 3 months ago
A while ago I was at an agency and we got a client that was a very popular weather app. Things like mapbox and some analytics libs (can't remember exactly, this was 2019) The project was a big redesign of the app. We looked into using Xamarin to see if we can at least write the core logic in C#. The issue we ran into is that there were many third party libraries we needed to import that weren't converted to Xamarin/C#. There was a way to try and have it automatically bind but never worked properly. In the end we just went pure native. Turns out Xamarin was a fun toy framework but Microsoft couldn't point us to anything serious and battle tested in production written in it.

I'm curious to see if .NET MAUI will surpass Xamarin and actually get serious adoption. They have to figure out the third party binding issue.

flanbiscuit commented on iPhone Pocket   apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/soheilpro
fxtentacle · 3 months ago
Awww... I was so much hoping for an iPhone that will fit into my pocket. The 1st iPhone SE was the perfect form factor. But no, Apple's phones just had to grow and grow and grow like cancer ...

In my opinion, the fact that Apple is now selling a bag to carry your oversized phone around in, is an admission that they failed to make phones that are convenient to carry.

flanbiscuit · 3 months ago
I was also hoping it was a small phone announcement but it not being part of a keynote didn't give me high hopes.

I've been on Android since day 1 but I'm thinking about switching to iPhone. If they ever made foldable (clamshell style, not book style) phone I would buy it immediately. I just want a small phone.

Yes I could get an Android foldable that already exists but I like to stick with Pixels and they don't have one yet and I'm kinda of done with Pixels. They are crap quality.

u/flanbiscuit

KarmaCake day1882August 20, 2013View Original