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hjek commented on OsmAPP – A Universal OpenStreetMap App osmapp.org... · Posted by u/maelito
oh nice, and it's on f-droid too. is it more responsive than the fairly sluggish osmand~?
OrganicMaps is incredibly snappy compared to OsmAnd~.
Can’t go rush to see dying family then.
Yes, rush by train. Climate catastrophe makes families die.
hjek commented on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era openra.net/... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
OpenRA's Red Alert is Red Alert as it was in player's dreams. The game is just as fun as it once was: fast, fun and limited in scope - but adapted to contemporary connectivity and display resolution.
OpenRA's killer feature is the extremely fast installation of a reliable cross-platform game that anyone can understand in ten minutes, that works in even the most skinny hardware... The perfect combination for an impromptu LAN party, where having fun with friends right now is more important than gaming depth and graphical sophistication.
They did some neat game mechanic tweaks, especially of the previously useless units: mechanics and thieves being able to revive and capture vehicles. Keeps the spirit of the old game but makes it more fun.
hjek commented on Can Chrome Sync or Firefox Sync be trusted with sensitive data? (2018) palant.info/2018/03/13/ca... · Posted by u/c5karl
Note: I am the author of this article.
Every ad blocker gets full and complete access to all your data. It needs that kind of access in order to … tada … remove ads. It’s really simple: ads are on all websites, so an ad blocker needs access to all websites.
You probably mean that Adblock Plus abuses this access? Surely this is something you have proof for? Here you can see an example of how this kind of thing looks like: https://palant.info/2023/06/05/introducing-pcvark-and-their-.... You can look around in my blog, there is more.
It has been a while since I’ve been involved with Adblock Plus. I sincerely doubt however that ABP’s privacy stance changed that much since I’ve left. But I’ll wait for you to find proof for your claims.
> Every ad blocker gets full and complete access to all your data.
Except uBlock Origin Lite¹ which is permission-less.
¹) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
hjek commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/tech234a
why don't we block ads at the operating system level instead at the browser level? If we are talking about having more security and performance wouldn't it more sense? Not sure I understand how ublock origin works anyone have a summary on this?
> why don't we block ads at the operating system level instead at the browser level?
sure, we do that, too: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
hjek commented on Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99 twitter.com/andrewmccalip... · Posted by u/gabesullice
Do you mean closed source software? Because that would rule out Hackernews. But I agree on the principle. Maybe it's the type of discussion. I would be happier if this very exciting superconductor story was unfolding somewhere else than Twitter.
Hackernews was released as free / open source some years back. There's a community managed fork: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/
I think they added multi-page support in the previous point release[0]. I only use inkscape to make graphics though, so I'm not sure how user friendly the implementation is.
it's really good. very easy to import and work on multi-page docs, even with different page sizes. the developers did an amazing job there.