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jacobgkau commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?    · Posted by u/rickybule
nograpes · a day ago
Massive protests have occurred due to obvious government corruption. In particular the housing allowance for a month for a parliamentarian is now ten times the minimum wage for a month.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/26/indonesia-prot...

Sorry I don't have a better freely accessible source, maybe someone with more knowledge can fill it in.

jacobgkau · a day ago
> the housing allowance for a month for a parliamentarian is now ten times the minimum wage for a month.

I'm almost positive that everyone in the US Congress is making at least ten times the minimum wage in this country. The "housing allowance" being referred to is separate from their normal salary in Indonesia, but still, interesting to imagine how much more seriously people there would take that disparity than in many other countries.

This caught my attention more:

> Indonesia passed a law in March allowing for the military to assume more civilian posts, while this month the government announced 100 new military battalions that will be trained in agriculture and animal husbandry. In July the government said the military would also start manufacturing pharmaceuticals.

They're replacing civilian industry with military, apparently not out of any emergency requirement but just to benefit the military with jobs (and the government with control over those sectors) at the expense of civilian jobs.

jacobgkau commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?    · Posted by u/rickybule
tiahura · a day ago
For 99% of use cases - piracy and porn, does that matter?
jacobgkau · a day ago
This thread's not about that 99% use case.
jacobgkau commented on Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com   firefox.com... · Posted by u/pentagrama
latexr · 2 days ago
> I've never heard anyone my age (27) or younger call it that

Anecdotally, I’ve heard both people older and younger than you calling it Mozilla. And not tech-illiterate people, either.

jacobgkau · a day ago
> And not tech-illiterate people, either.

Yeah, again, probably because tech-literate (not tech-illiterate) people are more likely to know the history of the organization beyond when they started using the software. My point was pretty much that the know-nothing user learning about the software today/recently knows it's called Firefox and might never have heard of Mozilla. The branding is clear about Firefox and the Mozilla name is essentially background knowledge.

jacobgkau commented on Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com   firefox.com... · Posted by u/pentagrama
joshmanders · 2 days ago
Literally everyone I know who isn't technical calls Firefox "mozilla". Including older people.
jacobgkau · 2 days ago
It includes older people because Mozilla had previous work before Firefox, so they heard that name first. I've never heard anyone my age (27) or younger call it that, including non-technical people who somehow still have a nostalgic and/or ideological affinity for Firefox.
jacobgkau commented on Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com   firefox.com... · Posted by u/pentagrama
sebastiennight · 2 days ago
No one wants ...

FTFY

jacobgkau · 2 days ago
I know you're making a joke, but I enjoyed having Safari installed when Apple made it for Windows too, and would still want to download it today if it was available. You can't, though.
jacobgkau commented on Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com   firefox.com... · Posted by u/pentagrama
ToucanLoucan · 2 days ago
It's my experience that people who look for a way to profit off of every situation they encounter are usually both wealthier than me and also generally quite miserable, lonely folks. Also ironically, they usually are only as wealthy as they are due to generosity given to them earlier in life they would never give to others.

Not said with judgement, just observing.

jacobgkau · 2 days ago
> Not said with judgement, just observing.

Seems more like speculating than observing. Unless you can elaborate on what proof you have that each of the individuals you've "observed" (which doesn't include GP) were lonely and had handouts.

jacobgkau commented on Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com   firefox.com... · Posted by u/pentagrama
everfree · 2 days ago
Chrome = Google.com

Edge = Microsoft.com

Safari = Apple.com

Seems like Firefox is now the outlier, not the other way around.

Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name.

(Note: I’m not saying that I think it’s a bad thing.)

jacobgkau · 2 days ago
Opera had opera.com back when they were an actual browser (they still have it now, too). Vivaldi has vivaldi.com and Brave has brave.com.
jacobgkau commented on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs   cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-... · Posted by u/Teever
alistairSH · 3 days ago
Which is still "broken" since the position was never really open in the first place - it's still a ghost listing, as the position was always going to an internal hire or H1b or whatever.
jacobgkau · 3 days ago
Yes, but requiring the post-fill disclosure will at least make data available to work the problem further.
jacobgkau commented on Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update   blog.thunderbird.net/2025... · Posted by u/mnmalst
nik736 · 7 days ago
I am still waiting for the announced redesign in 2022 [0] :-)

[0]: https://www.omglinux.com/major-thunderbird-redesign-early-lo...

jacobgkau · 7 days ago
It's mostly already available, just not the default: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/08/make-thunderbird-yours-...

I followed the steps in that blog post and was able to mostly get there. I have a bit less padding between folders than the mock-up showed (which seems like a theme thing rather than a configuration item), and I don't have profile pictures in the message list.

jacobgkau commented on Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies   bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/mschuster91
throw_m239339 · 14 days ago
It's funny you talk about Google Plus. the only reason I didn't stay more than 10 minutes on that social media is because of that horrible sticky header that was taking 1/3 of the browser screen on a laptop.

How could that design choice go past basic UI/UX checks is still beyond me after all these years, it made that website horrible to browse.

jacobgkau · 14 days ago
I don't remember an annoying header bar, and that's beside the topic of algorithms and content. I do think the UX of circles themselves were much better than e.g. Facebook lists-- circles were much more visual, easier to add/remove people in (drag and drop!), and much more central to the posting experience, which all made them easier to understand and more universally used. Facebook lists feel like an after-thought that only power users even know about at all, and Twitter hashtag/word block lists feel like a heavy-handed last resort rather than something everyone's supposed to use.

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