I film my kids with the same camera in 2026. I don't know how to explain it, but it feels completely different. When I film something on a phone I feel awkward but with this camera I could film everyone and it's much more comfortable to all (including adults I mean)
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mahoro commented on EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators afska.github.io/emudevz/... · Posted by u/ingve
I love it
mahoro commented on Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy andrewmarder.net/firefox/... · Posted by u/amarder
This is kind of a stupid ChatGPT article.
No, this will not effectively help to reduce the fingerprint of your Browser.
A LOT more tracking services are integrated into the Firefox browser in various places (like New Tab page, Sync, Pocket, Shavar, Google Safebrowsing, OSCP, etc pp).
I wrote a more detailed article about this, and got an "as good as possible" as a result.
But yeah, please please start to use a Host Firewall where you can block on a per-domain and per-port and per-process basis (like LittleSnitch, OpenSnitch etc) to validate your assumptions. UIs will always lie to you, including the one from Firefox.
[1] https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/firefox-privacy-guid...
Neat article.
I would add `layout.css.font-visibility=1` to hide all non-default fonts (makes a canvas font rendering test less useful).
mahoro commented on Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser github.com/nxtscape/nxtsc... · Posted by u/felarof
mahoro commented on Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser github.com/nxtscape/nxtsc... · Posted by u/felarof
This is great, I'd like to test! Is there any recommendations on which ollama models works best with this kind of tasks?
mahoro commented on AI Is Making Developers Dumb eli.cx/blog/ai-is-making-... · Posted by u/chronicom
It's really interesting how minor changes in your workflow can completely wreck productivity. When I'm at work I spend at least 90% of my time in emacs, but there are some programs I'm forced to use that are only available via Win32 GUI apps, or cursed webapps. Being forced to abandon my keybinds and move the mouse around hunting for buttons to click and then moving my hand from the mouse to the keyboard then back to the mouse really fucks me up. My coworkers all use MSVC and they don't seem to mind it all because they're used to moving the mouse around all the time; conversely a few of them actually seem to hate command-driven programs the same way I hate GUI-driven programs.
As I get older, it feels like every time I have to use a GUI I get stuck in a sort of daze because my mind has become optimized for the specific work I usually do at the expense of the work I usually don't do. I feel like I'm smarter and faster than I've ever been at any prior point in my life, but only for a limited class of work and anything outside of that turns me into a senile old man. This often manifests in me getting distracted by youtube, windows solitaire, etc because it's almost painful to try to remember how to move the mouse around though all these stupid menus with a million poorly-documented buttons that all have misleading labels.
I feel your pain. I have my own struggles with switching tasks and what helps to some degree is understanding that that kind of switching and adapting is a skill which could be trained by doing exactly this. At least I feel less like a victim and more like a person who improves himself :)
But it appears I'm in a better position because I don't have to work with clearly stupid GUIs and have no strong emotions to them.
mahoro commented on AI Is Making Developers Dumb eli.cx/blog/ai-is-making-... · Posted by u/chronicom
> There is a concept called “Copilot Lag”. It refers to a state where after each action, an engineer pauses, waiting for something to prompt them what to do next.
I've been experiencing this for 10-15 years. I type something and then wait for IDE to complete function names, class methods etc. From this perspective, LLM won't hurt too much because I'm already dumb enough.
mahoro commented on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsl... · Posted by u/franky47
Can someone help direct me toward an understanding of what it means for something to be "run in/by TypeScript types"?
A short explanation or link to a resource would really be helpful. :)
Normally you would write a program that is a game of Doom when you run it (you create a program, then compile it and run). Dmitri created a program that does nothing and he don't even run it. But while it's compiling, it does a lot of tricky things to make typescript compiler to run Doom as a side effect.
It's extremely hacky because Typescript is not even a runtime, it's not meant to run any code at all. Typescript is a thing that takes .ts file and produces .js file (which you then run using different program - a javascript runtime).
mahoro commented on SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface sqlook.com... · Posted by u/gringow
I'd be nervous about giving access to any nonpublic data to a closed-source app that only works while online.
I enabled "Offline mode", and it worked. But yes.
That's when you get the good stuff.
A couple of years ago when my son was a chatty, fast-moving toddler, his granny couldn't really follow what he was doing because she's a bit deaf and not as quick on her feet these days. Take him down to the park, mike him up, let him run around, stand well off with a long lens.
Also, because that's a Digital8 camera, it'll output analogue tapes over FireWire as described in the article. It's worth doing this even for Video8 because the output is so much cleaner than with capturing over composite.
I use FireWire as well. Spent a month connecting it, that was a devastating part. It turned out, only IEE1394 cards with TI chips works with Sony cameras. And only some cables. But to me, result is worth it.