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mahoro commented on Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy   andrewmarder.net/firefox/... · Posted by u/amarder
cookiengineer · 6 days ago
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...

mahoro · 6 days ago
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
felarof · 3 months ago
Qwen3 8B works pretty well. But for complex planning and navigation tasks, big models (GPT4.1, claude 3.7) are the still the best bet. We also let you use your own API keys for the big models.
mahoro · 3 months ago
Thanks, eager to try :)
mahoro commented on Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser   github.com/nxtscape/nxtsc... · Posted by u/felarof
mahoro · 3 months ago
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
snickerbockers · 6 months ago
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.

mahoro · 6 months ago
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
mahoro · 6 months ago
> 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
g4zj · 6 months ago
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. :)

mahoro · 6 months ago
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
josephcsible · 7 months ago
I'd be nervous about giving access to any nonpublic data to a closed-source app that only works while online.
mahoro · 7 months ago
I enabled "Offline mode", and it worked. But yes.
mahoro commented on Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units   isd-project.github.io/isd... · Posted by u/kai-tub
mahoro · 8 months ago
So cool that with uv it becomes so easy to install such tools.

What's missing in the install routine is uv installing this tool ignoring the Python dependency. My box has 3.10 and isd won't work with it. Fixed with `-p 3.13` option. May be worth mention in the docs.

mahoro commented on Russia is being set aflame by arson attacks   economist.com/europe/2025... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
mahoro · 8 months ago
Phone scams are the problem in Russia: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/10/they-terrorized-him

(TL;DR: student commits suicide because of such scams).

mahoro commented on Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers   github.com/WerWolv/ImHex... · Posted by u/wsc981
mahoro · a year ago
This is an absolutely great project. I had a lot of fun tinkering with the ROM of my Philips smart clock.

It has a built-in DSL that looks like Rust (without memory management, though – so it's very lightweight), and with that, it's possible to visualize and extract structural data from binary streams. That's really fun and cool.

It also has a visual editor to make simple calculations with no code. It didn't feel polished at the time I tried it. Strangely, writing code in DSL was more intuitive and easier for me.

u/mahoro

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