OvervCW's comments

On: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

[OvervCW]

That's exactly what I set out to do with my pet project :)

https://github.com/Overv/outrun

On: How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

[OvervCW]

Yes, world class in causing human suffering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pgDmR-pWg

On: Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

[OvervCW]

>unless the label is something too low signal to predict

>Also, crashes are statistically rare events on arterial and local roads, so it can take years to accumulate sufficient data to establish a valid safety profile for a specific road segment.

That is exactly what this article is about.

On: Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

[OvervCW]

I wouldn't be surprised if they did this to lower the support workload, since I have several 2.4Ghz devices that fail to connect to WiFi at all if I put both bands on the same SSID. I intentionally separated them for that reason and portable devices like phones know how to switch between multiple SSIDs based on signal strength anyway.

On: jQuery 4

[OvervCW]

Vue can do progressive enhancement.

[nilslindemann → OvervCW]

Yes, okay, some can. Vue, petite-vue, Alpine, ...

On: CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift

[OvervCW]

No, Hacker News is generally about technology and startup news, not businesses in general.

[bfkwlfkjf → OvervCW]

That's your opinion.

On: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

[OvervCW]

Mullvad at least is funded by their VPN subscriptions.

On: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

[OvervCW]

In my experience Chrome does not just load faster, but it also uses less memory than Firefox because of its more aggressive tab hibernation that is enabled by default.

On my laptop I had to switch from Firefox to Chrome because it kept filling up all of my RAM resulting in other applications crashing.

On: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

[OvervCW]

The document you linked mentions $50M in advertising/subscription revenue.

On: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

[OvervCW]

You can install uBlock Origin on Firefox mobile; it's the only reason I use it.

[csin → OvervCW]

Oh wow TIL. Thanks, that is amazing.

I just looked it up. 2023 was when it started. I'm surprised Android even allows something like this.

[rightbyte → csin]

Yeah at some point it wasn't possible. I think Mozilla did some workaround by having a bunch of wetted extensions?

[literallywho → rightbyte]

Pretty sure even back then, uBO was on the list of vetted extensions. I remember using it prior to 2023 (since like 2019), on my old OnePlus 6. There may have been a period it wasn’t available, but surely it wasn’t gone for too long.

[rurban → csin]

I use several extensions on Fennec mobile: AdGuard AdBlocker, Google & YouTube cookie consent popup blocking, NoScript, Privacy Badger, Translate this page, Web Archives, uBlacklist

[dvngnt_ → csin]

you can even use extensions like vimium. it made using the galaxy xr much more usable than chrome

[edelhans → OvervCW]

You can also install uBlock Origin on Edge for Android btw.