power78's comments

On: Apple squandered the Holy Grail

[power78]

why are some apple users so cringey?

On: Jiff: Datetime library for Rust

[power78]

>I have seen many people downplaying the complexity of a datetime library.

Where? Maybe people downplay storing dates but not making a library.

On: NPM package event-source-polyfill compromised by political activists

[power78]

Ugh this bickering is like reddit. Keep it off hacker news!

On: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

[power78]

Yeah not sure about that. I purchased ST recently and because VS Code is so slow.

On: Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening

[power78]

I wish Firefox would have left the old extension abilities. They could have easily added the WebExtensions standard to allow for cross-browser compatibility and not removed the old functionality.

[readflaggedcomm → power78]

They basically did, until the underlying browser became incompatible. That was the point: to have a stable API instead of extensions relying on implementation details, which includes multiple processes.

[iggldiggl → readflaggedcomm]

They didn't just broke them by necessity of rewriting the browser, though – they then actively blocked them on regular browser versions (non-Nightly/Developer Edition/etc.).

Case in point: With some limited maintenance and a compatibility shim for loading them, a number of old add-ons are still working on current Firefox versions: https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/tree/master...

[kg → power78]

Once multi-process was adopted, old extensions couldn't work anymore. The design simply didn't work.

On: Amazon’s search results are full of ads ‘unlawfully deceiving’ consumers

[power78]

Google's results are filled with just as much spam, fake listing sites that just link to Amazon, and junk products

On: Please log in with router's password

[power78]

According to a comment above, these routers require an admin password change when setup with no way around that.

[firtoz → power78]

Sounds like they learned their lesson

On: Amazon ending IE11 support on Management Console and Documentation

[power78]

Amazon's Chat, it's their Slack or Teams equivalent

[jms55 → power78]

Not quite - it's their Zoom equivalent. It's only used for video and voice calls. Amazon uses Slack for messaging.

[mrorbitman → jms55]

Chime tried to be the internal Slack equivalent for an embarrassingly long time. Slack has only been used for a handful of months, and some (frustratingly) have not yet switched over.

[meepmorp → power78]

I just realized that Ring and Chime are separate products and this wasn't about doorbells. Thanks.

On: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway

[power78]

Doesn't the opening site have access to the child window/tab in Javascript? Can't it set events to fire when the window is closed?

On: Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg

[power78]

Wasn't ffmpeg compiled using Web Assembly? So you could make a web app out of this.