tux's comments

On: How Not to Buy a SSD

[tux]

This also happens a lot on AliExpress most storage devices are fake. Some 64gb flash drives, sd cards or 320gb 2.5 mobile hdds are okay. But you should run f3 test on any new drive you buy.

On: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Requires iOS 18.0+ sadly older iOS not supported :-(

On: uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

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Let’s hope it still works at least on ungoogled chromium with manual setup. As soon as this stops working i’m back to only using firefox for good.

On: What made the Irish famine so deadly

[tux]

Yeah this reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

On: Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

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Ask HN: Is ungoogled chromium a good alternative ?

[DaSHacka → tux]

It's missing containers and overall has less privacy features available than firefox.

This is exemplified compared to forks like librewolf that enable the majority of them.

Ungoogled Chromium and stock Firefox are pretty similar privacy-wise though.

The main advantage is all baked-in telemetry is stripped out, but it doesn't do much to protect you from privacy-invasive sites other than disabling WebRTC and blocking 3rd party cookies.

I used it for a number of years, but recently switched to Librewolf ~5 months ago and don't expect to switch back unless Firefox and all downstream forks completely implode.

[dheerajvs → DaSHacka]

The main question for me is can ungoogled Chromium run uBlock Origin?

[DaSHacka → dheerajvs]

Yes, it's just a downstream fork of chromium. It can run any extension that runs on the equivalent upstream build of chromium.

For the same reasons you can install it on Librewolf too, and it actually comes with ublock origin pre-installed.

[weikju → DaSHacka]

> Yes, it's just a downstream fork of chromium. It can run any extension that runs on the equivalent upstream build of chromium.

Therefore, no, it cannot run uBlock Origin, or soon will be unable to run it.

[DaSHacka → weikju]

It can run ublock origin right now, and will be able to run ublock origin lite into the future.

No chromium-based browser currently plans to keep MV2 support. It's just not feasible for a small group to keep it maintained ontop of the inevitable breaking changes that will be introduced in upstream over time.

If this bothers you, use a real browser that isn't sourced from an ad company.

Otherwise, you'll be getting exactly what you should expect, and nothing more.

[RandyOrion → tux]

Ungoogled chromium is a good alternative in terms of privacy because all google-related services are gutted and there are no other built-in telemetry things.

There are some downsides, too.

First, you have to do some research on learning to make this browser work conveniently, e.g. finding alternative services to sync and backup your settings, bookmarks, accounts and passwords, etc.

Second, changes pushed by Google like Manifest V3 is still hard to deal with.

On: Merry Christmas Everyone

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I’m sure this is just a coincidence than but Rudolph sounds a like Adolf, or in today’s concept Russian Adolf. And word red doesn’t help, as red was favorite SSSR color. 0_o

[hnuser123456 → tux]

They're just Germanic names

On: Merry Christmas Everyone

[tux]

The Mummy (1999) was the first theater movie for me, it was an epic experience!

On: Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

[tux]

It kind of sounds like twitter extension. This is what i thought of it as when i first seen it. This can be very confusing.

On: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

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SilverBullet looks very good, it reminds me of Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) Now if only some one combined SilverBullet with Hugo we could have a live view/edit in Hugo =) Thanks for the link.

On: SuperTux

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I approve this message. =)