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I've personally used and still use FF for year and have now no intentions of switching.

I don't care about the Ai stuff as long is mostly opt-in or easily disabled at least.

Having said that I've been looking forward the Ladybug project as a another browser not part of the chromium swarm. I'm sure I'll give it a try when it's more mature.

OptionXon Americans Are Holding onto Devices Longer

The article seems to try to conflate not upgrading your business sometimes for decades with not buying a new phone every year.

What a weird direction to go.

OptionXon APT Rust requirement raises questions

If I don't see it it doesn't happen is the definition of anedoctal.

OptionXon APT Rust requirement raises questions

Untrue.

OptionXon Android developer verification: Early access starts

It'd just devolve into security whack a mole about what permissions need those special account or not, ending with basically all of them making it the same as just needing dev verification anyway for anything remotely useful.

And despite that, you assuming that dev verification means no malware. The Play Store requires developers to register with the same verification measures we're talkingand malware is hardly unheard of there.

OptionXon The 512KB Club

Or to be even more suckless it would require the user toboatch in whatever feather they need.

OptionXon A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails

And we have decades of hindsight with sql injection to work with and make it obvious. No so much with all the fancy new AI tools.

Yes MCP has next to no security features, but then again is it even a year old at this point?

Not excusing it just pointing out something folks should me mindful of when using tool based on it, its an immature system.

And heck, I still remember a time when most of the internet traffic just flew around in plain text. Insanity to us now.

OptionXon Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

So choose not to partake the discussion, dear god this conversation is awful.

OptionXon This Month in Ladybird

Really really hope these guys get a foothold in the market. I'm a decades long Firefox user but even I have to admit things with Mozilla aren't looking bright so projects like this are the only things that can save us from the chrome clone wars.

OptionXon VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in

I always find funny how the new, supposedly progressive, arguments in favor of mass immigration run so close to the ones given against when slavery was abolished, that society can only exist with cheap,exploitative, labor.

Who indeed will pick the cotton.

OptionXon Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

Any word on a compibily layer project for x86/64 like Rosetta? Seems like an important thing to have imo.

The article mentions an emulator, but it seemed to be for running games.

I also heard MS had something similar in their arm dev kit, but haven't looked much into it.

OptionXon QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

Windows terminal used the name quake mode for the similar functionality it offers and there of course the Yakuake that does the same on Linux. Haven't heard of anyone rattling the copyright chain about it yet.

OptionXon Helix Editor 25.07

The editor is 10mb. It's the grammar files that are represent the bulk, and those are optional.

And yes. Complaining about 100mb nowadays is ridiculous. You probably have larger logfiles sitting somewhere in disk doing nothing right now, regardless of your OS.

OptionXon Helix Editor 25.07

111mb is bloat apparently in a time where storage is in the terabytes.

OptionXon Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

we optimize for code runtime but not for our own typing latency

100ms optimization is a lot different for a CPU or a human brain. I'm not defending having the entire system log dumped out on every prompt but a few amenities are worth a few milliseconds computation time for a human.

Besides, I don't see how, for example , having your prompt take those 100ms to print a git branch or status breaks your "flow" yet having to type out the commands yourself and taking longer doing it doesn't.

Its a balance between bloat and and usability like so many other things, but, to me at least, being on either extreme of bloat or extreme-minimalism seems counterproductive.

OptionXon The Zed Debugger Is Here

Nope, not a minority at all. Quite the opposite outside the tech bro side of things.

OptionXon Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager

I don't have many, but the few I do are set in environment vars by a file sourced in my bashrc.

Then you can just not track that file in the tool and figure out a safe way to back it up.

OptionXon Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

You could write a standard.

If it actually gets mainstream adoption or goes into the standards pile it another question entirely.

OptionXon Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire

Is the point you're trying to make that we should care anymore?

OptionXon Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire

The amount of telemetry this probably phones back straight to the CCP will make TikTok look like it's run by the EFF.

OptionXon Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux

Makes sense. There's always value in a maturity of a system especially in the enterprise world.

OptionXon Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux

Always wondered why RISC-V doesn't get more mainstream adoption.

Even if not at the consumer level, having your data center, for example, running a cheaper (I assume since no license for the instruction set means not having to pay for it and more options to buy from leading to lower prices) and less power demanding option when compared to x86-64 sounds enticing to me.

Maybe no one wants to be the genea pig to iron out the kinks of the transition or maybe the raw performance of x86 is bigger deal than I think it is and its worth the price and power. Dunno.

OptionXon Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL

Apple said it didn't ship chargers with their 1k+ phones in order to reduce waste right?

Then having the EU force usbc for the same reason shouldn't be a problem.

OptionXon Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

That and I assume if its open-source you can make clients that look like whatever you'd want.

OptionXon Norway on track to be first to go all-electric

Don't electric cars do especially bad with the cold?

How do they deal with it?

OptionXon Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users

So passwords are bad because users can't be trusted to chose strong passwords but for passkeys they suddenly are trusted to keep secure, comprehensive, backups?

OptionXon EU privacy regulator fines Meta 91M euros over password storage

Only true if the punishment for both is the same.

If they come forward they should be punished more lightly, but if not at all it only encourage "we'll just apologize latter" sort of thinking.

OptionXon The EU regulates that by 2027, all phones be equipped with replaceable batteries

You are talking like any normal consumer is going spearfishing with his smartphone. They're not. Being able to deal with some rain at most it's all it's needed for normal use and was achievable by electronics with replaceable batteries for decades.

Any more than that is just falling for the spiel given by companies known to be hostile to de idea of prolonging the lifetime of their products.

OptionXon NPM package is-even has over 140k weekly downloads

Is N%2==0 ambiguous for you?

OptionXon Linux When?

Still baffled by the idea of make a code editor not only single OS but targeting mac.