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kuekacang··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
I went all-in with bun. Did I bet wrong?
kuekacang··on System-level ad-blocking in Android
Had dailied redmi note 12 4g, with debloat, ublock and selective uscript block. Many js/media heavy websites (that needed to have their js enabled to be viewed) lagged under firefox
kuekacang··on OpenSSH 10.6
Link or didn't hapen /s

But seriously if feasible, share the issue link. Especially when there's conversation involved, it's different kind of nice (and learning opportunity) reading such thread

kuekacang··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
Can't seem to beat vscode in over-ssh editing. Using IDEA it requires ~2GB transfer (local download plus ssh transfer) which is quite significant.

> ...inspecting...

I got used to sublime merge to context-switch editing vs reviewing, staging changes line-by-line

kuekacang··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Tried the autoskip youtube apk, and the default assuming one would prefer autoskip is intriguing; yes that's among the first feature I change to just show skip button on all of detected segment. Another is tap to seek.
kuekacang··on Audacity 4.0
Should watch the pre release video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G38 If what they're saying is true, this project is very much a pile of tech debt. They need to migrate whatever they can early before continuing work on the audio engine.
kuekacang··on HyperOSUnfucker is an Android app that unlocks hidden system performance
Been using redmi phones since those are the most personally usable features with great budget option. Current active one has IR blaster, stereo, display finger print, 3.5 jack and sd card slot. ~$190 in 2025 money

Software wise, it is manageable with help of shizuku & canta, as noted also in the article. The OS doesn't have good UI/UX but not bad either. Many of android material features are missing under the custom OS they provide and I'm not doing major rom modification since this is the daily communication & banking phone.

kuekacang··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
With advent of ai-based impersonation, I wonder why in-person reset is not the priority right now
kuekacang··on Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs
It helps too that agent work is done server side so you can hog all the local resources for your thin client.
kuekacang··on Deno Desktop
Isn't all uses native OS UI widget? But since the brand need to be experienced the same across platform, it overrides the native rendering and use custom styles instead.
kuekacang··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
Only using ubuntu rn, but when the server is mostly running docker, it is simpler upgrade nowadays with so little dependencies. But then the problem just moved to the container image updates.
kuekacang··on The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs
Somewhat agree!. I think my main gripe is that there are no good-enough reader that: - without account integration - has good ux

Even some of the okay ones, most are, as tantacurl may say, janky.

kuekacang··on Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
Genuine question, does brave have ff's container extension? currently that's one of the thing that keeps holding me on ff. another big one is i test website on firefox so to not get carried away with features only available in chromium
kuekacang··on Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
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kuekacang··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
I've been lucky to discover git relatively late and sublime merge relatively soon. It seems like separating the concern of editing and reviewing code is making me consider each more as separate thing.

It also makes me more comfortable figuring out how a project's pull acceptance are like (maybe due to how fast local ui is compared to web-based git). On the other hand, I can only run some basic git cli commands and can't quickly comprehend raw text-based diff, especially when encountering some linux patches from time to time.

kuekacang··on What Is OAuth?
In homelab, I push myself to use proxy (header) authentication. I know I'm burdening many responsibilities in a reverse proxy (tls, ip blocking, authentication) but it seems I can better handle those complexity as compared to oauth setup.
kuekacang··on I'd tell you a UDP joke…
> A UDP joke I would tell you... but you might get it not
kuekacang··on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
Except the text is stored as image, I can't imagine localization would be that large.
kuekacang··on If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
I'm sure no API and only built-in control is more favorable. Digressing, built-in mixer is nice to have too.
kuekacang··on CSS Grid Lanes
experiencing how text renders differently, slowly, with my potato battleship
kuekacang··on Anthropic acquires Bun
One other angle yet mentioned: JS is browser native. No matter how slow it is, browser is now the LCD. Similar server-client codebase, while ugly, is another plus.
kuekacang··on URLs are state containers
I think the hack is to store html height/width locally and restore it as early as possible so the content will then load under the scrolled view
kuekacang··on The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
Oh hey, a fellow noticing person!
kuekacang··on Normalize.css
Now ui libraries does its own reset. The no-nonsense blogger just use a few styling, and yeah, the default now is good enough.
kuekacang··on Just let me select text
Surely. First time I used clipboard management was long time ago somewhen in windows xp era. But growing older make me not really incentivized on trying myself to relearn clipboard history gestures. I might do that someday though.

The difference is now I know git and text editor with hot-save support; with mostly textual clipboard, the texts usually just land in either git/editor.

kuekacang··on Just let me select text
I'm aware of that gesture, but I think it shows the point that it requires extra intention from the user to do select+copy on an input-looking field with copy button attached, instead of being part if the default ctc button experience.

Not that I am searching, but I wonder if there's already tog/nielson/other ux research on this specific interaction.

kuekacang··on Just let me select text
Maybe weird behavior on my end? Or perhaps you need to select part of <a>'s content to trigger it?
kuekacang··on Just let me select text
Back in the day I requested chrome feature "copy text" in addition to "copy link" on <a> context menu. Now I tried it it's no longer there.
kuekacang··on Just let me select text
Recently I've been considering simple click-to-copy button is a bad ux since it can destroy one's clipboard (granted, I'm not using clipboard manager). This might be mitigated with a confirmation before actually replacing the clipboard, but I haven't encountered such implementation. Maybe due to ctc more often appear in tech-related websites.
kuekacang··on Does anyone think the current AI approach will hit a dead end?
Another part are malleable memory. Something I imagine we as humans are accumulating context daily and doing reinforcement training while we sleep.
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