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marczellm··on Mozilla's open source AI strategy
What's a hyperscn/laller?
marczellm··on Calendar
Yeah we wanted something that would print with exact physical sizes and there's no reliable support for that so we ended up generating PDF with PDFium in WebAssembly.
marczellm··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
To the other useful answers I just want to add that if you think about monks, nuns and friars, that covers a large portion of what a Catholic religious order looks like.
marczellm··on Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
- A replacement for Google Desktop Search, a mini python app that puts up a textbox that can launch a Google search after me clicking Ctrl Ctrl anywhere.

- A script that syncs my work calendar to my private calendar.

- A GUI app to manage my Jira worklogs in a calendar view, after my company decided to ditch the Jira plugin providing that functionality as it was expensive and unstable. https://github.com/marczellm/NWork

marczellm··on Scrollbars are becoming a problem
I still have the installer lying around somewhere, do you need it? :)
marczellm··on Microsoft Clipchamp
I have a very, very slow connection particularly for upload. Releasing a desktop "app" which wraps a website for video editing of all things... Feels like a spit in the face.
marczellm··on Uno platform: Build single-codebase applications across all platforms
I believe MAUI does not do webapps either.
marczellm··on Discord Switching to React Native for Android App
Messenger did. Skype on the other hand switched from React Native to Electron.
marczellm··on Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?
absürd.org but it doesn't exist anymore.
marczellm··on Ask HN: Does the rest of the world realize just how much money SWEs can make?
Yep that was the sentence that raised my eyebrow. Is it so hard to imagine that someone might actually be interested and motivated by investment banking or whatever else?
marczellm··on Ask HN: What to do instead of drinking alcohol?
I go out regularly with a group of friends, they drink and become funny, and I'm sipiping orange juice while being entertained.
marczellm··on Illegal movie streaming service Popcorn Time shuts down
I live in Hungary. Disney+ hasn't launched here, which means you cannot watch stuff like the new Star Wars shows legally, you can only pirate them. (Yeah, I know VPN exists.) My point is it seems Disney has decided this market is too small for them to lift a finger. There are other movies that you simply cannot watch on any platform legally.
marczellm··on Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
I don't think Firefox will re-add built-in RSS support after removing it in 2018 (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks), but the replacement addon whose development spun out of that deprecation is quite good. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/

For Feedly users I also recommend this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly-notifi... It can be opened as a sidebar turning my browser into my feed reader.

marczellm··on Ask HN: How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron?
We've test driven UNO at our company https://platform.uno/ but you really have to stick to the beaten path as some more complex controls are only partly implemented. It's a variation on Xamarin basically.
marczellm··on Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates
I want seven years of warranty for computers and mobile devices and would be willing to pay a lot for it, but alas.
marczellm··on Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style
I disagree with unsupporting compact.
marczellm··on Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox. I get an empty white page.
marczellm··on The trial of a child soldier who became a brutal rebel commander
I understand what the article means: he was a catechist. A priest or a layperson can be a catechist. But lay is the opposite of priest.
marczellm··on The trial of a child soldier who became a brutal rebel commander
The article's veracity for me becomes questionable when it mentions that his father was a Catholic lay priest. No such thing exists.
marczellm··on Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web [progressive web apps]
Aren't you referring to Fluid? https://fluidapp.com/
marczellm··on Firefox to block Backspace key from working as “Back” button
The editorialized title could be "Firefox removes most used keyboard shortcut". See the bugzilla comments :)
marczellm··on WhatsApp Status to convince your family and friends to switch to Signal
So I'm in Hungary and absolutely everyone chats on Messenger and maybe Instagram. Any strategy to convince them to change?

Also, when will it be possible to use Signal on the desktop without having it on a phone first?

marczellm··on GitHub is fully available in Iran
Are you Romanian? If you think Romania is or should be a democratic European nation, can you offer your perspective on what could stop the ongoing verbal, legal and sometimes physical harassment of the Hungarian minority? Some of which is described in the last paragraphs of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanianization#Recent_events
marczellm··on Chrome Is Bad
FWIW I haven't found that to be the case with something as simple as making an image autoresize.
marczellm··on How Microsoft crushed Slack
The latter issue for me is always caused by having one too many browser + CEF/Electron app open at the same time. Killing one of those usually fixes it.
marczellm··on No One Ever Got Fired for Choosing React
That blog is weird. Changing to a different browser tab and back changes the scroll position a lot.
marczellm··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
I only use the Feedly Notifier add-on for Firefox. It is displayed as a sidebar in the browser.
marczellm··on Bringing the print statement back
Check out xonsh which is an application of python + that sort of idea to the problem space of shell scripting.

https://xon.sh/

marczellm··on Snapchat Detection on iOS (2019)
I don't even understand what this is about.
marczellm··on Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs
I wrote a XML/YAML based declarative wrapper around tkinter once: https://github.com/marczellm/tkpf
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