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mediumsmarton Fancy Curl Sites

I have the Extended Support Release 115.17.0esr (64-bit) GNU IceCat gnu - 1.0 on my old intel mac and the nytpu.com displays fine, HN does too with hn.js blocked by LibreJS

Good Browser.

mediumsmarton I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

if you want the site to be fast, don't render it with javascript and take a look at the google lighthouse check for things to improve:

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-sprinklz-io/bmc4mv1...

mediumsmarton Normal Tools – Useful online tools, no nonsense

done

mediumsmarton A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew

for a while now - macports for the intel aficionados

mediumsmarton Cloudflare opens more Enterprise-only features to all customers

thank you, but no thank you.

mediumsmarton Can you tell which images are AI-generated?

not doable in short time with high certainty which means that from now on an image is only worth a thousand words

mediumsmarton Homebrew 7.0.0

> Farewell, Homebrew. It's been a good run. - 2019 Intel iMac user.

welcome. - 2015 intel macbook user

mediumsmarton The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle

Darwin got it wrong - the kindest agent will win. https://rutgerbregman.com/books/humankind

mediumsmarton The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive

great article - explains in detail why my sans js websites run so smoothly and so fast.

mediumsmarton The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

98% of current front end web development deserves to be hit by an asteroid, not sure that LLMs can deliver though.

mediumsmarton uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

Anyone, including me, gets what they deserve when loading Facebook.

mediumsmarton US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

natural psychopath selection

mediumsmarton Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?

Still on intel Monterey 2015 mbp and emacs 30 something. Switched to macports in 2024 and no complaints.

mediumsmarton Orion Browser by Kagi

fair enough - librewolf - same as Orion: 18.29 fingerprint uniqueness - I dont know the other browsers except Tor. I use librewolf too with privacy badger and librejs - good browser

mediumsmarton Orion Browser by Kagi

Using it for years on iOS and Mac. Works great and the only zero telemetry browser. Apple Pay works and the compatibility button fixes any problem site worth loading. No complaints.

mediumsmarton FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOvn4UqznU

mediumsmarton FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill

eat healthy as in: only once a day and only six days a week. only water for drinking and only fresh stuff to eat, no meat, no eggs, nothing cooked, nothing baked, nothing fried, nothing grilled, nothing processed, no sugar and no salt.

Being a major shift from the good life one should start it with a 7 day water fast. (do I have to say "ask your doctor before embarking"? done)

mediumsmarton FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill

One could eat healthy instead of course but hey, the good life.

mediumsmarton Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs

Did the 602 each hire someone to do their job for 12k a month until 2037 because sharing is caring?

mediumsmarton Alan Greenspan has died

time to watch inside job from 2010 again

mediumsmarton Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

30.2 is as far as I am willing to go. Happy travels.

mediumsmarton Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

and consciousness is all there is but it takes whoami to grok that

mediumsmarton Mustela – A static site generator born from forensic family analysis

Maybe useful for the AI to create the sites with the content the user just asked about.

mediumsmarton The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs

Textgrabber does that without needing a screenshot. Found it here on HN, never looked back.

mediumsmarton $8800 house design helps prevent fatal diseases in African children

Performing security verification This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot.

never finishes - loop. well done science.org webdev team.

mediumsmarton U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile

Can’t that 6 year old president request 2 trillion dollars for the war department per anno, outsource production to China and thus get more tomahawk for the same money to defeat Iran another 37 times?

mediumsmarton DNS is Simple. DNS is Hard

I did not know dns keys expire and that I have to resign them. Now I have a daily cron job that does that.

mediumsmarton Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp

Nothing new here. Chrome has always been a suspicious download.

mediumsmarton Obfuscation is not security – AI can deobfuscate any minified JavaScript code

JavaScript code is the essence of minified security.

mediumsmarton DDR5 RAM prices fall by as much as 30%, but memory shortage likely far from over

which browser and which adblocker?