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mikae1on Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

Don't use an extension for every redirect. Use https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/redirector to write redirects for all sites.

mikae1on Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics

> it has the potential to become the blender for 2D/3D VFX

Looks truly awesome, but having to use the worst possible closed source OS to run it is a downer.

mikae1on You can make up HTML tags

> And yes, I abuse the slot attribute even when I'm only using CSS, without JS.

In CSS, how do you target <div slot="hero-blurb"> based on the "hero-blurb" slot?

div[slot="hero-blurb"]?

mikae1on Calendar

I prefer this one: https://veckonr.se/kalender/2026

The year is split in two (ample space for notes) and it has week numbers. At work I print the year on two A3.

mikae1on CSS Grid Lanes

I routinely use an 11 year old computer too. I can not see why "userscript hacks" would be needed.

mikae1on CSS Grid Lanes

> Maybe sites could check for CSS feature support too? But they seem not to.

Certainly can: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

mikae1on Making Google Sans Flex

Google broke up with RSS in 2013[1]. :D

To be fair, they re-implemented feeds for YouTube and added feed support in Google Workspace the other day[2]. So perhaps there's hope.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader

[2] https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/12/introducing-...

mikae1on Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

Hope this on day will be used for auto-tagging all video assets with time codes. The dream of being able to search for running horse and find a clip containing a running horse at 4m42s in one of thousands of clips.

mikae1on What will enter the public domain in 2026?

Are you mistaking William Faulkner's mustache for Hitler's?

mikae1on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]

Or perhaps a 512GB Mac Studio. 671B Q4 of R1 runs on it.

mikae1on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

It'd give you Plasma, for one. Even if I'm a proponent of uBlue I'd consider Mint if there was a Plasma version. Seems like a great distro.

mikae1on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

I'm an https://getaurora.dev user and I agree uBlue is awesome. I'd like to create a custom image too, but it doesn't seem quite as easy as you say: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IxBl11Zmq5w

mikae1on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal

The final piece of the JPEG XL puzzle!

mikae1on The Subversive Hyperlink (2024)

Follow the (subversive) hyperlink (which technically isn't a hyperlink on HN profile pages :D)... https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=runamuck

mikae1on Disable AI in Firefox

https://startpage.com is a Google proxy instead of a Bing proxy (like DDG).

mikae1on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

Not a radical idea. The EU is already working on it.

> […] the Commission is pondering how to tweak the rules to include more exceptions or make sure users can set their preferences on cookies once (for example, in their browser settings) instead of every time they visit a website.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-law-messed-up-...

mikae1on Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%

Very cool! But… GitHub? Do they ever learn? 3, 2, 1… Takedown notice!

mikae1on Show HN: OnlyJPG – Client-Side PNG/HEIC/AVIF/PDF/etc to JPG

>> What should we use instead?

> AVIF, JpegXL, maybe even WebP (lossless mode).

Definitely not lossless AVIF. It is less efficient than lossless WebP. WebP is supported everywhere, but is not much more efficient than optimized lossless PNG. Lossless JPEG XL has the best lossless compression but can't be used for web without fallbacks.

So, for offline archival: JPEG XL.

For web use without fallbacks: lossless WebP.

For web use with lossless WebP fallback: JPEG XL.

mikae1on Show HN: OnlyJPG – Client-Side PNG/HEIC/AVIF/PDF/etc to JPG

>> What should we use instead?

> AVIF, JpegXL, maybe even WebP (lossless mode).

Definitely not lossless AVIF. It is less efficient than lossless WebP. WebP is supported everywhere, but is not much more efficient than optimized lossless PNG. Lossless JpegXL has the best lossless compression but can't be used for web without fallbacks.

So, for offline archival: JpegXL.

For web use without fallbacks: lossless WebP.

For web use with lossless WebP fallback: JpegXL.

mikae1on Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely

croc[1] has worked better for me. It supports resuming transfers, which is a must. It is very wormhole like and written in Go.

[1] https://github.com/schollz/croc

mikae1on CDC File Transfer

> cdc_rsync is a tool to sync files from a Windows machine to a Linux device, similar to the standard Linux rsync.

Does this work Linux to Linux too?

mikae1on Show HN: I'm 17, built a face-verified social network to fight fake accounts

Facebook requires video selfie verification[1] these days. I have not been able to register a new Facebook account without passing one. I was able to bypass it with DeepFaceLive though.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/875662883106240/

mikae1on I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it

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mikae1on Helium Browser

It comes packaged with uBlock Origin. Is it the mv2 version or Origin Lite?

mikae1on China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world

Žižek in 2011:

“I think today the world is asking for a real alternative. Would you like to live in a world where the only alternative is either anglo-saxon neoliberalism or Chinese-Singaporean capitalism with Asian values? I claim if we do nothing we will gradually approach a kind of a new type of authoritarian society. Here I see the world historical importance of what is happening today in China. Until now there was one good argument for capitalism: sooner or later it brought a demand for democracy … What I’m afraid of is, with this capitalism with Asian values, we get a capitalism much more efficient and dynamic than our western capitalism. But I don’t share the hope of my liberal friends – give them ten years [and there will be] another Tiananmen Square demonstration – no, the marriage between capitalism and democracy is over.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/11/11/slavoj-zizek-a...

mikae1on Meta Ray-Ban Display

Desktop browser & https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

mikae1on Gemini in Chrome

> I wouldn't gave a major problem with this if the algorithms were tuned to my benefit.

Due to the laws of enshittification they will eventually never be tuned to your benefit.

mikae1on Meta Ray-Ban Display

Most new accounts seem to require a face scan too (finally they're true to their name?). I recently needed to get a Facebook account and was not able to use it without providing the scan. Luckily I was able to do an AI face swap, but far from everyone is that savvy.

mikae1on Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

It's been accessible via about:config, yes.

But more importantly, there's a system wide DoH setting in Android (or at least in GrapheneOS). I don't see why it would preferable to only configure DoH in the browser.

mikae1on Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...