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moebrowne··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
That article is well over a year old. The current privacy FAQ right now explicitly states:

> We never sell your personal data. Unlike other big tech companies that collect and profit off your personal information, we’re built with privacy as the default. We don’t know your age, gender, precise location, or other information Big Tech collects and profits from.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/

moebrowne··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Not saying your wrong, but the number, and type, of sites you browse is going to be a very narrow slice of the sites that all Firefox users browse
moebrowne··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
> HTMX only does GET

The very top of the docs (https://htmx.org/docs/) shows how HTMX sends a POST request:

    <button hx-post="/clicked"
        hx-trigger="click"
        hx-target="#parent-div"
        hx-swap="outerHTML">
        Click Me!
    </button>
moebrowne··on DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio
Can be seen here at 1m30s: https://youtu.be/2x2W3mwERiU?si=ySQh_-QMCetehasK&t=90
moebrowne··on Local models will not win
The foundation of this article is that the frontier models are going to keep advancing at the same rate, and therefore always be ahead of local ones. I dont believe this trend will continue. I think we are reaching the top of the S-curve.
moebrowne··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
There are many free lock picking tutorials, but yet locks are still effective.
moebrowne··on The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener
A small bolt could easily replace the pin, this would also allow a washer to be added preventing any chance that it working loose.
moebrowne··on Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
Standard NiMH AAA battery is ~1Wh so 12 Trillion (12,000,000,000,000)
moebrowne··on So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂
What if the plants were algae?
moebrowne··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
They also often have a small magnet embedded in the rotor which can be picked up with a reed switch or hall-effect sensor
moebrowne··on Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
https://archive.is/ZuKV6
moebrowne··on It's getting harder to focus every day
I don't buy this. I think people find it easier to make excuses about lacking some magical, unobtainable, abstract property like "the drive" than to actually put in the effort to improve themselves.
moebrowne··on It's getting harder to focus every day
It seems to me that lots of people consider the ability to focus as some kind of innate ability which we are all born with, it's not. It's a learned skill which requires practice. Stop practising and it atrophies.

We all understand this for physical exercise, I think we need to understand the same principles apply to skills.

moebrowne··on Back to Kagi
> It seems what people like about Kagi is the customization and surrounding tooling, but the actual search quality is about the same

For me the quality of results is improved exactly because of the customization. Removing sites which I don't trust, are low quality, spammy, etc.

moebrowne··on Back to Kagi
AI slop is actively down-ranked based on community feedback: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html
moebrowne··on Back to Kagi
Kagi Assistant + customised search/lenses is super powerful. It gives you control over what context from the internet the AI can use/you trust
moebrowne··on Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL
Here's the Bugzilla link which was closed last month: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2021722
moebrowne··on Airbus Takes Flight from AWS
> Is Airbus still using Google workspaces for mail? Nice vector for industrial espionage.

Whatever email provider they use, people will always be the ultimate vector, clicking links they shouldn't.

moebrowne··on Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
They are placeholders, their meanings are spelled out in the post:

    O: publish/oembed_cache, empty content, stale timestamp with parent C
    C: future/customize_changeset, changeset JSON with parent C
    P: draft/page, with parent D
    D: parse/request with itself as its parent
    S: publish/post, for providing embed data
    T: publish/post, containing the outer embed
moebrowne··on The death and rebirth of my home server
> swap is used when you run out of ram

This is not correct. Swap is not a RAM overflow.

> Swap is not generally about getting emergency memory, it's about making memory reclamation egalitarian and efficient. In fact, using it as "emergency memory" is generally actively harmful.

https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

moebrowne··on Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs
TIL server side image maps: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl...

Supported since forever.

moebrowne··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
> Plus all current treatments render the honey inedible

Formic acid is one of the few treatments which is acceptable to use while honey is present.

moebrowne··on The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain
> If I work until I'm exhausted and find three bugs, someone might still complain later that I missed a fourth and I should have tried harder.

This is a weird take. Less bugs is less bugs, just because you maybe didn't find them all doesn't undermine the value of finding some.

moebrowne··on Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft
> If you ran SETI@home or Folding@home back when that was a thing

SETI@home is gone but Folding@home is still very much a thing. There are currently 133 active projects: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary

moebrowne··on Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite
I'd assumed that the question mark was supposed to be a degrees (°) symbol but got mangled somehow. 752F is exactly 400C
moebrowne··on A website that lists websites to submit your website to
Kinda reminds me of DMoz.
moebrowne··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
Do you write a bunch of posts and the schedule them? You put out 3 posts every single day at exactly 0800, 1200 and 1600.
moebrowne··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
Making it too easy invites spam.

Sending a single email seems like a good compromise to me.

moebrowne··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
I had the same experience. I ran it on the original Pi zero with a WiFi dongle, in the middle of a busy town. Not a single interaction.
moebrowne··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
Anyone looking for local-first smart bulbs, plugs, etc with Tasmota or ESPHome I can thoroughly recommend https://www.mylocalbytes.com/ - not affiliated in any way, just a very happy customer.
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