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zgk7iqea··on Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
Don't cursor and vscode also have this problem?
zgk7iqea··on Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
Is phone number enumeration now considered a vulnerability? Really?
zgk7iqea··on What nicotine does to your brain
the age of subscriptions. what, you don't want to subscribe?
zgk7iqea··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
theres a clippy lint for that
zgk7iqea··on What nicotine does to your brain
https://archive.is/3WZx5
zgk7iqea··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Mozilla is an advertising company too. In terms of breakage, Im talking about more fundamental things like missing APIs and wrong rendering.
zgk7iqea··on AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
it is an architecture problem, too. LLMs simply aren't capable of AGI
zgk7iqea··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Firefox is dead. You need an insurmountable amount of configuration to even make it bearable and there is non-user respecting settings and telemetry everywhere. Ads, too. It's not something you can recommend, every site is broken and Mozilla rather likes to spend it's money on [1] discouraging human translators and [2] giving people free coffee on "Browser Raves" in Berlin instead. It's a shadow of its former self.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/DPn_Re5AAkN/

zgk7iqea··on Writerdeck.org
it's the same kind of "workflow optimization" that notion and obsidian users suffer from. You spend so much time making your tools more productive but don't get any actual work done.
zgk7iqea··on [dead]
better spend your time well
zgk7iqea··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Firefox should commit more to correctly implement web standards - not even gradients render correctly. A lot of the users are oddballs with strange configurations that break everything. No wonder devs optimize for chrome.
zgk7iqea··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
This is just as user friendly as the rest of the firefox configuration. I can't recommend it to anyone in good faith anymore.
zgk7iqea··on FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
google is a customer of fflabs and has enrolled them in summer of code. They also provide free fuzzing. ffmpeg is a foss, gpl-licensed project. nobody has any obligation to contribute, thus it isn't exploitation.
zgk7iqea··on XSLT RIP
Very interesting, thanks.

One point from one of the linked threads I find particularly puzzling:

> I think the issue with XSLT isn't necessarily the size of the attack surface, it's the lack of attention and usage.

> I.e. nearly 100% of sites use JS, while 1/10000 of those use XSLT. So all of the engineering energy (rightfully) goes to JS, not XSLT.

XSLT is a finished standard. Not everything needs to evolve. If the implementation works and is safe, what speaks against keeping it?

zgk7iqea··on XSLT RIP
Why not just write an XSLT implementation in JS/WASM, or compile the existing one to WASM? This is the same approach that Firefox uses for PDFs and Ruffle for Flash. That way it is still supported by the browser and sandboxed.
zgk7iqea··on Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017
Non appropriate language
zgk7iqea··on Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account
typo on the website: one cluser always free
zgk7iqea··on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
the OP is about the difficulty of running a business in germany, not living standards. And what matters is always subjective
zgk7iqea··on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
maybe better in terms of overall living standards but not in terms of innovation or the state being friendly to someone running a business
zgk7iqea··on The internet wants to check your ID
phone, the app already exists https://www.ausweisapp.bund.de/

a lot of people still scan their id but theoretically fraud prevention is possible

zgk7iqea··on GPT-5
we all know the real solution is replying with a wrong answer so that people correct you
zgk7iqea··on The internet wants to check your ID
German IDs have cryptographic keys in their chips that make them theoretically unfakeable, so no
zgk7iqea··on Open models by OpenAI
Feels like this is the wrong site for profanity
zgk7iqea··on Chrome for Android doesn't have extensions, but Edge now has a whole store
mozilla is an advertising company
zgk7iqea··on People Are Sick and Tired of All Their Subscriptions
the joke practically writes itself
zgk7iqea··on setBigTimeout
yes, sourcehuts interface is just godawful
zgk7iqea··on Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System
> I will add support to choose SQLite when they add native support for geography types.

SQLite won't add that.

zgk7iqea··on We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready
The images embedded in the blog post look horribly compressed
zgk7iqea··on VirusPaste – PasteBin but Only for Viruses
I made this for virus distributors
zgk7iqea··on Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML
Apple Photos supports local AI indexing without iCloud.
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