dhms's comments

dhms · on Dec 17, 2021

No idea about the display scaling and included software, but SerenityOS has the same aesthetics IMO, could be worth checking out.

https://www.serenityos.org/

dhms · on Sept 9, 2021

Interesting, that reminds me of what somebody did to display an always up-to-date clock [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14996715

dhms · on Aug 10, 2021

As others have mentioned, it might be in the interest of browser vendors to get you to perform more web searches.

I don't know what browser you use, but personally I feel Firefox at least does a slightly better job than the competition at highlighting your bookmarks when you start typing in the search bar. Not sure if that is objectively true of course.

dhms · on Oct 24, 2020

As I mentioned in another comment here, somebody gave a lightning talk about lsp-java [1] at Emacs Conf last year, which I thought looked promising.

[1] https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/19/

dhms · on Oct 24, 2020

lsp-java [1] might interest you. There was a lightning talk [2] about it at Emacs Conf 2019.

[1] https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-java

[2] https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/19/

dhms · on Oct 18, 2020

I was wondering about number 4. Does Chromium currently have the same behavior?

thaliaarchi · on Oct 18, 2020

Yes, Chromium has this same behavior.

ungoogled-chromium is a project that removes Google integration from Chromium. Here is the patch they use to remove this special treatment of Google sites:

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/pa...

jug · on Oct 18, 2020

Eh, so doubleclick.net, ad network extraordinaire, gets special treatment as a "Google host" as well? Eww.

ComodoHacker · on Oct 18, 2020

Google owns Doubleclick since 2007, shouldn't be a surprise.

_qulr · on Oct 18, 2020

Thanks! That's surprisingly short.

Now the question is how those IsGoogle functions are used in storage handling.

dhms · on June 14, 2020

On that note, I noticed recently that Google search result links (on Firefox?) get rewritten. That is, you see the actual page URL when you hover over the link, but it's changed to their own redirect URL as soon as you click it.

I'm sure they've always been tracking these search result clicks, but I think this is a somewhat new behavior, and I find it highly deceiving.

propogandist · on June 15, 2020

Chrome sends back your click 'behind the scenes', whereas Firefox does not, so Google forces you to click through their link so they can track your activity (and if you hit the back button, you also jump through their redirect)

Ublock Origin can block this behavior. Here's a posting with links to more resources on hyperlink-auditig

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Settings#d...