Show HN: A $25 DIY alternative to $159 AI voice recorders – BYOK or local
9 by shmlkv | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hack Nux
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New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: TypeBook.lol: Gamified reading by typing novels
Show HN: TypeBook.lol: Gamified reading by typing novels
2 by vegnus | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Was inspired by a post here on HN a couple of weeks ago about Typ.ing. This is a more gamified version, where stats are tracked, xp is gained, time is tracked, each book has its own time trials tables, upload your own epubs/txts/raw text. Disable punctuation and capitalization (with separate high score tables). I've spent 20 hours typing Dracula. Reading a book each word at a time has been a very good experience for me.
2 by vegnus | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Was inspired by a post here on HN a couple of weeks ago about Typ.ing. This is a more gamified version, where stats are tracked, xp is gained, time is tracked, each book has its own time trials tables, upload your own epubs/txts/raw text. Disable punctuation and capitalization (with separate high score tables). I've spent 20 hours typing Dracula. Reading a book each word at a time has been a very good experience for me.
New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD
Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD
4 by xeonmc | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Been pulling my hair out debugging a relative’s persistent BSOD (once every ~6hrs) after nudging them to take the first degoogling step by switching browsers. I could not believe at first that a user space program, especially a Windows Store sandboxed one, could affect anything in the kernel, but analyzing every single coredump shows the exact same trigger: Firefox attempted to rename the UrlAssocistions/http registry key in the UWP sandbox’s virtualized registry hive, triggering an access violation in the Registry system service and crashing ntoskrnl. It turns out that there is a secretly enabled config “browser.shell.setDefaultBrowserUserChoice.regRename” that causes Firefox to attempt this renaming periodically despite the user already having unchecked the “check if default on startup” option. A quick search reveals that it was a vestigial A/B testing feature that was already slated for deprecation[0], but remained in the current version and a perfect storm of I’m guessing UWP kernel memory bug and Firefox dark pattern triggered this outcome. [0] https://ift.tt/fS8miOK
4 by xeonmc | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Been pulling my hair out debugging a relative’s persistent BSOD (once every ~6hrs) after nudging them to take the first degoogling step by switching browsers. I could not believe at first that a user space program, especially a Windows Store sandboxed one, could affect anything in the kernel, but analyzing every single coredump shows the exact same trigger: Firefox attempted to rename the UrlAssocistions/http registry key in the UWP sandbox’s virtualized registry hive, triggering an access violation in the Registry system service and crashing ntoskrnl. It turns out that there is a secretly enabled config “browser.shell.setDefaultBrowserUserChoice.regRename” that causes Firefox to attempt this renaming periodically despite the user already having unchecked the “check if default on startup” option. A quick search reveals that it was a vestigial A/B testing feature that was already slated for deprecation[0], but remained in the current version and a perfect storm of I’m guessing UWP kernel memory bug and Firefox dark pattern triggered this outcome. [0] https://ift.tt/fS8miOK