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Gazoche
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Gazoche is a personal blog at gazoche.xyz about programming and philosophy. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The boiling frog of digital freedom”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Gazoche for its post on FPS overlays on Linux, which show frame rates via Mesa without modifying the app. The comments only cite the post as a resource and do not judge its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The boiling frog of digital freedom2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-03
What Hacker News says?
Maybe the mesa fps overlays (no app modification needed) described here can help? https://gazoche.xyz/fps-overlays-on-linux.html
Comment linking /fps-overlays-on-linux.html
on “Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost”Submitted The boiling frog of digital freedom as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAll this focus on cookies and FLoC feels like smoke and mirrors from Google. Modern adtech can track users regardless if cookies are enabled or not, and whether they enable this new Chrome feature or not, via browser fingerprinting. They've been doing this for years. So this new "privacy sandbox" is a diversion to the public, and particularly to law makers, that signals "see, we care about user privacy". When in fac…
Comment linking /posts/boiling-frog/
on “Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome”